"The International Debut" is a revolving door project led by Bassist/Pianist David Hull. Their eclectic release entitled "Stories of the Fall" draws an unlikely parallel between piano pop and dance hall songs and styles. Stories of the Fall is the culmination of four years' work writing and capturing distinctive performances. David Hull is now performing around the world as a cruise ship pianist, simultaneously producing the second phase of Stories of the Fall; a 10 song DVD video to round out "The International Debut" as a fully integrated audio-visual experience.

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"Cleveland hasn't had a male/female vocalist rock record pairing as enjoyable as this in a long time." -CoolCleveland.com Getting signed as the first rock act to Boston's Slanted House dance-techno label really took Rob Duskey, a solo-acoustic singer-songwriter by trade, by surprise. In fact, just convincing him to transpose his coffee house capabilities to the main stage took something of an intervention by family and friends. A disciple of the songs come first mantra, Rob marked this transformation with Slanted's 2009 release of his first full-length album, Cautiously Optimistic, a straightforward cross-section of Rob's introspective, hook-heavy songwriting and an instant showcase for the happenstance assembly of his seasoned backing ensemble, The Rounders. Produced by Vuture Visions' Billy DeMarco (Mary Cushman, The Vibronics), Cautiously has been lauded as "a flat out, a good time rock and roll tale of many loves found and many loves lost." (CoolCleveland.com). To be clear, t [...]

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The Emotron is a Southern One Member Vulgar Synth Punk Act. The Emotron has the Stage Antics of GG Allin, The Lyrics of The Dead Milkmen, The Music of Atom and His Package, and The Different Thinking of Andy Kaufman while keeping true to the DIY Punk Lifestyle. The Emotron has been playing shows since 2004, and in 2008 touring to Alaska in a Vegetable Oil Fueled Bus to work at a Fish Cannery for the Summer. The Emotron is willing to do what it takes to destroy the beautiful bands of the 20th century.

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Influenced by the likes of Stars, Straylight Run, Ben Gibbard, Brand New, City & Colour and Styrofoam, The Analog Affair self-describes itself as "underground indie electro-dramatic pop." They aren't too far off the mark. The Analogue Affair is the combined musical product of Evan Baker and Cody Moser, two creative individuals who met in Laramie, Wyoming. Later, even when Evan left for China, and Cody left for Tennessee, they continued to collaborate and the Analog Affair continues to develop. Listening to the music, one's ear is quickly aware of the heavy textures and layers that comprise each song. The process they utilize is vaguely akin to the Postal Service, another influence of theirs; Evan and Cody working together, but not together, weaving lyrics over instrumentals, to create songs that carry a sense of loneliness or lost love, or the wilted night sky after the party; hanging over everything like a scent. Though each piece contains a sort of velv [...]

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48 hours of samples, Twitter, insomnia, poor dietary habits, and general discomfort combine to form....Twitterverse Traveler....A journey through strange sounds and random events. The basic framework of each beat was constructed during a 48 hour period. These joints came from a pool of over 20 beats that formed during those tumultuous two days. Many of the joints underwent a bit of tweaking but, the feeling of being on a disorienting journey remains. All love goes to friends, family and DETROIT

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Supersimetria is an experimental band from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Our sound is the Four Dimensional Anti-Jazz, or more specifically: Cyber Retro POP Catira Quantica Viola Noise Core Samba Afro Rock Beat Music Four Dimensional Anti-Jazz. Our philosophy is to play several different styles, mix em all , create our own instruments and absorb the greatest possible amount of influences. From the most chaotic free-jazz to the most raw and brutal grindcore, including synth ambiences and percussion and ethnical experimentation. Since 2002, we now have 33 releases on the web, all 100% available for full download. Our main influences includes Sun Ra, John Zorn, Napalm Death, Damiao Experienca, Walter Franco, Mutantes, Tiao Carreiro & Pardinho, Vicente Celestino, Adelino Nascimento, Chico Science. Some of our releases are time bound, so in a span of time you have like, 3 or 4 albums in the same style and them we shift to some new concept. Try it out. To download the albums, read news, biography [...]

