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pixicast 004

Pixicast Episode 4 travels the cyberglobe to uncover a rich vein of vocal electronica thriving in the independent zones of post rock, trip-hop, idm, alternative and related genres. Counterpointing this and rounding out the episode are a selection of funky and exquisite electro-instrumental sounds we just had to share.

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01 TheTrees - Odd One Out (UK)

02 VFSix - Moscow (Russia)

03 Voodoo Economics - In the next place, cement will float like trees. (USA)

04 Re-Drum - Purple (France)

05 Serkan Süleymaniye - Pir (Turkey)

06 Autorotation - Ginger Pants (UK)

07 Vienna Psychoanalytical Society - There Is No Normal (Canada)

08 Fox Thomas - Dying (UK/Netherlands)

09 Jane Silence - Ache (USA/Greece)

10 Jennifer Delano - Amsterdam (Si Begg's Grumpy Old Dj Remix) (Netherlands)

11 Cwtch - Fragility (Wales/Australia)

12 Max Waves - Double-U (t-phone mix) (Italy)

13 Baskyl - Mrs. Sibah Reign (Germany)

14 Distant Fires Burning - Messier 70 - NGC 6681 (Belgium)

Show is jointly programmed by host producer Voide in Stockholm and publisher Pixieguts in Australia and focusses on the music of artists around the Palace Network.


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Last.fm pages for artists and podcast: pixicast, TheTrees, VFSix, Voodoo Economics, Re-Drum, Serkan Süleymaniye, Autorotation, Fox Thomas, Jane Silence, Cwtch, Max Waves, Baskyl, Distant Fires Burning, Pixies Palace, pixicast, Voide, Pixieguts.

http://dirittoallarete.ning.com/profile/Wavex


-'mbuti: nome d'arte, sì, ma come e quando?

-Max Waves: Il mio nome d'arte risale agli anni '80 (io sono un ragazzo degli anni '80)... a quell'epoca andavo matto per la "new wave"... dopo qualche anno ho scoperto che "max waves" può significare anche "max saluta..." e questo mi ha divertito non poco.
Da qualche tempo e soprattutto in rete è diventato l'unico nome che ho.

-'mbuti: processo compositivo, come vi organizzate?

-max waves: La musica è un codice d'espressione e come tutti i codici d'espressione è strettamente legata alla memoria. Senza memoria un musicista non componerebbe musica. Ogni scelta che viene fatta durante il processo compositivo ha un collegamento diretto o indiretto al proprio vissuto e, spesso, questo lo si scopre dopo diverso tempo. Personalmente non mi organizzo: i miei sono incontri casuali. E' come quando intravvedi una persona che conosci in mezzo a tanta gente... ti si accende una lampadina e improvvisamente la memoria comincia a riprodurre ricordi in varie forme: immagini, suoni, profumi...

-'mbuti: musica indipendente croce o delizia?

-max waves: A vent'anni era una croce: volevo un produttore, una casa discografica, persone che mi organizzavano la vita, ammiratori e via dicendo. Volevo che qualcuno mi dicesse "Vai in sala e al resto ci penso io."
D'altronde lo status al quale ambire in quegli anni era quello... ora credo però che i musicisti ventenni seguano, grazie alla rete, anche modelli diversi e non solo quello stereotipo che ha oppresso quelli della mia generazione.
Ora è una delizia: il poter fare tutto indipendentemente dagli altri, dal mercato e dalle mode e avere comunque del pubblico per quanto ristretto è fonte di grande piacere e soddisfazione.
Essere riusciti a sopravvivere a quegli anni è una soddisfazione.

-'mbuti: arte ed impegno sociale?

-max waves: L'arte è impegno sociale. Quando con la tua musica qualcuno si sente meglio, in quel momento stai collaborando ad un impegno sociale.

-'mbuti: come immaginate la vostra attività in mancanza di socials tipo myspace, IMISound ed altri?

-max waves: Non l'immagino, l'ho vissuta e quindi devo solo tornare indietro di una decina d'anni...
In poche parole: anonima e priva di stimoli.

-'mbuti: e come immaginate la vostra vita senza la rete?

