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NOBODY HERE
Observation Point
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Deeply textured mellow tones and delicately placed sampling are beautifully intertwined on this latest release from Seedsound artist - Observation Point. After a fast, busy summer with quiet activity here on the label, we know this offering will be well met… glide down into Autumn with the graceful sounds of “Nobody Here.”

Be sure to check out the Thought Paths series of releases also available here or on the Observation Point website.

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RITES OF SPRING
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Shrug off your winter blues. Cold is bad, sun is good. Originally recorded for one of the first Mercury Cafe Syntropic shows hosted by Metameme in February 2005, these songs will lighten your spirit and lead you on a journey through the battle against old man winter and his minions towards a sunny end. Cover art by Jakob.

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Acedia Music.

For this week’s seedlessness, check out Acedia Music. This mix is primarily a representation of the more experimental and broken-beat side of their catalogue. The artists Mitzati Linien, Alex Cortex, and Electronvc are featured in this 17 minute mix… which leads us through experiments in beats and repetitive trancey sounds. Acedia holds something of interest for everyone and we recommend browsing their label.

Download/listen (192k).

Ouim, Bulgarian netlabel.

Ouim has a rich catalog of music for anyone with tastes in nice downtempo/ambient trance. Some of the music is also targeted towards the dancefloor. This mix offers music from artists such as Mana, Sound Set, Band of Mad Women, Splendex, Surbahar, and Seedsound artist Observation Point who also has his releases on Ouim (plus a few only available on their label).

Download/listen (192k).

Nuclear Ramjet @ Digital Diamonds - deep hard techno, psy-techno, psytrance.

I first heard of Nuclear Ramjet via their Delta EP. It was a very refreshing listen in the midst of over-the-top cinematics in a lot of trance music. It was the same feeling I had yesterday when I stumbled across this release on Digital Diamonds. In a medium where sounds often reflect desperate attempts to redefine the “next new sound,” Nuclear Ramjet’s Liquified EP is once again that refreshing blast of relentless rhythm and texture we need.

Oh and, 10 points if you can pick out the Star Wars sample in track 2

Listen (256k).

More about Nuclear Ramjet here. And, click here to stream their mp3 archive.

GLOBALIZATION
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It’s been months in the making but it’s finally here. Welcome to the Globalization compilation, featuring 6 artists from 6 labels across the globe. Featured artists and labels:

- Brett Knacksen (Musicartistry Recordings)
- Amoebafunk (Seedsound)
- Pantherklub (Electroreptil)
- beCKmann (Digital Kunstrasen)
- Qorser (DoBox Recordings)
- Ben Crea (Random Access Recordings)

Download the entire album.

Listen here.

Archive.org page.

More about Seedsound’s Amoebafunk.

Filtro - minimal, dub, experimental.

I still can’t shake this downbeat feeling. Especially when there’s too much good music like this to share. Filtro is a Mexican based netlabel focusing on the dub and minimal aspects of electronica. As with most of the seedless mixes I’ll be arranging, I try to let the songs speak for themselves, so I won’t be very heavy handed on the mix side of things. Or maybe that’s my justification for enjoying the music enough to just listen. Have a great week….!

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Jahtari… Digital Laptop Reggae.

Greets, here it goes again… the Seedless Sunday. Featured first this year is the netlabel Jahtari. I’ve been trying to keep my ear on them for the past couple of years and finally decided that everyone deserves to give them a listen. If you even remotely like reggae or old video games, you’ll find something of interest there. Be sure to install the C-64 font for full Jahtari browsing enjoyment!

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As of today, Seedsound is 3. To celebrate, I’m posting about it. And…. starting up -=seedless sundays=- again.

I know you all couldn’t wait.

And for those of you who never new what seedless sundays were, well. Now you get to enjoy them like all those in-the-know people did for a few months once upon a time. The program features a different mix by yours truly each Sunday, most often exploring the realm of (you guessed it) netaudio. Check here for the first installment this year!

Cheers,
Noah at Seedsound.

EarthDance 2006
Noah Christopher
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seedsound’s first mix release! a 74 minute set of original material produced for the Earthdance celebration in Colorado, usa, covering genres from techno to blip-hop, glitchy ‘idm’ to tribally electro-house rhythms and break-beatiness.

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DUB BY NUMBERS
Noah Christopher
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sometimes running out of disk space can be a good thing. i stumbled across these 3 tracks looking for what i could delete or archive, and realized these may be the only surviving record of some dubby sounds i was making for a party in february ‘06. they got played out but nearly forgotten. here are some cleaned up versions… hope you enjoy!
-noah

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THOUGHT PATHS VOL. 2
Observation Point
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Observation Point returns with a much anticipated sequel to the thought provoking debut (Vol.1) here on seedsound. the same great sensibilities and inspiration surround this release as with the first. enjoy!

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scraping the web, i came across a site where the dj/artist Ferik posted a minimal/tech house mix. two seedsound tracks were featured on it and i thought that was almost reason enough to post about it. the real reason i’m posting about it is because, well, it is a good mix.

have a listen!
or download (192k mp3)

tracklist:
01) Ferenc Vaspoeri - Paktum [Minimalheadz]
02) Electrip - Fantasma [Tropic]
03) Lazzich - John gluchit mashinu [Fragment]
04) Funzion - Groenlandia [Filtro]
05) Ed Function - Westworld [Standard-Music]
06) Yagya - We reject the now [Sutemos]
07) Ferenc Vaspoeri - Leporello [Minimalheadz]
08) Japh - Dr.Kitsuka [Seedsound]
09) Camp - Weed (remix) [Pop Quiz]
10) Ferik - Kimpro
11) Magnetic Assassin - 24 hour wobbly people [Seedsound]
12) Dapayk & Padberg - Fa Fa (luka&lazo’s fa fa rmx) [Mosferry]
13) Kresy - Eres un alacran [Nomucho]
14) Automata - Education err9r [Minlove]
15) Ataraxia Rebel Force - Grab [17sons]
16) Kareem - Ahoi bobacheck [Pentagonik]
17) Tom Teel - Strg [Labil-Recordings]

more info at Globalbeatz.net
and Archive.org

THOUGHT PATHS VOL. 1
Observation Point
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‘Thought Paths Vol.1′ is the latest platter from ambient sound artist, Observation Point. OP’s music and sounds are inspired by the surroundings and atmospheres of Port Talbot, South Wales. Abandoned buildings, decaying industry, looming hillsides and deserted beaches provide the backdrop to deep space collages and dark experiments. ‘TP1′ is part of a series of ideas, which mark a departure from some of the rhythmic structures of the past.

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Transient
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sometimes searching for new and inspiring netaudio can be a daunting task. just about anyone with a laptop and some sequencer software can be a producer. so it seems logical that a next step would be to explore these production measures on other media, such as PDAs. the artist transient, off the noisy vagabond netlabel, has put together a release of music made with Chocopoolp Software.

however, what makes this release so great is not just the way it was made… what makes it great is that you can give it a good listen without knowing what media were used to create it, and it still sounds every bit as well produced and inspiring as electronica coming from the expensive hi-fi studios of the world.

i think this is a very worthwhile item to post about here on seedsound… hope you do, too.

listen @ 192k mp3

links:
http://www.noisyvagabond.com
http://www.archive.org/details/nvr028
http://www.chocopoolp.com/