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The Ninth Tentacle are a psychedelic jam-band that sprung up in the early 21st century with the mission objective to provide unusual and interesting soundscapes to take listeners on a ride through the mind. Tunes are built using guitars, synthesizers, drum machines, ethnic instruments and any other bits and pieces left lying around. The emphasis is always on exploration and a healthy disregard for the conventions of the conventional music industry.

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Boreq (previously known as Terra Perfida) has been producing tracks ever since he was twelve. Turning knobs, experimenting with sounds and creating as much noise as possible. Naturally, he ended up making breakcore. But his path to producing breakbeat-oriented songs wasn't straight. Starting with plain hardcore in '07, he made his name as Dj Bozevuist. After 'Project Bozevuist' had ended another project started... and another and another. Hopping from genre to genre, trying to master it all. This wasn't possible and only by experimenting he found out which genres fitted him. Hardcore left his life and Drum&Bass entered it. Hard basslines were (and still are) the trademark of his music. Who doesn't like a good Cebera Saw? And finally after all these years Boreq started making breakcore. This was begin '09. Now still he is making this type of music, along with Techno, Hardstyle, ambient and Drum&Bass. And some tracks that can’t be put into a genre at all.

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Jameson Blade is an American musician and songwriter born January 4th, 1988 in Dearborn, Michigan. Jameson makes experimental music that draws heavily from electronica, post-rock and folk music. His most seminal work is "The Fluorescence of Man" EP which was recorded during 2007-2009. The release is comprised of one track that runs 20:49 and pulls the listener through a dark vision of modern infastructure and society from the perspective of both those who operate perfunctorily within it, and those who seem to know not how. The track contains kitschy synth hooks and electronic percussion and sparse, delicate lyricism, field ambiance and occasional dialogue. The track progresses the listener through a series of movements and tattered, electric portraits, poems and perspectives. The EP is available for free download on Jameson's MySpace page, along with his latest release "The Love of Jameson Blade" which is a completely analog, minimalist folk project.

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Taylor Smith is a long story. So long, in fact, that the story itself (as exciting and unbelievable as it may be) really just doesn't matter much anymore. What matters is the result. Taylor has found himself a way from his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan to Chicago. Trained on trumpet, self-taught on everything else, he now sits in his room with his parrot Avery and records music all day long. Every once in a while, he's able to land a show at some small venue in the area, but in the meantime, he's trying to produce as much material as he can before he's dead. His website is updated once a week with a new song, and once his technology gets rolling, he hopes to have a new song posted everyday. Always check back whenever you feel like, he'll always be updating. When music isn't free, neither are people.

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Criptofonia is a heavy/thrash metal band from Ezpeleta (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina). The history of the band begins when emiliano perez (guitar), gonzalo gayoso (drums) and leonardo magallanes (bass) met together with the idea of forming a band. Riffs that were part of the first songs slowly began to emerge aiming at thrash metal and mostly influenced by the old school. Criptofonia was inspired by bands like Metallica, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Megadeth and others. After a long time rehearsals, the group posted advertisements on sreets and music shops looking for a singer and guitarist. A few months later Fabo Pavic joint the band. He immediately began to make contributions to the already existing compositions. Criptofonia is a band that seeks to leave his footprint on heavy metal's way with the premise of making their own music with a particular style. In 2007 the band produced "Factor de la Destruccion" (Destruction Factor), a two song demo [...]

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The sound of HY3 is funky. They have a rhythmic connection that appeals to listeners and dancers alike. With rock-steady grooves, intricate bass-lines and hard-hitting guitar HY3 is "accessible to anyone who enjoys music." Holden Young may best be described by the groups he has opened for in the past 3 years in the Colorado/Rocky Mountain music scene; JJ Grey & Mofro, the Disco Biscuits, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Freekbass, Rose Hill Drive, the Motet, Outformation and many other local acts garnering support in his area. After graduating Berklee College of Music in Boston and spending 3 years working on his trade in Nashville, Tennessee, Holden is now proud to be a major upcoming figure in the Funk/Rock/Reggae/Original local & national circuit. A power-trio of bass, drums, guitar & voice, the HY3 outfit is touring regularly and constantly adding new material & new inspirations to their already outstanding set of original music. Bassist Billy Franklin, while on tour with New O [...]

