In-Tune: Soundbyte

Style: Drum n Bass

"Sound Byte is an talentet Drum`N`Bass producer from england. His first EP on Pharmacom Records shows you his way of producing. Deep Phat Basses with really cool Breakbeat variations. Jump up music for your ears." - Soundbyte

Visit the website:
www.pharmacom-rec.de

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Spin a Penny
Bubblegum

In-Tune: Lendi Vexer

Style: Downtempo / Trip Hop

"Lendi Vexer is Natalie Naveira and Diego Gui azu " DG " Impelled to spill deep songs on determined feelings and aspect of the life, these two members united to work together in the year 2000 and up to now they continue with their mutual support in the hard times, composing new songs with intense, piercing lyrics and intimists for moments. Always based on the reflexive aspect of the down tempos with hypnotic and orchestral tint, blended with the singers particular voice. The band is definitively formed as that that today you are knowing as Lendi Vexer with the magic arrival of Natalie, her guitars and her excellent voice with so much to say...it was the complement that it needed for the electronic part." - Lendi Vexer

Available at:
www.cdbaby.com/cd/vexer

Highlights:
Suicidal Adage (Crimson Underground Mix U.K.)
Nothing was Special

In-Tune: Artemis

Style: Electronica

"...born in a trailer park. opened her eyes and stuck out her tongue at her new human companions, and staked her claim as a performance artist. there is documented analog proof of artemis singing her way through the first reading of a book. wrote her first hit, fiddle dee fiddle o fiddle dee, at the age of four. announced her plans to become a ballerina, doctor and rock star and marry shaun cassidy. won the hustle contest at the mall, and first prize for best mushroom sculpture at 4-H family camp. tried to be a good girl scout, but got ex-communicated for biting off barbie's arms and legs. grew up studying chemistry in the back of a rusty gold sixty-seven dodge and become the family's first straight-A college dropout, herbalist, prolific poetess and brilliant musical artist. forgot all about shaun cassidy and marriage. still likes to wear the girl scout uniform though. is right at home in san francisco. would rather defy definition, but will make up something crafty if you ask her nicely. has a knack for blending acoustic and electronic worlds and likes to think she can use music, poetry and her voice to trick people into thinking twice or better yet, not thinking at all. if you like what you hear, hold onto your hat, drop the sandbags and stay tuned. planets are colliding. the dimensions of the invisible universe are showing us a little leg. the crew is building a new boat. it is red and shiny like the old radio flyer, with lovely sails woven by the original wise old babooshka in her spooky backwoods hut built on chicken legs. keep your eyes and ears and all other sense organs peeled ... this ship is aimed aimed straight for the moon." - Artemis

Available at:
magnatune.com

Highlights:
Sync or swim
Fountian of Life

In-Tune: AGF

Style: Electronica

"agf IDENTIFIED: as a musician. writer. producer: reordering the left overs of e-poetry. a work in progress. poetry to eye and mind. here is a perception of the world filtered through the lenses of contemporary elegant rendering not only this world
but a sense of it. Language is the most. Reordering the leftovers of e-poetry, AGF makes a break from both her native German tongue and abstract vocal content to explore new relationships between language and song. Drawing on a wide variety of inspirations, including fashion design, painting, cinematography and electronic correspondence, Westernization Completed is an expression of things happened. Layered exchanges between friends, memories, conflict." - AGF

Visit the website:
www.poemproducer.com

Available at:
music.download.com

Highlights:
Private Birds

In-Tune: Rob Keens

Style: Electronica

"Clouds, also called hydrometeors, consist of water- and ice particles which float in higher spheres and usually do not touch the ground. Furthermore they can contain bigger masses of exhaust gases, smoke and dust. In the year 1802 Luke Howard, a pharmacist from London, classified four main types of clouds: Cumulus, Nimbus, Cirrus and Stratus. Cumulus clouds are big accumulations of fluffy clouds, Nimbus clouds are responsible for rain, Cirrus clouds float in enormous heights opposite to Stratus clouds which are settled in very low spheres. What do clouds symbolize to us? Their origin and meaning has been solved (or is meant to be solved), but when looking at them, we still have some strange feeling inside of us. Clouds form shapes, randomly. Sometimes we notice one or the other cloud looking like something we know. We project our conception of the world onto forms which evolve and diminish at the same time and try to give them a sense while they are completely without meaning. This is a result of our romantic image of existence, that everything has its order and is supposed to be well-conducted. Chaos and randomness are unforeseeable and therefore always tried to be described and categorized. Whether this process of description is done by scientific or creative forces is up to you. Rob Keens makes us looking up to the sky from within our cities or in general from within our human culture. Shadows hover over our skyscrapers, darkening the sun for some few moments or several days and diffuse sunlight to merge light and dark surfaces back together. Besides the loud and rhythmic noises and architectural sound-buildings of our city, we discover wide silky plains, lovely harmonies, complex textures evolving and devolving or just: continuous movement." - Rob Keens

