![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Various Artists - nsh100
Yes, Nishi has reached its 100th release. To celebrate, we asked some past, present and future artists to submit tracks for a compilation album. The result is almost 3 hours of music spanning dozens of genres, styles and moods (not to mention several continents). Between the sublime washes from Pocka and Ambient Field, the dark glitch-pop of Samarah and John Tennant, and the relentless pounding of Elektro Punc and Sascha Müller, and everything in between, there really should be something for ev...
Downloads: 118,429
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |
| French Teen Idol - French Teen Idol [nsh061] - French Teen Idol
Further confounding the frontier between electronica and post-rock, French Teen Idol weaves a fabric of intricate piano figures, impassioned sequences and intriguing samples. Meticulous harmonies and a fine sense of dynamics pervade this self-titled album.
Keywords: Electronic; Post-Rock; Progressive Electronic
Downloads: 42,210
Average rating:  (4 reviews) |
| Cagey House - Octopus Two [nsh089] - Cagey House
Dave Keifer's previous EP for Nishi was very well received. This time we're treated to a full album of his skewed, adventurous, melodious, quirky takes on electronica.
Downloads: 26,400
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| John Kannenberg - A Canticle For Leibowitz [nsh087] - John Kannenberg
The man behind the Stasisfield netlabel gives us his "possible soundtrack" for Walter M. Miller, Jr's science fiction novel. These fine-grained soundscapes are sure to evoke vivid mental images of a post-apocalyptic world, whether you're familiar with the book or not. Charting the fall, rise and fall of mankind.
Keywords: Electronic; Ambient
Downloads: 21,139
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Various Artists - Nishi 50 [nsh050] - various artists
A compilation in celebration of the 50th release on Nishi. Features a wide selection of work by past, present and future Nishi artists.
Keywords: Electronic
Downloads: 21,128
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| Arturas Bumsteinas and Various Artists - Rixc Remixes [nsh063] - Arturas Bumsteinas
To coincide with the release of Live@Rixc by Arturas Bumsteinas on Danish label Organic Pipeline, we present Rixc Remixes. Running the gamut of moods and textures, an hour of abstraction divided by common themes and sources.
Keywords: Electronic; Ambient/noise; Abstract; Drones
Downloads: 20,840
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Cagey House - Steel Tantrum [nsh067] - Cagey House
Cagey House is here to throw a Steel Tantrum. Playful (yet dangerous) slices of electronica that aren't afraid to shoot off on tangents in the name of experimentation.
Keywords: Electronic; Experimental; Melodic Electronica
Downloads: 18,924
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Blue T-Shirt - SOLO/0705 [nsh080] - Blue T-Shirt
A month in 36 minutes: one track for each day of July 2005. Blue T-Shirt cooks up a smorgasbord of electronic styles and moods. Track 5 has barely begun when it dissolves into swathes of reverb; track 12 could be the soundtrack to the world's shortest film; track 10 is a chaotic flurry of filthy drums and slurred synths; the final track is a sprawling slab of ambience weighing in at a lengthy 4:56...
Keywords: Ambient; Electronic; IDM; Eclectic
Downloads: 17,784
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Samarah - These Things [nsh064] - Samarah
Samarah serves up her unique brand of downtempo vocal glitchiness on These Things. Sublime clicks and scratches interwoven with blissfully narcoleptic vocals.
Keywords: Electronic; IDM; Glitch; downtempo
Downloads: 13,473
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| RahMoonAhs and N!N!N! - HippyHope [nsh107] - RahMoonAhs and N!N!N!
If you ever thought that electronic music ought to have more guitar solos, you are about to be vindicated. N!N!N!'s fretboard wizardry alternates between weaving among RahMoonAhs' intricate digital soundscapes and soaring above them, and the results are chaotic, eclectic and beautiful.
Downloads: 12,401
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| K.D. Expression - For the Broken Heart from Collapsed Dreams - K.D. Expression
K.D. Expression returns to Nishi with a nine track album this time. "For the Broken Heart from Collapsed Dreams" is a well developed and rich mixture of epic sounds, driving beats and haunting moods. This release aptly includes a bonus track from K.D.'s side project, "Deadline".
Keywords: Electronic
Downloads: 10,813
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Yeah Pretty Boy - Petting 1: Everything Minor (And A Scratch) [nsh071] - Yeah Pretty Boy
The title isn't the only intriguing thing about Petting 1: Everything Minor (And A Scratch) by Yeah Pretty Boy. Finest ambient music peppered with an array of spikes and hooks which are sure to snag you and refuse to let go.
