We’ve been offering free downloads ever since we started, but last year we put them together on our free downloads page. Here are some charts for the most downloaded files in 2009!

Narrominded free download charts 2009:

Top 10 single tracks:
(click titles to download mp3)
1. spoelstra – i got issues the shape of italy
2. gone bald – i’ve seen hippies turn to zombies
3. kettel – why aren’t we talking
4. puin + hoop – live @ delicatessen amsterdam
5. boutros bubba – live @ stork on air
6. boutros bubba – chew
7. living ornaments – motorsport
8. psychon – king backwards
9. makazoruki – showgirl
10. cor fuhler – tengam (extract)

Top 10 album / EP downloads:
(click titles for more info)
1. hydrus – interleaves
2. psychon – slow country for old men
3. living ornaments – korrels
4. katadreuffe – quel gargantua!
5. memory of a free festival – een narrominded compilatie (free mp3 download sampler included with (gonzo) circus)
6. retro retry: sonic youth – evol
7. coen oscar polack & herman wilken – the language of mountains is rain
8. hydrus – postcards
9. coen oscar polack – geluiden uit de blauwe kamer
10. coen oscar polack – the skipping monk

Top 5 FLAC albums / EP’s:
1. hydrus – postcards
2. katadreuffe – quel gargantua!
3. larz – hoofddorp
4. living ornaments – klonten
5. coen oscar polack – psychic investigations

In stores now! Gonzo (circus) magazine #93, including the cd booklet for NM040: Memory Of a Free Festival, an exclusive Narrominded download sampler. The sampler contains 20 tracks, including songs of upcoming releases, hits from our back catalogue and unique new tracks by Spoelstra, Puin + Hoop, Garçon Taupe, Cor Fuhler, Hydrus and more. Check out the tracklist here, and buy the magazine for the password! Gonzo also set up a unique contest: a chance to win the complete Narrominded back catalogue, including all upcoming releases of 2009! How awesome is that? But wait, there’s more! In the Gonzo webshop you’ll find some unique special package deals of Narrominded releases, for instance three Split LP’s for only 22,50.

Great news for audio purists! All sold out Narrominded releases and releases only available as free mp3 are now also available as FLAC. The releases are all albums by Psychon Troopers, Klonten and Kattenkwaad by Living Ornaments, As When Lighted and Field Trip by Petrified Host, Psychic Investigations by Coen Oscar Polack, Hoofddorp by Larz, Aurakramp by Quarles van Ufford, How To Explain De Flipstand To A Friend by Pfaff, Fire Friend/Shadows From The Past by Makazoruki and I Wanna Come As A Tourist by Gone Bald. We have also updated all the mp3’s on our website. They all are now 320 kbps, include perfect tags and even the artwork is added to the files. Happy downloading!

Narrominded presents three new releases by Coen Oscar Polack. This exciting triptych takes you on a journey from a sultry nature reserve in the Dutch province of Utrecht to the rain soaked mountain slopes of Northeast India. These three cd’s have in common that they are all based on field recordings. On The Language of Mountains Is Rain Polack and Herman Wilken (half of electronica duo Hydrus) work these recordings into a musical context. Geluiden uit De Blauwe Kamer is a recording of a performance/installation in a nature reserve and The Skipping Monk is a collage of recordings of nature and culture that Polack made in India. All three albums are available for free download, but are also available as limited edition cd-r in cool digipaks sleeves.

Narrominded is proud to announce that a recently recorded EP by The Hague’s most brutal mathrock band Fine China Superbone will be released by us. It will consist of five brand new songs recorded at Corno Zwetsloot’s Next To Jaap Studio and mastered by the excellent Chicago Mastering Service.

Just like the recent Katadreuffe release, this one will be made available as a FREE download. There will however also be a CD for sale  so you can have it both ways. An exact release date will follow as soon as we have one.

Alright!

Digipak sleeves for three new Narrominded releases are being printed at the factory at the moment. All three releases will be available as limited edition cd’s and free mp3 downloads: NM031 – Coen Oscar Polack & Herman Wilken – The Language of Mountains is Rain; NM036 – Coen Oscar Polack – Geluiden uit De Blauwe Kamer; NM037 – Coen Oscar Polack – The Skipping Monk (recordings of nature and culture in India). Expect them ready and available in two weeks…

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!