v.a. - "[Deep] Into The Abyss"

First off, just wanted to let you all know that I'm not dead and I haven't quite fallen off of (or into) the face of the Earth yet. By now, it's obvious that Subterrestrial is on some sort of hiatus that may continue for some time, so please bear with me.

It is however time to say goodbye to a dear friend, beloved Chase Records Netlabel. Here is a message and parting gift from label head Remi.

"After 9 years of dedication to free underground electronic music, I've reached to the decision that the time has come for Chase Records Netlabel to plunge into the depths of the Internet ocean, probably forever.

Yes, dear friends and listeners, you've guessed it, this means Chase Records will stops its activities with that 60th and LAST release.

But in any mean I could stop the label without putting all my efforts in trying to offer a last groundbreaking release. So, for this last session I've contacted various artists I love, from all around the world, to ask them to create / send a track they feel to be related with the theme of the abyss. I give them a white card to submit what could be their ideal soundtrack for a diving to the darkest depths of the ocean."

I had the pleasure of having Remi ask me to contribute a Subterrestrial track to this monumental release. Included is a dark ambient drum & bass number called "Dockside Scuffle", which appeared previously on Subterrestrial's soundcloud. The track needed some mix work, so I brought the drums much more forward. If you've heard it before, please check out this new mix, along with all the other great material on this compilation. Thanks to Remi for his years of service to creative commons music!

Download FLAC and 320 from Chase Records | Visit the website

v.a. - "Gimme A Minute"

One of Sirona-Records more ambitious projects, "Gimme A Minute" features 108 artists contributing tracks from 55 to 65 seconds in length in styles varying as widely as ambient and electronica to black metal and grindcore to pop and classical. Label head Arnaud Barbe addresses the sentiment behind the compilation: "Sirona-Records is now two years old and this is an anniversary compilation. More than 220 artists have contributed to 3.5 million downloads from what is, before all else, a virtual and human adventure. I am truly proud of all that we have accomplished in two years. Looking back at the beginning, I feel that we have never been so strong and free as we are now. I've only one dream: to continue this adventure as long as I can, and I hope that you will always be with me. Merci mes amis."

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v.a. - "CC Electronic Experimental Music Compilation, November 2012"

A compilation of creative commons electronic experimental music from November 2012. Featuring lots of great music, including "Transmission 16" from Subterrestrial's recently released Transmissions from the Hollow Earth 2.

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v.a. - "Signal Void" USB version

Specially packaged USB memorystick version of the SIGNALVOID compilation ships Tuesday 14th August 2012 and is now available for pre-order for ₤8. According to the order page....

"Each package will be a large candy stripe bag containing the following:

- 1 x wooden USB memory stick, containing SIGNALVOID in both MP3 and FLAC, along with a selection of photographs taken by numerous contributors.
- 1 x standard size photograph of a random selection from the SIGNALVOID image submissions.
- 1 x SIGNALVOID sticker of five possible designs, selected from the SIGNALVOID image submissions.
- 1 x oil pastel doodle by myself, created while listening to SIGNALVOID. Each will be unique.
- Leaves and various bits from the area at which I took my own SIGNALVOID image submissions.
- 1 x SIGNALVOID flyer containing the list of contributors."

v.a. - "Signal Void"

The SIGNALVOID compilation is finally here! Over half a gigabyte of one minute experimental noise works designed to be listened to on shuffle. Line-up includes obscure artists like Subterrestrial ;) as well as the likes of Francisco Lopez and even an artist called Tony Banks and the Venemous Spiders! (Not sure if that's Tony Banks of Genesis fame.....) MP3 version and lossless versions now available for download. Specially packaged memory stick version is also available (but they're selling fast).



Download MP3 | Download FLAC | Visit SIGNALVOID

v.a. - "Suffering Is Now, Humanity Was Yesterday"

New Compilation on Deadknife Records, featuring ANTIPATHIEA, DEADSKIN, Scorpion Fequency, Subterrestrial, Somnaviolentus, elektrojudas and more....


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PLEASE NOTE: New archive.org download link

v.a. - "Lost In The Woods"

To quote directly from the release notes....

