JNN113 Krabatof – Sea of trees

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How these mystical artists find their way into the realms of JNN is beyond me sometimes, but behold; this ‘Sea of trees’ will astound you. But before we talk of this album here, let’s share a previous review of ‘Insect’s Brain’ shared on Touching Extremes;

“a little more than 31 minutes of very interesting “bruit art” by Geneva-based Ludovic Guerry, who manipulates “noises, field recordings and many weird sounds” in seven personal definitions of a peculiar world of embryonic utterances and disembodied dreams about the inhospitality of life.”

While it baffles me to know who might be behind Krabatof, since I’ve read a few different names now I find myself lost in the sounds of the album you see in front of you now. The mysticism to me only ups the anté and I find myself caring less for the creator, but dwell only more the the creation. You should try it yourself too! If you too get lost, try the breadcrumbs option, but beware of the geese.

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01 – Intro
02 – Jyukai
03 – Sea of trees
04 – Aokigahara
05 – Ki no umi

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JNN100 various artists – no-r-mal II

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At long last it is finaly here; the successor of no-r-mal the first edition. Almost a year later down the line, but highly improved and filled with more goodies. Started on April 25th I would never have thought that this would grow as big as it did. Many bulkloads of work went into getting this compilation album out there, but it is out there now!
71 artists, 71 tracks have turned into a 6 CD!!! compilation album making for over 7 hours of listening pleasure. Today I give this to the world so that you may enjoy the sounds of some of the worlds great netlabel artists that all work somewhere in the field of experimental music. Neatly organized into 6 different atmospheres: Warm voices, Dark places, Strange paces, Ca-dance, Art sounds and Outta here.

Take your own moment and meander through these tracks that have all been laboured with love!
All CD’s are burnable to fit on an audio CD.
You can download the singular tracks, the separate CD’s or for daredevils the full gigantic zip file.
(PS; artists links will be added at a later point)

CD 1 – Warm voices

01 Nigel Samways – Windburn
02 Bob Dickinson – Rendition
03 usr/sbin – Voices
04 Dave Seidel – Penumbral
05 Bob Ohrum – Nocturnality
06 Sceance Noire – MJ
07 Terje Paulsen – Untitled
08 Joe Frawley – The theory of Emily
09 Miquel Parera Jaques – nc Score
10 Massimo Croce – Apocrifo di Giacomo

CD1 zipfile including artwork (151 Mb)

CD2 – Dark places

01 James McDougal – Dirt in the wire
02 Cezary Gapik – #0466
03 Fosel – Syntax of things
04 Palancar – Arroyo
05 C Reider – Will fall
06 Terra Engine – Insomnia
07 Controlled Dissonance – Train
08 Kristus Kut – The teethmark on your nipples
09 900Piesek – Pearls and lyzards
10 Batcheeba – Kiss the whip

CD2 zipfile including artwork (152 Mb)

CD3 – Strange paces

01 Megatone – Pure Land
02 TozzRox – Opslagboter
03 Gurdonark – Normale stem
04 Gabran – Morning invocation
05 Emerald adrift – Exclusion zone
06 Subterminal – Breathe
07 Tyynyliina – And suddenly they had to run
08 Voder – Futures
09 Shane Morris & Muied Lumens – At the gates of the unknown
10 Ariu Kara – Rusty smoke
11 Andrass Kiss – Catotelm
12 Botong – Die sich bekehren lassen

CD3 zipfile including artwork (153 Mb)

CD4 – Ca-dance

01 Astrowind – Forest rain
02 Adamned.age – Wachtraum
03 Dedxound – Nbi
04 MPHM – Frostbite harpmix Mk 2.1
05 Joe McMahon – Landing at cyclades macula
06 Kris Cadwell – Journey to the ants
07 Mystified – Unsync
08 Dzlav – Contours
09 Kevin Haller – Burnt collisions
10 Johann Merrich – Mato grosso Mourning glory
11 Measures – Dive in
12 Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt – Soft power
13 My brother Daniel – Fat bird

CD4 zipfile including artwork (153 Mb)

