laridae - releases

laridae072 - schaua: Get Happy

Fri, 29 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Attention - unstoppable happiness ahead! Resistance is futile, you can�t escape this one. Schaua got happy and is about to make YOU happy, too. This barefaced hybrid of disco, house and Schaua�s unmistakable take on bedroom electronica will suck all dumpishness out of your head. DANCE !!!
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laridae071 - Konsumprodukt: Pura Sandunga

Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0200

Alejandro Remeseiro aka �Konsumprodukt� has been haunting the internet for quite some time now. And over all these years he has achieved something very rare in this wannabe soundalike world of home music production: he has developed an unmistakable sound of his own � a wild and disturbingly happy hybrid of Bossanova, Disco, Latin and Acid Jazz, spiced up with tons of voice samples.

Guaranteed to bring some sunshine into gray autumn days.
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laridae068 - firnwald: The Ultrarchitec

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0100

If a tree's reflection falls through the surface of a weightless mirror cube and only you are around to notice - does it make a sound?
Yes it does. And it sounds massive.
It sounds like complex broken beats, lush baselines, trip hop vocals and snippets of carefully crafted melodies. It sounds like the double distilled essence of Firnwald's music, brought to the next level. And who would have guessed - there it started a love affair with pop.
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laridae070 - gameboymusicclub: Das Tor Geht Nicht Zu Weil Der Wind So Weht (10 Years Compilation)

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Are 10 years of making music enough to be called a legend?
We guess so, and we congratulate the 8bit collective of Gameboymusicclub for their anniversary!
Founded in 2002, GBMC have all rights to call themselves "the largest and sexiest gameboymusic collective in the world".
Their fascination of an inexpensive electronic toy used as an instrument is contagious.
Laridae is very happy to present you this very special album.
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laridae069 - Das Gritli Moser: MutterGottesBrand

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0200

No rest for the wicked. Four years of silence from Das Gritli Moser meant no rest either. She has been busy. Working on evil stuff, you know.
More than 4 years have passed since Das Gritli Moser has had her first dancing lesson with the devil. And now, after years of training to perfect her diabolic step sequences of death and gore, the beastly breakcore brat is back to deliver just another 66 minutes and 6 seconds of the blackest Satanic Noisecore between this world and the deepest pits of hell.
So, make sure your heathen altars are faithfully dedusted and the sacrificial goat is in the right mood to get slaughtered - this one is going to get ugly.
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laridae067 - Photophob: Wasteland Vibes

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Listen to the wind, mindlessly playing with the sand beneath your feet.
Look at the sky, as it's pressing down on you, heavy and thick.
You feel that something is about to happen.
Watch it come down!
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laridae066 - Harry Jen: [laridae066] - Random Beats

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Harry Jen, that means experimental music that doesn�t let it show, the experimental.

Grown from the hot spot between pop and serious music, between acoustic and electronic, between natural and synthetic, and not least between concrete and improvised an unequalled sound emerges. Imagine paintings for the headphones.
Organic, thought-out, uncompromising, sound affine. The tricks of sound wizard Harry Jen set standards.
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laridae065 - Tomoroh Hidari: The Black Star Variations

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

In 2012, Tomoroh Hidari will release his light absorbing ambient monster "Some Stars Not Yet Black Holes" as double 12" on Record Label Records.
Due to the extreme mass of this project, laridae was able to utilize the caused divergency in space-time, to release the spin-off album "The Black Star Variations" even BEFORE its own source release.
So, we invite you to swap the Star of Betlehem with Hidari's Black Stars of dark ambient and wish you all a merry saturnalia!
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laridae064 - Rooftop Access: We Are Never Too Close To Ghosts

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

If you listen closely, you can hear the whispering of the ghosts. They tell stories of the past, of long forgotten memories, of love and loss. Rob Curulli seems to have listened quite a lot to what they have to say. And with his post rock project "Rooftop Access" he has now put these paranormal visions into a full length album, a floating, transcendental collection of guitar improvisations, with cautious but artful production. If you listen closely, you can hear the whispering of the ghosts.
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laridae050 - va: The Seand

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Yes, things run in a different way here at laridae!
It took us until laridae063 to finally get laridae050 done, so we celebrate backwards with you, our dear listeners.