"Here we are! For its 7th anniversary and 50th release in the main catalogue, Chase Records Net Label is proud to release this gathering of 30 electronic beasts covering all the musical genres we dig and already released during the past seven years, from deepest melancholic Ambient to the sickest obsessive Noise, including Breakcore, Industrial Hardcore, IDM, Techno, Dark Ambient and so on… The tracklist selection of “Lost In The Woods” was divided into 3 virtual CDs and was built with the idea of creating the soundtrack to illustrate a walk in a dark and deep forest, starting by following this apparently unexplored path you’ve never noticed before and progressively moving forward, through the dense vegetation, surrounded by a thick fog, towards the dark and unknown heart of the woods, slowly reducing your chance to find your way back safe…"

Subterrestrial's previously unreleased dark ambient/drone track "Sinking Perception" is included in this collection. Please download the compilation and help celebrate this great net label!

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v.a. - "Mind Plug Records - The 2nd Anniversary"

Mind Plug Records celebrates it's second anniversary with this great compilation featuring exclusive tracks from my label mates and I. Here is what label head Marc Fischer has to say about it:

"Another year has passed with some great new releases. Our special 'birthday present' for you this year is an over 100 min. free dowload compilation that includes exclusive, unreleased and upcoming tracks by artists already known on Mind Plug Records, as well as some new talents."

Please check it out and help support this great label!

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v.a. - "Sounds Behind The Corner Vol. 6 ...The Ghost Town"

Italian webzine and netlabel Sounds Behind the Corner has released their sixth sampler compilation, this time featuring the track "Milky Way On End" from Subterrestrial's Event Horizon album. Check out this collection of great, free dark music and help support SBTCP!





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SIGNALVOID

The UK-based SIGNALVOID project is a noise music compilation. Participants can submit up to three noise tracks, each of exactly a minute in length, with no silence or fades at either the beginning or end of each piece. The comp will be designed to be played on shuffle. They are looking for new and original material in 16-bit WAV format. Track filenames should be formatted as follows: [artistname] - [trackname].wav.

They want photos for use on the SIGNALVOID Tumblr and potentially in the physical package. Photos should be hi-res and should reflect the theme of "noise". Subterrestrial's "Cactus Garden" digital manipulation piece was featured on this blog (see thumbnail above).

Send all tracks and photos to signal.void@hotmail.co.uk

v.a. - "Sincerity Is The Key"

No other title could be better suited to a compilation which celebrates a netlabel who has done so much for underground music and creative commons media in such a short period of time. In the words of our esteemed label owner:

"This compilation is an anniversary release to celebrate the one millionth download on Sirona-Records!
The only words I can say are: Thank you for everything! When I started Sirona, I never expected so much love
and dedication from all the people who contributed to it. We have already made something of which we can be proud, but,
please remember: The adventure continues..." -Arnaud Barbe

Tipping the scales at nine hours and 118 artists, this is indeed a celebration. Spanning seven virtual discs, "Sincerity Is The Key" tips the scales at just under 1GB of music, covering everything from dance and electronica to punk and metal to ambient and noise. It's unlikely that you'll run out of things to listen to with this great, free collection on your hard drive or portable listening device. Did I also mention that this compilation features an exclusive track by Subterrestrial called "Ocean Beach?"

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v.a. - "Noise Christmas"

A compilation of creative commons electronic experimental music from December 2011. Featuring lots of great music, including "Salt, Sulphur & Mercury" from Subterrestrial's Immutable Law.






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v.a.- "Electronic Experimental March"

A compilation of creative commons electronic experimental music from March 2011. Featuring lots of great music, including "Transmission 07" from Subterrestrial's Transmissions from the Hollow Earth.

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v.a. - "Acid Police Eternal Volume 2"

"Acid Police Eternal Volume 2 is now ready for downloading brought to you by: Rainbow Bridge Recordings (rb-107) and Egyptian Tea Records ---download here---(229.58 mb)---"

• 1. Bah, Tsar Jenny Troth - Dakposkala Actuary (7:29)
• 2. Cheapmachines - Fluke (5:05)
• 3. Dull - Sounds From Pluto (3:27)
• 4. Moscow Wires - We've Given Up On Space (5:55)
• 5. Endometrium Cuntplow - A Pain Never Understood [Reverse_Mix] (5:37)
• 6. False Flag - So Who Can The People Turn To For Solutions? (2:09)
• 7. Subterrestrial - Universal Mind (7:00)
• 8. Fimmtiu Og Einn - Wisdom Tooth Cock Ring (2:03)
• 9. Vagina* - U.F.O. (4:02)
• 10. Inappropriate King Live - Skeleton Babies (5:34)
• 11. The Uh... - The Cinder Lady (3:39)
• 12. Buildings And Mountains - Underwater (10:09)
• 13. Dementia And Hope Trails - Scorched Winter (2:40)
• 14. Pregnant Spore - Movies Like Memories Like Tsunamis (Live @ Candle Haus/Rainbow Bridge Fest II)
• 15. Panther Modern - The Prophecies Of The Shadow (10:03)
• 16. ~MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING~ (0:00)
• 17. Widow's Bath - Weakling (23:22)
• 18. Youthful Masturbation Techniques - F The Jamspace (0:49)

v.a. - "Sounds Behind the Corner Vol. 2"

