Back from a little break and just in time for some Fall chill from our new favorite netlabel, Dusted Wax Kingdom. The name of the release is Damaged and the artist is Viktor Van River hailing from Kazakistan. We hear things are on the move and we want to move to the groove. Viktor Van River - OCD
Today we feature a fine release from our friends at Bump Foot . The release is called Mouseen and was released last August. Jovern Palerosi found some wonderful Brazilian artists to sample and these seven tracks are the result. One of the tracks features Chico Correa who has a fantastic release on Bump Foot and has been featured on these pages before. Jovem Palerosi - Deuses Mutados (feat. Independência ou Marte)...
Man, we love strawberries. Today we dip into a pretty cool hip-hop scene in Mexico City. We have posted music by LFA and Billano and Luis René in the past and decided to visit Billano's Soundcloud page and stream some tunes. Billano is a dj who loves the solo format, as well as performing with a band. He is from southern Mexico City. Today's track is from a release called Poetics of Sunset that was put together with LFA in the producer's chair. This track stood out and here it is. Billano - Nina...
In honor of Creative Common's 10th anniversary a few years ago the netlabel Bad Panda put together a playlist that we discovered on CC-Europe's Soundcloud page . Some really nice stuff on this list, but we were immediately attracted by "Robot" and "Moon Mansion". BSWC has always had a thing for Space, Sex and Robots. Great track by Ricky Eat Acid and while we type this their Soundcloud stream is playing on behind us. Worth checking out. There is a bunch of material at Bandcamp , as well. He has ...
Today's track is from a blocSonic netBloc release called Antididonai . This was #39 in the series. It was released in November 2012. netBloc #39 has a great collection of tracks from a broad spectrum of artists (one of whom was featured in yesterday's post). Bristol artist and producer Frenic describes his music on his Facebook page: Frenic's music production reflects his D.J influences and a love of old retro sounds creating deep emotional music."Essentially Im a hip-hop D.J but I don't just pl...
Things are bubbling right along here at BSWC. No dust gathering beneath our feet. Featured in this post is a lovely 2012 VKRS release called Talk to Me . Miranda Shvangiradze is originally from Georgia but is currently living in the U.S. This is a collection of instrumental piano tracks with a nice dollop of electronics. She has a Soundcloud page that features her more current work along with some ringtones and the like. The liner notes for the release provide a list of her influences: Her music...
We've been looking back at playlists of old to check in with some artists we followed back in 2005 and 2006. Many are nowhere to be found, remembered only by the tracks they left on archive.org or on netlabels that have gone extinct. But many are still active, or somewhere in between. Lonah , from Paris France, looks to be somewhere in between. Today we present you with Fly Me , the third track from Lonah's second release on Jamendo, Au fond du temps [estrella sin cara] . It is the digital versi...
Artist, social media, netlabel...we are not quite sure how to describe Hasenchat , but we found this track on Jamendo.com and wanted to share. Hasenchat has a bunch of tracks on the ever wonderful Jamendo, however there isn't a lot of information. We followed the link to the Hasenchat.net site and found this bit of description: In 1997 we Started in Germany in the Local Area of ” Hassberge ” Bavaria. The Coat of Arms of this Area is a Rabbit ( Hase is the German Name for Rabbit, Hasen are more t...
Our old friend, Gurdonark has a new release out called Constellation Blackbird from the netlabel, we are all ghosts . WAAG describes his sound as "weirdbient". That works. We have enjoyed the Gurdonark sound for almost of decade now. His music appears both in BSWC the show and here in the feed. WAAG has a nice way with words: “Constellation Blackbird” continues the musical journey Gurdonark first started with WAAG back in late 2012 with “Open Spaces”. This isn’t easy listening: it has dissonant ...
Another day, another post. I've always been a fan of the album as a composition, and Rainy Days by Erik Jackson is just that. American producer and sound maestro Erik Jackson; shares his incredible album "Rainy Days" with the Dusted Wax Kingdom's audience. The release is a unique fusion of light melancholic drum & bass, romantic acid jazz and relaxing downtempo. This release is also more evidence that the Bulgarian netlabel Dusted Wax Kingdom is a Creative Commons label with few rivals in te...
And for our first oops... a fantastically pure 8bit composition by nullsleep from the collective 8bitpeoples . Lots of great stuff here! "Equally suited for use when dancing in front of the mirror alone in your bedroom or rocking the crowd to the ground at your next mega dance party!" Subsystem7 likes! Nullsleep - depeche mode gameboy megamix!...
