Tonight’s show is a selection of tracks from the Backtrack, Dewtone, and One netlabels, all of which briefly flowered in the early 2000’s and then disappeared.
Backtrack lived for two years, from 2004 to 2006, but put out some really excellent music. The two albums featured, Crepuscular by Troupe (released when he was sixteen and already a damn fine musician) and ::micromania:: by vitax are excellent uptempo electronica.
Then we switch over to Dewtone, in existence from only 2004 to 2005, but which put out a lot of nice tracks. We’ll hear from (val)liam’s “early reflections”; transient’s “rotation” single and a track of theirs from the Ogredung “whole symesta” release; and shift’s excellent field-recrding-driven “amphibian (stereo mix)”, from the “[dt002]” compilation.
The second hour features tracks from the One netlabel, which was around from 2004 to 2007. We’ll hear recue’s excellent “Between Stations”; a track from plosive’s “one remixes” and his “pavlovian fear” from “101”; two great tracks from the “deepmove mode” release; kwook!’s “Immiscible”; Rivel’s “Sum”; a track from Karl-Johan Nilsson’s “The Seams”; and finally two tracks from plosive’s own “neutral” release.
The full archive of each of these netlabel’s releases are available via the wonderful Netlabel Archive: Backtrack, Dewtone, and One, all three. There is much, much more music at the end of those links. As always with netlabels, your mileage (and enjoyment) may vary, but a little virtual crate-digging may find you even more tracks that you’ll love.