-max waves: Assolutamente meno ricca. La rete è un'opportunità magnifica di espandere le proprie conoscenze. Le cose che ho imparato nella rete le avrei trovate anche nei libri, ma la velocità con cui le assumi è unica. Emancipandomi a fatica dal romanticismo accademico, ho imparato a conoscere le fonti ed apprezzare la dinamica con la quale raggiungi ciò che ti serve.
Come musicista invece posso dire che la rete è un database gigantesco al quale attingere per ogni genere di esigenza: suoni, registrazioni, testi, immagini... spesso libere da diritti. Un enorme libro multimediale che attende solo di essere sfogliato.

Website Personale
http://maxwaves.wordpress.com/
MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/maxwaves
Last.fm
http://www.last.fm/music/MAX+WAVES
ReverbNation
http://www.reverbnation.com/maxwaves

one or more ffunnels • uno o più 'mbuti

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Nachtmusik is now on free download!

Max Waves Nachtmusik is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Italy License.

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Reflections (Max Waves feat Pixieguts) is the first track in a new collaboration between music producer Max Waves in Italy and vocalist Pixieguts in Australia. A downtempo ballad with a touch of classical, rap and trip-hop, we hope you enjoy…
Lyrics for the song are from the writings of Andrei Masliev (Canada) and TRavvy (Australia).

Reflections’ will be released later in the year on Max Waves ‘Music for Microworlds’ album.

pixicast 003

Episode 3 of Pixicast surveys a lush landscape of global electronica, from soulful UK post rock and experimental through Italian neo classical breakbeats, microhouse from Germany, Swedish synth retro, Melbourne alt electro, big band dnb from Toronto, Spanish psytrance, New York sultronica and more.

Hosted by Voide in Stockholm and published by Pixieguts in Australia through the Palace Network.

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1. 4our5ive6ix - Something Light (UK)

2. Dementio13 - The Magic of Tea (Wales)

3. Bette Dillinger - Pluto's Return (USA)

4. Max Waves - Nachtmusik V (Italy)

5. Keinzweiter - Beaujolais Primeur (Germany)

6. Voide - Traffic (Sweden)

7. The Peach Tree - On This Summer's Day (Australia)

8. Crimson Death - Sing3 Remix (Canada)

9. Electromagnetic Impulses - Reboot (UK)

10. Quantica - Dream Liner - Remix (Spain)

11. Hot Bitch Arsenal - music don't stop (nebulae's music DOES stop remix) (USA)

12. Radio Scotvoid - Dooshbag (Cuddlecat Remix) (USA/UK)

13. Clutter - Seven Minutes to Wisdom (UK)


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Last.fm pages for artists and podcast: pixicast, 4our5ive6ix, Dementio13, Bette Dillinger, Max Waves, Keinzweiter, Voide, The Peach Tree, Crimson Death, Electromagnetic Impulses, Quantica, Hot Bitch Arsenal, Radio Scotvoid, Clutter, Pixies Palace, pixicast, Pixieguts.

Today I recorded episode 3 of Pixicast and Pixieguts has posted it here at Last.fm and on http://pixicast.podomatic.com/.

Check it out! - pixicast

Here is the list of featured artists and tracks in this episode:

1. 4our5ive6ix - Something Light (UK)
2. Dementio13 - The Magic Of Tea (Wales)
3. Bette Dillinger - Pluto's Return (USA)
4. Max Waves - Nachtmusik V (Italy)
5. Keinzweiter - Beaujolais Primeur (Germany)
6. Voide - Traffic (Sweden)
7. The Peach Tree - On This Summer's Day (Australia)
8. Crimson Death - Sing3 Remix (Canada)
9. Electromagnetic Impulses - Reboot (UK)
10. Quantica - Dream Liner - Remix (Spain)
11. Hot Bitch Arsenal - music don't stop (Nebulae's music DOES stop remix) (USA)
12. Radio Scotvoid - Dooshbag (Cuddlecat Remix) (USA/UK)
13. Clutter - Seven Minutes To Wisdom (UK)

We hope that you will enjoy it and special thanks to the artists allowing us to feature awesome music!

We also want to see plenty of shouts now ;-)

Cheers,
Dave

Each week I list the top 15 Chez Musinum connected artists who appear on our group charts, extending the list to include any ties. The bottom tier is given one point for the week, and each additional listener counts as an additional point.