Keywords: Electronic; Ambient; Abstract
Downloads: 10,640
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Cagey House - Model City - Cagey House
Longtime member Cagey House returns to Nishi with a new 11 track release for us. "Model City" is a delightful album full of playful melodies in his distinctive style. Welcome back, Cagey!
Keywords: Cagey House; electronic; melodic electronica
Downloads: 10,284 |
| K.M. Krebs - An Orange Rainbow [NSH052] - k.m. krebs
Originally released a while back on Subversco, which recently vanished. This six track mix of B-movie electro-kitch needed a new home and running a net label gives you the advantage of releasing your own work.
Keywords: Electronic
Downloads: 9,809
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Mystified - Mystical Steam [nsh094] - Mystified
If you're not already familiar with Thomas Park's work, may we be the first to welcome you to the netlabel scene. Mystified is back for a second Nishi release, this time drawing on field recordings and homemade sounds to create his patented blend of beats and atmospheres.
Downloads: 9,423
Average rating: (1 review) |
| K.D. Expression - Mental EP [nsh085] - K.D. Expression
An enigmatic EP from an enigmatic artist. The breaks and melodies are slick and flawlessly produced, never dirtier nor cleaner than they need to be. The overall atmosphere is compelling and uplifting, but it can get rather dark in the shadows.
Keywords: Electronic
Downloads: 9,048
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Various Artists - Nishi Sampler 1: Beats [nicomp001] - Various Artists
A compilation of some of the best beat-oriented music that has been released on Nishi. Spanning from the brittle warmth of Fasp's 'Cyl Flies' and rich-textures of Heath Yonaite's 'The Lucifer Principle' to the droning saturated guitars Hinterland's 'Divebomb' and postrock deconstructions of Colophon's 'Oh to be deployed elsewhere.'
Keywords: Electronic
Downloads: 8,912
Average rating: (1 review) |
| bject - Truth Wounds [nsh096] - bject
Proving that there's still goodness to be had from the humble vocoder, and that ICQ is a powerful medium of communication, this Brazilian duo give us nine tracks of irresistibly adventurous and ambitious pop music. Expect layers of bright electronics, alternating with uncompromisingly fuzzy guitars.
Downloads: 8,896
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| Yuri Lugovskoy - EP [nsh091] - Yuri Lugovskoy
The latest Ukrainian artist to join our party presents three circling soundscapes. All of these untitled pieces are fascinating and unsettling to various degrees, with the repetitive chatter of "Track04" being particularly haunting.
Downloads: 8,030
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| Herotyc - Cement-like Dreams [nsh006] - Herotyc
Direct from southern Spain, Herotyc offers us a carefully crafted set of tracks which skirt and skitter around the coastline. Inspired by Asian history, expect to be trasported through space & time with Cement-like Dreams.
Downloads: 7,324
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| Monokit - Monolyth [nsh076] - Monokit
Dutch/German duo Monokit offer up an album of compact emotional atmospheres. Monolyth allows you to explore 17 landscapes, ranging from the comforting to the unfaimilar to the downright unsettling, and still be back home within the hour.
Keywords: Electronic; Ambient; Melodic Electronica
Downloads: 6,924
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| Maina - Ola Calma [nsh068] - Maina
"Hi, I'm yesterday, and today I'm looking for tomorrow." Ola Calma by Maina is an intoxicating blend of vocal and electronic experimentalism, which shifts frequently and effortlessly between calm and aggression.
Keywords: Electronic; Vocal; Experimental
Downloads: 6,812
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| Hinterland - Untitled [nsh007] - Hinterland
Vancouver-based Hinterland was kind enough to let Nishi release some of their tumultuous post-rock (or whatever pigeonhole you want to cram this into). That's right, a real drummer, guitar, bass & even vocals.
Keywords: Alt. Rock
Downloads: 6,669
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| Mombus - Corpuscle Bureau [nsh078] - Mombus
Warm music from cold climates. Mombus gives us six miniature instrumental pop classics, sweetly melodic and catchy but never twee or tacky. They jump around too much to fit into any particular pigeon-hole, but fans of electronica, IDM, post-rock, synth-pop, folktronica etc won't want to miss this one. If you don't end up humming these tunes to yourself for the next few weeks, you have no soul.
Downloads: 6,581
Average rating:  (1 review) |
| Symphonic Stereo - Do You Need A Heart? [nsh036] - Symphonic Stereo
Do you need a heart? Remember those whispering vocals that you hear when you're half asleep? They're composed by Symphonic Stereo. Flowering highpass lyrics against a background of subdued electro-pop.