Sounds Behind the Corner is a prolific Italian-language webzine which covers a broad spectrum of dark underground music and Subterrestrial was very proud to be asked to contribute an exclusive track to their second free sampler. Please give this sampler a listen and help support the artists and Sounds Behind the Corner! Below are the release notes for this collection:


"Valerio Orlandini (here as Symbiosis) was several times in our writings, with his ascetic, dilated and rarefied sound: we present him here with a typical passage, he's an artist we want, also in the future, as a witness of a no-space, no-body sound.
http://www.symbiosis.tk/

Ira K-Organisation has the task of defending harsh industrial, he completes this mission with an obscure sense of pathological sound, phobic but dancey.
http://www.myspace.com/irakorg

Adam Castillo lives in French Polynesia, one more reason why we have elected him as an appendix of our dreams! He's a great composer, that blends, as in an elegant long-drink, local ethnic flavors with world trance.
http://www.adam-castillo.com/

Meeting Art Of Empathy means to be captured by dark-folk, born between chanson-noir and languid melancholy: Rome or Death In June of “Accidental Protegé” live today in him, with the great cinematic meaning of his sound.
http://www.artofempathy.be/

Emelyan XIII; It was immediate love for the romanticism of this Eastern boy: romantic is his land, full of literary links took by improbable or impossible love, and ideological death. His full-length conquers us between a smile and a tear, a drop of red blood in b/w background.
http://www.myspace.com/emelyanxiii

Gary lives in the Bay, and there's only one bay in the world, all the other ones are derived: it's California Bay, where dreams of freedom was born in S. Francisco, then there are the Concorde with which you can fly to slavery or liberty, Berkeley and ancients forests. Contradictions of a Nation, that Subterrestrial translates in music with phobic or ethereal, glacial or introspective albums: here it's a perfect and algid interlude, aesthetic without reverberations, linear as lot of his music.
http://subterrestrial.blogspot.com/

Russia again: a land rich in underrated talents, because of the limited opportunities. We're not the mainstream, who seeks for profits in return, although we're asking for approvation, and Veell deserves to be hold in due consideration: his kind of IDM is linear, composed of regular geometries, sometimes cosmic sometimes watery. Listen to him and allow a chance to a great talent.
http://www.veell.net/

White Label Music gives us this track of the new English talented duo we loved immediately, maybe we're the first in Italy who have had the honour to talk about The Horn The Hunt. Music and theater, pop and wave, ethereal and fine brit rock are also in the track donated by the label.
http://thehornthehunt.com/

French, and as in most of french combos there are a beautiful girl and a good musician; we hope that this rule remains, over time, and that it goes on to donate us an high-level eletroclash, like Shygirl's music.
http://www.myspace.com/shygirlmusique


Sagnik And Krishnaroop lead us in India, with their world-trance, which sinks the keyboards in the tradition and the tablas in the future, reversing any order, creating the new course of a nation that looks at the future, strong for cultural and mystical power of thousands of years.
http://www.facebook.com/sagnik24


Namastè to all of you who have listened to Behind The Corner Sounds Vol.2.
As with Vol 1, thanks to Jamendo, always a source of scouting, the opportunity to get in rope and watch the ocean of sound art, capturing the nuances, the small ripples, and proposing the best.
We thank all the labels that help us to grow, the artists who rely on us with confidence even in their first page, to which we respond with love for the music of a small site, but big in intent.
The editors (Nicola, Phaeton, Valentina), thanks all those who in the future will want to subscribe to our newsletter to stay informed:
http://www.soundsbehindthecorner.org/newsletter.asp
We are committed as ever to introduce the big names of the dark world, and the small certainties that come every week."

Download the sampler | Visit Sounds Behind the Corner

v.a. - "10b1t"

Sirona-Records celebrates their 101st release with a massive lobit compilation covering nearly the entire spectrum of underground electronic music, from IDM and electronica to dark ambient and noise. Tracks range from 8 to 32kbps, for all of your mega-aliased audio needs.

