Thot - Obscured By The Wind (2011)

"Quite impressive, very well produced and intense" (Magnus Lindberg, Culf of Luna)

"Great power and well realised" (Franz Treichler, The Young Gods)

Quote: "A 11 tracks limited cd edition will be released early April, followed by a 13 tracks edition, only available by the purchase of an exclusive T-shirt release (very limited). This album is released with the help of a network of blogs and webzines across Europe and the United States. So get it, download, pay or not, but share, and spread good Vegetal Wind everywhere. Hail to the Electrical Equinox!"

Genre: Industrial Rock, Electronic
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Álfheimr - What Allows Us To Endure (2011)

Quote: "For Nurul. I love you.

For Nathan. I miss you.
For my friends and family.

Thank you everyone who's helped me along the way, and thank you for downloading this album.

These are songs for laughter and forgetting, for beauty and for the little things,
and for the choices we make and how those choices change us.
These are songs for the inevitable and for celebrating the time we have now;
for the things we lose and the things we gain from their loss.
These are songs for closeness over great distances;
for time, and how it heals us.
These are songs for the future, and what we may make of it;
for all the difficulties we have faced and for those to come,
and for hope, which allows us to endure.

You can email me at madisonasche@hotmail.com if you want a hand-painted digipak for $50. Thank you."

Genre: Post Rock, Experimental, Instrumental, Ambient
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Forge Of Clouds - Forge Of Clouds (2011)

Quote: "Forge of Clouds is a 4-piece collective from Silesia, Poland. Since 2008 they create a unique maelstrom of heavy riffs and musical landscape, inspired by the best of post- and sludge-metal. Playing smaller and bigger venues, shared stages with KONGH, CALLISTO, BLINDEAD, TIDES FROM NEBULA... They also succesfully got to the finals of 2009 Neuro Music contest, Asymmetry Festival. Now they come with groundshattering debut album, ready to make your ears bleed...

Forge of Clouds are:
Piotr Filipczak - guitar, voc
Wojciech Lichota - guitar, voc
Maciej Śmigrodzki - bass, voc
Jakub Hanusa - drums

Music & lyrics by FoC
Record & mix by FoC
Artwork by Kuba Sokolski
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Genre: Sludge, Post Hardcore, Psychedelic
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Wild Dogs In Winter - Homba (2010)

Don't forget to visit 'em at the dunk!festival.

Genre: Post Rock
(51:16)
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Lights At Sea - Palace Walls (2010)

Quote: "Palace Walls is being released on Barrett Records and Mind over Matter Records November 27 2010. The album was recorded in March 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee at Fireside Recording Studios.

Genre: Post Rock, Instrumental Rock
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We - WE (Are) Demo (2010)

Quote: "'We' started off as a bedroom project between two friends, Tyrone Stoddart & Pedram Valiani. We are now looking to complete our line-up to form a full band and hope to play some gigs with our work. We are from Edinburgh in Scotland. Influences are Mogwai, This Will Destroy You, Hammock, Explosions In The Sky, Eluvium."

Genre: Post Rock, Experimental
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Sky Architects - The Reflection (EP) (2010)

Press: "A lot has changed, since five young guys recorded their self titled debut-EP “Sky Architects” in 2008, which demonstrated a band that knew how to construct good melodies within an epic sphere. Where the debut showed how diverse the band could sound, their new record “The Reflection” shows a band with a more coherent and direct sound, but without compromising with their love for the epic melodies. Sky Architects isn’t Post-Rock, Metal, Indie or Pop, but a hybrid of all of these genres and more. First and foremost, Sky Architects play with their hearts, and it is therefore up to the individual listener to create their own experience of the sounds that have been created."

Genre: Indie Rock, Post Rock, "Doom Pop"
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Muir - Lay Down In The Light (2011)

Genre: Ambient
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Álfheimr - Light & Air (EP) (2010)

Genre: Post Rock, Experimental, Instrumental, Ambient
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Yordiscédo - MDNR (2010)

Quote: "The album should bring you a variety of feelings & moods. The main goal remains. That is to surprise as many people as possible. The artwork is based on a magical moment of my life. Those were taken near the National Airport of Brussels, Belgium.credits released 10 August"

Genre: Shoegaze, Electro, 8bit, Ambient, post rock
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Good Weather For An Airstrike - We Fall Back Into The Ocean (The Echelon Effect Remix) (Single) (2010)

David Walters (The Echelon Effect) did another great remix of another great band called "Good Weather For An Airstrike".