The Seand [laridae050] by laridae_netlabel The Seand is a very special album, in many ways. First, it's the fiftieth, second it's probably the best ever laridae release.

Very special artists, important artists to the label, very special tracks, compiled with love and devotion.

Enjoy, and hey - let us know what you think about it!
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laridae063 - schaua: remove protective film

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 +0200

Is there a sense of satisfaction in the sound wavering air, or is Schaua playing some sort of game with us again?
We nearly got used to his accusingly rough rock'n roll attitude on the last releases, and now � he got thoughtful all of a sudden. Sitting in his hotel room, wandering over the street lighted sidewalks of his old home town.
Time and people passing by. Music is playing. Everything is perfect, everything is in his place.
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laridae061 - Quorpex: Into Scintillating Core

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Into Scintillating Core is the first of our Quorpex double release, a fierce journey from dark ambient and crispy glitches to sharp, powerful beats, surrounded by broad soundscapes.
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laridae062 - Quorpex: Noahlized

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Noahlized is the second part of our Quorpex double release, and again Quorpex makes it a listening experience, with complex sound buildings, dark ambience, dynamic drum structures and a variety of spreaded effects moving through the head in stereo. It seems that Quorpex provides every composition with its own character, to achieve an exceptional mixture of different electro or acoustic styles. Includes one remix of WHILE (Chocolate Industries / Musik Aus Strom)
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laridae060 - Photophob: Sounds Of Concrete - Photophob Remixed

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100

OK - this is gonna be MASSIVE. Photophob's 'Urban Dialectics' gets torn apart by�.
Hecq (Hymen Records), Simon/off (Immerse Records), Beitegeuze (laridae.at), Tomoroh Hidari (Isolate / Record Label Records), Dr. Nachtstrom (Mego), Coppice Halifax (Milieu Music / EED) and Firnwald (laridae.at / Miga / tonAtom / Hippocamp �).
You want this.
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laridae059 - firnwald: Cinder

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100

When old wooden doors in rainy Wales sway in the wind, Firnwald finds the right atmosphere for his songs.
The three-part album Cinder mixes universally danceable with uniquely dissonant pieces. The centerpiece is Dance, on which the symbiosis of nature and technology is expressed in fast electronic songs with elaborate beats and in thoughtful, aerial guitar songs. Wood offers smart drum �n bass combined with primal, violent tracks. Fused contains remixes of the songs on Wood and Dance contributed by numerous sound artists (photophob, valesta, schaua, any maniac, mystified, adamned age, quorpex, tomoroh hidari, aairial).
Cinder makes good on its promise: a virtuoso blend of force and relaxation, aggression and peace.
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laridae058 - Photophob: Urban Dialectics

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0200

One night in your city of choice - floating through the sounds of urban living.
Cultures clash and fuse like beats and bass. You're invited to participate!
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laridae057 - kARHu: Sinfonia For The Blunt Sword

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Originally planned as alternative soundtrack to Fritz Lang's cult movie "Metropolis", kARHu's "Sinfonia For The Blunt Sword" has turned into something much bigger during its 4 years of production: a 76-minute masterpiece of contemporary electronic music, full of dark atmospheres, insane beat programming and merciless sampling.

We are very proud at laridae to share this very inspiring work of brutal beauty with you.
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laridae056 - schaua: The Great Sadness Gong

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Here he comes again: Schaua - laridae dinosaur of the first hour and our weapon of choice when it comes down to tough-minded songwriting directly into your face. With his "Great Sadness Gong" he delivers his 6th (!) album on laridae and has again gone a step further towards his very own vision music - straight, unapologetic songs full of sadness, laughter, harmony and noise.
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laridae055 - Tom Pi: Space Oddities

