Showing posts with label Opsound. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opsound. Show all posts

Feb 19, 2015

Manolo Camp - Hoehenkoller

We had occasion to visit Opsound.org and found a familiar name in the "Latest Artists" list. Manolo Camp has appeared on four BSWC program playlists in 2006 and 2007. You can find the playlists and audio files here, here, here and here. We are pretty sure that we originally found his work on Opsound.

All these years later he is still at work and has tracks on his own website, soundcloud and ccMixter. It was a pleasure to the see the name and hear the music. Obviously, we have some catching up to do.

Manolo Camp is Manuel Kempter and he is from Switzerland.  He explains he approach to his art on Facebook:
the key words that describe manuel kempter, aka manolo camp, have always been cooperation and collaboration. manolo works with artists all around the world. this has given him a very open minded view on many different aspects of music and sound. through it all, manolo maintains his individuality, and does not worry about his work being "unpopular". these strong factors make manolo's contributions often disputed but always interesting.
Hoehenkoller carries the tags #soundtrack and #Swiss Alps over at Soundcloud. Enjoy a trip to the Alps.

Manolo Camp - Hoehenkoller

Jan 23, 2015

Lee Maddeford - What am I going to do?

How Lee Maddeford is not in the feed before this is a huge mystery. I can remember being aware his huge talent and fine production skills back in the day, but stumbled onto a track posted at Opsound and followed it back to his website.

Wow.

If you are looking for a true CC music gusher, then drill here. Truly amazing.

There is a Free Music Archive collection curated by Oddio Overplay, as well. The one thing that lacks is a really good biography of this artist. Looking at a translated French Wikipedia page we can see that he was born in 1959, settled in Switzerland in the 80's, spent time in Seattle and logged in Alaska. He was involved in a Randy Newman tribute album called Newman Waits Here.

He was an early adopter of Creative Commons.

The selections on his page are varied in style and substance. You really need to go visit and behold.

Lee Maddeford - What am I going to do?