(BRM 003) Various - Rebel Music Volume 3

Various - Rebel Music Volume 3
Label: Bit Rebels
Cat#: BRM003
Released: 09 Dec 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, IDM, Experimental, Trip Hop, Downtempo, Dub Techno, Electro, Hip Hop
Cover Photo: Richard Holden

Another #MusicMonday and another edition of our creative commons compilation of music is here. Music is one of those few things that unite all of us putting apart our differences. Musics always worked as a catalyst and still does and most probably will in the future. After two editions dedicated to one of the multiple sides of musical variety “Rebel Music Volume 3” focus on the electronic part of music. Usually when speaking about electronic music one is immediately taken to what is called dance music, club music or even techno but, in the same way that there are different kinds of rock music, there many many genres of electronic music to be discovered.

From deep ambient music to the easily recognizable dance track, “Rebel Music Volume 3” is a journey into the world of electronic music as well as the soundtrack for a day in the life of someone that lives surrounded by music everyday, like I do. The ten songs that make this week’s selection (including two unreleased songs) are an open invitation to discover new musical approaches that have the same objective: to express, by music, the emotions of a moment, of a feeling or of a state of mind with the world. I invite you all, from Caracas to Cape Town, from Rio to Reno, from São Paulo to Seattle, from Portland to Porto, from Madrid to Melbourne (you got the idea right?) … I invite you all to listen to these stories and maybe, in the process, find some of your own to tell with whatever media you choose.
My thanks go to Thomas Raukamp for his daily tweets full of beautiful #ccmusic

Tracklisting:
01 | Carl Sagan’s Ghost | “At the End of it all” from [SPF10] Carl Sagan’s Ghost | At the End of it all
02 | Crabnebula | “bids” from [51BTS#20] Crabnebula – Serendipity
03 | adamned.age | “Trip down memory lane” from [PS013] adamned.age – whiteout **
04 | DJ Racy | “Priming” from [DWK046] DJ Racy – Rust Tree LP
05 | Shoto | “G Soul” from [DWK018] Various Artists – Dusted Beats Volume 2
06 | Kieron James feat. Shadi | “Mass of Moments ” from Unreleased Track
07 | Daniel Jeffs | “El Poder corrompe Fiat600 rmx ” from [PN050] Daniel Jeffs – El poder corrompe
08 | Isma Serrano | “She is Electric” from [AR041] Isma Serrano – Automatic Behaviour
09 | Zoe.leelA | “Departing Myself” from [REC72] Zoe.leelA – Queendom Come
10 | Nicolas Bernier | “Aus aktuellem Anlass” from [12rec50] Various Artists – So much achieved…


[BRM003] VA | Rebel Music Volume 3 by Bit Rebels

(BRM 002) Various - Rebel Music Volume 2

Various - Rebel Music Volume 2
Label: Bit Rebels
Cat#: BRM002
Released: 29 Nov 2009
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Word
Style: Rock, Acoustic, Post Rock, Brit Pop

Woah! It’s Monday once again and here is your weekly fix of Rebel Music. From acoustic to post rock, a flavor of pop and even Brit pop made in Russia we have it all covered in a great selection with  8 music projects from 6 different countries.
We start with a U.S. based project called  Selbyville’‘: “The Quiet Uproar” is a wonderful acoustic track  released on a new netlabel called No Source. We then fly to Germany to meet the work of Julia Kotowski a.k.a. Entertainment for the Brain Dead (and featured on the cover art for this edition designed by Andrea La Valleur) that mixes simple but amazing songs with different approaches: on the featured track,  “Paper“,  you can listen to paper being ripped as part of the percussion section: Brilliant!.
Up north we go to Sweden to meet the work of Nina-me and her track “After seven years of love“. Nina-me’s voice is as enchanting as disturbing and she puts all her feelings in to her work. A must listen!  We continue to Norway to meet the sonic post rock of the The Manipulated Living that have recently published their new work on the Ucranian netlabel Nocharizma. Reminescent of the early works by Sonic Youth, but with a darker and  powerful nordic touch,  “Platypus” is a furious track full of stories to tell but not for everyone’s ears, I agree.
So nothing better than to move down south and meet the happy pop from Spanish singer Jenifer Avila and her song “El Tranvia” (The cable car) that takes us immediately to a certain Madrid of the 80s, Almodovar and la movida. Next track takes us to Manchester in the U.K.  and to the Keyboard Rebel project. Fun, light and with a social conscience I think we will be hearing from them much more in the future.
Back to the U.S. and to a track by Derrick Art, “You’re winning so I quit” from his just released EP on 12rec, “Songs from A Cross (The Sea)“: This is gentle pop, well built with fine textures and taste. The final track I just could not resist and include what was a surprise to me: Listen to Mari!Mari!’s “Get You!” and if you had any doubts about the universality of music this band is a great example: Brit Pop at his best, well structured and with that naivety that only teens can bring into a song coming to you directly from Moscow, in Russia. Take a listen for yourself!



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(BRM 001) Various - Rebel Music Volume 01

Various - Rebel Music Volume 01
Label: Bit Rebels
Cat#: BRM001
Released: 23 Nov 2009
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Word
Style: Rock, Acoustic, Post Rock, Brit Pop

Music Monday (or #MusicMonday) is a weekly celebration that happens on Twitter. It celebrates music, artists and, above all, it allows Twitter’s users to discover new music and old music. At Bit Rebels we are starting a weekly compilation of music that we will be collecting from the Internet. Usually collecting music from the Internet means you are doing something illegal but this is not the case: we want to introduce you, if you don’t know it already, to something called Creative Commons Music (or #ccmusic on Twitter). Creative Commons Music is music you can download, share, redistribute for free with anyone you want and its perfectly legal to do it. “Download music for free? No legal hassles? What’s the catch?” you ask. No catch and more: Just because its free it doesn’t mean it isn’t  good. Did you know that RadioHead and Nine Inch Nails gave their latest works for free? As you will see by our first compilation there is great music out there just waiting to be discovered.

TrackList:
01. Torsion – Sundrops on the Ocean (original piano mix) | [PS003 REdrops]
02. Emile Lund – Getting Late | [aaahh.007 Emile Lund EP]
03. Azeda Booth – First Little Britches (morgan greenwood rmx) | [sec.031 Tubtrek]
04. Emily in Love – Everything’s OK | [corpidex029 Let's Pretend We're In Love]
05. Nic Bommarito – Better then Way Post-Rock | [12rec.058 Harp Fragments]
06. dusmotes – annica | [PS012 Beats for the Subverted]
07. Clark|KENT – Sundrops (Fabrice’s dream rmx) | [PS003 REdrops]
08. The Black Atlantic – Madagascar | [Beep007 Reverence for Fallen Trees]
09. The Underscore Orkestra – Blue Draggish | [ No Money No Honey All We Got Is Us]
10. Pandoras.Box – Arrows and Bows | [ca270 Barriers]



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