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Space Oddities is the sonic incarnation of a long fostered musical vision by Tom Pi. The plot of this concept album is situated in a time-bubble that represents both past and future. It is a science fiction story that could only have been developed a few centuries ago when the outer space was still a much larger mystery than it is today. Astronauts were not scientists but superheroes walking around planets without breathing apparatus to free the original inhabitants from alien oppressors. And all they did was playing some tricks, shoot their laser gun and - if needed � get involved in an honest fistfight. This is the world Space Oddities tells about and it sounds just as retro-futuristic as that. Analogue Synthesizers are wobbling along, psychedelic Guitar sounds are floating around and the voices sound foreign and somewhat mechanic. Bass and drums are unerringly paving their way through this sound universe. When the music winds down a little, that�s when walls of synthesizers and choir sounds take over to give you the Goosebumps. Tom Pi�s Version of Steve Harley�s �Sebastian� is of that kind, and it fits perfectly into the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) by the name of Space Oddities.
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laridae054 - 1/16: Pornstar

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 +0200

We don`t know much about 1/16, besides that they come from the Ukraine and make damn good music.

The result is a mixture of Trip Hop, Downtempo and Art Rock, abstract modern rhythmic poetry filled with strange and sometimes shocking images.
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laridae053 - Winterphonic: Spirals

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0200

The music of winterphonic reflets a transformative process of decomposition and rearrangement. The diversity of fragile sounds and voice melt to a metamorph soundscape.
Winterphonic was founded as a trio in 2004, a first EP was released at the viennese label cracked an egg records. With a new musical formation (Emanuel Jauk, Adina Camhy) new influences came together. After some time of working, some releases on different compilations and many concerts played, the new album spirals emerged.
The album spirals, in its high grade of heterogeneity, reflects the way winterphonic are working. The intention was to make this process transparent to the listeners on the one hand- on the other, the ten tracks still give the impression of a coherent musical experience.

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laridae052 - aAirial: Le Fil Du Temps

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

"Le Fil Du Temps" is the third album by French one-man project aAirial.
Another very personal album, ambient/idm, in a minimalist style.
aAirial is a quiet young man from Nancy, France - and his sounds are as discreet as he presents himself to us.
Enjoy this personal journey!

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laridae051 - va: Licht In Leeren H�usern

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Two women, a forest and mysterious screams. These are the basic ingredients for Martin Kroissenbrunner's Independent Thriller "Licht in leeren H�usern" (Lights in empty houses).
And what kind of music do you want for 90 minutes of no-budget suspense mixed with a love story? Of course free downloadable indietronica from your favorite netlabel!
laridae.at is proud to present the official motion picture soundtrack for Austria's newest movie hopeful, featuring exclusive tracks by Herwig Holzmann, as well as material by Iambic2, Hussalonia and Photophob - coming to cinemas in February 2010, freely downloadable now.
Find out more at lilh.at

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laridae046 - red.chamber: Invasion (Paranoid Mix)

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

This is the second official release by red.chamber, the project of Laridae third Bernhard Hansbauer. Invasion is a 45-minute piece of dark ambient drone sounds... not the easiest Laridae album so far, that's for sure! Imagine earth being invaded by not so friendly, discarnate entities, that's what Invasion is all about. Listen in solitude, in a darkened room... loud and open minded.
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laridae049 - Angela Aux: Common Space Incidents

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

�Common Space Incidents� is the official debut-album of singer and instrumentalist Angela Aux.

Songtitles and lyrics are based on several interesting things all around space and time, men and machines and the question, whether angst of error is error itself.

�Common Space Incidents� ranges from 60ies folk to neopsych soundcollages but features experimental hiphop and electronic as well. Some loop ways end up somewhere among trash pop, spoken word and blippop - as space is the place for every kind of things.

Enjoy!
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laridae048 - Konsumprodukt: Rumbero elegante

Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Laridae takes you out dancing!

Konsumprodukt, a project of Spanish based Alejandro Remeseiro, brings you a wild mixture of Spanish electronic extravaganza.

"Rumbero elegante" is obviously influenced by the styles and rhythms of Alejandros home country in the first place, but he adds some wicked twists and turns that clearly show his special view on music.

Voice and noise samples, field recordings and various flavours of bleeps and beats make "Rumbero elegante" a Mediterranean treasure box.