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"If Phil Spector made an album with Jesus and Mary Chain and New Order, it would sound like The Watermarks." "Nice one. Your stuff sounds great. Nice, thick synths..." Will Sergeant - Echo & The Bunnymen "The Watermarks have mastered the art of the well written, hook laden hit song." David Sadof - KLOL, KTBZ, KFNC "sounds like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's chocolate got in LCD Soundsystem's peanut butter" Houston Press "The Watermarks are now elected to fill the void inexcusably left by New Order, Killing Joke and Jesus And Mary Chain. The EP or rather a virtual mini album..Thoughts Like Bombs..will stir the most ardent Indie lover, The Watermarks have unearthed Alternative Rock you can dance to." mojophenia.com- "Lovely Shoe-Gazers" Free Press Houston

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My name is Eduardo Carvalho, aka "Ed" or, when I save my songs... "Ed Carvalho". I'm starting Project mind7 as a "band" name. Even though I'm the only band member. This project is about speaking one's mind through music... my ideas or simply my moods. Project MIND7 ( a mind set ) I was born and raised in Brazil. In my native language, Portuguese, the number seven is "sete" (sounds like the word "set"). I decided to add a little of my roots into this project name... so since I added the number seven... to my view, I have a "project mind set" where "set" is just the sound of seven in Portuguese. My music style is more "New Age" / "Experimental" using synthesizers and sound samples.

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God Meets Nine (gm9), (Jesse Mason) is one guy, making soft, mellow, electronica music on his roland synth and fl studio. He's been making electronica for roughly 7 years now. Its a hobby, and a passion, and his first cd has officially been released, and is available online for free.

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At the age of 5 i learned how to rowdie. At the age of 8 they put me behind the drums in a band just for fun. At the age of 13 i began playing the guitar and bass but got bored playing in bands at the age of about 17. At the age of ** i discovered that with my Amiga (witch i bought for the graphics) i could make music. Then came the PC. 16mb 840mbHD 90Mhz. After making a couple of track's and making the movie Tayoka, i got distracted for 10 years by party's, work and woman. But those days are over. Now i have al the time in the world to program and make music when ever i want to. All i have is a recycled P4 2.6ghz with 24bit soundcard and a couple of terrabytes. 2 CDJ-500S, a crappy mixer and a medium Kenwood soundsystem. I lost everything i owed twice, but i REbuild my homestudio in the last 2 years.

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A trip from Jersey, a Ween show, and a kidnapping are all elements that describe the first time Chuck and Angus met in Baltimore, MD in 2002. A brief stint into the seedy underbelly of Mobtown was all the two of them figured they would ever see of each other. Boy were they wrong! In 2003, Chuck left Jersey and Angus left MD for the swirling desert sands of Arizona. Fate brought the two together again in a dive bar in north Phoenix. The duo began playing Ween covers at open mics around the valley before they realized that they were some darn crafty song-smiths. Chuck Roast is an extremely talented guitar player, vocalist, and song writer. Angus, with training from Julliard, toots the kazoo and sings.a 2005 saw the release of a tour EP, a live album, and finally "Girlfriend Stealing Good", the long play CD. The album has been welcomed warmly, by people that could take a moment to giggle. Life is just too damn short to be serious all the time right? The album can be purchased at < [...]

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My name is Joseph Kenyon and I create & release music as an instrumental rock one-man-band called Ruined Machines. I have been creating music since 2005 and am in the process of recording my third full-length album, "Pressure and Obsession". I have released 2 full-lengths, "The Grasping Hands of Possibility" in 2007 and "Paths to a Digital Dawn" in 2008, as well as countless demos, remixes, and EPs. It's become a struggle financially to release all of this music for free, and now I am even having trouble keeping the albums online at my website (www.ruinedmachines.com) due to hosting costs.

