From the genius who brought you the MIDINES and 2 seminal releases on 8bitpeoples, comes a new album, released on mp3death, a label which has also released works by chiptune artists Gijs Gieskes, Overthruster, Firebrand boy, The Commodore 64 Orchestra and others in the past.
Those familiar with x|k’s (pronounced “kix”) music would know that it […]

Being the uncreative type that I am, I stole the title of this review from a comment on Archive.org. However, in my opinion, this is more than just another guitar album.
Firstly, this is a truly massive album with a runtime well over 2 hours in length spread over 2 albums. There is a lot […]

First of all we would like to apologise for the slow updating of Gratisvibes. All 3 of us editors are university students and we are currently in the examination period of the semester. Please feel free to browse around our archive if you are new to the site while we are busy mugging away for […]

As a follow up to Mantra, here’s more psy to rock your house. For a change, I’m going to do a double review of 2 releases in one entry. Both are older releases from one of the great labels on the web, the Sublogic Corporation. So, let’s get to the chest pounding music!
First album: […]

As promised a few months back, I’ve returned to Quiet Lounge, the netlabel based in China, to check out their new releases. They’ve got a nice diverse catalogue, with recent releases spanning minimal techno, industrial techno and chillout as well! This time however I tried out some Goa Trance.
I’ve never really had much Goa […]

So, who is trance blackman? Well, he’s a singer-songwriter and he specializes in no particular genre of music (You would have thought he would have been a good trance producer with that kind of name ;P). Instead, Blackman himself fancies a variety of music from classical to pop to rock to dance.
Opus Instrumentalis: Vibrations […]