Internet Archive - Collection: test_tube

American Case Study

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:53:13 GMT

«Well... and here's our last tube of 2007. Please welcome again Mr. Fairbanks from Los Angeles, California, with this new collection of tracks, which he appropriately titled 'American Case Study'. Norman has been steadily putting out high quality releases for a couple of years at least, officially ....

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Short Dance Songs EP

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:32:32 GMT

«Polish kid Adrian Kowalczewski (cover photo, black suit) aka Ad.R sent us a nifty little EP a while ago called 'Short Dance Songs'. It took some time to get everything ready for the release but, alas, here it is! This EP is a nice little surprise, as it covers a lot of electronica's ground in just....

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Shaman Tones

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:21:20 GMT

«'Shaman Tones' starts with a Hedningarna cover, unsuspiciously titled, yeah, 'Hedningarna', and with it Polish artist Artur Antonian sets the tone for what will come ahead: Drones, repeated patterns, pagan rhythms and world grooves....

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Grow in the Dark Watch

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:18:17 GMT

«Dan Schreck is a north-american musician who studies sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In his spare time he also does some credited work with production and stuff and meanwhile, he also manages to get some time for his own experiments with music and sound....

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01122008

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:16:48 GMT

«Hailing from Forth Worth, USA comes Jin Men Ju - real name Terry Horn - with the weirdest and minimalist acoustic based folk we've listened in years. Terry uses a power tour guitar toy, a nintendo ds with jam sessions and a ibook g4 to create hypnotic layers of strings repeated through infinite lo....

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Lonesome Abyss

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:14:33 GMT

«Matúš Mikula is from Slovakia, one of the youngest members of the European Community, and as 900piesek he brings us a soothing sci-fi ambient release, packed with nostalgia and warmth. 'Lonesome Abyss' is Matús' third album already, and it can be somewhat defined as a dark ambient work, althoug....

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Some paradoxes about the human existence and its arquetips

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:57:13 GMT

«From fragments of some (other) space free jazz in ‘Interlude…’ to the perversion of a spoken word in ‘Metamorphosis…’, going through the post-minimalism of ‘Cyber Chaotic Zen Paradox’, it’s a whole universe almost cinematographic – which goes beyond transcending labels and clas....

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Stepping Stone

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:48:03 GMT

«Three/four releases a year is the average production coming out of João Ricardo's lab, making him a very busy artist and producer. Even with such a rate of releases, quality is not an issue, as João - aka Operador de Cabine Polivalente (OCP for short) always makes really interesting works....

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Les Restes du Festin

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:46:22 GMT

«Rhythms that bleed. Rhythms that rust and fall apart. Rhythms that fracture your perception of time. D'incise's decompositional approach is charged with an electricity that turns actual objects into distorted images....

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Lilt

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:44:16 GMT

«As promised, we're back with another excellent work from Entia Non - aka James McDougall from Australia - called 'Lilt'. Like the previous one, expect to listen to lots of juicy field recordings from australian whereabouts artfully mixed with soothing ambient tones and drones of rare beauty, and a....

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Self Deprivation

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:41:49 GMT

«Once again, Chris Komashko releases a compelling set of sonic options to cerebrate upon. According to most dictionaries, deprivation is the loss or absence of parts, powers, or things that are needed....

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Patina Turner

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:19:08 GMT

«Remember Gordon Tebo back from tube031? Probably not since it was like two and a half years ago... still, Gordon offered us at the time, a nice little release called 'Adaptive Immune' and it was a conceptual EP about the human body system....

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Pulsos Temporales Memorias Estables

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:10:30 GMT

«'Pulsos Temporales Memorias Estables' is the second album from SEB here at test tube and this time he made it even bigger than the previous one. Twenty tracks of SEB's trademark 'digital nostalgia' style of clicks 'n' cuts and weird sampling....

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Templates

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:08:43 GMT

«Platform was the first electronic band Rui Gato formed little after he went solo as Outersites (later an audiovisual duo) - from Elastic Void, his first individual effort. For Platform he teamed up with Nuno Clímaco Pinto, a friend guitar player strongly influenced by european jazz and experiment....

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Le Sac De Sonido

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:45:47 GMT

«When the particles of dust along a curve start floating, they carry miniscule pieces of metal, plastic, and glass. As these particles float, they reflect natural light to become visible to the human eye....

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Wanderweg

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:35:48 GMT

«'Wanderweg' is german for 'Hiking Trail' or 'Hiking Path'. Brad Mitchell recently lived and worked in Switzerland - before moving back to his Springfield, Missouri home, so it's no surprise that the lower Alps, the Black Forest and other typical surroundings inspired him with their nature magic....

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Planicie Corrediza

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:33:38 GMT

«Adrián Juárez is a sound experimentalist from Buenos Aires, Argentina and he has been working with different sound languages since 2005. Not long but he has already spawned an impressive number of solo and collaborative works since then....

