Choenyi’s been one busy producer. A quick glance at his Discogs page reveals 3 releases on 3 different labels in 2007 alone (!) and countless appearances on mixes on other netlabels.
His latest, “Transfer Protocol”, on the Detroit based Random Access Recordings, follows Adjacent Mucosa (Miniatura Records) and Defervescence (Yuki Yaki).
“Transfer Protocol” is best described […]

The excellent FOEM is home to a great label setup, one that goes beyond routine mp3 releases, and incorporates contests, a series of label mixsets (known as the “Electronic Youth CDs”) and other nice little goodies such as shirts and such. I’ve been checking out their releases and the EP by Noraj Cue was one […]

Happy New Year to all Gratisvibes readers. Welcome to 2007. May we have more great music for the year and years to come.
We’ve been rather slow on postings during the last month and we’ll be back to regular postings as usual this month. We apologise for that and appreciate your continuous support for the site.
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According to this information description at Sutemos, this album is not only a Christmas gift from the popular IDM netlabel, it is also serves as a prelude or teaser to more of the great releases that they are going to have soon.
Other than Sleepy Town Manufacture, I am not familiar with most other artists involved […]

One shouldn’t judge an artist by his name, but when i saw the name “Dr. Blowfins”, I knew, as a big Drexciya fan, I had to get this and see what the link was. (For the uninitiated, Dr. Blowfin was supposedly a “character” in the Drexciya universe, and appeared in one of their track names. […]

Chillout. Ambient. Minimal.
Close your eyes. Relax. Enjoy and let your mind wanders to wherever it takes you while you listen to this minimal album.
The 9 tracks are mostly pretty repetitive, monotonous, slow and atmospheric, but yet still rich in their textures, sounding pretty dark and completely showcased how minimal can actually be good.
Great […]

Minimal always seemed to be a bit iffy for me whenever it is applied to artistic endeavours including music (I would exclude style from this since minimal is in vogue there e.g. fruity iPods). It would take a normal person a lot of effort to unearth what’s so special about a lot of minimal material […]

This one comes from the Sublogic Netlabel. It’s everything hypnotic dance techno should be. In a similar vein to last week’s review of Opus Acide, this is more repetitive minimal techno that doesn’t bore you. I took an instant liking to this EP when I heard it. The EP starts with Our Way which is […]

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, […]