Visit the website:
www.stadtgruenlabel.net

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Nimbus
Stratus

In-Tune: Glideascope

Style: Downtempo/Trip Hop

"Glideascope demonstrates a free flowing mix of beats that are generously blended with a flavour of cinematic melodies and eclectic influence. His music generates a new segment of Trip Hop, which he terms "Audio Cinematography." An innovator of the genre, offering the public what they are yet to experience. Cultivating the art of music to chill to: long before the words chill-out were ever uttered - he spent his early years creating several well-known video game soundtracks. Glideascope is no longer England's best-kept secret" - Glideascope

Visit the website:
www.glideascope.com

Available at:
music.download.com/glideascope

Highlights:
Devushka(beautiful)
What Kinda Madness

In-Tune: Im Part Viking

Style: Electronica

"Im Part Viking started writing rubbish punk music in rubbish punk bands when he was 14, but soon moved onto writing instrumental music influenced, in equal parts, by Pixies, Aphex Twin, Radiohead and Spiritualized. He moved on but unfortuanately the bad punk bands did not, so since then he has been recording mostly solo EP's. His music has ranged from ambient sound scapes to hip hop, from drum and bass to psychedelia, trying to find some common ground between them." - Im Part Viking

Available at:
music.download.com/impartviking

Highlights:
Peach Plum Pear
Harp Dub

In-Tune: Barem

Style: Minimal

"Mauricio Barembuem (a.k.a. barem) of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been djing and producing since 2003. A student of music since the age of 15, Barem's love affair with music started with the guitar -- playing mostly rock and blues in the beginning. soon after, during a trip to europe, he realized his own passion for minimal techno while visiting berlin. He has been djing and producing ever since that vacation -- now with several releases coming up on various labels. Barem's sound is accomplished, simplistically complex and ultra-heady. He fuses minimal concepts with a funky frame of mind. In short, barem rocks." - Barem

Visit the website:
www.unfoundsoundrecords.com

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Zoom
Miniban

In-Tune: Enjumi

Style: Electronica

"What happened the morning before? Probably you woke up once again. Probably too early from the view of yourself. Maybe too late from the view of the obligation. But how does it deal with this music? Why is this release called "Der Morgen Davor"? Because the artwork shows a window at 5 am? Because of the easygoing morning before I slept, at the same time? There is no true reason. In general there is no big story depending this music. Enjumi's music doesn't want to change the world or show a "new", "better" kind of thinking or way of life. The sense is pretty simple, making music. To put down short ideas that crossing his mind. There's no srict style dominating his music. "Crossover" in it's primary definition." - Enjumi

Visit the website:
www.enjumi.de
Note: Site is in German

Available at:
www.legoego.de

Highlights:
Freude an der Melancholie
Too many too much

In-Tune: Airliner

Style: Electronica

"2005 marks the official debut of Airliner, with the release of the 6-song Apparel EP for free download. A collection of tracks loosely based around the theme of clothing, Apparel demonstrates a keen ear for shaping simple melodies and pop structures, while exploring the possibilities of random and pseudo random processing. Airliner is the project of self-confessed pop junkie Dylan Abbott, who counterbalances a taste for songcraft with a healthy fixation on more experimental sounds and techniques." - Airliner

Visit the website:
www.iheartairliner.com

Highlights:
Shirt
Sneakers and Socks

In-Tune: Addisko

Style: Electronica

"As one half of the acclaimed abstract electronic rock duo, Tomorrowland, Stephen Baker has become quite expert at fusing low end frequencies with filtered guitar arrangements that evoke expansive scenes cast in warm hues. Now he strikes out on his own with Addisko and the focus is sharper and more synthetic. Each sound on Wo Hop stands in high-contrast to its neighbor and although various strains of dub, hip hop, synthetic funk, and acid collide, the final impression is of a cogent new sound that is unparalleled." - Addisko

Visit the website:
www.redantenna.tv

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Bridge and Tunnel
Bitwise Operations