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Tradition

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:31:48 GMT

«The collaborative nature of spanish composer Juan Antonio Nieto has taken him into different journeys. What happens when the continental drift process suffers inversion? The union of intangible terrains is becoming more clear each second....

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Flossy

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:31:26 GMT

«Under the media hype-fueled turmoil, in deeper underground zones lives a multitude of organisms, which discreetly threads its way seeking the opportunity to call our attention. Such is the case of the Croatian collective TrianguliZona....

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Light Years

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:31:36 GMT

«The dazzling state before the magnanimous perspective of space is something that affects most people. The infinite, the fascinating void… the senses numbed by the impossibility to explain everything that surrounds us… these are the first images that ‘Light Years’ - a new release by Lee Ros....

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Two Trips down Market Street

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:29:47 GMT

«Our Czech friend Petr Drkula is back with another healthy dose of minimalism for all you loop addicted fans out there. Inspired by the amazing photo taken two centuries ago by photographer Geo. R. Lawrence over San Francisco in ruins - after the earthquake, 'Two Trips down Market Street' illustrat....

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Sleepyhead falls off the edge of the world

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:27:49 GMT

«'Sleepyhead falls off the edge of the world' is a hip-hop mini-epic for all the broken hearts out there. Love stories gone wrong... not your typical theme for an hip-hop release, I guess... but Shelter makes it work really really well....

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Zink EP

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:14:23 GMT

«The metallic name given to this EP does not misguide the listener: what this release from Norwegian sound designer Bård Farbu offers us, is about 17 minutes of cool and concrete ambiance. These tracks should be listened with high volume in order to be captured by the intense metallic sounds on it....

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The Door

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:10:27 GMT

«Another extremely nice EP for those of you fond of Múm and other acoustic pop delicacies. Multi-Panel - real name for dutch artist Ludo Maas - delivers in just little over 15 minutes, 7 great tracks soaked in nostalgia, droney keyboards, soft beats and acoustic guitar pluckings....

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Flotante EP

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:06:44 GMT

«Hailing from Mendoza, Argentina, here is an EP release of warm ambient idm beats, from Cristian Gualpa, called “Flotante”. In five tracks, Gualpa explores an electronic language of aquatic beats, somehow related with the kind of stuff explored by artists like Arovane, and also a language with ....

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Plays

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:45:41 GMT

«Peter Memmer is originally from Germany and is a former classical dancer who used to live in Portugal until very recently - the cover photo was taken by Peter at a typical portuguese Carnival festivity at Loulé - before moving again to another european country, Spain, if I'm not mistaken....

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Satori in Atlantis

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:45:36 GMT

«As you struggle to stop your thoughts, you can still hear the conversation of some neurons. Sometimes they sound like little pieces of metal sliding over a self-constructed organism, or granular rings that create ephemeral vibrations....

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Plagiarism Perversions

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:51:04 GMT

«Motown Junkie a.k.a. Ed The Sampler is Edgar Matos and lives very close to the spanish border in a portuguese town called Elvas, deep in the Alentejo's deserted countryside. Ed - for short - loves heavy metal rock, noise, goth, industrial and several other kinds, but he also enjoys sampling based ....

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Silent Drama

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:46:20 GMT

«Whether a fictional planet in the DC Comics universe or a chemical element, known as a noble gas that occurs in trace amounts in the atmosphere, Krypton has the ability to expand into your subconscious....

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Atractores Extraños II, or we are happy on the another planet

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:46:06 GMT

«Get this: Macedonian born Bosnian-Croatian and currently living in the spanish Islas Canárias, Mladen Kurajica operates this band which makes some unrecognizable kind of psychedelic drone rock of sorts....

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Son of a Pitch

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:34:07 GMT

«(...) Unlike the previous Pitch Boys releases , 'Son of a Pitch' covers different ground in terms of aesthetics. Taking as an approach the typical song format, Nuno grabs some basics of chill-out genre and mixes them with world music references, ambient, broken beat and some lounge to create styli....

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Distal

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:50:29 GMT

«Another personal favorite of 2007 comes from the far away Australia. James McDougall a.k.a. Entia Non possesses the rare talent of putting together seemingly ordinary field recordings in a way that they sound to always have belonged together....

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Hyper Riot

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:49:08 GMT

«Here's another one hailing from the United Kingdom. Jon Weinel is a native british musician and brings us this collection of tracks called 'Hyper Riot'. Jon reclaims his work to be mostly influenced by flashcore and breakcore, whatever the hell that is, but judging from his myspace there are a lot....

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London By Night

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:49:00 GMT

«(...) 'London By Night' is a bit like a short movie, like a journey through the city's darkest and scariest alleys, with the tracks working like snapshots of specific moments. Incidentaly, the track 'City Alleys Host Murders' which comes around roughly at the middle of the album, is the key piece ....

