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12K + LINE / Re: SIMON SCOTT "BELOW SEA LEVEL"

« on: June 02, 2012, 02:27:03 pm »

This release looks amazing. I'm not sure about the amount of the books.
It's the edition of 1000 (CDs), but how many books are there? The same amount?

I would really like to get the release with the book, but have to wait for some money - still I don't know if the books will still be available.

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: ETALABEL - a few news from a small label from Poland

« on: May 16, 2012, 05:41:00 pm »

Very NICE, long and deep review of Noiko "Honey" is the 20th GOOD review of this album! Thank you all reviewers!
Ambient Exotica review by Björn Werkmann :: http://www.ambientexotica.com/ambrev072_noiko_h/

Links to all 20 reviews are here :: http://www.etalabel.com/index.php/noiko-honey-reviews/

There are only 14 digipacks left...
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/honey

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: ETALABEL - a few news from a small label from Poland

« on: May 08, 2012, 03:28:36 pm »

Exactly 6 years ago, on 8 May 2006 (actually it’s my my birthday :-) ), ETALABEL published a very nice album which consists of 8 Dark Sky remixes – “Dark Sky Remix Project“. The original Dark Sky: Saturday and Dark Sky: Monday tracks come from the first Eta Carinae album. I managed to contact several artists, both from Poland and other countries, who agreed to make the remixes of the tracks. You can listen to the Dark Sky versions of Andrew Duke (Canada), Pei (Taiwan), Subatomicglue (USA) as well as some Polish artists, with the famous Human Error among others.

Dark Sky Remix Project – FREE DOWNLOAD. Please celebrate my birthday, make me a present and download the album for FREE ;-)
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/dark-sky-remix-project

Here is the original description of the album:

Eta Carinae “dark sky remix project” is the biggest project of ETALABEL.com so far. Artists from all over the world were invited to work on the remixes. It took a while, but finally many superb musicians joined the project. The starting material for the remix was a composition “dark sky: saturday, monday” from Eta Carinae’s first album. Having diverse approach to music and composition, artists created excellent, varied in style tracks. From a dark ambient track by Andrew Duke (Canada, www.cognitionaudioworks.com), trough Far East soundscapes painted by well-known artist Pei (Taiwan, www.post-concrete.com), to quiet, predictable, but how delicate ambient composition by Human Error (Poland). Interesting addition is a track by Subatomicglue (USA, www.subatomicglue.com), who works for famous Lucasarts company as FX designer, and composes music in spare time as his hobby.

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: ETALABEL - a few news from a small label from Poland

« on: April 28, 2012, 06:27:39 am »

Although I try hard to promote NOIKO "Honey" (http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/honey) some people put the album on the illegal file sharing servers. That is SO unfair for such a small label which tries to promote young and unknown artists. I feel a bit depressed that after 3 months of really hard promotion work some people did this to the label and the artists.

There are some nice albums waiting to be released (ambient / lo-fi / experimental, etc.). I really want to make the physical DigiPacks cause I believe that there are people who still love to get a nice physical album. But there won't be any release without money.

Therefore I decided to change the purchase option to "Name Your Price", starting with $0.00.
If you feel like helping a small label which goal is to help young and unknown artists, please consider buying www.ETALABEL.com releases,
or simply enter $0.00 and download the music from the label for FREE.
Remember - even $1.00 makes the difference!

http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/movement
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/rz
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/3
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/over-a-foul-line-simple-questions
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/syntestezja

And some totally FREE release:
http://etalabel.bandcamp.com/album/dark-sky-remix-project

Each supporter will get a nice discount for the next DigiPack release! (a collaboration between a Polish and Chinese artist)

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: ETALABEL - a few news from a small label from Poland

« on: April 23, 2012, 04:50:32 am »

ETALABEL will be present at SoundSpace, London
http://www.sound-space-store.co.uk/
If you could send the info to your friends, that would be an awesome help!

The whole info is here:
http://www.etalabel.com/index.php/soundspace-2012/
(Please just click the FB / Twitter / G+ button at the bottom  of the NEWS and share the info with your friends)

THANK YOU!
www.etalabel.com

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12K + LINE / Re: NEW 12K SHOP LAUNCHED TODAY + SALE

« on: April 20, 2012, 02:22:11 pm »

Everything is GREAT. Yesterday I purchased STEPHAN MATHIEU and MARCUS FISCHER.

The only think I want to complain about is that mp3s don't have the cover. So I had to upload them to the iTunes and add the cover art and than transfer to my portable player. I really like to have cover art with the mp3 files. (that's what BandCamp does automatically)

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ART / Re: the photography thread

« on: April 12, 2012, 05:45:06 am »

Poladroid is a MUST :-)

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: Grzegorz Bojanek - music / promo / updates...

