[microsound] XStreamRadio Top-Ten Playlist

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Hello,
 
A new top-ten playlist has been added to our website a few weeks ago.
 
Tracks are streamable at 32 and 128 kbps.
 
http://xstreamradio.free.fr/topten.htm
 
Also announcing a Mou-Lips/Pirandelo special day on XStream-Radio very  
shortly.
More details and scheduling info soon...
 

| XStream Top Ten+Two=Twelve - #25 |
 
All contributions sorted by alphabetical order:
 
  ---------- 3x3is9 -------------------------- (1.8)sec.records  
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---------- Fm3 -----------------------------  Bip_Hop 
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---------- Frame  -------------------------- Mousikelab 
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---------- GOO ---------------------------- Fibrr  
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---------- Julie Rousse  ----------------- Conv 
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----------  Mitchell Akiyama ---------- (1.8)sec.records -------------------
---------- My Fun ------------------------ Stasisfield  
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---------- Nim  ----------------------------- Carte-Postale Records ----------
---------- O.Lamm ---------------------- Active Suspension  ----------------
---------- Pirandelo --------------------- DSPrecs +  Baskaru --------------
---------- Rothkamm ------------------- Flux  Records -----------------------
---------- Sagan  -------------------------- Vague Terrain 
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| 3x3is9 |
 
3x3is9 is Chris Bryan, a minimalist sound artist from Winnipeg, Canada.  
Chris is not only a musician, he also is the curator of the new challenging  
electronic music label (1.8)sec.records, whose 1st LP "(1.8)sec.comp" recently  
came out.
 
The track "|||~" comes from a 2004 release called "For Britt & Donna's  
Wedding Social", and is entirely made out of picture files.
 

| Fm3 |
 
Fm3 is a Beijing-based collective of computer and classical musicians  headed 
up by long-term China resident Christiaan Virant. Active in the Chinese  punk 
underground for nearly a decade, Virant founded Fm3 in early 2000 as  China's 
first-ever experiment in live abstract electronica.
 
Working closely with Sichuan-born laptop artist Zhang Jian and an ensemble  
of classical instrumentalists, Fm3 focuses on digitally distilling ancient  
Chinese folk tradition into an organic, meditative, and minimalist  soundscape.
 

| Frame |
 
Frame has always privileged writing evocations of apparently quiet  
landscapes often crossed by sudden gashes of tearing white, a musical world  pinpointed 
with digital frequencies and at the same time made unpredictable by  the 
constant interaction with analogue and acoustic sounds.
 
The music of these neapolitan musicians, sometimes soft, often driven by  
dissonant shudders, with the collaboration of Marco Messina and Retina.it in  
some tracks, is suggesting new musical and neuronal connections: music you've  
got to listen to and "see" with your eyes closed.
 

| GOO |
 
GOO is Grand Orchestre d'Ordinateurs (Grand Computer Orchestra). The  project 
came out of the APO33 collective research program, and was first  presented 
on Friday 15th November 2002 at the Museum of Fine Arts in  Nantes.
 
Six artists work together on the public presentation of this "orchestra",  
analysing it from every possible angle, unravelling, unbuckling, skinning it  
until they discover the cracks that will lead them to new modes of  creation....
 

| Julie Rousse |
 
Julie Rousse is a Paris-based sound artist, whose technique involves the  
improvisation of abstract narrative using live audio software. In her recent  
work "Des Restes Humains", the movement remains suspended between the sole  
coordinates of the anticipated momentary release predetermined by the advent of  
the inevitable breakdown of the system/machine.
 
The sounds she produces, evoke a perpetual loosening of fixed coordinates,  
an incessant structural slippage under the constraints of enduring narrative  
duress...
 

| Mitchell Akiyama / (1.8)sec.comp |
 
(1.8)sec.records is a new electronic label from Winnipeg that recently  
issued its first release called "(1.8)sec.comp", an LP compilation for which  each 
artist submitted a 1.8 second loop to be used as a lock groove. The loops  
were then randomly paired up with other artists on the compilation. The only  
limitation to what they could create was that their song would end with another  
artist's lock groove.
 
The contribution featured here is composed by Mitchell Akiyama and ends  with 
a lock by 3x3is9.
 

| My Fun |
 
Currently based in London after a move from New-York City, sound artist and  
composer Justin Hardison (aka My Fun) presents a suite of three short pieces 
of  processed samples, field recordings and electronics that convey the 
excitement,  frenzy, and melancholy associated with the process of relocating to a 
faraway  city.
 
The complete release is available at Stasisfield.com and another one is  
currently in preparation for Grain of Sound.
 

| Nim |
 
Nim is Jean-François Flamey, from Belgium. Since a few years, he  experiments 
sounds and beats with his computer, and in 2003 he choosed the  moniker of 
Nim (a medicinal plant which calms down every aches) to release his  music. 
Jean-François uses to work during hours and hours on microscopic sounds  and then 
places melodies and acoustic stuffs on its to create a very intimate  music 
which can be described as melancholic but not sad.
 
Nim is also the label manager of Carte-Postale Records.
 

| O.Lamm |
 
So it seems that there indeed exists a spiraling world stretching between  
fierce riddims, talkative pop music, and laptop psychedelia. O.Lamm likes weird  
noise, upbeat wizardry, spiraling crawling hooks, and pompous melodies.
 
He generates sounds from nothing as much as he kneads natural sounds  through 
the technological prism, his prime purpose simply being to put his  idealized 
vision of pop music into concrete form. In a few words, O.Lamm uses  
softwares, love and snow, and blends them to make music.
 

| Pirandelo |
 
Pirandelo is Claudio Sinatti (videos), Marita Cosma (images) and Andrea  
Gabriele (music - formerly of Mou, Lips!). Their first full-length is out now  due 
to a collaborative deal between DSP Recordings and the new french label  
BASKARU.
 
Their music is a multiplicity of voices, showcasing a synergy between  
digital and analogic worlds which creates original and essential structures.  Their 
harmonic sounds are made up of glitch, pop and jazz influences.
 

| Rothkamm |
 
Rothkamm, the enigmatic figure of the technological avant-garde, is a  
composer and computer programmer. He is the inventor of the IFORMM music  system.
 
His new CD release, "FB01", is a set of 6 synthesizer pieces, which  sweetens 
his uncompromising experimentation with the crowd-pleasing sleight of  "head 
music". Pure electronics burble, shimmer, surge, swoop and speaker-pan in  
hazily melodic and crystalline shapes. "FB01" is a consummate headphone album, a  
crafty and cosmic delight.
 

| Sagan |
 
Sagan is Blevin Blectum, J.Lesser, and Jon Leidecker (aka Wobbly).  
Magnifying the lost-in-a-private-world-of-their-own tendencies which have marked  both 
Lesser and Blectum releases in the past, their first full-length, "Unseen  
Forces", contains multitudes: cranky computers, chirpy helium speed loops, big  
lumbering rock drums, spiky metal guitar leads, crumbling towers of gabber  
stomp, pastoral piano meanderings, field recordings from bird hospitals, abrupt  
tempo collapses, and shivering synthesizers.
 
It's a heady, epic trip that is likely to please the sky people and stupefy  
the earth people.
 

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