�que aproveche!
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laridae047 - Dril: Ctor

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

After his debut "Run Stop EP", released on hippocamp in 2008, DRIL aka Tony Williams returns with an eight track mini album on laridae.at

Ctor or constructor denotes an adjustment from the previous form. Composed over a three week period in winter 2008, the album features analog melodies over broken electro beats, flavoured with elements of idm and early industrial. A sort of dark, omnipresent 80s flair grounds these 8 cold and abstract pieces of oldschool music.
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laridae045 - Photophob: Memplex

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Laridae.at starts into 2009 with Memplex, the new release by label co-founder Photophob. Leaving behind his Drill'n Bass escalations of recent productions, Photophob surprises with a calmed down mixture of Ambient, Oldschool Electronica and Field recordings - your sonic guideline for discovering the well hidden resorts of beauty in this world of overwhelming complexity.
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laridae044 - firnwald: The King of Wordless Tales

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Laridae.at invites you to a trip through dark old forests, over misty fields, to mighty mountains and other mystical places. On "The King of Wordless Tales" Firnwald furthered the IDM'ish neo-folk theme of its predecessor "The Secrets of Bardic Trickery" and presents an atmospheric sound collage, combining track and sound structures on the very edge of IDM, Ambient, Death Metal and Folklore.
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laridae043 - beitegeuze: Concorde

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Haste makes waste. Beitegeuze definitely doesn't. Again Tyrolian sound enthusiast Thomas Berberich aka Beitegeuze has kept his fanbase waiting for several years before delivering a new album. And again it has been more than worth waiting for. On 7 tracks, Concorde celebrates the beauty of Retro Electronica, exuding the nostalgic flair of 70ies glamour while pleasing your ears with its flawless production - there are absolutely no excuses for not loving this superb amalgamation of form and content!
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laridae042 - Rooftop Access: Microleaps

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0200

A Microleap for Rooftop Access - and a giant one for your listening experience! laridae.at proudly presents the new full length release by Rooftop Access (Sam Hurst, Daniel di Rado, Luke Nathaniel Slater, Ash Wheeler and Rob Curulli, also known for his critically acclaimed IDM project Modex). Microleaps provides a surprisingly good humoured mixture of Post Rock, Instrumental Ambient, Electronica and Indietronics - the perfect sound to reminisce about last summer. (Flower artwork by Egle Naujokaityte. Microleapt is dedicated to Trayce.)
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laridae041 - schaua: No.17

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0200

What can you do when you suddenly get overwhelmed by the need for sex, drugs & rock'n roll? When you wake up one day and feel the need to cry out all your angry thoughts, preferably in front of a sweaty cheering croud of long haired teenagers? When smashing a hotel room's furniture seems to be the only reasonable thing left to do? The answer is simple - you press "REC" on your cassette recorder of choice and record your own rock album!
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laridae040 - va: Hills'n Threes

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0200

As you may have noticed, it has become a tradition for laridae to celebrate every tenth release with a very special compilation. This time, dear friends, it�s our 40th album, and we take you to the mountains. tie your shoes, check your rucksack, this is a hillwalk you will remember for quite a while. But beware - always mind your step! so look around every three minutes ... and see how your perception can change. Here�s to the fearless wanderers!
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laridae039 - Photophob: Skaphander Skanks

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0200

After concentrating on different side projects, laridae co-founder Herwig Holzmann is back with a brandnew album under his main moniker "Photophob". On "Skaphander Skanks" he again devotes himself to what he just seems to love most: Retro Science-Fiction influenced fast-forward Drill'n bass absurdities, full of cheesy overdone pathos and hyperactive breakbeats, puckishly scattered to the four cosmic winds. If you liked Photophob's "Music for Spaceports" releases, this is for you!

So, turn on your autopilot, release the safety of your Hyades Laser Blaster and get ready for take-off! There are galaxies waiting to be discovered, spaceports to be descended on and exotic alien beauties to be worshipped...
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laridae038 - Der Reisende: Die Blendenden Lichter dieser Stadt

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Pop on laridae? Yes - Pop on laridae! Why? Because we're not afraid of it. Not afraid to lull our listeners (you!) into a steady state of romantic melancholy. And how will we do this? By means of guitar based indietronic-pop with german lyrics by "Der Reisende" (The Traveler). Tickets for this trip on our philosophical love boat are available as usual here on laridae.at

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laridae037 - iambic2: As The Snow Fell

