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| Goto: here |
| Impossible Flower Release |
| Vibrö featues SI_COMM |
| HAL Mix |
23 Oct 2005
New mix from HAL available here. Second in the series, this mix is freely downloadable / distributable and features a variety of quality music from the netlabel community.
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| Level Interview |
| Guessmen and Guests At the Head of Steam |
15 Oct 2005
Newcastle based event featuring a host of artists and an appearance from Elliot Little who has a release on Polymorphic comin soon..
HEAD OF STEAM (Opposite Central Station)
SUNDAY 16TH OCTOBER
8PM
£3 ADMISSION
THE GUESSMEN
ANDREW HODSON
CREATURES OF CONDITIONED REFLEX
MIKE PLUS
THE GUESSMEN
Hidden away in their dank laboratory off Newcastle’s infamous Bigg Market,
the Guessmen have been constructing a world of sodden tracks infused with the
unhealthy binge mentality of their surroundings; inhabited by a cast of dropouts,
freaks and subhuman creatures. Influenced as much by Sun Ra’s extra terrestrial
jazz as the vapid pop music polluting the air of every town, the Guessmen’s
idiosyncratic style has left punters scratching their heads whilst trying to
warn their ass to stop shaking and their shoulders to stop twitching.
Live shows combine precise digital beats with uncompromising freeform lunacy,deploying Edgeman’s unruly trumpet parps and virtuoso balloon squeaking, Squeaky Feet's bass clarinet abuse and BigToe’s beautiful Kazoo playing alongside their traditional laptop/decks/vocal combination.
ANDREW HODSON
He’s only nine years old _ but he is one of Newcastles most audacious
expontents of experimental music.
The sounds he creates are beautiful and sublime, imaginative and always intriguing. Check out his 2004 release Map music also the limited edition In your heart you will find your dreams.
The nine year old hodson can do anything! Thanks to a fabulous electronic device which can transfer the brain patterns of those who are the greatest experts in their field. When he receives these brain patterns, Andrew, with the aid of a special pair of glasses which have built-in electrodes, becomes a man in thought and deed……can become the greatest of all astronauts, musicians, a dare-devil pilot a brilliant brain surgeon or whatever else may be necessary for him as the most daring of all agents attached to the World Intelligence Network of Electronic Music…. Yet he still looks what he really is a normal, healthy school boy. Every live show, audio release and assignment brings new excitement, new hazards and unexpected situations for Andrew, Audience and listeners alike!!!!! /
CREATURES OF CONDITIONED REFLEX
Trapped for seventy years in a labyrinthine maze of wires and gadgets Elliot
Little and Richard Phipps escaped thanks to the bastardized souls of Bobby McFerrin
and Steve Reich. There journey from this underground lair has led them through
Norwich via Birmingham navigating both the M6 and spaghetti junction
On route the pair have aquired audio skills that both shock and awe. There live, improvised, sets combines vocal beat box, live sampling and techno warblings!!
MIKE PLUS
Whilst narrowly avoiding a collision with Halley's Comet in his specially adapted
Renault Clio (trans-mat)Mike Plus encountered a distress signal emanating from
the city of Newcastle, England, Earth on 16th October 2005. He responds and
arrives with elektro bass sonic devices in tow. Expect techno sounds that will
blow your head from here to the ice tombs oftelos!!!!!!!!!!!!Is it Man or Machine??
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| Netlabels and Open Content |
15 Oct 2005
I found this research paper by dutch student Bram Timmers that investigates the culture of netlabels.
Makes for interesting reading :
Bram's Website
Bram's research PDF
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| Free music |
27 Jul 2005
In line with our new OpenSource netlabel compilations we thought we'd give you a heads up on how to get your hands on some free music. The netlabel community is absolutely vibrant and has a plethora of quality music available. A good starting point would be the Yahoo groups netlabel releases and netaudio or the netlabel section of the Internet Archive. You'll end up with more free audio than you know what to do with and we've been consistently impressed by the quality of what's out there.
For those of you that are in to podcasting, you can load up your portable player effortlessly using feeds from netlabel webzines like DE:BUG. Enjoy :)
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| Download tips |
11 Jul 2005
A couple of useful tools for ya. If your not using one already, a proper download manager can make your life on the web much easier. You can queue, pause and resume your media downloads. For the Firefox users out there, you can integrate the manager into your browser using an extension such as Flashgot. This allows you to add and filter entire pages worth of links to your download queue. Very useful when browsing music download sites !
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| HAL Release |
| Mr Ra Mix |
23 Jun 2005
New mix from Mr Ra available here. This mix is part of the SI_COMM WHITE_LINE series.
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| HAL Mix |
23 Jun 2005
New mix from HAL available here. This mix is freely downloadable and features a variety of quality music from the netlabel community.
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| SI_COMM Mix |
| Downtimes Sundays Mix |
| Creamola Foam |
23 Mar 2005
The first installment of a new series of events based in Newcastle UK kicks off this Friday 25th March.
The night involves 3 DJ's kicking up a cacophony of noise on portable turntables !
The event takes place at the temporary Bookville arts space.
Contact Chris for more info
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| Flavorpill |
23 Mar 2005
Flavorpill is a cultural filter in the form of a free weekly mailout across major five cities in the US / UK.
It includes localised arts listings across music, performance and exhibition. They have features section which has reviewed Polymorphic a couple of times and offered links to our streams.
If you'd like to sign up to their lists then please visit the Flavorpill homepage and choose your city.
You can find the current London issue here.
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| SI_COMM Mix |
| Media Lounge Live |
20 Feb 2005
Free night of audio visual trickery from mp3 to 16mm.
featuring guest vj Micheal Heap and music from Power Sherlock
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| WHITE_LINE 5 | em:x |
13 Feb 2005
Featuring tracks from one of the UK's finest, and recently re-launched minimal ambient labels, em:t
To be broadcast on Garden Of Earthly Delights Radio CRMK UK, 10-Midnight, March 4th 2005
WHITE_LINE is curated, mixed, and edited by minimalist afficionado SI_COMM
This mix will soon be available for stream at Polymorphic..
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| J. Auer Mix |
| Media Lounge Live - NAM2 |
25 Jan 2005
Free night of audio visual trickery from mp3 to 16mm.
featuring guest vj Micheal Heap and music from Power Sherlock
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| Level Release |
| Sintieron Release |
| RSS Feeds |
16 Jan 2005
We've added an RSS feed to the site so you can keep up to date with our releases from the comfort of your favourite news aggregator. RSS is a pretty straight forward concept. Consumers (that's you) subscribe to channels that are of interest to them via a piece of news reader software that runs locally on your machine (often called a news aggregator). You are then automatically informed when any of you chosen feeds are updated as a new headline will appear in the news reader. You can keep tabs on the activity of various different web sites all in one place.
You can find a more in depth primer here
If you haven't tried it already we recommend the free firefox browser for general purpose internet browsing. It has many advantages over Internet Explorer but one of the nicest features is tabbed browsing. An other nice feature is that you can add live bookmarks. This allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds and keep track of them from within your browser. Firefox will tell you when you've come across a page with an RSS feed available by displaying a special icon in the bottom right corner. You can install the sage plugin if you require more features from your aggregator.
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