In-Tune: Ice Cream Creatures

Style: Electronica

"Ice Cream Creatures music is vocal, dreamy, experimental electronic glitched up guitar ballads for space children. The sound can range from soft and ambient drones to songs composed only of manipulated vocals to full on drum and bass. The Ice Cream Creatures strive to fuse experimental electronic sounds and arrangements with accessible pop sensibilities. Ice Cream Creatures released their first album, Everything I Touch Turns Into More Touches, in September of 2004." - Ice Cream Creatures

Available at:
www.papergoose.net

Highlights:
Little Machine
Mist or Mast

In-Tune: GuruFX

Style: Downbeat

"Michael Frohlich aka GuruFX has been doing music for quite a while. With his Techno project "No Way Out" he released two records on S.H.A.C.K. Limited in 1998 dedicated to the power of 4/4-bassdrums combined with harsh samples and heavy sounds. In recent years, he developed a more sensitive view on music under his new alias GuruFX. Melody, groove and harmonic sounds have become more important to him as he has been studying and collecting records like an archivist. Countless releases are filling his shelves, selected every now and then to appear on a strictly limited compilation series given only to friends and those who know. This activity of compiling and distributing appreciated sounds is one of the ideas behind Mainstreet 52, a studio collective dedicated to high quality electronic music production. Over the years, Michael has gained a reputation as much valued music critic and engineer with his excellent expertise. At the same time he has always kept his pioneer spirit: Considering electronic music as matter of research and innovation, always exploring new sound fields and dismantling given sounds critically into their smallest components." - GuruFX

Visit the website:
www.1bit-wonder.com

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Endless Confusion
Ultra

In-Tune:Nool

Style: Electronic

Nool is a self described "Crazy guy who enjoys making beats maybe a little bit too much." 8 years of music making experience starting out using Impulse Tracker then moving on to Buzz. Laying down tracks in a variety of styles, from dnb to trip-hop and back again, Nool creates music with a strong vibe and full of personality guaranteed to induce body movement. With over 200 mp3 tracks on his music page, Nool's production philosophy can be summed up as: "creating music is a passion that i do not intend to stop anytime soon. Much like the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, I will never stop."

Visit the website:
www.noolmusic.com

Also visit:
http://www.myspace.com/nool

Highlights:
The Businessman
Cosmic Noise Dawn

In-Tune: MaYa MoUsE

Style: Electronica

"MaYa MoUsE is the newest and one of the most interesting names on the Macedonian electronic scene. Maya is an urban girl from Skopje, who lives in the same gloomy reality of this urban jungle as we all do, but with one distinction: she uses it as her inspiration. She grew up listening to punk and post-punk, stubbornly avoiding getting contaminated by the increasing influence of turbo-folk. This was her initial inspiration to spend years playing bass guitar in punk and later in rock bands with whom she performed eight times on local level. Cult movies and electronic and rock bands from the last decade are the grounds on which the basis of MaYa MoUsE's music is placed. Furthermore, they helped her to develop herself into a complete musician who can find a way to completely express herself with ease. Her skilled balancing between the radical underground and the orthodox pop enabled her to build an original music expression that corresponds with the things she sees, hears and lives through." - MaYa MoUsE

Visit the website:
www.lithiumrecords.com.mk/l_eb_mm.htm

Available at:
www.garageband.com and music.download.com

Highlights:
Disconnect Me
Everything

In-Tune: Databoy78

Style: Electronica

"Sebastian Zangar from freiburg (.de) calls himself the gardener of small harmonies, in search of maximum beauty in cyclic precision. After his classical piano education he focussed on digital production, and soon he released his first track on the swiss label "shtml audio recordings" alongside artists like apoll and octex. Working as sound engineer in various projects, he mainly produces his own tracks in trains, foreign flats and studios. A new seed for minimal techno music and a bunch of fresh tracks to escape the summer heat." - Databoy78

Visit the website:
http://boombap.net/databoy78/

Available at:
http://realaudio.ch/tec/ratc008.html

Highlights:
Cafehaus
Neuanfang

In-Tune: Sensual Physics

Style: House

"Sensual physics is one of three music projects by Joerg Schuster from Dortmund, Germany, started in 1997 only with a pc and a roland jd- 800. His output is very positive, deep moody Detroit inspired techno/ house music, mostly with some dub elements. Suitable for the club, "four to the floor" backed tracks - grooving and fluid, bright and warm. Crackles, chords, dubs and solid grooves. In Sensual Physics' world, the dance floor and the living room are door to door, Detroit is just around the corner and the essence of techno shines throughout." - Sensual Physics

Visit the website:
www.lllll.org

Available at:
www.epsilonlab.com

Highlights:
Cold Sweat
I Think for Myself

In-Tune: From the Sound City

Style: Downtempo

From the Sound City brings up an interesting point about music being a universal language, with its own grammar that transcends boundaries. If there was such a world, without borders and language barriers what would it look like? Listening to From the Sound City gives one a vision into this world with a style and ambience that wraps around you like a warm sonic blanket.