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

One year after his very well acclaimed debut "Under These Stars, We'll Sleep Again" [laridae031] Guy Andrews aka "iambic�" is back with his new full length release "As The Snow Fell" - a calmed down collage of rather cold ambient pieces on the one hand and warm songwriter refinement on the other. If Conor Oberst and M�m made an illegitimate son while listening to Aphex Twin's SAW2 - they'd have to call it "iambic�". Enjoy!
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laridae036 - Das Gritli Moser: Cha-Cha-Cha With The Devil

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100

With his side project "Das Gritli Moser" laridae co-founder Herwig Holzmann (aka Photophob) goes horror. On 9 tracks you'll get a fierce pandemonium of breakcore, noise and dirty samples - and a big stinky load of black humor. "Cha-Cha-Cha With The Devil" is the kind of music Beelzebub tries to dance to. You can try too - it can't make things much worse.
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laridae034 - Rooftop Access: Easy Glistening

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0200

As "Modex", Rob Curulli produced some very well acclaimed IDM/Ambient releases for netlabels like Binkcrsh, Retropublik and well yeah, laridae. Now he is part of the Post Rock formation ROOFTOP ACCESS, along with Daniel di Rado, Ash Wheeler, Sam Hurst and Luke Slater. Together they now present you their very first EP "Easy Glistening", an astonishing piece of music, combining Labradford-like guitar work with electronic beats, sad pianos, epic soundwalls and last but not least: decent songwriting.

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laridae033 - schaua: the crooner

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0200

another mini-album by one of our most diligent artists on laridae: schaua aka stefan schauer. apparently unaffected by all popular trends, schaua has been developing his very own, trashy version of bedroom-electronica for the last few years. on "the crooner", he has added another strange instrument to his collection of weird and somehow disturbing lo-fi-devices: his voice.
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laridaeCD01 - Photophob: CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS

Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 +0200

laridae goes physical ! in cooperation with the american label "Expanding Electronic Diversity" (EED), laridae presents its first CDr-release - a new full length album by photophob !

with a playful mixture of hyperactive breakbeats, melancholy melodies and oldschool synth lines, photophob invites you to another trip in mind - this time not into space, but to the far away regions of childhood fantasies... where dragons and daemons lurk at every corner and daydreams are as real as the plastic fingers of your favourite action-figure.

"circadian rhythms" is limited to 2 x 100 copies. the european version (laridaeCD01 / jewel case) can directly be ordered via email to mail at photophob dot net, or via the paypal button below.

price: 10 euros, worldwide shipping included
payment: letter with well hidden cash, bank transfer, paypal

for the american edition (eedCD05 / plastic case), please visit EED.
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laridae032 - firnwald: the secrets of bardic trickery

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Name: Firnwald
Class: Bard
Skills: Beat Trickery, Conjur Soundscapes, Guitar, Noises, Clicks&Bleeps

With his musical prowess, the bard has the ability to attack with razorsharp beats and to conjur a protection-soundscape at the same time. His talent for exotic weapons (guitar) gives him a bonus of 3 points for the IDM-skill. A distinct sense of humor, combined with the preference for abstract noises makes the bard the ultimate choice for those who prefer a playful character, focusing more on charisma and intelligence, than on pure strength and danceability.

[This release has been optimized for iTunes, means that you'll find a nice little picture for every track there. Also we've switched to VBR at last, bye bye 192 kbps...].
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laridae031 - iambic2: under these stars, we�ll sleep again

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0100

after giving you a glimpse of the cold and abstract side of laridae with "wencoded", we now start into 2007 with a full-length-album by our newest artist iambic2, probably the warmest and most beautiful release on laridae so far. somewhere between sigur ros, mum, julian fane, milieu and SAW2, iambic2 produces and sings his songs of love and longing. on "Under These Stars, We'll Sleep Again", his debut, he presents you 13 songs, 13 beautiful pieces of emotional indietronica.
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laridae030 - va: wencoded

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0100

laridae proudly presents its 30th-release-compilation "wencoded", an abstract, glitchy and quite difficult pile of cooperations, remixes and solo tracks from our artists all over this planet. you'll find several reciprocally altered and destroyed de-mixes, a remix by red.chamber, based on the digital glitch of a corruptly encoded track by photophob, as well as "normal" remixes, that just don't sound like the original track at all. if you like the sound of digital noise, you'll love it. if you prefer accessible headnodding electronica, you probably won't. winter is going to get even a bit colder with wencoded.
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laridae029 - 2sleepy: fragments of sleep

