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August, 2007
Folio… tonight!
Since november 2006, NPS Radio 6 features a weekly new radio show “Folio”. Folio is all about new releases in the ambient, electronic and experimental genre. This week the spotlight is on three very different releases by esc.rec.; ‘slo-fi - ’s latest hits‘, ‘Transfolmer - Music For Your Eyes‘ and ‘Gluid - Binnensuis‘.
Folio is presented every tuesday night from midnight until 01:00 hour (GMT+1), on Radio 6 cable radio. If this time does not suit you, or if you don’t have access to cable radio, ór if you live abroad but still want to listen to this program: you can listen to every Folio broadcast through a quality webstream exactly one week after every show.
So be sure to bookmark this link for the special Folio webstream!
Folio is compiled by Arno Peeters and/or Peter van Cooten, and is presented by Hans Mantèl.
Details of the show will also be available in Folio’s weblog - which is written in Dutch. But you’ll get the idea by just scrolling the artist and titles. And of course the music behind the player plays regardless of language…
There’s also a Folio MySpace.
MOMI-fest beta 1.0
For some time now I’ve been working together with Peter Boorsma on the realization of MOMI-fest beta 1.0, a (free!) festival loosely based on MOMI with a touch of esc.rec. The line-up is complete now, so I’m very proud to present our official press release to you right here. Hope to see you all on the 1st of September!
Saturday the 1st of September, music blog My Own Music Industry (MOMI) organizes her first concert night. The programme is a joint effort by MOMI (www.myownmusicindustry.nl) and esc.rec. (www.escrec.com). Thanks to the enthusiasm of all the bands and participants involved, the programme has become quite extensive, with a crammed line-up as the inevitable consequence. Therefore the programme starts at three in the afternoon and continues non-stop till midnight.
MOMI-fest beta 1.0 mainly features a wide variety of MOMI and esc.rec. related music, but also presents design, photography and the interactive nature of a weblog in the shape of exhibitions, a lecture and interactive media.
MOMI-fest beta 1.0 is a mini-festival within ‘Openingsfestival Havenkwartier Deventer’ (www.havenkwartier.org). Havenkwartier is a cluster of work spaces for artists and small creative companies in Deventer. It is meant to become a meeting place for creatives and businesses to form new networks and collaborations.
Last year MOMI was winner of a Dutch Bloggie in the category Best Music Blog. MOMI is written by a broad variety of musicians, designers, (pop)photographers, bookers, music reviewers. In general MOMI writes about obscurities, strange phenomena and excesses within the ‘music industry’ combined with an emphasis on Dutch music.
Esc.rec. is a record label and platform for new, unknown and experimental music. Besides releasing interesting music esc.rec. organizes events to stimulate collaborations between artists, labels, organizations, venues and distributors. Esc.rec. is also a participant in Het Havenkwartier.
Line-up of MOMI-fest beta 1.0: LPG (music), Bonne Aparte (music), De Bronstgieters (music), Boutros Bubba (music), Parkside (music), Zèbra (music), Thoughts Create The World (music), Cette Truc (dj), George Henze (expo), Vormversterker (expo), Martien ter Veen (expo), Niet Voor Niets (expo), Marco Raaphorst (lecture), Jan Kleefstra (poetry).
Check the latest addition to MOMI, the MOMI-fest blog (www.myownmusicindustry.nl/momifest.php) for any new info.
MOMI-fest beta 1.0
Saturday September 1, 2007
15:00 – 00:00
Havenkwartier Deventer
Mr. H. F. de Boerlaan 21151, Deventer
Tickets: free (!)
Download the MOMI-fest poster overhere.
Reviews in e/i magazine
Darren Bergstein (founder/publisher of i/e and e/i magazines):
“Launched in 2003 as a print magazine, e/i was the second magazine I published after the demise of i/e, which ran from 1990-1998. e/i was an attempt to establish on the newsstand what I hoped would be the most comprehensive, definitive, intelligently written and artfully designed magazine covering all manners of music electronic, experimental and otherwise. Our editorial mandate was to shatter genre margins while encompassing the past, the present and the future, extolling a broad swathe of artists who challenged the very notions of sound and vision.
Although shifts in the publishing paradigm resulted in e/i having to abandon the print medium in 2006 after only seven issues, we nevertheless look to bring the same breadth of enthusiastic and passionate critique to e/i’s online incarnation as we did with its former paper-based cousin.”
This is what e/i magazine had to say about esc.rec.:
“Dutch label esc.rec. if anything validates the credibility (and buttresses the DIY ideal) behind CDR labels. In and of itself, the format is no instant barometer of quality (any more than cassettes automatically were over CDs) but the startling amount of good music arising from outside the margins is finding its way into the world on the cost-effective CDR (and, at least from this writer, better that than on artless, faceless, sonically diminished MP3s). This batch of releases are all of an interesting piece—on face they seem stylistically naïve, but are in fact aurally deceptive; what appears to be de rigueur genre-wise quickly mutates into something undefinably else. The crime is that the material issued from esc.rec., like numerous outfits, begs for a larger audience and will probably fail to bag them—these four volumes are a good first move toward rectifying that situation.”
E/i magazine also published some great reviews about Gluid, My Mind Machine, The Wired One and slo-fi’s latest hits. Check them in the comments section of those releases or check them on e/i magazine’s website overhere.
Change of address!
I have moved recently. And esc.rec. moved with me. So now the new address to send stuff (like music and such) to is:
esc.rec.
Mr. H. F. de Boerlaan 109
7411 AH Deventer
Netherlands
I also have a new studio in Het Havenkwartier (I hope to finish their new website soon). It’s not an audio studio mind you, but a working space where I make my art, furniture objects and other projects. This place now also doubles as my (and thus esc.rec.’s) office. It’s a nice studio in a great building with lots of other interesting artists, designers, audio studio’s and a venue with a stage. So I will probably be organizing quite a few esc.rec. related events there. If you want to visit me in my new studio, please contact me first. The address is Mr. H. F. de Boerlaan 151 in Deventer (yes, that’s real close to my new home!).
Sold out
The limited version of Binnensuis is sold out. I hope I can present the not-so-limited version (also designed by Vormversterker) soon…