Let's say there is a six-way tie for 13th place one week, at four listeners. Since the next tier would start at 19th place, those 6 artists are the bottom tier and get one point apiece. Those with five listeners would get 2 points, and those with ten listeners would get 7 points. If the bottom tier is at three listeners the following week, that tier would get 1 point and ten listeners would be worth 8 points.

The monthly score is just the sum of the weekly scores. (Note that even though an artist who gets points one week may have one or more listeners in another week, those won't count unless the rank is 15 or higher.)

Two more lists are produced, one for albums and one for tracks, following similar rules, with one difference:

Instead of including the entire last tier when it would extend past 15 items, I omit that tier. In other words, rather than at least 15, I use at most 15. In the example above, with a 6-way tie for 13th place among albums or tracks, I would include only the top 12. The reason for this is that with albums and tracks, the list flattens out very quickly, so you can have something like a thirty-way tie for 11th place... compounding that is the fact that there's not as much consistency from week to week in album and especially track plays, so that each week tends to add a lot of new items. Thus with the rules the same, we end up with perhaps 30 artists, 50 albums, and 100 tracks. This change keeps the lists manageable and meaningful.

Artists

40 points
Pixieguts

28 points
Phillip Wilkerson

22 points
HealeyIsland

19 points
Deepspace

17 points
Northcape

16 points
Felixdroid

12 points
Metricks

10 points
Remergence

8 points
Aaron Marshall, VFSix

7 points
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts

6 points
Corrientes, Krackatoa

5 points
Terry Springford, Ben Barden


4 points
Dementio13, Solid Electro, Corrado Rossi

3 points
M. Persson: Sounds, The Peach Tree


2 points
Akashic Crow's Nest, Streams of Europe, inn3rflow, Milo Moesche, Tim Doyle, Friends of redhalo

1 point
Kellplanet, Koobakoop, Serkan Süleymaniye, Mr.Smiff, Hyperborea, 4c3, Ana Gori, Max Waves, Dual Echelon


Albums

11 points
Pixieguts - Walking on Mercury

9 points
Pixieguts - evolution

6 points
Metricks - Roots 98

5 points
HealeyIsland - West Of Here Is West Of Here;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixiegraf

4 points
Terry Springford - Trust

3 points
Aaron Marshall - Noir Ambiance


2 points
Phillip Wilkerson - Collection I;
Deepspace - The Barometric Sea;
VFSix - vfsecret;
Implicit Audio Frequency - EP

1 point
Phillip Wilkerson - The Dream Beneath;
HealeyIsland - Temporary Demonstration One;
Northcape - Detach EP;
VFSix - VF's World;
Aleksandr Shubin - First;
M. Persson: Sounds - Strange skies;
Friends of redhalo - Friends of redhalo;
Kellplanet - Continua;
Mr.Smiff - "This is not an Album!Don't try to mix Me!!!"


Tracks

9 points
Pixieguts - Sunshine (with Mario Dujic)

4 points
Pixieguts - One Moment (w Dementio13 + TRavvy)

3 points
Friends of redhalo - It's Getting Thick

2 points
Pixieguts - Pacific Highway (Northcape version);
Deepspace - Arctic Sun and Weather Experiment;
Aaron Marshall - The Salt Flats;
Terry Springford - When I Need To, Hairclip, and Green & Blue

1 point
Pixieguts - I'm Gonna Fly (with Corrientes) and Shot After Midnight (with Crimson Death);
HealeyIsland - the desert chorus vx, Why So Miserable, and You are my nemesis;
Deepspace - Slow Moving Lifeform 2;
Northcape - So Many and On The Hill;
Aaron Marshall - Peace and Gravity;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Prahran;
Ben Barden - Moon Eclipse;
Friends of redhalo - kcihT gnitteG s'tI;
Herrera - Wurly One;
Pilot of the Future - Loadscreen;
dadala - night of the squid;
Streams of Europe - Emergence

Congrats everybody! Don't touch that dial!

Each week I list the top 15 Chez Musinum connected artists who appear on our group charts, extending the list to include any ties. The bottom tier is given one point for the week, and each additional listener counts as an additional point.

Let's say there is a six-way tie for 13th place one week, at four listeners. Since the next tier would start at 19th place, those 6 artists are the bottom tier and get one point apiece. Those with five listeners would get 2 points, and those with ten listeners would get 7 points. If the bottom tier is at three listeners the following week, that tier would get 1 point and ten listeners would be worth 8 points.