Bump Foot has always been an interesting place to dig, quite a number of picks from past posts and shows have been from either the Bump or the Foot side of this Japanese net label formed as far as I can tell, in 2005. Bump focuses on techno and house while foot does everything else. Collectively, this netlabel boasts a 441 releases to date! This pick is from the release A Fictional Movie Soundtrack [foot240] by Shin Wada from late February. It is beautiful classical ambient, each track transitio...
Sometimes it pays to look back through our Black Sweater White Cat playlists, when we hosted a two or three hour Creative Commons only show on WBCR-LP in Great Barrington Massachusetts. One of these look-backs brought me to Beth Quist, who is credited as the reason that Magnatune was started. "It was Beth Quist who inspired me to create Magnatune... John Buckman - Magnatune You can read more on her Magnatune bio page, and you can listen to her music and buy any of her four albums. Beth was Magna...
After our belated discovery of the aural excellence of Boogie Belgique earlier this year we have been digesting their back catalog . This is some really great stuff. Today's track comes from a July 2012 Dusted Wax Kingdom release called Blueberry Hill . Amazing from first note to the last. Boogie Belgique is based in Ghent. Here is a little more on the release from the liner notes: From top to bottom "Blueberry Hill" is filled up with electro swing moods, funky hip-hop rhythms and tasty jazzy sa...
When in doubt go with the Dusted Wax Kingdom catalog . Wow. There is some great stuff therein. Remarkably, I have absolutely nothing on the artist Sp. Ace except they are from Latvia. It's a great release called Caravan of Lightbulbs . It is about a year old, released on April 14, 2014. Enjoy. Sp. Ace - Caravan (feat. Faerytale)...
Here is an older, perhaps wiser version of Nambavan. He has appeared on the BSWC radio program here , here , here , here , and here . He also has a track in the One-a-Day feed that was posted February 20, 2007. Ok, we really like the guy. This tune is from a WM Recordings release from May 20, 2011 called Modnay Discoteka. Nambavan is Linar Bilalov. He is originally from Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan (also known as the "Third Capital of Russia"). We found his origin story on his website : ...a ...
We are going to stay with Japanese netlabel Tanukineiri Records and are pleased to present their latest release, Primitive by Parapunte. This release hit the streets on Friday. Dreamy Indie J-pop (yep, biotic tried to describe something). Tanukineiri Records is based in Nagoya, Japan and as well as being a respectable netlabel also has a business in Japanese tableware. Google doesn't do a particularly good job translating Japanese, but here is some text: Osaka resident, by singer-songwriter Terr...
We were very happy to discover today's artist. Super Magic Hats is a Melbourne-based musician, beatmaker and producer. This Last Week appears on a collection called Slowly that was released February 28 by the Japanese netlabel Tanukineiri . They have a wonderful catalog with some intriguing compilations. You can get full release downloads from their website and they also post to both Bandcamp and Soundcloud . How to describe Super Magic Hats' music? I'll rely on the artist: Half-heard/half-imagi...
Getting wild...the weekend is nigh... Thanks to our friends at Netwaves for posting their tribute to Da ! Heard It Records , a netlabel that has catalog going back to 2006. This track comes from a 2009 release called Disco . Puyo Puyo began his musical career as a New Wave drummer and from there began producing his own sounds and touring the continent and Mexico performing a reportedly wild stage show. The liner notes describe the sound: This album is a delicious witches brew of German new-wave,...
Here is an awesome track from a 2013 release from the Russian netlabel, Clinical Archives . The release is called You in the Future . Ancient Lasers hail from lovely Whatcom County in the northwest corner of Washington State. [Full Disclosure: A radio program by the name of Black Sweater, White Cat first aired on radio station KUGS-FM in the county seat of Bellingham, WA during the 80's...mostly soul, R&B, Afropop and early hip hop.] Ancient Lasers is a project of Daniel Finfer. Inspired by ...
This track comes from a Various Artists compilation released on the Foot side of the wonderful netlabel, Bumpfoot . The release is called Footprints 2 and hit the streets on April 21, 2012. Möbius is from Germany and first began to develop musical chops during his gaming sessions using an Amiga 500 in his childhood. He describes his music on his Facebook page : My music can be described as a mixture of Amiga MOD-music, pop, chillout, some breaks, hard basses and a lot of atmosphere. The netlabel...
