The last episode of this year brings you all kinds of tempi, from ambient to drum n‘ bass. We have a lot of stuff from South and Latin America packed in the show. Should be something to warm you in these cold days…
Two remarkable dates for this episode: We started this thingie here in November 2005, so we have now 5 years of Machtdose Podcast. And during this episode we also present the 1,000th track in the history of the podcast.
So, time for a short retrospection and some statistics. I’m still overwhelmed of the richness, diversity, surprises & vitality of the netlabel scene. Although I don’t play exclusively tracks from netlabels this is still my main focus because I also still believe in the idea of the concept „label“. Therfore I want to thank all artists and especially the label makers for their great work. Here’s not the space to name them all , but I want at least mention some, namely the ones which gave us the most input, that are: 12rec.net (18 times in our show) / Clinical Archives, Maltine Records (14 times) / Dusted Wax Kingdom (13) / Acroplane_Recordings, Corpid, kreislauf (12) / Tropic, monotonik, MiMi Records, Bump Foot, broque, 8bitpeoples (11) / The Poni Republic, Laridae (9) / WM Recordings, Budabeats (8) … and I could lengthen that list to a kilometer, so I have to stop. But you can have this complete (!) list all ever-played tracks (will be constantly updated from now on). So, to all of you, wonderful netlabels & artists out there – mentioned or not -: thank you, thank you, thank you.
What also impresses me is not only the variety of styles and genres you still find, but also that we have collected tracks from a lot of countries, more or less the half of the United Nations, we have had music from artists & labels out of: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republik, Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, Ukraine, Uruquay, The United States of America and Venezuela. Hello World!
I don’t know if I will do this podcast for another five years, but right at the moment I think: why not. As long as I get so much fantastic music, the chances are not too bad.
This month we have a little delay, because we had first to realize the new & shiny Machtdose Design. Hope you like it! So I’ve done a quick & dirty produced episode which is nevertheless one of the longest ever and full with Popstuff, Techvibes and everything else. Don’t forget to share the thing & we would love to hear your opinion about it…
In short: again a lot of diverse stuff. Starts with „Indie“ goes to Soundscapes and contemplative music, we pass some Electro-Popsicles to a (Deep-) House-Zone and at the end a nice Poptronica track.
As the most times we start very cautious to get more tempo until the endand again you have the whole way from dreamy, melancholic melodies to danceable stuff (for instance a real funk bomb is waiting for you…). I hope you like it and don’t hesitate to leave a comment.
Two weeks after the month has started – I’m really, really late. Sorry for that, but otherwise you now have a show full with 22 tracks – and hopefully some variety and surprises. We have excellent pop songs, techno, filter house and whatelse you want. Listen and enjoy. In the show I’ve mentioned the Free! Music! Contest, you can find all infos about it here
To promote Creative Commons licensed music and the musicians behind it, Musikpiraten e.V. launches this year once again the Free! Music! Contest. Until the end of July, musicians and bands who are releasing their music under a Creative Commons license, can register for the contest. Until August 22th there will be an additional remix-phase: the participating artists are invited to submit single stems or acapellas in addition to the individual songs. By submitting individual tracks or the submission of music videos, the chance to be added onto the sampler that will be a result of the contest, will be increased – if only just a little bit.
A panel of music bloggers, artists and netlabel enthusiasts then decides who will be promoted on the Free! Music! Sampler 2010. It will be made available as a free download and also be pressed on CD. The highlight of the Free! Music! Contest will be on October second: a party at the Wiesbaden Kreativfabrik.
Please visit the Free! Music! Contest site itself for more details (e. g. how you can contribute or support).