Genre: Ambient, Post Rock, Instrumental
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Hawk Moon Records: Volume I (2010)

Genre: Ambient, Drone, Post Rock, Experimental
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Tracklist:
1. Beneath Us, The Waves - Við Sökkvum Skipum (09:15)
2. Oathless - Der Flug (05:24)
3. Anna Rose Carter - My Piano Is Broken (01:50)
4. Good Weather For An Airstrike - The Beginning Of The Rest Of Our Lives ( 02:58)
5. M e m ó r - (Fin d'Hiver) Beautifully, It Was Cold (04:14)
6. Inachus - One (05:38)
7. evolv - Guided Through Chutes ( 03:17)
8. Fluctuations - Daybreak (04:40)
9. Arboretus - The Distant Beacon ( 04:44)
10. Finneyerkes/Cylon - Carla Jean (09:48)

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The Echelon Effect - Defying Gravity To Reach You (Single) (2010)

Genre: Ambient, Experimental, Post Rock

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La Biblioteca Deserta - Travelling Without Gravity (2010)

Quote: "La Biblioteca Deserta is a cathedral of emotions, where sound and silence come to life, originated by phantom words. The musical project starts during 2006, when five young composers (all born between 1986 and 1988) unite, glued together by their will to communicate through music.

These are the premises for their brave choice to venture into an instrumental post-rock, which combines Mediterranean sounds with North European atmospheres (eg. Mogwai, Sigur Ròs, Muse, Coldplay), heading towards a very dynamic experience, sumptuous crescendos and mighty explosions.

The band soon delivers their first efforts, which are met by both critical success and positive feedback by the general public, with several positive reviews on various specialized music web magazines, all around the world (as far as Japan and China). Constant live touring helps to band to perform in many important venues all around Italy, supporting various national and international artists, such as Marta sui Tubi, Ministri, APSE, Eric Chenaux. They also take part in many important music contests and festivals: Festa Europea Della Musica, Souni a sud-est (vincitori nell’edizione 2008), Planet of Sound, Biennale Dei Giovan i Artisti Europei, Laguna Street Festival, Saint Rock Festival, Music Festa, MEI, Italia Wave, Tour Music Fest, Fiera Della Musica, Cime Di Rock, No Day.

After being noticed by the music magazine "Rock Star", which features their song "Dalla Terra alla Luna" in their November 2009 issue, together with works from other important artists such as Teatro degli Orrori, Dente, Le Luci della Centrale El ettrica and many other indie acts, the band issues their first full length album, "Travelling without gravity", produced by the independent record label Faro Records, released on December 21st, 2009. The album has been mixed at Itaca Recording Studios by Mirko Patella, who has worked for Amari, La Fame di Camilla, Leitmotiv.

The adventure has just started."

Genre: Post Rock, Acoustic
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Anon, They Move... - The End Of Things To Come (2009)

Genre: Piano, Post Rock
(36:12)

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Tracklist:
1. The Smallest Piece Of Dust
2. The Ruby And Her Lover
3. The Snow Storm And Everything After
4. The Summer Loss
5. The Survivor Drowned In The Sea
6. The Empty
7. The Spacefix
8. The Landing, The Destruction, Pt II; The Aftermath
9. Chasing Ghosts
10. The Abortion And Her Mother
11. The End Of Things To Come

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Cavallo - A Demonstration (EP) (2010)

Brooklyn, NY.

Bryan Wirshup - Guitar
Cason Kelly - Drums
Jeff Arancherry - Bass
Kyle Hussa-Lietz - Guitar

Genre: Post Hardcore, Experimental, Post Rock
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Álfheimr - Dream Sequences (2010)

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Seas Of Stone - Demos (2009)

Quote: "In den Sphären von SEAS OF STONE aus Dresden entwickeln sich zwischen ausgedehnten sphärischen Parts immer wieder wuchtige Gitarrenwände und schwergewichtige Riffs. Die dabei entstehenden Soundlandschaften zwischen nihilistischen Ausbrüchen, bei denen der Band regelmäßig der Kragen platzt, und dem ein oder anderen Lichtblick legen eine musikalische Sozialisation irgendwo zwischen Neurosis, Kylesa und God is an Astronaut nahe."

