BSWC One-a-Day: Confused Man - Portuguese Beach Cafe

The sounds of the surf set the mood for this lounge number from the netlabel, Sofasound. Confused Man is Dirk Bepperling and he works the mood with what is described as, "fine german lounge music with a touch of vienna sound."

I don't have much more to go on regarding the artist (the artist page at Sofasound is in German and if someone wants to translate and post it in the comments section, we would be much obliged). The release is called Floating (Sof005), includes 7 tunes and dates to August 27, 2004. I found it by searching keyword: "lounge" in the audio section of archive.org.

Gotta go, I have more lounging to do.

Confused Man - Portuguese Beach Cafe

BSWC One-a-Day: Biscotti - Babalot 2GI remix

I really like Acedia release am041, 2GI's Babarzum. This is a remix of Babalot's biscotti released with "un segno di vita" alu08, 2005.

The 2GI Italoboys celebrate their third release with a special something! In their own words: "Acid trips in mayonese noise, sampled carillons and skipping cds to remix pop, post rock and even thrash metal artists, in an effort to dissolve boundaries and demolish walls."

Biscotti - Babalot 2GI remix

BSWC One-a-Day: Roland von der Aist - Saxcuts (Parov Stelar Remix)

Etage Noir is an independent label with some absolutely marvelous offerings. They offer some of their releases online using Creative Commons licenses. This piece by Roland von der Aist is posted at their site with two remixes...all three are worth the download. I selected the Parov Stelar Remix for this post.

Roland von der Aist is from Linz, Austria. He has a unique sound that weaves elements of electronic and acoustic music into a single strand. This is a hallmark of many of the artists at Etage Noir. The principal behind the label is Parov Stelar. Their website has this to say:

Interesting themes and structures preferably move in the protecting environment of the underground. Right where enough space and stages can be found for growth and development.

The freedom of jazz combined with the groove of house and breakbeat describes the character of Parov Stelar. The main theme is clearly defined, high quality music engaged in functionality.

Visit their site, sample the music...it is definitely a find.

Roland von der Aist - Saxcuts (Parov Stelar Remix)

BSWC 01.06.07: First Show of 2007

[Update 01.07.07: Here is the Audio File for the show]

Ah, the new year has come and with it more BSWC. If you are a regular you might have noticed the new feature here on the blog and in the feed, "BSWC One-a-Day". Pretty much what the name implies-Subsystem and I plan to be a lot more active in putting stuff up here for you to sample and enjoy.

The broadcast to podcast continues and this first show of 2007 has a lot going for it.

As always, if you are reading this sometime between 9 and 11 pm Eastern (-5 Greenwich) on Saturday night you can listen to our stream.

If you don't hear it live, then you can always subscribe to the podcast feed:

Here is the feed.

Darkness save us by The Grand Opening
Bobby (Nicorola Remix) by Bobby Baby
Aven le Roma! - Stereotype remix by Krischan Schallenberger [Nomada]
Sri Nrsimha Stotra Vali remix by Dj Vraja Dhama das
A Magic Afternoon (Cayetano Remix) by Parov Stelar
Get on it (ft. 2012 SpokenWord by: Spinningmerkaba... by bombero
X Rays by Chenard Walcker
Run Quick by Cuebism
The Real Chronic Smokers by LeutOhm
Krash Boursier by Youthman Steppa
Inside of me (feat. fabonaut) by Manolo Camp
Long Time No See by Sleepy Town Manufacture
Trip Time Divine by Revolution Void
Aguamiel by Adrián Juárez
Tempus Horizon by God Is An Astronaut
Intercontinental Hustle by Magyar Posse
Surprise salee (Remix) by Daniela
running by deutscheunschuld
Bomb da disco by Oilboy's aftersun
Bomb da disco (interlude) by Oilboy's aftersun
Yep! (Party version) by Oilboy's aftersun
Keep me up al nite by Oilboy's aftersun
Naked, but still too hot to handle by Oilboy's aftersun