Tracklist:

CD1:

01 - Syndrom - Fleeting Movements (0:50)
02 - Pollux - 02.20 (2:48)
03 - The Captain Kirk On LSD Experience - Overrated (LowBitEdition) (2:24)
04 - Ambiant Konnekt - Citrus (32kbps Edit) (3:48)
05 - Euan Cai Atkinson - My Music Coursework (Low Bitrate Version) (2:44)
06 - Graffiti Mechanism - Weak (1:37)
07 - Toxic Chicken - Beautiful Girl (2:53)
08 - Nuno Maltez - 32kbps Guitar For Sirona (2:34)
09 - Genetic Trance - Cassette Home (5:05)
10 - RO-or - GUITARRRing 32kbps (1:55)
11 - d0x10 - yxTqXot (3:14)
12 - Fabiorosho - ZRZ (3:14)
13 - Hlo - Anal Tapeworm Rave (Mash-up Of Tooth_Eye (Tooth_Eye Lobit Mix) (2:24)
14 - The Ambience Project - TAP Contre La Machine A Wub (3:30)
15 - Psycho Mum - I Hate Kids (2:43)
16 - Gert 2012 - Bye Bye $ (Bitcoin Flash Crash Mix) (2:52)
17 - Sven Meyer - A Game Boy In Africa (3:20)
18 - Koobaatoo Asparagus - Gas Went Up Agian Gosh Pitch in a Dolla (6:00)
19 - Lee Rosevere - City In The Cloud (5:54)
20 - Creix - Fogs Of Time (11:13)

CD2:

01 - Panterhead - Backwards Uretro (3:17)
02 - Agent Switters - Hikikomori 32 kbit (0:49)
03 - Ghoul Skool - Untag Me On Facebook (2:19)
04 - The Pink Blob - Sexy Cat (2:17)
05 - Covolux - Till Death Do Us Part (6:10)
06 - Moonsugar - Suicide (4:44)
07 - Flashroyal & Vziel - Collabse)) (5:14)
08 - Packert Hell - We Fist Your Ears With Lobit Till It Hurts (PoptartMix) (3:33)
09 - Microbit Project - Sir Da Da (4:03)
10 - Hectic Head - Why You... (Hey Fuck) (lobit edit) (3:40)
11 - Subterrestrial - Incomprehensible Air (7:00)
12 - TTTRRRAAASSSHHH - Round One Scared Of Spiders Mix Mess Up (1:35)
13 - Iamdeadsmiles58 - Numb (Low Bitrate Version) (3:58)
14 - Lofist - Everyone Is Illigal (feat. Kai Nobuko) (2:48)
15 - Frikan Rhym - Duck Quack (1:41)
16 - Trans Atlantic Rage & Balogh - Red Bull And Speed (1:23)
17 - jjoth - NVDE (4:40)
18 - Khepera - 3 Over The 5 Carry The 1 (0:29)
19 - Sonore Fiction - Musrhum Party (2:02)
20 - Ploof - Lob1tribe (11:00)

CD3:

01 - Cryovolcano - 138 (2:00)
02 - Elechronica - Telemetric Sky (3:27)
03 - Kai Nobuko - Lazy Times (2:36)
04 - Las Tocayas Tomateras - Me He Enamorado De Mi Tele (Natsunogogo Remix) (2:21)
05 - neuroSampler - Moon Scan 32kbps (3:25)
06 - Diamond Sea - Weeping Egos (3:37)
07 - arxo - Battery Free (3:45)
08 - Postmeshische - Glossy trousers out (1:50)
09 - Zoo Blot - Just Because You Are Blind (6:54)
10 - Gameboydork - Power Pill Dance (3:06)
11 - Lo Fi Rave Busters - 1997 (3:05)
12 - Sascha Muller - Mixomat (6:26)
13 - Arrhythmic Buddha - Azyl (2:41)
14 - Golgotha Communications Ltd. - Pink Point (1:59)
15 - Hlo - Clock Cant Set Who Fucked It Up (1:30)
16 - Master Toad - Tormentor of Time and Space (3:03)
17 - Zreen Toyz - Lost In Sewers (7:17)
18 - Ethnomite Pux - Track28 (1:02)
19 - Bedawang - Pepperhead (8kbps edit) (3:33)
20 - TO· GO· RO· NO· MI· KO - 2011/6/21 performance in Kouenji, Japan (10:54)


Total length: 03:39:42
Encoded at: 8-32kbps MP3, OGG

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v.a. - "Now That's What I Call Retro-Futurism Vol. 2" 2 x Floppy Disk

The second in Diskette Etikette Rekords' series of retro-futurist compilations is out now! 14 tracks across 2 floppies, in plastic cases and limited to 35 copies.