CD5 – Art sounds

01 Denis McCarty – Plays Saba taksim
02 Juan Antonio Nieto – Icarus
03 Luis Antero – Alvoco Soundscapes One
04 jfox – daveflop
05 Paulo Chagas – Engorra
06 Philip Wilkerson – Four point two
07 Tensor Sensellation – Cryptococcus
08 Danadax – Schizoid
09 Ayato – Libra’s turning control
10 Medmud – Bal impuls
11 Altocumulus – Four days of rain

CD5 zipfile including artwork (154 Mb)

CD6 – Outta here

01 PS – ni100603
02 Jazznoize – Komintern No 1
03 Somnaphon – Eye Calypso
04 Candstandya – The long night
05 op.cit – Saturnalia
06 Rinus van Alebeek & Anton Mobin – Phonecall
07 Carlos Suarez – Vulgus veritatis pessimus interpres
08 Thanato Twist Olegs Sound Sys – Whimsical resurection dub
09 Given Willingly – Dedicated to a lost cause
10 The silence bureau – SBPore
11 Tubiliforme – Cedar
12 v4w.nko – Intergrses
13 Mudbug Noggins – Suck
14 Mystahr – Live at Rigoletto Paris (excerpt)
15 Mono Poly – Panzer

CD6 zipfile including artwork (153 Mb)

JNN100 the full zipfile including artwork (919 Mb)
JNN100 the artwork in one zipfile (14 Mb)

JNN072 Mister Vapor vs. Altus – Falling out of orbit

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And if you think we’ve heard the best collaboration works yet, then let this one surprise your ears. Mister Vapor (aka the extremely prolific Mystified) joined up with Altus (one of the ambient great netlabelartists). Well fitting in some of the other ‘deep sea dives’ of this months JNN releases this album takes you deeper. Where the wonderful string-drones of Altus meet with the dark-drones of Mister Vapor this is a clash of experimentalism that cannot be missed. We are proud to host this for your ears.

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01 – Sparse reaches
02 – Immense revolutions

JNN072 zipfile including artwork.
Runtime: 52.03 minutes

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JNN071 Anime Hill – Anime Hill

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Yes, its true. This mighty fine album is not brand new; it has been released and available in the past on Jamendo. But all good things come to an end, and there where there are endings there are new beginnings.
Anime Hill has graciously offered his very first album for a release on Just not normal and we couldn’t be more proud of this dark ambientish but certainly gorgeous experimentalic album. Enjoy the rich sounds and deep churns if you have not before and hopefully somewhere in 2010 we’ll see more from this exciting artist.

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01 – Filterbreather
02 – Lint eraser
03 – Dead premises
04 – Protein mash
05 – Sinuses rage
06 – Channeling fallacies

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Runtime: 51.42 minutes

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JNN054 Faustino Goyena – De Neatins

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Faustino Goyena is the artistic denomination of both Nicolas L. Gago and his noise project, created in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2005. It has released a number of LPs. and collaborative albums both independently and by European netlabels, being one of the most prolific noise artists in Argentina.

Goyena describes himself as a third-world noiser with a DIY musician attitude. As of 2009, a number of so-called “Guerrilla presentations” are being made, despite the absence of live performances in the early career. Goyena’s music is by principle always free to download.

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01 – Welter Junior
02 – Tunuyan
03 – Nationalen Kronen
04 – Kombetare
05 – Eso duro Luis Garcia
06 – Adolph Pruitt boxejador
07 – Fetele ud
08 – Las Heras

JNN054 zip files incl. art
Runtime: 13’38

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JNN053 :retreat: – RTRT 001

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After the projects : HALLER: (industrial) and: SINCLAIR: (ritual): RETREAT: is the third project of Ronny Jung from Leipzig, Germany.
It is the reduced project and yet deliberately omitted for ornamentation.
It is intended to look for rest and relaxation pose. the quiet in the noise.
The name:RETREAT: is program.
On this album were mic’ed recordings of singing glas, didgeridoo, small metal bells and larger porcelain bells and torn paper were used as raw material.
The process of working is very experimental and not compositional.
It is researching what one can.

