The Days Grow Short Radio section at Dutch electronica blog Eclectro.nl is not only great because it hosts our monthly NMFM audioprograms, but also because it is home to a lot of other mixmasters who do great jobs on a regular basis. Take for instance the modern day blaxploitation of The Daisy Age and the eclectic ramblings of More Tea Vicar? Now that is nice mixing. Be advised to also check the new mix by Days Grow Short guest star Koen Nutters (of DNK-Amsterdam fame) And last but not least the excellent new mix bij DJ Katzwijn, featuring a lot of Narrominded classixxx : )

A new edition of NMFM, our monthly audio show at eclectro.nl, is now online. This edition was mixed by Lars Meijer of Narrominded and is entitled 25 Years of Synths. From Delia Derbyshire in 1963 to Jean-Michel Jarre in 1988. Listen or download the mix here. Check out previous editions of NMFM here.

Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World got some mainstream attention in NRC Next: ‘Not all the remakes are evenly succesful, but I’m sure Eno will appreciate this album. After all, he always encouraged breaking down conventions.’
Lobo by Garçon Taupe, elected dance track of 2009 on Eclectro, made it into the playlist of Nalden, a prominent Dutch lifestyle blogger.
The Almighty Internet by Spoelstra has just been released, but already got two great reviews. Vital Weekly: ‘Shut down Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and go that nice bar around the corner, and have some of this great music, preferably played by Spoelstra, sweating over his equipment. Loud is best, cold beer in your hand, and Spoelstra’s quirky electro beats, chopped up synth lines, bits of noise will do the rest.’ Incendiary Magazine on Spoelstra: ‘I love it, and if you like the oddball, you’ll love it too.’
Incendiary Magazine also reviewed Katadreuffe’s Quel Gargantua EP: ‘It’s a long time I heard any band so wound up and truculent, to be honest. Fantastic stuff.’

NMFM has a new home. Dutch webzine Eclectro.nl is hosting our audioshows from now on. A new edition, NMFM #4: And Dream Of Bleep, is now online and available as stream and mp3 download. A few months ago we started a new series of NMFM audio shows on the now defunct Dutch site Cut-Up, which recently called it quits after nine years of cultural blogging. We are delighted that Eclectro has given us a new home and we will continue to make cool narrocast audioshows, full of new musical ideas, received demos and interesting links (forced and found) in music. Our columnist Peter Bruyn will continue his great work for our shows as well. Past shows are also available here.

Webzine Eclectro has just presented the outcome of their annual election for best dance track. We’re happy to announce that Garçon Taupe’s Lobo, from Narrominded Split LP#4, found it’s way to the number one spot! It seems to have been quite a rocky road to the end result, so many thanks to everybody who voted for Lobo. You can download the full track for free! Legowelt’s In Dark Trees, taken from our Retro Retry 2 album, made it to a thirteenth place. If you want to hear In Dark Trees, go to VPRO 3voor12’s Luisterpaal, where you can check out the full album in streaming audio.

Webzine Eclectro put up their annual election for the best dance track of the year. The smart voting system presents two tracks at a time, so you can check them out and then select the one you prefer. The shortlist (100 tracks) contains two tracks that Narrominded released this year: Legowelt – In Dark Trees (from the Retro Retry 2 cd) and Garçon Taupe – Lobo (from Split LP#4).  Go here to check out the tracks & vote!

Webzine Eclectro invited us to present the electronic side of our catalogue in a mix. To make this a special thing instead of simply a bunch of songs in a row, we’ve invited DJ Marcelle van Hoof to make the mix. We know her from gigs in Amsterdam and from her show Another Nice Mess (hosted on dfm.nu) and we figured that her eclectic and slightly chaotic style of mixing would fit our music. The result is an exciting selection of Narrominded tracks mixed with a.o. Pandit Pran Nath, Listen With Sarah, Raymond Scott, musicians from Ethiopia and Mali, a skipping cd-player and an original Dampflokomotiv. To see the tracklist, and to stream or download the mix go here. Enjoy, and a big thank you to Marcelle for the great mix and to Eclectro for hosting it, we really appreciate it!

Online techno radiostation XT3 will present a show about webzine Eclectro tonight.  Editor in chief Inge Janse will share some of his favorite electronic music with the listeners, including Narrominded material by Hydrus and Legowelt (check the full playlist here). The show will be broadcasted tonight between 8 and 10 pm and will also be available as a soundcloud on Electro later this week. Eclectro also included our Retro Retry 2 album in a list of tips for getting you through the fall season, you can read that article here.

Byron Coley and Thurston Moore call the Split LP by Mats Gustafsson and Cor Fuhler ‘amazing shit’. Read more here. The German student magazine Unikat reviews Katadreuffe’s Quel Gargantua! EP and thinks they are a band with a ‘trademark sound’. Read the whole review here. Dutch blog Eclectro says that Korrels by Living Ornaments ‘offers a refreshing look on idm, electro, ambient and techno’. More here. And finally, the free mp3 music culture magazine Phlow on Slow Country For Old Men by Psychon: ‘fluidity is the key-word’. Read that one here. The Psychon album was also added to the 3voor12 Luisterpaal.

We’re happy to read that Eclectro.nl loved the Hydrus package we sent them to promote the release of the Postcards EP as FLAC.
For everybody that wants to hear more from Hydrus:

download Hydrus – Interleaves album (mp3) 
download Hydrus - Postcards EP (mp3) 
download Hydrus – Postcards EP (flac) 

Or, check out previews of the Hydrus / Kettel Split LP (still available in our shop) on Last.fm here and here.
Cheers!