Diskette A

1. Heirdrain - ...Be Scared
2. Consistency Nature - Omnipotent Bedlam at Bombay
3. Ugly Rumors - Eat Hamburger and Die
4. Zebra Mu - Mess
5. D//Cereghini - 121 Songs
6. Graffiti Mechanism - Ghetto Blaster

Diskette B

1. Subterrestrial - Amphibient
2. Rectal Twat - I Never Knew the Meaning of Disgust Until You Opened Your Legs
3. Paregorik - bn10
4. Meatpacker - Cages
5. Bjerga/Iversen - Chicken Run
6. Back to the Fucking Future - SD1
7. 1 + 1 = A Window - Wallpaper
8. Sascha Müller - Safety Through Seatbelts


Email neil.jennings84@googlemail.com to order a copy (£3.50 UK/£4.00 everywhere else), or visit the shop.

Also Subterrestrial's "Map of the Interior World" floppy disk ep which DER released last summer is down to it's last few copies. Order a copy from DER while it's still available!

v.a. - "BeSt of 10-11"

"BeSt of 10-11" - collection of the best tracks released by Black Square netlabel in the first year of its existence. 28 crucial tracks, including Subterrestrial's "Ezhdehā " from the album Esoteric Zoo released by Black Square back in October 2010. Tracklist includes:

01 Black Mouse - Soon I Will Be...
02 Gabran - Risotto & Mushrooms with Friends
03 Cagey House - Champion Major Monk
04 Cezary Gapik [aka CEZAR] - #0441
05 Bose Ensemble - UHT milk trauma
06 Melophobia - 02
07 Subterrestrial - Ezhdehā
08 Christophe Meulien - I can`t open the door
09 Thus The Tinsilemen - Fortune Teller
10 Yajna Vedana - Atma Shatakam
11 In_Cognitus - solv
12 Carlos Lemosh - Metal Meal Menu (不论什么)
13 Cameron Steele - Circa Circus
14 Syrtis Major - Death In Springtime
15 Paul Bailey - Music for Controllers VI
16 Radio For The Daydreamers - Leavin On A Sunday
17 Sanmi - I wish I could play Jazz
18 Geronimodeleon - A Cycle of Goodness
19 Fescal - Scampi with Marmite
20 John Storm - Lisa Carol Freemont
21 A Screaming Comes Across the Sky - I Love 1970s Experimental German Music
22 KraftiM - Jonoo
23 ZMG - p5
24 Skerror - Arboretum Interrogatum
25 Psychaotic - Monologue of Silence
26 Speculativism - I'm Not a Mouse
27 Hyaena Fierling Reich - rosa de lobo
28 Alexei Biryukoff - back home

Black Square netlabel is about synthesis between image and a sound, music and a photo.

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v.a. - "Chain Reaction"

Another new, epic compilation. Kopp Netlabel presents an ambient journey of vibrant soundscapes that tear the very fabric of time & space, taking your ears to places you never thought existed. Featuring excellent contributions from The Hare And The Moon, Bpolar, Dolorism, Lunatic Moe, Loki fun Lilith + Halgrath, D_e, Herr Schmitd hat Krach, Nosens, Intergalactic Wizard, Cousin Silas, Subterrestrial, Cezary Gapik, DEDALE(S), Wulgata, Petstov, No Way Out, Black Era, Mentalny Kolaps, d-brane, This Playground Earth, Hazelpark, Heirdrain, Covered Faces, Ablaze Eternal, Sanderson Dear, Mark Bradley, God Pussy and Tarmacians.

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v.a. - "Owl Eater Hex"

The sixth and final volume of the Owl Eater project is now online.
A monster compilation covering the spectrum of underground experimental music, from noise to free jazz, to avant garde experimentation. 29 tracks by 29 artists, almost three hours of music. Featuring Metal Mother, Eraritjaritjaka, Jamison Williams, Subterrestrial, Abusive Consumer, Welby, Creep City, Churner, Loopool, Richard Kamerman, Second Thought, Cannibalistic Humanoid, Tree, Inappropriate King Live, Sick To The Back Teeth, Tracy Widdess, PBK, Atomic Populist Melt Machine, VWLS, absence.insolution, Sleep of Ages, Rain Symbols, A.R.GH, Arvo Zylo, Travis Johnson, Uncle Dave Lewis, Monuments Are No Good To The Dead, Screwtape and GET HARD.

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