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Damian Lisowski is from Poland. He started create music over 10 years ego. Ambient, chillout, psychedelic down-tempo that's what he likes... beautiful pads, psychedelic ambient sounds with nice beats and melody... His first track was made on PC and was downloadable in 2000. In 2008 he made remix of Sundial Aeons track. You can download his track in HQ on soulseek... just look for Damian L... and from his websites on MySpace and MP3.WP.PL

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Pi.o.tr is a Polish-born artist currently based in New England. His work is generally minimal and explores the fields of organic electronica, manipulated vocal, and musique concrete. He could be considered minimal, glitch, or noise. He can be further reached at: http://www.myspace.com/xpiotrx

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I`m making electronic music from 1987. First good album happens to me at 1995. I`m exploring all genres of electronica, playing techno, dub, chillout, ethnoelectronica, amibient and many other styles. Originally i`m from Russia, now live in Spain, Barcelona. Last year i put all my projects - more than 40 for free download and paypal support possibility. I`m in the process of building new studio to continue experiments and to create more tunes, so your support for food, instruments and wires is very much welcome. thank you

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The Imaginaries are a lo-fi indie-rock band formed in Toronto in early 2007 by songwriter Jackson Fishauf. The band's output is prolific. As of December 2008, they have recorded 7 full albums, 5 EPs, 2 singles, and 2 live albums. Music influences include artists such as Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, Pavement, Talking Heads, Silver Jews, Rolling Stones, The Kinks, and early Weezer.

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I'm from Long Island NY, usually out in NYC at Pacha NY to see many DJ's. I've been producing since 1998, DJing since 1995 (very young age). I mainly produce House (dark, tek-house, progressive...etc). I feel my music is much worthy to atleast be heard.

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I am an older dude who has been writing music for maybe thirty-five years now (a whale of a long time). I play trumpet and synthesizer (piano, organ etc), and guitar. Some of my songs are vocals pieces sung by a couple of local artists from Flint, Michigan. My music styles are easy listening types [of] jazz, pop, rock. Instrumental pieces include Latin rhythms (my favorite), among others. Herb Alpert was an early influence as well as songwriters Burt Bacharach, Henry Mancini, Van Morrison, and many others. I am 'old school' and clean-cut to the bone. I love and can create interesting arrangements of Classical music favorites. I consider my music (and so do many listeners) to be a breath of fresh air and both entertaining, nostalgic, and sometimes even beautiful.

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SirPreiss is a 28 y.o. MC and Beatproducer from Germany. He started the first simple writings in 2001 and made his first beats in 2002. In 2005 he began to record his music step by step until today. By the way the name "SirPreiss" combines the word "sir" and the artists last name to the word "surprise". The name says it all: surprising lyrics, surprising beat arrangements, surprising messages. Maybe the people need a while to get used to it, but then they are surprised :) Give it a try and listen to my tracks at www.myspace.com/sirpreiss - even though you don't understand German. Maybe you can feel something besides that.

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my name is nick oliver aka ordeal. im 28 yrs old and have been a writer of all sorts since age 8, at 10 began penning political rhymes, and was in a rapcore band at 20, and recording hiphop at 17. i have 2 independently produced albums. beat on beat off jesus, and the bird shit optimist. its left of center hip hop in the vein of anticon and def jux, but i love all music hiphop makes up 1% of my collection. i have jus startd recording songs for my ep 1 shoe and five beats due out this spring, and id like to have the full length, goodnite and give up, out in the fall.

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Born in Stillwater, Minnesota, United States. Currently resides in Mahtomedi, Minnesota. This is Shyft's gabber/hardcore/breakcore/drill'n'bass project. Distorted heavy bass kicks, thick synths, and powerful melodies are the aim here- unless it's chopped up progressive percussion. Shyft started playing with music composition at age twelve and production at age fourteen. Stubbornness and impatience cause this artist to learn music programming almost entirely first hand and through trial and error. Experimentation is responsible for the final mix of many tracks. Influences come from many places, and not just the gabber or brain dance scene. It ranges from techno, trance and house genre classes to organic genre classes such as folk and metal. Shyft's musical philosophy focuses on a continuous struggle to make tracks sound better, clearer, and more crisp, as well as breaking down boundaries of genre in terms of both composition and production.