Keywords: Poptronica; Electropop
Downloads: 6,262
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |
| Bipolar Controller - The Squid Kid [nsh032] - Bipolar Controller
A 46 minute 9-track sampling of experiment-tinged IDM with numerous magnetic surprises.
Keywords: IDM; Experimental
Downloads: 6,198
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Parataxis - Abandoned Site - Parataxis
Matt Kenefick's Nishi debut is a time-frozen journey through a compactified space of empty structure. These tracks feature micro-scale processing, synthetic and processed vocal textures, convolution and other spectral transformations, blended with metal/wood percussion and chimerical string/pipe/tube syntheses generated by physical-modeling.
Keywords: ambient; experimental; drone; textural
Downloads: 6,136
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Pfft - Black Hole Acoustics [nsh034] - Pfft
Black Hole Acoustics by Pfft; a set of noisy ambient tracks conceptually based around sounds detected emanating from a black hole. The rhythm of cosmic interferences raining down on us.
Keywords: Ambient/noise; Experimental
Downloads: 5,766
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| JapJap - Shapes Are EP [nsh084] - JapJap
Seamlessly fusing elements of ambient and drum 'n' bass, this 4-track EP from the Netherlands is packed full of frantic breaks and instantly familiar synth hooks, but never hesitates to make room for blissful washes and pads. Like all the best music, "juxtaposition" is the key word. Delicate yet uncompromising.
Keywords: Drum & Bass; Electronic; Ambient
Downloads: 5,746
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| Mystified - Dark Lacunae [nsh083] - Mystified
Proving that quality and quantity needn't be mutually exclusive, netlabel superstar Mystified adds his first release for Nishi to his already extensive portfolio. Covering all bases from brooding, pitch-black drones to skewed rhythmic explorations, you never quite know what direction the music is going to take next.
Keywords: Electronic; Ambient; Abstract
Downloads: 5,718
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Minus Pilots - Boundless Walls [NSH053] - Minus Pilots
Boundless Walls -- the debut Nishi release by Minus Pilots. Over 50 minutes of freeform ambient improv teeming with samples. Destined to become a favourite of Nishi ambient following.
Keywords: Electronic; Experimental; Abstract
Downloads: 5,407
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Ambient Field - Five Jules Verne Heroes [nsh069] - Ambient Field
Ambient Field explores the works of one of France's literary greats, with results as awe-inspiring and filled with adventure as the originals. Five Jules Verne Heroes sees analogue sequences underpin avalanches of noise and discord in a tumultuous vision of the future.
Keywords: Electronic; Ambient; Melodic Electronica
Downloads: 5,334
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| digital_mode - Hightech EP [nsh090] - digital_mode
A little uncompromising d'n'b to get you moving through the long winter nights. This Austrian duo lay down four storming slabs of syncopation, to be played as loud as possible.
Downloads: 5,187
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Zirkulardynamik - Live [nsh105] - Zirkulardynamik
Sometimes we like to be soothed by abstract soundscapes and intricate rhythms. For the other times, Berlin-based elektrockers Zirkulardynamik are here to dial up some serious aggression. This live recording captures the full force of their feedback-heavy take on industrial techno/rock.
Downloads: 4,931
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| Plumb and Plumber - Come Early Go Late [nsh056] - Plumb and Plumber
Plumb and Plumber mixes melody, ambience, noise and silence in just the right ratios on Come Early Go Late. A 50 minute excursion through cyclic abrasion and half-buried beauty.
Keywords: Electronic; Ambient; Abstract
Downloads: 4,901
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Pino The Frog - Western Girls [nsh086] - Pino The Frog
Vancouver's Pino The Frog is practically one of the family. For his third Nishi release, he treats us to more of his unique brand of digital obfuscation. Melodies and rhythms shine almost imperceptibly through layers of arbitrary complexity. This may well be the last you hear from Pino The Frog, at least under that alias, so don't miss it.
Keywords: Electronic; Ambient/noise; Abstract
Downloads: 4,878
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Colophon - Imprint/Tailpiece [nsh024] - Colophon
Imprint/Tailpiece : A six track release by Colophon breaking down divisions between post-rock & electronic music. An incredibly involving and invigorating alchemy of components that will be certain to have you listening to this on repeat.
Keywords: Post-Rock
Downloads: 4,805
Average rating: (5 reviews) |
| S. Müller - Flight Controller EP [nsh031] - S. Muller
Prepare youself for some heavy minimal and experimental house: Sascha Müller's Flight Controller EP is reminiscent of watching clouds in the wind... they slowly progress and twist across the sky, yet seem to remain the same clouds.