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Western Spaghetti

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:09:06 GMT

«The 'alentejano' Daniel Catarino has kept for his second volume as Long Desert Cowboy a not so guitar-based, less Ry Cooder-esque sound than what is explored in the first volume (curiously, it's this one who gets to be titled 'Western Spaghetti)....

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Sandshoes

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:07:34 GMT

«"The times, they are a-changin'". The new musical outfit of Daniel Catarino (also known as Landfill) brings dust to our footsteps and its consequent footprints. It may not be deliberate but the first of the two volumes from this new adventure carries the smell and feel of Ry Cooder....

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Martin Heinrich

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:05:42 GMT

«Omas FGT is one of the heads behind french label Plex Records. Omas has released once on his own house (plx001), plus a couple of loose tracks and remixes on compilations throughout Plex's catalogue....

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Country at the River of Friendship

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:09:49 GMT

«Today, test tube very proudly presents 'Country at the River of Friendship', an album by Fraufraulein. For me, this was one of the most anticipated releases of this year. Before presenting the duo that makes Fraufraulein what it is, I'll tell you how I came to know their music: Months ago, at the ....

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Lion & Lamb

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:32:43 GMT

«Yay! Another new artist here at test tube HQ. Kevin Murphy comes from the U.S. of A. and mainly works around ultra-minimalistic compositions based on drones and electro-acoustic frequencies. The unusual alias he has picked up - The Jack Bohlen Book Club - was probably taken from a Philip K....

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Commutative

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:39:14 GMT

«We proudly welcome another portuguese musician working with a laptop and analog machines. Hugo Paquete from Porto brings us 'Commutative', a short EP with experimental ambient sounds consisting mostly of grey noise and dense drones as sound bases....

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The Dark Ages of Technology

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:39:10 GMT

«Ok, time for something completely different. Meet meta:Human, a kind of an Industrial-Techno-Goth-IDM trio from Germany. 'The Dark Ages of Technology' is their own post-apocaliptic manifest. This releases is something of a 'best of', put together by the guys from 3 full albums of previously unrele....

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Revisitado (sem Voz)

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:50:35 GMT

«Hugo Santos returns as Clorofila Azul for the promised second volume of his 'golden oldies' collection. This time we took several CDs worth of instrumental material, beats, experiences and whatever, to build up what we believe to be a worthy release....

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Field Recordings #02

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:37:12 GMT

«Are you ready to be embraced by the Tropical Rainforest? Thanks to the recordings of Brazilian physician mathematic and composer Thelmo Cristovam, we can sonically witness one of the most sensational environments of our planet in the surroundings of Lake Mamori (Manaus, Brazil)....

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Plano Vertical

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:36:20 GMT

«We continue our travel through the wonders of electro-acoustics with another american, but this time it's a south-american. Please welcome Juan José from the capital of the Tango, Buenos Aires. 'Plano Vertical', consisting of only two long pieces - 'Extensión Activa' and 'Plano Vertical 2' - is ....

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Climate

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:30:15 GMT

«Two years ago, on August 29/30, hurricane Katrina hit hard on the greater New Orleans area, causing death and destruction as she passed and dissipated a few days after. Considered by weather analysts as the 3rd greatest hurricane in American history, Katrina was also considered by many as the prob....

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e:4c - Documents [tube042]

Mon, 15 May 2006 13:40:54 GMT

Â«e:4c are H. Vasconcelos and J. Correia, a laptop duo from Porto, Portugal, and they build skyscrapers made of heavy pre and post-processed field recordings, cable static and general software sound generation....

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Gordon Tebo - Adaptive Immune [tube031]

Sat, 13 May 2006 03:45:29 GMT

«And from Chicago - USA comes Gordon Tebo, a man with a very special music. Test Tube proudly presents 'Adaptive Immune', a kind of an ode to the human being, and his self-healing immune system. Gordon's music goes straight to the cells that we're made of....

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Sticking Drops - Meteo EP [tube041]

Fri, 05 May 2006 15:50:02 GMT

«"Music happens somewhere else". I came up with that phrase when I needed one for lezrod's myspace site and later found that somebody else conceived it for an article on William Basinski and Richard Chartier's self-titled on the german magazine DE:Bug....

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INVADER - Reikai Sounds [tube040]

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:37:52 GMT

«Founded, to a large extent, on strategy of a surreal nature where the robotic vs human paradox is elevated to an aesthetic category, INVADER is the 21st century Reiki. Here, every sensory organ is invited to listen to a renewable energy, creating a resonance of the artistic self, which extends the....

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Norman Fairbanks - Graceland EP [tube039]

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:01:14 GMT

«Now for some easy chillout breaks, for a change. LA based Norman Fairbanks doesn't do what we like to call 'difficult listening music'. No, he doesn't. Instead, he crafts some of the best lie-down-and-try-not-to-think kind of tunes that I've had the pleasure to listen to this year....

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