Phlow-Magazine - Free MP3 Music Culture: Episodes

Creative Commons Video | Video-Clips are still rare on netlabels. That’s why Marco Medkour from rec72 tries to get in touch with VJs to connect for a wonderful audio-visual performance. Marco realized to use videos not only as a promotional tool, no, better, he loves them - like we all do ...
Weirdo Melodic Electronica | The music by Thiaz Itch is full of contradictions. In one ear “Binjoum” sounds naive, playful and childish coloured. In the other hand this “delightful bittersweet cocktail” surprises you with a ton of different instruments. Instruments from trumpets ...
Smooth House Music | The Morgenklang-Duo know how to grab the knobs of their controllers to squeeze some cosy and smooth House Tunes out of the synthesizers and drummachines. Their sound on the House Netlabel Supafeed is relaxed and fits perfectly into cool lounges or into a laid-back dj-set. With ...
Lovely Guitar Pop Impressions | Cantaloup is the one man shoegaze Pop outfit of German guitarist Thomas Peters. He released his first EP “Tonight It Shows” via Aerotone and it soon became one of the Netlabel’s most successful records. Naturally, hopes for the successor were high. ...
Vienna’s Most Wonderful Popband | Dino Spiluttini, the blond beau behind the Liger moniker, asked me to review his “The Infra-Ordinary EP” back in 2005. The EP was a cute little gem of a Netaudio release, filled with fragile, eccentric and electrified Folk songs. Three years later ...
Funky Electronic Rock | Put this record on and you will start dancing. This is what’s going to happen. Dids awesome catchy and funky electronic rock is full of surprises and probably makes you wonder when you think about their hometown of Turin, Italy. Because this kind of music suits New ...
Visiting Hidden Corners of the Global Netlabel Phenomena | While internet data highways connect more and more countries and cultures all over the world, the distribution of music speeds up and we get access to places we’ve never been. Places like Indonesia where cassettes are still a commonly ...
Cute Melodic Drill’n'Bass | If Hello Kitty enjoys some LSD and Speed and begins to dance, than our hyperactive cute cat listens to Candlestickmaker. Because the musicfreak from Romania, spanks her hairy butt with some serious drill’n'bass plus sweet melodies. Like Hello Kitty he enjoys ...
Affair of the Heart | Music helps you to get nostalgic every now and then. Remembering the good ole days might be a stupid reason to fancy certain songs or bands but sometimes you can’t help. Consider New York City Famicom-Rockers The Depreciation Guild - what took these delicious guys to ...
Minimal Sci-Fi Techno | With the Relaunch in late summer Broque came back with a techno release with a sophisticated production reminding me of sounds by Robag Wruhme/Whignomy Brothers. This release called “Information Ghetto” still finds its tracks into my ears, because I like the Minimal ...
Psychedlic Lo-fi Indiepop | Bobby Aherne aka Dublin Duck Dispensary is a young Ireland lad, “Luanqibazao” his sixth EP of snotty Indiepop psychedelia, the third for Rack & Ruin Netlabel. “Luanqibazao” is Chinese and means “a complete mess”. A good descriptions ...
Dark Trip | Breakbeat merging into hill billy guitar, opera mixed with experimental ambient guitar, theme park music transitioning into glitch? Djet is back. Russia’s grand master of audio collage, Alex Lisovsky a.k.a. Djet is back with his latest album of luscious deep ambience wonderfully mashed ...
Sven Swift, mo. and Filippo Aldovini cruisin’ through London (Foto: Sim Sullen) Interview at Netaudio London 2008 | Really good Hip Hop Music is still hard to find in the creative commons world of music. If you search for netlabels promoting deep Hip Hop Music you have to stick to a baby-handful ...
Netaudio London 2008 Photos | Some people write texts, others compose music, Simon Bierwald aka Sim Sullen shoots beautiful photos and gives you a slight glimpse how amazing and fun it was to take part in Netaudio London 2008. Fortunately he already uploaded some of the hundred shots he made while ...
Netaudio London 2008 Report | Yesterday we arrived without any problems in London and went straight to the venue under the London Bridge. The location where the Netaudio London 2008 takes place called “Shunt” is a huge place with a small door which we oversaw at the first moment. But ...
Phlow Report | In the next days you’ve got the chance to meet the Phlow Staff at Netaudio London 2008. Sven and mo. will not only play some free music in the evening, we’ll try to catch some of the most interesting people to interview. If everything works well, we got an internet connection ...
IDM and Drum’n'Bass from Russia | Human Terminal is a very promising artist from Russia. The silent ways and floating numbers sometimes give me the idea from “Future Sound of London”, but is a somehow different way. The album “Press any Key”, released on Rec72, combines ...
Podcast Playlist | Travis asked for links to Applejux free music collection selected for our podcast show. Here we go… For the introduction we played a song from konsumprodukt and his album “radio souvenir” on tonatom called “Casio Y Cabra (Boutade)”. After the first ...
The Spain-Germany Podcast Connection | Monday evening: mo. has turned on two laptops, started Traktor, Skype, his mixer and midi-mixers and than… Click!, you hear how a microphone gets turned on, the trailer rolls in and with some more mouse clicks Cologne/Germany is connected with Calella/Spain ...
Hyptnotic Electro | Sometimes it takes only one hypnotic loop to catch you. “Funny Computer” has this deep sound which makes you addicted for the rest of the track lasting seven minutes and thirty seconds. The producer from Madrid composed a loop which sounds melodic but is difficult ...
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