Callisto marks Chris Randall's fifth genre-spanning sojourn in to the back streets of electronic music under the Micronaut banner. Mostly up-tempo, partially eccentric, and definitely danceable, Callisto is a distilled history of Micronaut in one album.
The long-awaited solo album from Chris Randall, former frontman for Sister Machine Gun, pays homage to more traditional American music, while still maintaining the chaotic edginess that Randall is known for.
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Bounte: One
One is the debut album from Chicago native Bounte. Combining a breakbeat and IDM backbone with strong melodic textures and melodies, One is an unique take on the current electronic music scene.
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Sister Machine Gun: Influence
Sister Machine Gun's seventh full-length album is an electro-industrial tour-de-force that recalls the industrial sound of the late eighties and early nineties.
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Micronaut: Pasiphae
Pasiphae features seven new IDM-influenced ass-shakers from Micronaut.
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Various Artists: komposi003
komposi003 features tracks from Aizome, Amish Rake Fight, The Atomica Project, Bounte, Chris Randall, Graphic, Micronaut, Milkfish, s.sturgis, Scanalyzer and Sister Machine Gun.
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Scanalyzer: On The One And The Zero
A tour-de-force of glitch-hop, noisecore, and IDM, with a generous dose of dancefloor groove thrown in to complete the mix.
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The Atomica Project: Metropolitan
Metropolitan maneuvers effortlessly through genres, incorporating elements of trip hop, orchestral, downtempo, and lo-fi, all the while illustrating a compelling story of loss, affliction, collapse and recovery.
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Micronaut: Europa
A brooding and introspective piece of melodic electronica, Micronaut's fourth album is dark and cinematic, with twisting synth lines and disjointed drum-beats vying for attention amid a thick bed of drones and found sound.
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s.sturgis: in a haze
Converter's Scott Sturgis combines textural ambience, down tempo beats, dub-influenced fragments, tribal rhythms, spaced-out psychedelic hues and a touch of industrial flavor.
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Impossible Recording Machine: Echo The Moon
Matt Walker (Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, Morrisey) and Jim Dinou create an explorative soundscape encompassing electric, acoustic, melodic, dissonant, disciplined and spontaneous musical worlds.
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Everyone said we were nuts. "You can't do that," was a common response, though it rarely came with a why. When it did, it was usually some variation of "that's not how it's done," as if doing things any other way would make the Earth spin in the wrong direction.
Some people may have found that kind of talk discouraging, but in our case it was exactly what we needed to hear. It was never our intention to follow the path of "how it's done." The object of the exercise was to be the anti-label; to place the value of art above the sticker price, to place the value of an artist above a work for hire, and to place the value of a fan above profit margins. We vowed to never say things like, "we don't hear a single" or "we need to take it to the next level." We threw the whole concept of "recoupables" right out the window. And we believed that with unparalled customer service we could bridge the gap between getting customers and keeping them.
That was 1998, and if we were nuts then, we are full-blown insane now. We don't release a barrage of records each year with the hope that one will sell well enough to pay for those that didn't; we release a few because we really like them and think you will too. We don't give up on a record, we don't declare it over and done because it's been out for six months; every record is new until the artist decides it's time to release another one. It's certainly new to whoever is hearing it for the first time, and if they enjoy it, why should the when matter? As for our customers, well, I think I should let them speak for themselves.
We don't subscribe to the idiotic music-biz notion that, by definition, independent artists are "unsigned" and independent records "must suck." We've heard more than a few sucky records that made it to the Billboard Top 20 in our lifetimes. We believe that today's independents release today's music, while today's corportate conglomerates release cross-promotional marketing campaigns that package artists with hamburgers. To them, artist is product, and product is disposable. To us, artist is label, and our aim is to make a contribution to the soundtrack of your life without picking your pocket in the process.
We've also recently taken the step of giving our artists the option of releasing their works under Creative Commons licenses. We despise the idea of customer is criminal as concocted by the RIAA and major labels. It's not your fault, but they're going to blame you anyway. They can't help themselves; that's just "how it's done."
Well not here.
Thank you for supporting independent music, especially from crazy people like us.
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