I’m not sure whether you can say that you’ve ever heard of job specific music but here I am befuddled as an artist names her album as one for students. Technically, this isn’t a student genre of music. It can be described as mood music or maybe soundscape music or even background music for movies […]

This very album by Lackluster is the first ever release of the netlabel Monotonik, dated year 1999. This album should prove how talented Lackluster is; when music technology was not that advanced and cheaply available as it is today, Lackluster could write such wonderful IDM/Ambient tracks which noone would have believed it is done more […]

So far, gratisvibes has covered CC music from places like Europe and America but we have yet to look at music from Asia. Hijiyama Project comes from Japan and is the brainchild of Hamish Low. Unlike previous gratisvibes blog entries where we covered EP/Albums, this time we’re covering a collection of songs that the artist […]

If I’m not wrong, quite a number of you have heard of and maybe used the Soulseek file sharing client before. What many of you probably aren’t aware of is that Soulseek actually has a netlabel called Soulseek Records. The label started around 2003, released a few records and then fizzled out.
Although there were […]

This just in. Yet another magnificent release from the Lithuanian netlabel, Sutemos. It was only being released 2 days ago and I’ve listened through it at least 5 times now.
This one is a minimal and ambient tracks compilation. The tracks, albeit minimal, have a pinch of IDM and techno beats in them, making them empty, […]

Seriously, these are not toys at all. This is one of the best IDM compilations I’ve ever heard of. 2 CDs 28 tracks by 24 different artists. All of them are original songs written for this very compilation and have not been released prior to this.
If you are new to IDM, this is where you […]

Sleepy Town Manufacture has been one of my most-liked electronic music artists. They have made quite a name for themselves among the electronic music fans and yet a lot of their works still remain free.
This album is one of their best free releases, with not one but two CDs full of great ambient, IDM-ish music. […]