All posts by George De Bruin

Cover Art for Tape Productions by Small Colin

Small Colin: Tape Productions

Artist: Small Colin Title: Tape Productions Released: March 2013 Genre: Lo-fi Artist Country: Scotland Label: Rec72 Catalog No: Rec72-054 License: CC BY-SA I have a generally leery attitude towards any release marked as being in […]

Cover art for Ethnic Profound by DubRaJah

DubRaJah: Ethnic Profound

Artist: DubRaJah Title: Ethnic Profound Released: March 2013 Genre: Roots Dub Artist Country: Russia Label: Angel Dust Records Catalog Number: adr-010 License: CC BY-NC-ND Sergey Gabbasov is a Russian social anthropologist specializing in the Himalayan region. […]

The CCTrax Front Web Page

CCTrax: Great Place To Get Your CreativeCommons Fix

For those of us that have been using the Internet Archive, SonicSquirrel, Jamendo, Band Camp, and other sites to find our musical fixes, there is a new site that shows a lot of promise for […]

Space Weirdo: Press Start

Space Weirdo: Press Start

My first encounter with Space Weirdo was back in 2009 when *Cosmonaut* was released on Jamendo. I was thoroughly engaged with album, and wrote a positive review in January 2010. The only reservations I had about the album were that (a) it was too short, and (b) it seemed a bit odd the Creative Commons License selected for the release was the Non-Derivatives form, given how many elements of the album had been sampled and transformed.

Well, with the release of *Press Start* both of those criticisms have been addressed, and then some. Read on for a complete review.

Ergo Phizmiz: The Faust Cycle

Ergo Phizmiz: The Faust Cycle – Day Eight

By this point, I have lost most narrative elements of this story, only to say that I do know which object is in “The Abduction of the Object”.

Mikael Fyrek: I Step Into The Advent

Mikael Fyrek: I Step Into The Advent

Title: I Step Into The Advent Artist: Mikael Fyrek Label: Kahvi Collective Release Date: 11/10/2009 Catalog No: Kahvi 276 License: CC BY-NC-ND Mikael Fyrek is another example of one of the extremely fine electronic musicians […]