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

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!

We just got word from the printers that the sleeves for our forthcoming compilation Memory ofΒ a Free Festival are being printed as we speak. The compilation will be our official 40th release and will be given away for free with the next edition of Belgian/Dutch musicmag Gonzo (circus) as a free download for readers of the magazine only. The printed sleeve with tracklisting and other details on the music will be enclosed in Gonzo (circus) #93. The compilation will feature music from forthcoming albums by artists in our roster andΒ from our back catalogue. Some tracks are even entirely exclusive to this compilation! So: go buy that magazine! (available in September).

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.

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 packageΒ 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)Β 
download HydrusΒ - Postcards EP (mp3)Β 
download Hydrus – Postcards EP (flac)Β 

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