« on: April 09, 2012, 06:52:42 am »

A single "Broken Heroes Never Drink Cola" from the upcoming album "Remaining Sounds".
Album to be released in April 2012 by www.dynamophone.com

http://soundcloud.com/bojanix/grzegorz-bojanek-broken-heroes
Enjoy :-)

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SELF PROMOTION / Grzegorz Bojanek - music / promo / updates...

« on: April 03, 2012, 04:23:39 am »

Hello,

before my next release I decided to provide a 55% discount for my last album called "Live in May".

But first - WHY? - What is the story behind it.
As you may noticed, I run a label www.etalabel.com but it is very, very hard to collect money for the next release.
I try to find the funds to publish the next album, which is a collaboration between an artist from Poland and China.

So now you can get my last album “Live in May” with a nice 55% discount. The release is available on BandCamp and if you want to purchase just enter the DISCOUNT PASSWORD: “livealbum” and you will get it much cheaper. This offer is valid until the next Saturday: 07.04.2012. All money goes to the above mentioned release on ETALABEL. And all people who buy “Live in May” now will also get a discount for the new ETALABEL DigiPack release!

http://bojanek.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-may

Apart from music, the download contains a nice PDF booklet with some photos from the concert and from my journey to Croatia.



You can also listen to "Live in May" on SOUNDCLOUD:
http://soundcloud.com/bojanix/sets/grzegorz-bojanek-live-in-may/

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THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS / Re: Promotional Work

« on: March 31, 2012, 10:11:56 am »

Yes, Orphax is right. Even if you have a nice release but in a quite unknown label, it is very hard to find people who might be interested in reviewing it. I was lucky with ETALABEL (www.etalabel.com) last release and got some reviews. Still, after 2 months of silence, those reviewers who initially said that they are interested wrote nothing. Nowadays I just ask them, why. Is there a point in waiting for a review, or not? Some of the reviewers answer to such e-mails, such not. I really cannot understand (I know they are busy, but who isn't nowadays), so I don't understand why they just ignore the e-mails and don't answer anything. (And I don't spam them - believe me, it's just a mail after 2 months after the positive answer). How does that work?

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12K + LINE / Re: NEW 12K TITLES AVAILABLE TODAY

« on: March 30, 2012, 11:03:25 am »

Impressive as always!

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: ETALABEL - a few news from a small label from Poland

« on: March 22, 2012, 03:24:01 pm »

Noiko available in iTunes - http://itunes.apple.com/pl/album/honey/id512368002

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: ETALABEL - a few news from a small label from Poland

« on: March 09, 2012, 05:28:26 pm »

IGLOO MAGAZINE review of NOIKO - "Honey":
[...] Opening softly,"Les Particules Élémentaire"; is cocktail jazz played for an audience of tired stevedores in a rundown taproom within staggering distance of the docks, flakes of lead-based paint peeling from the walls and falling into the combo’s instruments. In fact, everything on this album is flaking, peeling, derelict, tumbledown. Except for the music itself, which has been painstakingly pieced together over four years and recorded with warmth and clarity. [...]
The full review is here: IGLOO Mag Review by S. Fruitman

The first review in the USA!
[...] Humble is the man who allows a child to be his muse. In the case of Noiko, old neural passages are reopened; the sonic world grows as rich and untamed as an uncharted forest. Sheet music for Honey would look like a hodgepodge of cues and notes, with little apparent pattern. And yet, there is a pattern to the album, an overall tapestry of wonder. [...]
The full review is here: A Closer Listen

Another review in Cyclic Defrost (Australia)
[...] It is also an electrosacoustic album, and seeks to convey a lo-fi sensibility but it’s leanings are way too accomplished and even polished to really give justice to garage origins. It bespeaks of well honed ears of seasoned musicians with both compositional knowledge and a depth of interest in experimental music history, especially towards concrete music which I suspect when mixed with acoustic instruments begets the term electroacoustic. They even list that the mastering was performed “by Krzysztof Orluk with his analogue equipment. One of them is the prototype tube saturator constructed by Andrzej Starzyk, a Polish engineer and designer of the recording studio gear.” Such statements are indicators of the performers serious nature and geekish tendencies as well as being the qualities that find this Polish musicians album on rotation in my environ along with it’s rootless mix of sampling, jazz, minimal piano, electronic ephemera and field recordings. [...]
The full review is here: Cyclic Defrost

A nice review from VITAL WEEKLY
[...]"Thumbs Up" for Noiko [...]
The full review is here: http://www.vitalweekly.net/817.html

Noiko - "Honey" release page

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: ETALABEL - a few news from a small label from Poland

« on: February 28, 2012, 05:03:01 pm »

Noiko - "Honey" in the Stashed Goods - Fluid Radio Store

http://www.store.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/02/noiko-honey-limited-edition-cd/

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SELF PROMOTION / Re: ETALABEL - a few news from a small label from Poland

« on: February 08, 2012, 08:51:49 am »

Noiko | Rehearsals



More photos here: http://www.etalabel.com/index.php/noiko-live-rehearsals/