The monthly score is just the sum of the weekly scores. (Note that even though an artist who gets points one week may have one or more listeners in another week, those won't count unless the rank is 15 or higher.)

Two more lists are produced, one for albums and one for tracks, following similar rules, with one difference:

Instead of including the entire last tier when it would extend past 15 items, I omit that tier. In other words, rather than at least 15, I use at most 15. In the example above, with a 6-way tie for 13th place among albums or tracks, I would include only the top 12. The reason for this is that with albums and tracks, the list flattens out very quickly, so you can have something like a thirty-way tie for 11th place... compounding that is the fact that there's not as much consistency from week to week in album and especially track plays, so that each week tends to add a lot of new items. Thus with the rules the same, we end up with perhaps 30 artists, 50 albums, and 100 tracks. This change keeps the lists manageable and meaningful.

Artists

39 points
Pixieguts

34 points
Phillip Wilkerson

33 points
Deepspace, Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts

26 points
Northcape

18 points
Felixdroid

16 points
Metricks

15 points
Remergence, VFSix

12 points
HealeyIsland

9 points
Corrientes

7 points
M. Persson: Sounds

4 points
Aaron Marshall, Akashic Crow's Nest, Krackatoa, Max Waves

3 points
Gilles Mathieu, Herrera, inn3rflow, Serkan Süleymaniye, Solid Electro, Streams of Europe, Terry Springford, Tim Doyle

2 points
Hyperborea, Solar-Wind

1 point
Ben Barden, Jukeen, Koobakoop, Lungbutter, Metricks & GaiaBeat, Renato Ventura, skin contact, The Peach Tree, VFSix feat. Pat Appleton


Albums

16 points
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixiegraf

13 points
VFSix - vfsecret

11 points
Metricks - Roots 98

10 points
Pixieguts - Pixieguts!

9 points
Pixieguts - Walking on Mercury

7 points
Deepspace - The Barometric Sea

6 points
HealeyIsland - West Of Here Is West Of Here

4 points
Northcape - Detach EP and New Tracks;
Aaron Marshall - Noir Ambiance

3 points
Pixieguts - evolution;
inn3rflow - still tryin to find that sound;

2 points
Deepspace - Subantarctic Sessions (EP);
Felixdroid - Odd Dots and Squiggles and Soundscape3;
Streams of Europe - Meanders

1 point
Phillip Wilkerson - Collection I;
Deepspace - The Barometric Sun;
Felixdroid - The Longing;
Remergence - The Remixes;
M. Persson: Sounds - Strange skies;
Krackatoa - Sun Dripping Down the Stainglass;
Gilles Mathieu - Irish Mass (version1);
Serkan Süleymaniye - aşk
Metricks & GaiaBeat - Illusory Origin
Aleksandr Shubin - First;
Corrado Rossi - Other Corrado's songs;
David Elsener - Inside My Room


Tracks

4 points
VFSix - Tears

3 points
Northcape - Pacific Highway (feat. Pixieguts);
Metricks - Pearl and Waterfoam;
Dj Sid-the Apocalypze - Liquid Mix

2 points
Pixieguts - In The Night (Mix Hieronymus), End This Day (w Dj SID-the Apocalypze-Trip Into Funk RMX), One Moment (w Dementio13 + TRavvy), and Shot At Midnight (with Dementio13);
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Currawong Rise V2;
VFSix - Say What You Want;
Friends of redhalo - It's Getting Thick

1 point
Phillip Wilkerson - On the French Riviera;
Deepspace - The First Glimpse of The... and Hymn 1 (Through the Barometri;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Prahran;
Felixdroid - The Space between...;
Remergence - Probably (Styler Remix);
VFSix - Mr. Rabbit;
HealeyIsland - Saint Anthony's Dream;
Aaron Marshall - Peace and Gravity;
HealeyIsland - Saint Anthony's Dream;
Gilles Mathieu - Montagnera (A Biasgina) and Irish Mass - 4 - Is Naofa (Sanctus);
Terry Springford - Green & Blue;
VFSix feat. Pat Appleton - chances;
Ben Barden - Moon Eclipse;
Implicit Audio Frequency - State of Mind Winter 73;
VFSix feat. S.C.E. - Utopian Fate



Congrats everybody! Don't touch that dial!



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