Proot, Home of Fun Electropop

The stable of artists at the awesome Proot Records produce some of the bouncy, happiest, most fun music in the world. Here are some of our personal favorites in that wacky kingdom of joy.

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Thaiz Itch - Binjoum

Yvan&Lendl - Made In Swiss

Katapulto - Bodyhammer

Thaiz Itch - Misty

Tep - Humble

Ergo Phizmiz - Pie Hateaux

Batfinks - Stema Tarnyt

Goto80 - 6

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Jazz + Chip + Ferret =

Live jazz with chip music? Master chipster Goto80, the Uwe Schenkt Trifft, and visual artist Raquel Meyers collaborated in Stuttgart this past October and created something the world had never seen.

This is probably the first musical that combines C64 and text graphics, with acoustic instruments and improvisation. Goto80's music was re-arranged for 4 musicians, according to the story of the ferret.

A live album of the performance was released a couple weeks ago on the Upitup Records netlabel. A video recording is available through the Uwe Schenk Trifft and Youtube.




license:  Released under a Kopimi license.

You Are Not Stealing Records on FMA

This week the catalog of Portugal based netlabel You Are Not Stealing Records was added to the Free Music Archive.
The following mix pulls some easy favorites from many of the YANSR albums on the FMA. You will want to jump around in the mix to find items you enjoy, because a broad spectrum of genres are covered.
These include Ambient, Ambient Electronic, Avant-Garde, Blues, Chip Music, Classical, Composed Music, Electronic, Experimental, Experimental Pop, Field Recordings, Folk, Goth, Indie-Rock, Industrial, Lounge, Metal, New Wave, Noise, Noise-Rock, Polka, Post-Rock, Punk, Reggae - Dub, Rock, Rockabilly, Sound Collage, and Surf.
That's a lot of ground for one label! Enjoy!

An Overdue Dozen

Here you have a new set of 12 free and legal collections and CDs to get you through the work week! Eat up and be sure to spread the love by supporting these artists!

Chuzausen - Happy Farm winner at Oddio house, fun and light, "Freaky Gamebased Soundscape from Spain" (myspace) [electro, chip, breakbeat]	Swirlies members of Boston's dream pop legends share almost a dozen of their out-of-print LP and 7" releases [indie, rock, pop, lo-fi,shoegaze]	General Fuzz "electronic music with the emphasis on music... not so much dance music as music to zone out to... 'tagged it as lush melodic instrumental'" [electro]
MasterToaster an established netlabel in Spain promoting both Spanish and international acts in genres across the board [varied!]	Flattstreet young Canadian 6-piece funk-rock ensemble who learned chops performing and touring with the Hamilton All-Star Jazz band [funk, rock, jazz]	Ektoplazm Psychedelic Trance check out the free music section for goa and psy trance releases and compilations [goa, trance, psychedelic]
Mr. Moods In Love We Trust... And We Hate CD of "downtempo magic and hip-hop wizardy" released through Dirtybird Rexx netlabel [downtempo]	Spectacular Fantastic enjoy the albums shared by this Cincinnati, Ohio indie 3-piece who sound like psych Beach Boys and a western Beck [rock, pop]	JT Bruce his free albums are in the vein of progressive metal bands like Dream Theater, the next generation after acts like Goblin [prog, metal, rock, guitar]
Protest Records "for musicians, poets and artists to express love + liberty in the face of greed, sexism, racism, hate-crime and war" [rock, pop, folk]	MyOuterSpace "ongoing project that invites musicians from all over planet Earth participate" [electro, space]	Raging Family - Space Tragedy the RF brothers released another sweet one, "an epic saga set in the 6th dimension of outer space... official sequel to Black Holes" [pop, electro]

several years' worth more here

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