Free Albums Galore » Jordan Reyne – four albums

While listening to her four free and legal online albums, New Zealand musician Jordan Reyne reminds me of a number of artists yet still manages to be uniquely herself. The first comparison is the most arguable, Reyne’s atmospheric background and her plaintive Celtic vocals hints of Enya yet Reyne is more darkwave than Enya could ever be. More accurate might be the Gothic renderings of Dead Can Dance. I also hear the epic combination of rock and electronic of Peter Gabriel especially on the two later albums. Yet the comparison game can only go so far, Jordan Reyne has clearly carved out a niche of her own. [...]

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[qd-4257] Switchboard Of Souls – Don’t Bother Me – Remixes (2009)

When Switchboard Of Souls sings: “Don’t bother me, just leave us alone, don’t you know that we’re all just as human,” he sounds the anthem of the alienated and the disenfranchised. It’s a simple enough tune, but the variations do bring new viewpoints to the plate.

The first two original 8-minute-plus tracks utilize a driving darkwave synth with guitars and vocals reminiscent of early New Order, but subsequent versions range from electro 808 State-like arrangements (Common Prayer Mix), to industrial stylings (BlenderMix), to sinister downtempo (Hands & Feet Mix), to 90s pop remix (InstrumentalMix), to new age piano (Sonata), to a combo of everything on the 2 reprises.

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[intox048] Mach FoX – Locust Den EP (2009)

Genre: electropunk
Style: gothic electro rock synthpop

Tracklisting:

1. House divided (4:28)
2. AXion/FriXion (3:16)
3. Reward le fin (2:54)
4. The subversives (4:08)

Released by Intox Noize: http://derex.info/

all songs written by Mach FoX
guitar/vox/synth – Mach FoX
guitar/vox – Adam01
bass – D-bot
synth/vox – MissK
vox – TeA

Mastered by Nic Heidt
Live on KUOM
Recorded 04/21/07 @ RadioK studio – University of MN.
Mach FoX LIVE on “The Locust Lecture” – gothic/electro/industrial radio show on KUOM.

www.archive.org/details/intox048

http://derex.info

[afm056] Plastique Noir – The Early Grave (2009)

www.af-music.de/en/releases/afm056-plastique-noir-the-early-grave/

[afm050] VA – #50 (2009)

Within just one year afmusic got off to a lightning start. The most innovative netlabel in Germany for Darkwave, Gothic and Independent Music celebrates on the label founder Falk Merten’s birthday their release-anniversary and distributes big presents to their fans – and that are 16 in number on this fiftieth publication.

All are on this Anniversary-Compilation “AFMUSIC #50″. Exactly one dozen of it are previously unreleased or recorded exclusively for this release. Beside many known afmusic-acts the sampler also presents an absolutely new band. Therefore, it is less a retrospective, than even more a look in the future of the label.

“AFMUSIC #50″ indicates not only the variety and versatility of the present releases, but also their high musical and artistic quality. LATRISTE – the newest member of the label family – immediately deliver with her first song a potential hit single. SMOKE FISH and EMERALD PARK contribute dark-coloured pop pearls of the grade 1A and CONFUSION IS NEXT are represented, just like LIGHT IN YOUR LIFE with a dreadfully nice ballad. Thereby the music ranges from Shoegaze to the sturdy Alternative rock.

SPINEFISH, (((S))) and ART NOIR provide for the dark sound-collage which hold together “AFMUSIC #50″ and lend a breathtaking atmosphere to the album.

In between the big potential of a lot of afmusic-bands flashes: The label-draught-horses ALL:MY:FAULTS cement with a never been there mixture of 8-bit Postmetal and spoken words their exceptional position as the most innovative German band of the scene. STROMBLE FIX’s “Dispirited” is more progressively Hybrid from Grunge and Deathrock, “Enjoy” of REPTILE71 is more sombre than the legendary “Drowning one” and CAMP Z present a modern version of the Sisters Of Mercy.

