Archive for Alternative Pop

netBloc 13 - a compilation for the eyes as well as the ears

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shapeimage_5"Color in a world of monochrome" is the tagline for the thirteenth netBloc compilation release from blocSonic, and there couldn't be a more appropriate way to describe this collection of photos, artwork, and of course fantastic free music.

A feast of visual and audio delights, there's more than enough here to keep you interested for the long haul, and to make you want more.
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Markovich/A.M.P.'s Emotive Force - project-based alternapop

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shapeimage_5It's nice to see Creative Commons licenses being used for undertakings that push the limits of collaboration and remote recording technologies, and Markovich/A Music Project (A.M.P.) are doing their best to test those limits.

As the name suggests, they are a music project more than a band, and although they aim to make pretty straight-up downtempo and trip-hop, there's still enough variation in there to make for some very interesting listening.
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Pea Sized "In My Mind" - downtempo electronica with unique female vocals

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shapeimage_5The musical duo Pea Sized has a long list of influences who are veterans in the Europop and Trip-Hop scenes.

After listening to their album In My Mind, it's no surprise the likes of Portishead, PJ Harvey, Björk, Róisín Murphy and Radiohead are among the many others which inform their sound and style.

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...anabase* "Le bonheur flou Le bonheur flou" - so good, you won't notice the language barrier

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shapeimage_5People often ask me how many languages I speak, simply because my music collection holds so many international artists who don't sing in English. But to tell the truth, I don't require a song to be sung in a language I understand, in order for me to be able to connect with it.

If you never thought you could get into music in any language other than English, I urge you to give Anabase's Le Bonheur Flou a try.
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Jamison Young "Shifting Sands of a Blue Car" - a free alternative pop/folk rock album from Prague

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Jamison YoungJamison Young is a rock live performer who for a while now has been singing and writing songs only licensed under Creative Commons. Nowadays, he enjoys playing concerts in different places across Europe, as he is based out of Prague. Last year a song from his latest album, Shifting Sands of a Blue Car, was included in the soundtrack to the The X-Files: I Want to Believe movie. Jamison Young likes to listen to songs from a few decades ago, as well as from contemporary Creative Commons artists. According to him, the songs he likes are those that he "can listen to again and again yet still stay fresh."

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"Superheroes Of Space" from the Intercontinental Music Lab

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superheroes_of_spaceThe Intercontinental Music Lab (IML) is a world-wide music project whose aim is to promote musical collaboration. The core contributors, originally from Cambridge, England are now writing and recording music all over the planet - and new international collaborators are being enlisted every week. IML Collaborators submit backing-tracks to IML H.Q. where they are randomly redistributed to other collaborators who write lyrics and record vocals. The subject of IML's first album was "Superheroes of Science", second "Superheroes of Sea" and the latest ones' is "Superheroes of Space".

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"Superheroes Of Sea" from the Intercontinental Music Lab

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IML-ShOSeaThe Intercontinental Music Lab (IML) is a world-wide music project whose aim is to promote musical collaboration. The core contributors, originally from Cambridge, England are now writing and recording music all over the planet - and new international collaborators are being enlisted every week. IML Collaborators submit backing-tracks to IML H.Q. where they are randomly redistributed to other collaborators who write lyrics and record vocals. The subject of IML's first album was "Superheroes of Science", second "Superheroes of Sea" and the third was "Superheroes of Space".

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