Available at:
music.download.com/thesoundcity

Highlights:
Escapee

In-Tune: Readymedia

Style: Electronica

Is it possible for organic to co-exist with electronic? Modern yet traditional at the same time? Readymedia answers these questions with the following response: "yes. the proof is here." Andreas Fertig aka Readymedia is an electronica artist from Berlin who creates his music out of pure fun. Combining modern sounds with traditional songwriting methods, Readymedia's music is "an electronic delicacy between yesterday and tomorrow." and he recommends that you "download it today".

Visit the website:
www.readymedia.com
Note: Site is in German

Available at:
www.tonatom.net

Highlights:
Dropper
Indian EXP

In-Tune: Prus

Style: Ambient

Bringing to mind UFOs, tractor beams and Martian worlds, Prus, "An artist from Belarus, utilizing an array of delays, synths & processed static creates something that harkens back to moods of old science fiction". If you close your eyes you can almost imagine the cardboard UFO suspended by wires floating by...

Visit the website:
buben-info.narod.ru/main.html

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Modern Public Opinion
Morza

In-Tune: Soul:food

"soul:food spins the wheels since 13 years and has been producing nearly the same time. He fills that decade with a mix of fusion, soul, detroit, house and electronica, this gives birth to his own music projects. Surrounded by Cinematic Sounds, moody basslines and dirty beats, soul:food found his own concept of music. He sketches his impressions of berlins underground music history. Tracks to drift away in a ambient housescapes. And he is also the A&R of "hungrymenrecords.com". His chair stand by the end of the demo-line. so......." - soul:food

Visit the website:
www.hungrymenrecords.com

Highlights:
Sandstorm
Postcards from Jupiter

In-Tune: Telekom

"Telekom is an ambient electronica act with members living in England, Germany, and the US. They have received awards for their remixes of Depeche Mode's "I Feel Loved" and New Order's new single, "Crystal." Telekom has now begun to focus on their own material. 2003 saw the completion of their first EP, and they are currently recording their very first full length album." -Telekom

Visit the website:
www.deadlimb.com

Available at:
music.download.com/telekom

Highlights:
Leftright
Gloss

In-Tune: Heather Duby

"Heather Duby’s follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut Post to Wire finds Heather collaborating once again with some familiar faces in Reggie Watts and Steve Fisk. Reggie and Heather previously performed together in local Seattle band, Clementine. After the dissolution of that group Reggie shifted his attention to improvisational techno soul group, Maktub, and Heather moved on to work with renowned producer and keyboard master, Steve Fisk. In constant need of creative outlets, Reggie, along with fellow Maktub member, drummer Davis Martin, FCS North bass player, Josh Warren, avant garde saxophone and keyboard player Skerik, and turntablist Skyler Gilmore (aka Diskyze) formed a rotating ensemble of improvisational musicians called Elemental, who began regularly performing on the Seattle underground club circuit. Constantly pushing the boundaries of improvised electronics, on stage Elemental conjures an eclectic lab experiment in sound mixing the roots of drum and bass, dub, breakbeat, and jazz. The first results of this innovative collaborative effort are found here." - Heather Duby

Visit the website:
www.subpop.com/bands/heather_duby/website/heather.htm

Available at:
music.download.com/heatherduby

Highlights:
Love you More

In-Tune: Orgel 54

"Orgel 54 has been creating electronic music since the late 90`s, and has always tried to follow his own instincts when it comes to the melodies and the flow of the tunes. The many sounds Orgel 54 can offer filters through house, break beat & trance... but the general vibe which is the basis for all his tracks is dub electronica. Sit down & relax, do some thinking, or whatever you see fit... cause the vibe of Orgel 54 was created for just that!" - Orgel 54

Visit the website:
www.poiserecords.com

Available at:
music.download.com/orgel54

Highlights:
Brakaren
Simplistic Inhale