Came across this new net label release:
http://www.filtro.com.mx/v2/019/019.htm
Bit of the blurb there:
I don't particularly like the results, to be honest, but thought it might be of interest. In general I reckon Filtro are exceptionally good among net labels, but the aims/interests/good points of their crackling minimal tech releases and these street musics they're playing with are pretty much irreconcilable.
http://www.filtro.com.mx/v2/019/019.htm
Bit of the blurb there:
Región 4 creates a dialogue between Jamaican dancehall, reggaeton, and the sounds and tendencies of the label’s own artists, who usually group themselves in the realm of minimal dancefloor and IDM. This way, sonorities pertaining to the region 4 (which includes Australia, New Zealand, the pacific islands, central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean islands) flow through the same point to be transformed into a hybrid that not only gives enough to reflect on the technology/culture circuit, but also puts into a manifesto the influences, evolution, and the label’s renovated musical identity. It results paradoxical that arbitrarily generated regional codes created to control the access to digital content depending on the geographical zone work in an opposite fashion at a conceptual level to produce a new interpretation of the sounds of region 4.
I don't particularly like the results, to be honest, but thought it might be of interest. In general I reckon Filtro are exceptionally good among net labels, but the aims/interests/good points of their crackling minimal tech releases and these street musics they're playing with are pretty much irreconcilable.