100 Notable Netlabel Releases of 2011
Below are my 100 notable netlabel releases for 2011 And by 2011, I mean netlabel releases from November 2010 through the end of October 2011. You’ll also notice a few other releases that are also very very good. Each section is in alphabetically order.
The Top Ten
- Le Berger Cheptel éparpillé (Dystimbria)
- Gutta Percha A Crawlspace Companion (test tube)
- Kikiilimikilii Lumens (Heia Sun)
- NP Couleur ASCII (petcord)
- C. Reider Owning Extinctions (Vuzh Music)
- Supertalented Plus Size (birdsong)
- Monk Turner + Fascinoma Emergency Songs (Self-released)
- Valentina Vuksic Tripping through runtime (Zeromoon)
- Various Artists Electroacoustic Mexico 1960-2007 and Ready Media 1970-2009 (Audition)
- Phillip Wilkerson Particle (Just Not Normal)
Plus 90 Notable Netlabel Releases
- James Alaska, Tristan Shoor Abisalle glick (Impulsive Habitat)
- Altocumuls Household Apocalypse (Just Not Normal)
- Luís Antero Factory Music (Wandering Ear)
- Luís Antero Life (Audio Gourmet)
- Apollon Nox (Vuzh Music
- Auzel Old (Vuhz Music)
- Alessio Ballerini Blanc (Zymogen)
- Alexander Baker concentric_eccentric (Impulsive Habitat)
- The Beige Channel The Nail House of Yang Wu (Stasisfield)
- Andrea Bonino Fan Fiction Registro Latente
- Sandra Boss Seks kompositioner (Modisti)
- Arturas Bumšteinas Pastoral (Crónica)
- Cagey House June Through the Window (WeirdandWired)
- Cagey House Ratty Boo (Bump Foot)
- ceptual Songs for the Sun (test tube)
- Cinchel Ritual Habitat (feedback loop)
- Charles Curse Stomac (We Have No Zen!)
- Dad Lipsticks Awakening 2007-2010 (Umor-Rex)
- Dadub Backward Forward (A Quiet Bump)
- Benjamin Dauer Saturation Event (feedback loop)
- Alan Morse Davies Svalbard (At Sea Music)
- dmyra Sophisticated Women of Danger (Bump Foot)
- Drone Wallah Abecedronium (Webbed Hand)
- Dustmotes Equilibria (Dusted Wax Kingdom)
- earthbreather Forget the Sky (skrow!media)
- Agustí Fernández, Pablo Ledesma, Mono Hurtado Buenos Aires 2000 (Audition)
- Fescal Beautiful Neurotic (Camomille Music)
- Final Cuts Tales for Tapes #7 (Wandering Ear)
- Fosel Octahedron (petcord)
- Future Museums A Solar Gold (Self-released)
- Rui Gato & Hiraku Suzuki Beam Drop (test tube)
- Heidseck FMCH (Sinewaves)
- Curly Jefferson Ooh La La! (dedpop)
- David Kirby Shear Wave (Homohponi)
- Beth Kleist Drei (Distance Recordings)
- Lavoisier basico y elemental (audio:808)
- Limited Liability Sounds Minimus Clangor (suRRism-Phonoethics)
- MagicVan Going Really Fast Around a Corner in a Three Wheeler (BFW Recordings)
- Daniel Maze + Dave Zeal Blueprints for Insect Architecture (test tube)
- David McClure Semi (Impulsive Habitat)
- James McDougall Inskip (Impulsive Habitat)
- Christopher McFall A Long Time Running for the Suicide Strays (Resting Bell)
- Christopher McFall, David Velez Credence (Impulsive Habitat)
- Meteer End (BFW Recordings)
- Eric Miller Present in Some Language (tecnoNucleo)
- mon0 Monolyth (Kreislauf)
- Federico Monti Sorolls (Impulsive Habitat)
- Saravan Resonances (feedback loop)
- Shane Morris Approaching Singularity (Buddhist on Fire)
- Mysterybear Complex Silence 12 (Tree Trunk)
- Mystified Bone Drones Trilogy: I, II, III (Webbed Hand)
- Mystified Shards of Bone (Audiocast Productions)
- Lee Noyes & J.C. Combs Confessions of a Deviant Machine (con-v)
- NP ADN (Nowaki)
- Adriano Orrù Hèsperos (La Bèl)
- otra carpeta cero = ce ro (Pan y Rosas)
- Kevin Parks & Alic Hui-Sheng Chang Confessions of a Middle School Guidance Counselor (Homophoni)
- Ergo Phizmiz Music from the Shoes of Fulcanelli (Headphonica)
- Plusplus Evils (La Bèl)
- C. Reider Formerly Sine Drones (Modisti)
- The Sales Department Broken Records (Various and Uneasy)
- Martin Rach Trash Piano (Modisti)
- Radere Lost at Sea, I’m Never Coming Back (basic_sounds)
- Reverse Projection Ceniza (Audiotalaia)
- Daniel del Rio Ten Abstract Pieces for Non Visible Speakers (Reductive Music)
- Sarah J. Ritch 16 Days (Absence of Wax)
- Lee Rosevere Symphony for Monotron Trilogy: I, II, III (8 ravens, 20kbps, proc-rec)
- Leonardo Rosado Dream On (Audio Gourmet)
- Leonardo Rosado Opaque Glitter (feedback loop)
- Saffron Slumber Somnogen (Resting Bell)
- Devin Sarno first-impression (Absence of Wax)
- SIGHUP City Passage (feedback loop)
- Snorkel Quintet Molecular (Discordian)
- Sun-Inside Line (Picpack)
- Swaying Smoke High Tension Wires (Doma Data)
- Tange Complex Silence 17 (Treetrunk)
- Trianov 367.1644 (Picpack)
- Tsone A Sea Beyond Reckoning (Audiotalaia)
- Various Artists Brave New World (feedback loop)
- Various Artists The Classicality of /’Zəeppə/ (Happy Puppy)
- David Velez Funza (Impulsive Habitat)
- David Velez Memoria Fragmentada (con-v)
- Voder Motes (Distance Recordings)
- Waterplea Rudiments (Bump Foot)
- Ricardo Webbens Analog Mountains (test tube)
- Simon Whetham Cold Shoulder (Audio Gourmet)
- Christopher Whitehead 100 Birthdays (Electronic Musik)
- James Wyness The Bridge (Green Field Recordings)
- James Wyness The Tree (Impulsive Habitat)
- YARA The Other Side of Autumn (Elpamusic)
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