BSWC One-a-Day: Cuebism - Run Quick

Oh, yeaah! Cuebism has been putting stuff out there for a while...Run Quick is from the second release from iD.EOLOGY...but for some reason I'm just getting hip. Funky-get down to the dancefloor-flashing lights-party, party, party. There, did I give you a little of the flavor of this track? Excellent Friday posting material! Run Quick is from Circle EP (iD.002) The release notes have this on Cuebism:

Cuebism is addicted. He's haunted by the never-ending urge to find the sweetspot of funk. It won't be enough to be sitting on countless tons of this black gold called vinyl, there is much more to do. Funk needs to pour from your hips, needs to be drawn out of your soul until arms and sweatbands are up in the air oozing with sensation. His feast of funk will have even the coolest glamchick melting as we all tune in to pure slickness on grainy super-8-celluloid while our king of softporn lights the fuse with his Circle EP. Let your glittershades steam up as Monsieur Cuebism takes charge to supply us with our daily dose of endorphine.

The whole release is excellent and I highly recommend a visit to iD.EOLOGY for a full download.

Cuebism - Run Quick

BSWC One-a-Day: Doron Deutsch - Escape Velocity

WM Recordings always has something tasty. Release WM054, Big bright lights, from Doron Deutsch (hometown Haifa, Israel) is excellent! Posted to archive.org and wmrecordings on December 9th. This is the kind of CC release that makes my heart sing. I liked every track of this ambiononic space journey, and chose Escape Velocity for Doron's accent, the great sounds, and his sense of humor -- the rest of the album is instrumental. Make sure to download the rest from WMRecordings and even see an Escape Velocity video.

Not much out there on Doron Deutsch, but you can see some video on http://www.blendwerk.tv/. Doron, if you are out there, please tell us who you are. ;)

I hope you enjoy this release as much as I do.

Doron Deutsch - Escape Velocity

BSWC One-a-Day: The Grand Opening - Darkness Save Us

I have been enjoying music from the Swedish commons lately.

The Grand Opening is a good example of a band using Creative Commons licensing and the net to increase their exposure. They aren't necessarily about free music, but rather about increasing their profile in the marketplace and protecting their rights while doing it. They are trying to make a living and Creative Commons is one of their creative tools.

This song is from a May 2005 release called Location on the It's a Trap netlabel via archive.org. On their MySpace page the band categorizes themselves as "indie", "ambient" and "pop". It is a great sound and the release has become one of my favorites. Currently, the band is supporting their 2006 release on Tapete Records, This is Nowhere to Be Found. You can find a sampling at MySpace.

The Grand Opening - Darkness Save Us

Chenard Walcker Tribute

Sad news from WM Recordings:

Chenard Walcker, a friend of the online music world, is slowly recovering from a diabetic coma. His brother reports that he is not physically suffering. He fell into the coma in September, and is now working on speech development and object differentiation. Chenard is the prolific visual and musical collage artist who operates the Free Sample Zone with 58 releases available for download. Chenard also has two releases available on our label and he has contributed to various compilations. So many of us have benefited from and enjoy Chenard's work. This is our chance to repay our sweet friend and to send him our love with a tribute release on WM Recordings.

Submissions for the tribute should be sent to WM Recordings by January 31, 2007. They have more information on the tribute page.

Over a 1000 Links to CC Music in 15 Months

As 2006 comes to a close, we would like to thank our listeners.  Some of you listen to the radio show over-the-air and others to the podcast.  Over the last 15 months, BSWC has posted over 1000 links to music posted on the internet with a variety of Creative Commons licenses.  As we have mentioned previously on this blog, the variety and depth of CC music available online is simply amazing. 

In the coming years, BSWC will continue to support and promote Creative Commons licensed music and the artists that create it.  Stay tuned for our ccMixter Extravaganza coming soon.  If you have ccMixter favorites that you would like to see included in this special edition of BSWC, please post them in the comments section.

This coming Saturday, we will present an encore broadcast of our Comfort Stand Auld Lang Syne program that included phone interviews with Otis Fodder and Mr. Melvis on the night the final Comfort Stand collection was released (CS 071).

Have a great weekend, be safe, have fun.  Happy New Year.

Biotic

It's Christmas: BSWChristmas is here

Here is the audio file of last night's Black Sweater, White Christmas. The playlist is here.

Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at Black Sweater, White Cat.