This Friday, February 5 2010, we’ll throw a party in one of Amsterdam’s coolest venues, Smart Project Space. It’s gonna get ugly with Boutros Bubba, Fine China Superbone and Katadreuffe. But there will also be some lushus spacing out situations going on with Hydrus and Puin + Hoop live sets. And to top that off, Hunter Complex will present his debut album Hunter Complex this night! An evening not to be missed, we would say! Be welcome from 20:30.
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.
The release party of Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World at Delicatessen in Amsterdam with performances by Hydrus, Spoelstra, Puin + Hoop and Hakki Takki turned out to be a wonderful evening. Check out this video report to get a bit of an impression. Puin + Hoop recorded their set and they were so kind to make it available to us as a free download. You can download it here or stream the mp3 in the player below. Enjoy!
If you pre-order Retro Retry 2 now, the digipack cd will be delivered in your mailbox as soon as it’s out. We offer the pre-order in our webshop with a special discount of 20%! Until the releasedate on October 3, you pay only €8 inside EU, or €10 outside EU for your copy including shipping! Go to the shop. Retro Retry 2 features tracks by FFF, Polycorn, Legowelt, Rude 66, Coen Oscar Polack, Spoelstra, This Is Total War, Garçon Taupe, Nanko, Baba Electronica & DJ Lonely, Hakki Takki, Puin + Hoop, Hunter Complex and Hydrus. More info and previews right here.
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.
Scheduled for release this September: Retro Retry 2: Another Another Green World (cd). On this album, 14 artists cover Brian Eno’s Another Green World (1975) in it’s entirety. All participating artists are based in the Netherlands and operate in the field of electronic and electro-acoustic music. We’re proud to announce the full line-up: FFF, Polycorn, Legowelt, Rude 66, Coen Oscar Polack, Spoelstra, This Is Total War, Garçon Taupe, Nanko, Baba Electronica & DJ Lonely, Hakki Takki, Puin + Hoop, Hunter Complex and Hydrus. The artwork will be delivered by the great Willehad Eilers and mastering is done by Alden Tyrell. Click here for the tracklist and a preview of the artwork.
The album is the follow-up to Retro Retry 1: EVOL (2005), on which Sonic Youth’s EVOL was covered by 10 Dutch bands, including Gone Bald, Makazoruki, Pfaff, Fine China Superbone and zZz. The artwork for RR1 was done by Vormversterker. The cd was distributed with That Dam! magazine, which featured an exclusive poem by Lee Ranaldo.
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.
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)Â
download Hydrus - Postcards EP (mp3)Â
download Hydrus – Postcards EP (flac)Â
Or, check out previews of the Hydrus / Kettel Split LP (still available in our shop) on Last.fm here and here.
Cheers!