Keywords: Minimal Techno
Downloads: 4,749
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Court of Hidden Faces - Snow - Court of Hidden Faces
Court of Hidden Faces, who some of you may remember from the Nishi 100 compilation, returns with a delicate 4 track release. The only sound sources for these tracks were an electric guitar, crackle from the amp, and a recording of rain. Slow-paced and hypnotic.
Keywords: ambient; experimental; drone; textural
Downloads: 4,703
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| Holzkopf - Epilepsy Circle - Holzkopf
Canadian Nishi veteran Holzkopf originally released his double EP "Epilepsy Circle" as "Sum(n) Gun(m) Kicked Under the Table with Epilepsy" and "A Circle is a Natural Shape" on CD in very limited numbers from nOnCapable Recordings, and in mp3 form on Severed Digit Recordings. The CDs were sold out long ago, and Severed Digit no longer exists, but we've given these tracks a new home. Ten tracks ranging from breakcore/hip-hop to ambient chimes and drones.
Keywords: breakcore; experimental; noise; ambient; drones; avant garde; avantgarde
Downloads: 4,382
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| Mistrust - Making Movies EP [nsh072] - Mistrust
Up to now, no Nishi artists have had their music featured on an extreme sports DVD (correct me if I'm wrong!) But Mistrust is here to change that. Making Movies EP is "drift music" which never coasts on autopilot, down-tempo compositions which refuse to be caught napping.
Keywords: Electronic; Techno; Down beat / Chill; downtempo
Downloads: 4,301
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| Sascha Müller - Funktionales Karma [nsh104] - Sascha Müller
A four part exploration of minimal house-like experiments. The rhythms are largely implied between the endlessly shifting pads and the interlocking layers of percussive elements.
Downloads: 4,285
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| Leksha - Mark EP [nsh093] - Leksha
Key phrase: "order in chaos". Solid, crunchy, almost hip-hop-esque rhythms underpin the expansive glitches and pads on this EP from Russia, but a healthy dose of unpredictability is retained.
Downloads: 4,239
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Samarah - Robots Smile Too - Samarah
Following up on her recent contribution to Nishi 100, Samarah’s “Robots Smile Too” features self-contained bursts of glitch-pop and minimal techno with slinky bass lines and catchy melodies while maintaining her trademark sultry vocals, textural cuts and displaced beat sensibility.
Keywords: Electronic; IDM; Glitch; Downtempo
Downloads: 3,988
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| Mystified - Hunting Collecting [nsh101] - Mystified
Alternating between rhythmic pieces ("Trickle Down Side Stick Mix"), manipulations of homemade sounds ("Rubber TV") and good old-fashioned drones ("Recycled RM"), and featuring an excerpt from the epic "Trash Everest" (in Thomas' own words: "to take something small or ordinary and make it sound much larger than it is"), "Hunting Collecting" features all the variation and intrigue we have come to expect from the busiest man in netlabels.
Downloads: 3,849
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| Emmanuel Farley - Awkward Sex [nsh066] - Emmanuel Farley
Following up his previous release on Nishi more than two years ago, Emmanuel Farley brings us Awkward Sex. Six evocative and dynamic compositions showcasing an immense musical talent.
Keywords: Electronic; Experimental; Melodic Electronica
Downloads: 3,827
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| ILI - Cronicles Hoa Sa [nsh092] - ILI
Glitchy polyrhythms from Russia. Oleg Semenovyh's tours of the post-IDM landscape are unpredictable and minutely detailed, encompassing all manner of sound sources.
Downloads: 3,744
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Kurrel The Raven - Blissblaster EP [nsh060] - Kurrel The Raven
Kurrel the Raven whisks us off to a universe of emotive drones, reverb-soaked guitars, and space owls. The appropriately named Blissblaster EP defines epic shoegazing (or should that be stargazing?) for the netlabel generation.
Keywords: Electronic; Ambient; Shoegazer
Downloads: 3,743
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| Modul - Globe Puzzle - Modul
An astonishing concept driven album that traverses the spectrum of electronic music. Split into four groups of three tracks, with each group related to a cardinal point of the compass. These are lucid and complex compositions that travel between electro and ambient, with glitch flourishes.
Keywords: idm; electronic; chill; ambient
Downloads: 3,737
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Phyle - Earth [nsh070] - Phyle
Lovers of smooth incandescent drones will instantly warm to Phyle's Earth. Glacially slow yet frothing with turbulence, these three monolithic soundscapes could come from a distant nebula.
Keywords: Electronic; Ambient; Drones
Downloads: 3,615
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