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There isn't much known about Ben Nield other than he used to play bass for a band from Congleton, England named Camel of Doom, but left for unknown reasons. From the atmospheres and craziness of such Camel of Doom, Ben Nield creates albums worth of it. tracks ranging from squals from birds, adult film scripts, and submarine sonar.

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Steven Jouanny is a musician in the experimental category. His music is quite varied and eclectic, yet with a strong stamp of his own personality upon it. He is 21 and has been a musician for 15 years of his life, playing a wide range of instruments from percussion to strings and he composes for a wide range of settings, from string quartets to laptop groups!

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Randy Fulgham is a 21 year old self taught musician. He began with electronic music in 2003, and slowly started to branch towards more conceptual pieces via new techniques, such as: found sound, conceptual improv, sillyness, experimental recording techniques, unconventional songwriting styles, and multi-instrument recordings. He is alive and well, starving in Oakland, California's industrial wasteland. Making due with music on the street and drawing pictures. Randy Fulgham's musical influences include: Merzbow, Animal Collective, Syd Barrett, Kimya Dawson, Outsider Musicians, Panda Bear, The Beach Boys, John Cage, The Flaming Lips, Saetia, and Donovan. His latest release (flowers for apples 2009) is self-described as "An honest step towards bringing today's music to the places in psychedelic madness few people dare tread; without losing our minds completely."

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Woe is a Philadelphia-based black metal band that strives to eschew the cartoon-like theatrics found within the genre in an effort to create darker, more powerful, honest music that is more in tune to the traditional spirit of the art. The first full-length was released in September 2008 to glowing reviews and was been described as 'the most important black metal release in years' by one journalist. In early 2009, the album was made available as a DRM-free pay-what-you-want download directly from the band's website.

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Matthew Francis Timpanelli is a multimedia artist born and raised in Staten Island's south shore. In 2001 he joined a music community called Soulseek Records that was associated with the Soulseek filesharing program. Later he became a project organizer there and took over the duties as webmaster and head of the organization around 2003-2004. His work with the community received positive reviews for the label and the community was featured at yearly art and music festival called lab30 in Augsburg, Germany. In 2004 he performed at this festival along with community members. From his work with this community he was then hired by Soulseek LLC to be the Art Director for their commercial label called SLSK Records which became a sister label to Soulseek Records. There he was involved in organizing tours and performances, photo shoots, contests, and all the duties of a commercial record label. While being an art director and learning many things he began to do freelance work as a graphic [...]

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Phasen is the electronica project of anthropology student and 19 year-old Florida native Ryan Parmer. Phasen began his career at 17, when he began a long streak of free releases on I/O Netlabel. Eventually, he tallied up six releases with the fledgling netlabel. In 2008 he moved on to renowned Belgian commercial label U-Cover Records where he quickly released another five albums. In the end of 2008 Phasen appeared again on Innerise's Distant Noise Records. Today, Phasen co-owns and operates [Unnamed Label] Records (www.unnamedlabel.com), a brand new electronica imprint featuring acts like Milieu, Cheju, Lackluster, Koen Park, and Mint. You can find other free Phasen tracks on the Breathe Compilations series and several other netlabels.

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Esa has been composing instrumental electronic music for close to 14 years, and has become a permanent bubbling-under/upcoming artist, which is one of the reasons he has agreed to test out our Starving Artists concept. His material has often been seen in the same playlists as material by Kettel, Plone, other early warp artists such as Aphex Twin and Plaid. The most used reviewing phrase is "early 90s warp / artificial intelligence / beautiful armchair listening techno with a detroit influence". He is one at the fore-front of people releasing music for free via net-labels and otherwise, and has also branched out into physical releases in the past decade. You are free to download anything you like on this page and enjoy it. You are, however, allowed, nay, requested to, if possible, burn these materials to a cd-r or a dvd-r or notify a festival organizer or a venue owner of these tracks - that would be swell. Or, if you feel like it, you could just donate a dollar or two thousand. millio [...]

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