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0200

laridae proudly continues its exploration into the very depths of eastern europe's underground music scene. our newest act, "2sleepy", is an astonishing project from kyiv, ukraine. astonishing because they're not on a bigger label with their mind-blowing mixture of electronica, industrial and, well yeah, pop. on "fragments of sleep", depression meets nostalgia meets sleeplessness meets melancholy. an acoustic longing for beauty in this world full of dirt. appropriate method of application: listen while sleeplessness, laying down on a horizontal surface.
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laridae028 - Photophob: about the living things

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0200

the wonder of life. the coincidence of being. photophob celebrates the origins of organic life by dedicating eight tracks to eight different microorganisms, floating lazily through the waters of a primeval ocean or crawling nosily around the crusty surface of the earth's first landmasses. eight tracks, neglecting nearly every form of freaky beat programming or spacy sound effects, making them more digestible than most of photophob's breakbeat oriented works. "about the living things" is calmed down, oldschool flavoured electronica, simple and atmospheric, another photophobian soundtrack for an inexistent movie.
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laridae027 - schaua: the lifeline exercise

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0200

laridae presents the third release by schaua, our unmistakable duke of lo-fi-charm. "the lifeline exercise" is a collection of lovingly crafted audio-trash, heart warming in its imperfection and cunning in its translucent musical prowess. the sound of freeware audiotrackers having sex with old, outdated hardware-tools. well, we're all voyeurs, aren't we?
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laridae026 - rrraistlin: damaged beauty

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0200

rrraistlin is back with another EP for laridae. after having disappeared for several years, he unexpectedly reapparated in our fields and now delivers the appropriate sounds for the summer with "damaged beauty". 5 tracks full of neat melodies and tiny manipulations, not showing off with freaky beat programming, but with a distinct sense for harmonies and atmospheres. pleasing and solid.
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laridae025 - MODEX: pieces for triangulation

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0200

for our 25th release, we managed to sign a very special artist on laridae. MODEX, known for two gorgeous EPs on binkcrsh, agreed to provide us "pieces for triangulation", a full length album produced back in 2004. while rob curulli, the man behind MODEX, moved away from pure electronica to form two post-rock/post-metal bands (Binding Death and Rooftop Access), "pieces for triangulation" sums up everything that his electronic alter ego stood for: melancholy synth melodies, wallowing in oceans of reverb, escorted by distorted beats and noises, constantly evolving and drifting along its way through the aether. MODEX' album sounds like the best moments of nine inch nails remixes, slowed down to the half of the original speed and played back in a gigantic abandoned spaceship hangar. we are very proud to present you this extraordinary piece of work!
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laridae024 - kompaqt.core: core_worqs

Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 +0200

core_worqs by the promising new laridae artist kompaqt.core will abduct you to the abstract territories of experimental sound design. messing around with his glitchy, ploppy sounds and profound melodies in extremely diverse ways, he manages to establish an absorbing atmosphere of alienating strangeness that seems to ensnare and reject you at the same time.
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laridae023 - red.chamber: listen in solitude

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0100

"listen in solitude" is the debut release by red.chamber, who is responsible for maintaining the laridae database as well as for keeping up the spirit of 80's industrial and good old new wave. when he's not working on cryptical php commands, red.chamber is producing even more cryptical ambient soundscapes, dark audio collages and industrial drone stuff, full of scary, claustrophobic noises and gloomy lyrics. walking on the paths of bands like the early NIN, coil or the cure, his work is dedicated to the dark sides of human existence, acoustic studies of fear and loss.
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laridae021 - microtonner: sub zero

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0100

microtonner, laridae's gorgeous post-rock-industrial-act, is back with a full length album that will not just satisfy the friends of heavy guitar sound - because microtonner is so much more. on "sub zero" they present us ten tracks, ten pieces of intensive, gloomy and beautiful music, combining electronic beats, dark synth sounds, atmospheric speech samples and skillful guitar playing in such a perfect way, you will believe they found the most natural approach to guitar music. microtonner really managed to make up their own, incomparable and unique sound. we are very proud to present them on laridae.
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laridae022 - va: past perfect