Crowning end of the completely successful afmusic-show is the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” cover, which is the most stretching cover with wide distance of this decade.

www.archive.org/details/afm050_afmusic50

www.af-music.de/en/releases/afm050-various-artists-50

[bleak015] VA – DS:Vol.1 (2009)

[Skeksis86] VA – Vol.4: United Gothic Underground (2009)

The Prayer – Trust E.P. and The silence industry – The Edge of Illusion

To all the Black Souls all over the World!

This album is published by Ekleipsi: a netlabel for obscure music.
WWW.EKLEIPSI.COM

VADIKAN – Time of yellow repentance [mimonot063]

Elvatorium – Message From The Black Sun Constellation [AMR149]

Netlabel: amdusciasrecords.4t.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/amdusciasrecordsnetlabel
Archive: details
Keywords: Dark Ambient, Gothic

“Message From The Black Sun Constellation”, which is the second release from Elvatorium, continues the mood of their debut album.

‘,,4 dark ambient fans a must,,’ [dg]

Noctiflora – 04/07 [afm020] ¦ Darkwave \ Gothic \ Rock

Netlabel: af-music.de
Archive: details
Artist: www.noctiflora.net
Keywords: Alternative, Electro, Darkwave, Gothic, Rock, Industrial

7 emotional songs for 3 years of walk…
sounds, vibrations, experiments
the love for the music and his purity
the flower is still opened!

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UNFACTORY – She Bleeds EP ¦ Darkwave

Netlabel: psicotropicodelia.blogspot.com
Archive: details
Keywords: Darkwave, Ghotic, Electronic

O Unfactory e um projeto musical que procura exprimir o goticismo da decada de oitenta, sob total influencia das culturas techno e industrial atuais, mesclando guitarras distorcidas, sintetizadores, elementos experimentais e letras com enfoque romantico (escola literaria).

O projeto teve inicio em Florianopolis (SC) em 2001, com Chris Lima e Deedee na primeira “encarnacao” da banda, gerando o primeiro trabalho em 2003 o album Negative e na sequencia em 2004 um disco de remixes intitulado Positronic.

Em 2005 a Unfactory lancou um single na coletanea ELECTROMAP -> LATAM pela NullRepublik Records da Argentina com mais um integante na formacao, Luciano Barbi.

Ja em 2006, a “encarnacao” da Unfactory conta ate o presente com Chris Lima, Walmoli Gerber, Gustavo Storm e Andrey Silva que reformularam o som da banda, trazendo novos elementos para lancar o EP She Bleeds.

01 black_celebration
02 gift
03 mindpain

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Best of Jamendo Music Chart (5) – May 2008 ¦ Various

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Best of Jamendo Music Chart (5) – May 2008

Here’s the next Best of Jamendo music chart at Calm Down, Relax website. This time I present some of the best (in my opinion) tracks I’ve found last month at Jamendo.

1. A.K.1974 – Rain Over The Beach

from: SEA, A Chilled Experience Vol.1

Genres: lounge, ambient, cool, chillout, relaxing.

2. SamFilm – The Plan

from: Cold Stones

Genres: soundtrack, house, orchestral, downbeat, electronic.

3. Panray – Termint

from: mak.2

Genres: hiphop, electro, drumnbass, breackbeat.

4. Filo – Split & Meet

from: Virtual Pretender

Genres: 70s, pop, rock, acoustic, progressive.

5. Damiaskaron – Existenz

from: Definition Mensch

Genres: pop, electro, dark, gothic, german.

Plastique Noir – Urban Requiems (Extended) [afm013] ¦ Darkwave

Netlabel: http://www.af-music.de

Keywords: Gothic, Gothic-Rock, Post-Punk, Death-Rock, Industrial, Darkwave

Urban Requiems (Extended) is the digital re-release of the originally 2007 released EP, containing now 4 re-recordings from Offering and 4 new songs.

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