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Chakrun & Seas Of Stone SPLIT (2010)

Quote: "Aus den Untiefen des ostsächsischen Avantgarde-Jungels schwingen sich diese beiden Bands auf, ihre erste Veröffentlichung von der Leine zu lassen. Dass dies gemeinsam geschieht, ist kein Zufall. Vor Jahren noch wurde zusammen ein äußerst abgeranztes, ewig leerstehendes Haus als kreative Bleibe bezogen. Heute, trotz mittlerweile vollzogener räumlicher Trennung, freuen sich alle Beteiligten, einen Ausschnitt dessen, was seither musikalisch passiert ist, auf Tonträger präsentieren zu können. Die EP stellt den ersten Release des selbst mit betriebenem Labels „Cosmic Mother Records“ dar"


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CHAKRUN aus Leipzig verfeinern kontinuierlich ihr Klanguniversum zwischen psychedelischen Abfahrten, Momenten der Ruhe, dichter Atmosphäre und staubtrockenen Riffs. Die musikalischen Trips zwischen Koordinaten wie Colour Haze, Rotor und Russian Circles halten genügend Eindrücke bereit, um den Gedanken an das Fehlen von Gesang absolut hinfällig werden zu lassen.

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In den Sphären von SEAS OF STONE aus Dresden entwickeln sich zwischen ausgedehnten sphärischen Parts immer wieder wuchtige Gitarrenwände und schwergewichtige Riffs. Die dabei entstehenden Soundlandschaften zwischen nihilistischen Ausbrüchen, bei denen der Band regelmäßig der Kragen platzt, und dem ein oder anderen Lichtblick legen eine musikalische Sozialisation irgendwo zwischen Neurosis, Kylesa und God is an Astronaut nahe.

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Genre: Psychedelic, Stoner, Sludge

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Research Turtles - Research Turtles (2009)

Quote: "Born on the bayou in the musical no-man’s-land of Lake Charles, Louisiana, Research Turtles are a bold, visionary rock and roll group that grabs you with their soulful sound and doesn’t let you go. Despite their roots down south, the band sounds like an import, with British-invasion influenced riffs and effortlessly harmonized vocals that capture listeners and plunge them straight back to the early days of the Beatles and The Who. Their self-titled debut album, released August of 2009, propels them past the country-and-death-metal-studded swamp of their origin and into the clouds of melodic, pop-infused rock and roll.

Brothers and founders Jud and Joe Norman inherited their love of music from their father and uncle, the former introducing them to the Beatles and buying them their first guitars, and the latter, from Los Angeles, mailing them shoe boxes full of CDs they’d never heard by bands like The Kinks, Pavement, and Velvet Underground.

Although all four members of Research Turtles were born in Lake Charles, even graduating St. Louis High School just a few years apart, they didn’t unite as musicians until lead singer Jud returned to Lake Charles after graduating from Louisiana State University. Itching to make some noise, he and his younger brother, Joe, grabbed the best musicians they knew—their best friends, Logan Fontenot and Blake Thibodeaux—and with Jud’s creative vision guiding the band, they united under the name “Research Turtles”. Soon, they were opening for headlining bands like Toad the Wet Sprocket and making waves at the famed Tipitina’s in New Orleans, LA.

Research Turtles' self-titled debut album was recorded at the legendary Dockside Studios in Maurice, Louisiana and produced by Justin Tocket (Marc Broussard, Sons of William). The album unites the band’s southern roots with their diverse influences, creating a sound that’s part clean, sweetly polyphonic pop and part aggressive retro-rock. As Bob Segarnini of Sirius Satellite Radio recognized,

'From the Everly Brothers, through the British Invasion, into the New Wave, the punk era Ramones, and the Neil Young / Nirvana / Foo Fighters grunge guitars, these guys, like all great artists, are a product of their love of music, honoring the past, and being able to bring something new to the table.'

From the soaring vocals of the opening track, “Let’s Get Carried Away,” to the harder-edged “Cement Floor,” to the low, steady swing of “Into a Hole,” Research Turtles’ debut shows that they’re a band that knows where they come from but don’t give a damn."

Genre: Alternative Rock, Punk Rock
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