Redesign
I’m in the process of slightly redesigning the esc.rec. website (as all you regular visitors can see by now). I’ll do this one step at a time, so you’ll gradually see some more changes being made here. Feedback is welcome as always…
Soundcloud dropbox
I just joined Soundcloud. It’s still in beta testing, but seems to work fine. It’s a new way of sending and receiving (large) audio files, and I like it. To this point you can only join by invitation and I have only one more to hand out. If you’re interested, let me know.
In the mean time, Soundcloud has provided me with this personal dropbox, which makes it real easy for anyone to send me their music. No more yousendit, zshare, turboupload, etc. I still favor receiving packages on my doormat, but if you have to send your stuff digitally, please drop it overhere.
Download new DJ-mix
I finally came round to recording some of my own dj-sets again. Download one here.
Wa Da De Minse Klappe Gelak As d’Onne Basse
Worm and Café Sonore commissioned 10 composers to produce radiophonic work. The first to be broadcasted in this series was ‘Wa Da De Minse Klappe Gelak As d’Onne Basse’ by Didi de Paris and Lukas Simonis.
You can still listen to it overhere. But I don’t know for how long…
The dark brown sound of Parkside
It’s a short interview with Parkside (in dutch), as recorded by Lopend Vuur, a platform for the Dutch indie scene.
Toxic Toxic Toxic
Toxic Chicken is going strong. He just released another bunch of messy, lo-fi punk pock tracks through WeirdAndWired and he’s been selected to participate in Glued, a project by Muziekcentrum Nederland.
Also check out his Dream Society blog overhere.
POKE 20 remix?
Mano Scherpbier of ON asked me to relay the message below to esc.rec. artists and other interested parties. And it does seem like an interesting remix project… so here it is:
“Remember the groundbreaking Commodore 64 computer? And did you play the games? Did you know there is an orchestra actually performing this old game tunes and that it is called the C64 orchestra? You can find them on www.myspace.com/c64orchestra and the songs have been played over 140.000 times. And did you check the extra ordinary CD design? Way better than the usual stuff isn’t it?
It gets even funnier if you are a musician, because the sequel of the C64 orchestra is called POKE 20.
Poke 20 offers you the possibility to get in the footsteps of the great Commodore 64 composer as Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel by downloading Monty On the Run in separate tracks and creating your own remix. You can find the stuff you need at: http://fotos.oninternet.nl/listpics.asp
Download the midi file of the original score and the separated tracks of the C64 orchestra score in Flute/ Horns & double bass, strings and you are ready to go.
When you are finished creating, make it an mp3 file and send it to poke20@oninternet.nl. Please limit your work to 5 minutes and deliver your music to us before the 31 august.
We will release all remixes on our internetsite and a selection on CD.”
20th esc.rec. release!
Release number 20 is here! Time to celebrate? Or was that at 25?
Anyway, A Ltd. Lion Pup is the debut of Yop, a very talented Rotterdam based singer/songwriter. It’s really quite a magnificent release. Yop is a skilled songcrafter, limiting the length of his songs to the bare essential. Compact beauty. And you can download it here for free (thank you Yop!).
In fact this is a re-release of Yop’s self released 2006 original, so you could be one of those people who have downloaded most of this release already, but this version holds a previously unreleased bonus track, that makes downloading it again worth your while. The main reason for this re-release is more exposure, because if anything A Ltd. Lion Pup deserves that!
Oh, and I added some reviews of the 2006 version overhere.
Transfolmer remixes Radiohead
Transfolmer joined the mass of remixers who took a shot at remixing Radiohead’s Nude. Check (and vote for) Transfolmer’s remix overhere.
Something in Greek…
Esc.rec. features in this Greek article (or is it a review?). My Greek is a bit rusty, so I can’t be exactly sure what it says, but with the help of a Translator I can confirm it’s all positive (I think)!
Anyway, it struck me as funny that a release like Binnensuis, which is built around a lengthy Dutch monologue, gets picked up in Greece too… I can only conclude that the music on Binnensuis is so good, you would almost forget that the monologue is great too! For all other foreign listeners, you can get an english translation (pdf) of the Binnensuis monologue overhere.
esc.rec. on YouTube
Esc.rec. opened a YouTube Channel. Only two video’s are up so far: Bart Folmer playing Rockin’ Chair and a fragment of ass-crack stage-hack #2 (thanks to Sebiha for shooting the video).
Oh, and check some pictures of Bart Folmer playing Rockin’ Chair overhere.
Focus 7
Tonight (April 4th, 17:00), Bart Folmer plays Rockin’ Chair (a musical piece of furniture by Harco Rutgers) at the opening of Focus 7, an exhibition in KCO, Zwolle. Bart’s test results for this performance were so promising that it just might turn into an esc.rec. release…
Radion, Cette Truc and Parkside in ‘t Ukien
Tomorrow night (April 5th), Radion and Cette Truc rock the dancefloor in ‘t Ukien till it bleeds. It’s the launch of a new dance night there, named Electroluxe. Parkside will also perform there.