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0100

laridae is happy to expand its relations to the russian underground music scene. after releasing "soup bubbles" by the promising murmansk artist mombus, we now invite you to another brisk journey into the north. "past perfect" is a partner release by laridae and 56 STUFF, an international art community and music label with its HQ in st. petersburg, russia. providing you ten tracks by ten different artists releasing on 56 STUFF, "past perfect" is a wonderful combination of groovy rhythms, clicky electronica and even-tempered lounge sound, playing around with different clich�s, from oh-so-chic modern music genres to russian folklore - just as they mentioned: "yes, it is cold in russia, thanks for asking!"
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laridae020 - va: sweepglade

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0100

laridae proudly presents its 20th release, "sweepglade", a compilation with tracks by almost every artist on the label. this time, we don't celebrate the cold temperatures, but push a little glimpse of the upcoming spring through your ears into your brains. "sweepglade" contains everything laridae stands for: eclectic idm, neat songwriting, frosty soundscapes and fun-loving lo-fi-trash. we promise you to melt the snow.
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laridae019 - firnwald: music for spacemines

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0100

mining is a damn hard business, especially when the mines are located on cold asteroids, floating around in some desolate sectors of the galaxy. only the toughest and roughest are able to make a living from spacemining. they have to go without luxury, without comfort and without sexual intercourse for months or even years. all they have is the emptiness of space, lots of alcohol and a little bit of freaky space idm, to shorten their long voyages from mine to mine.
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laridae018 - XboT7: xeaTDog

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0100

it's hard. it's distorted. it's insane. it's XboT7. being the bad twin brother of one of austria's most versatile (but almost unknown) electronic music acts, XboT7 has earned the fame as merciless, but still funky torturer of helpless audiowaves, reliably hard, brutal and bizarre, located somewhere between industrial, drum&bass and noise. now laridae is proud to release a full length compilation of his best tracks, making the works of this great artist available to a broader audience.
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laridae017 - beitegeuze: mein liebchen

Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0200

beitegeuze, laridae's silent hero, is back with his second release "mein liebchen". hardware fetishism meets retro nostalgia and merges together to form a mini album, that can hardly be compared to other net-releases. because beitegeuze is one of the few artists in the scene, who has really managed to build up a style of his own, aside from most popular trends in modern electronic music. on "mein liebchen", he continued this strategy consequently and produced 5 tracks between ambient, retro-electronic, avantgarde and boc-like idm, accompanied by 3 remixes by microtonner, kelvin raah and firnwald. download now!
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laridae016 - mombus: soap bubbles

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0200

laridae is proud to present the first release by its newest member "mombus", who successfully expanded the laridae universe for some thousand kilometers, up to murmansk, russia. on "soap bubbles" he produced 9 sweet and melodic tracks, exploring countless different genres like idm, pop, folk and many more, fitting just perfectly to to musical spectrum of laridae. so take a seat, close your eyes, open your mind and enjoy this lovely trip through the world of mombus.
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laridae015 - firnwald: beachburk

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0200

firnwald provides you the musical background for looking back on your last holiday ... the beautiful beach, the orange sun setting into the deep blue ocean and this venus of a girl taking her daily sunbath just next to your place, increasing the risk of skin cancer by some hundred percent. 6 little daydreams of summer, salt and sand.
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laridae014 - schaua: please cut here

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0200

less is more ... more or less. on "please cut here", schaua's second release on laridae, there is not much going on, but that is in fact the wonderful charm of the recording. because schaua knows exactly what he is doing, and he knows how to draw the listener's attention to special sounds and melodies. minimal does not mean to do little, but to know what to do with a small but carefully selected amount of material. and that's what schaua is doing on "please cut here". enjoy!
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laridae012 - Photophob: mixes / d

Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 +0200

a remix album, containing 14 mixes from and for photophob. over the years, his collaborations with different artists on the internet lead to quite a big number of (re)mixes or complete reconstructions. now photophob decided to pack up the best of these works to form "mixes/d", a full length release, providing you more than 60 minutes of music and a quite wide range of different styles from industrial to idm and ambient.
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laridae013 - firnwald: weidekinn

Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 +0200

firnwald's eagerly awaited debut release on laridae. a full length album that shows what the co-founder and official mastermind of laridae is capeable of. on 14 tracks, firnwald combines abstract idm-rhythms and strange audio samples with extremely sweet melodies, all merged together with (as he would say) "lots of love and violence". music somewhere between idm, pop and ambient. cold but lovely.
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laridae011 - Der Reisende: langsame zyklen f�r schnelle menschen

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0100

poetry written and spoken in german by der reisende, combined with a background soundtrack by schaua and firnwald.
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laridae010 - va: spherephorest

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0100

it's winter, it's cold and laridae celebrates it's 10th release. and therefore we produced our second label compilation, but that won't make you feel much warmer ... because with "spherephorest" we managed to assemble the proper soundtrack for these frozen days. cold and frosty and everything but catchy, the laridae members, along with some guest artists, show you what winter is like in their heads. but never forget: frost patterns can be really beautiful sometimes and you can scribble quite funny faces on tarnished windshields.
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laridae009 - welk: ist

Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0100

suddenly you see worlds, you thought you had forgotten so long ago. worlds with hills of green, giant towers, rocks floating in the air and squadrons of vicious mushrooms. your hands intuitively want to grab something like a joystick or gamepad, but have to be satisfied with the volume control. louder. the music drives us deeper into our twodimensional memories ... when everything was so much easier. we capture the needed power-up with a risky jump and go, run, jump along on our way from left to right.
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laridae008 - Photophob: within

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0200

actually produced as "macon tights" back in 2001/2002, this album is, according to photophob, a quite personal trip through the feelings he had at that time. it's not as mature as his recent works, but provides a nice and dense atmosphere throughout the whole recording. everything seems to spin around a dreamy and nostalgic theme of losing childhood, growing old and falling in love. kitschy feel-good idm meets romantic ambient.
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laridae007 - beitegeuze: form

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0200

"form", the first full length release by beitegeuze, is a compilation of his best ambient and retro-electronic works, he produced during the last few years. some of them were already published on the fm4 soundpark, some of them have never left the hidden (and reportedly huge) archives of beitegeuze before. now they are all available as one release on laridae, remastered and brought into line.
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laridae006 - schaua: first takes for dark hours

Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0200

a mini-album by schaua, our man from vienna. 6 tracks for the dark hours in your life, when you can't decide if you want to blast the world into pieces or just go to sleep for a while. when your thoughts go around in circles, just as the beats are flying around in their loops.
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laridae005 - rrraistlin: imaginary ep

Thu, 01 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0200

rrraistlin presents 4 short but solid tracks.
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laridae004 - microtonner: the ignorance ep

Sat, 01 May 2004 00:00:00 +0200

microtonner's debut release on laridae: a heavy, dirty 4 track ep somewhere between rock, industrial and electronic. heavy guitar riffs meet impulsive broken beats and atmospheric speech samples. a mixture that has so much energy, you got to hear it to believe.
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laridae003 - Photophob: digitalis

Sat, 01 May 2004 00:00:00 +0200

digitalis is the first full length album by photophob on laridae. 50 minutes of ambient, easy listening and space idm, forming the soundtrack for an imaginary science-fiction-movie. or maybe a computergame, who knows ... it's all about highly frequented spaceports and asian megacities located in the outer regions of the known universe, about huge starships, crashed on lonely planets with purple oceans and silver moons, about cosmic passenger ships, performing their docking manoeuvres like an elegant space ballet. it's about a better place called space.
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laridae002 - woycheck: ein wolkenloser tag

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0200

five tracks for sunny days by woycheck. no more, no less.
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laridae001 - va: our old toys

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0200

the first release on laridae - a label compilation containing tracks from several quite different artists. der reisende starts with his own kind of electropop songwriting, firnwald delivers a poppy idm track with vocals by seven, beitegeuze provides sort of a retro ambient piece, phonomat (aka schaua) makes sweet melodic lo-fi trash, welk gets an industrial ambient breakbeat remix by photophob, woycheck kicks some asses with a cocky disco trash noise track and microtonner do what they do best: industrial-electro-rock. that's what you'll get from laridae.
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