Mastered by Mark Stolk (aka Mystahr)

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01 – Movement 1
02 – Movement 2
03 – Movement 3
04 – Movement 4
05 – Movement 5
06 – Movement 6
07 – Movement 7

JNN053 zip files incl. art
Runtime: 1:08’15

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JNN050 various artists – no-R-mal

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Celebrating the 50th release on JNN I’ve invited some of the best (netlabel)artists from around the globe to join this massive compilationalbum.

In total 52 artists joined to create the finest in what is available in experimental music these days. Much of what you hear is unreleased work with the exception of a handful. These tracks have been carefully mastered and put together to present to you a 4 CD epic journey into sound. Together with the artwork the puzzle lies ahead to find out what exactly is ‘normal’.
A tip of the veil; … there is no one answer. What one considers normal another may disagree on with totally different standards.
Or in short; we are all just not normal and we all are!

no R mal!

Herzog – From tomorrow you will have a new city
Joe Frawley – Masque
Altus – Trying to elude that dark place
Ian D Hawgood & Miko – Mat
Effacer – A single letter
Cousin Silas – Dreaming of Dunwich
:retreat: – Hymn
Nagual Art – Niobe and the sea
Bob Dickinson – Leb ‘wohl
Gabran – Nos Jeux etaient simples
The ghost between the strings – Back to the abyss
Michael Trommer – Diverging drone
Terje Paulsen – Veering

CD1 zipfile

Bogdan Dullsky – KZ Mauthausen Der Schornstein
Tim Walters – Termite College
Altocumulus – Spring song
Mind6Spiral – Angels eat at the Chrysler building
Pangea – A massive hit
D’incise – Bestioles
Phillip Wilkerson – An anomalous deviation
Gregory Conte – Deep blue
Kendall Station – Alto’s breakfast
Dzlav – Unstable star 0.25
8m2stereo – Mon
Susan Matthews – Babies in my dream
Djet – NS (instrumental)

CD2 zipfile

Julie la Rousse – Waterdreams
Palancar – Summoning the daemon
Gurdonark – Rough green snake
Sighup – February 19th 2009
Diatribes, Ortis & Schlegel – Insubfest 06-06-09 C
Strøm – Gnat
:ö: – =.=
Kevin Haller – This is not a Buchla
C Reider – Captcha upgrade stickyglands
Anime Hill – Clockwork blue
Pharmakustik – Plasmoglitch
Mystified – The haze – remix
Har – Denormalized 109

CD3 zipfile

jfox – Revisited 06
Achnn – Duquel goût amer
Anton Mobin – But not sick
Pighood – Exsylatir
v4w.enko – Tremolo grid ortogonal
Emerald Adrift – Phylloxera
My brother Daniel – I am in control now
Metlay! – mooZ (aebeascape 04)
Petal – Agromancer
Controlled Dissonance – When all your virtues are vices
Mystahr – Howonakemoise
Sabrina Siegel – Rock guitar
Sebo de Tripa Quartet – Scuffs

CD4 zip file

JNN050 the full zipfile
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All tracks mastered and production by Mark ‘mystahr’ Stolk

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JNN048 Cousin Silas – Uncertainty

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This work is dedicated to the memory of J.G. Ballard

Artwork by Jesùs Olmo

And a thank you to Thomas Mathie for the inspiration for tracks 6 and 12

001 – Late evening snow
002 – Behind those eyes
003 – A moment of reflection
004 – Retreat
005 – The sinking of the Cessna
006 – Stratchclyde park loch
007 – Christmas alone
008 – The tunnel was blocked by something
009 – It kind of melted
010 – Fading signals
011 – A drop in temperature
012 – Three chimneys with ladder
013 – Uncertainty

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[JNN02] mystahr vs mystified – Par takes

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It was only natural the two of us got together on one album, time and opportunity were the needed culprits in this. Mystahr provided his all hardware hard-edged electronics to the board, and mystified touched his master drone-fingers on the source material. Resulting in 4 tracks that dive deep and deeper into obscure and fascinating dark atmospheres.

01 – Part I
02 – Part II
03 – Part III
04 – Part IV

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All tracks: 320 kbs
runtime: 30.16 m

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