Blue Spectral Monkey
Caustic Crush
Central Europe Performance
Coin Operated
dickie.beats
Eyes and Teeth
Flesh + Stuff
Glossolalia
Ike Mentry
Jululu
Konrad
Lens
Light Body Vehicle
Marinelli
Maximillian X
Mike Taylor
Mose Giganticus
Production Unit Xero
Quetzatl
Robot usa
Struggle in the Hive
Synaptic Flow
The Marlboro Chorus
Thomas Jerome Newton
Ubzorb
Wisteria Losenge
Zan
Zywot
Radical Turf Records began in 2004 with the purpose of releasing 'various artists' compilations that feature experimental, off-beat electronic music. 3 compilations and 2 full-length releases later, Radical Turf continues to evolve as a medium for forward thinking artists to create and distribute original music without the limitations or hangups of trends, fashion directives or corporate ideals.
"Lo-fi electronica artists who make special sounds on their computers. Mainstream music is often so polished but here you get the feeling that these songs were intimately created in someone's loft. More art-fuck, less corporate" -URB Magazine
"Radical Turf is a label that does not want to limit itself with musical boundaries. A colourful eclecticism and an attractive diversity that can be translated into analog sonorities, samples, acid sequences, downtempo rhythms, Middle Eastern elements, Drum and Bass syncopations, scratching, ambient passages, Hip Hop grooves, Techno pounding beats, deep Dub waves and organic instrumentation."
-DJ/Host Jean-Francois Fecteau, CFOU 89.1 FM
Trois-Rivieres-Ouest, Quebec, Canada
Konrad is just one of many different musical personas employed by studio savant/song constructionist Jeffrey Konrad. In the past he's recorded as an 8-bit obsessed electronic musician by the name of Robot USA, an emo indie rocker known as eggspout, and a folksy singer/songwriter called "Nigel Jeffrey" who cut an album titled Struggle in the Hive with Patrick Stolley of Marlboro Chorus and Daytrotter.com. And those are just his "official" credentials, he's also released dozens of underground mix tapes and collaborated on a countless number of other projects with musicians from across the globe.
Now he's dropping his full-length solo debut as Konrad called Loose Canyons; a seeming amalgamation of all his past and present musical personalities all mashed into one meticulously produced package. Combining the old school synth sounds of Devo, the ironic b-boy style of Dan Deacon and the sardonic wit of Hot Chip.
"the record is wholly unique...making this the soundtrack to a dance party and a lazy afternoon all at the same moment" -CMJ
"engaging...jangling poetics intermixed with astrally arkestral songs" -Beats and Blood
"Konrad makes music that is completely experimental, but still melodic—and totally addictive" -CreamTeam.tv
“Hello Future?” is a computerized fun-filled adventure of electronica. If this is the future of electronica pop, then it’s a rosy one!"- Smother.net
NOW AVAILABLE
Radical Turf presents: Hello Future?
Hello Future? features 15 artists from: California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Swansea Wales, United Kingdom.
Truly a genre-bending effort, Hello Future? is a grab bag of underground sound, an electronic-based musical showcase of today's new world map designers. Exploring the realm of vocoders, vintage synths, layered vocals, apocalyptic-rap, glitched-out drums and lo-fi IDM. Hello Future? is the comp to hear for the new year!
Artists on the compilation: Eyes and Teeth, Konrad, Mose Giganticus, Caustic Crush, Marinelli, Ubzorb, Production Unit Xero, Synaptic Flow, Light Body Vehicle, Michael Taylor, Zywot, Maximillian X, Lens and Thomas Jerome Newton
NOW AVAILABLE Radical Turf presents:First Disguised as Last
2006 release featuring an hour of original electronic music. Showcasing artists from USA Illinois: (Jululu, Konrad, Michael Taylor, Marinelli, dickie.beats, Flesh & Stuff, Caustic, Maximillian X, Coin Operated) Iowa: (The Marlboro Chorus, Wisteria Losenge) North Carolina: (Light Body Vehicle) Tennessee: (Synaptic Flow, Zan) and Krefeld Germanys orchestral electronic group: (Central Europe Performance).
click here to listen to samples of every track in streaming format free.
2004 release featuring previously unreleased USA electronic music by: Coin Operated, robotusa, Ike Mentry, Mike Taylor, Blue Spectral Monkey, Synaptic Flow, Zan, Light Body Vehicle, Glossolalia and Konrad.
click here to stream samples of the entire album free!
