Artist Various
Title Crack My Pitch Up
Release SPNT003
Label Split Notes
Date July 11th, 2010
Genre Electronic, Microtonal

1. Jacky Ligon – Phience Fictions
2. Scratchy Dubplate Crew – Electro Harmonix Dub
3. City of the Asleep – L is for Lugubrious
4. Paragon – Coral Garden
5. Sevish – Burning Pine
6. Microdub – Live Wire
7. Jacky Ligon – Seven Diamonds
8. Carlo Serafini – Chameleons in the Sun
9. Flao YG – Špendlíky
10. Cameron Bobro – Vera, it’s time you took your Romans on a holiday
11. Carlo Serafini – Ribboman and the Maniacs
12. Fature – Butterfly Rapport
13. Flao YG – Kelt

SplitNotes Permalink: http://split-notes.com/spnt003.php
Archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/Split_Notes_-_Crack_My_Pitch_Up
Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/2361029

Open voting for IndabaMusic’s Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back competition has ended. How did The Tossintons (a group consisting of myself, Incentive, and Catchers of Mad Wreck) fare in the competition? We finished 28th in the voting. Now, there is still a chance that we could be selected as the grand prize or runner up winner. However, I see that as very unlikely. I was hoping to make it to the Top 25 in order to be considered for the 10 honorary mentions.

I would like to thank all of our friends and fans who voted for us. It was you guys, not the IndabaMusic community, that gave us a chance. Thank you so much! Catchers of Mad Wreck and I both greatly appreciate the support.

What did I learn from this experience? The community of IndabaMusic has some very strange taste. Just listen to what came in first place by clicking here……

If you wish to hear/download the remix, you can visit the Archive.org link here:
http://www.archive.org/details/Peter_Gabriel-Games_Without_Frontiers_The_Tossintons_Remix

Artist Delcraft
Title Psy
Release FNET014
Label FatureNet Recordings
Date July 11th, 2010
Genre Electronic, Techno, Electro

FatureNet Permalink: http://www.fature.net/release.php?id=708
Archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/FNet014
Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/2351681

Artist gigandect
Title Happy Breakcore Mix #2
Release SYNR014
Label Sayonara Records
Date June 25th, 2010
Genre 8-bit, Breakcore

Sayonara Records permalink: http://sayonararecords.tumblr.com/post/738097224/synr014-gigandect-happy-breakcore-mix-2
Archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/SYNR014_HappyBreakcoreMix2
Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/2345553

Title: Games Without Frontiers (The Tossintons Remix)
Original Artist: Peter Gabriel
Original Track: Games Without Frontiers (originally released in 1980)
Remixed by: The Tossintons
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Genre: Electronic, Remix, Post-Industrial, House
Download: Archive.org

This remix by The Tossintons (consisting of Dystopiaq’s Incentive and Catchers of Mad Wreck) is for Indabamusic.com’s Peter Gabriel “Scratch My Back” remix competition.

Competition site:

http://www.indabamusic.com/featured_programs/show/remix-peter-gabriel

This remix on Indabamusic.com:

http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/20836

Artist: Incentive
Release: Bacteria
Label: Sayonara Records
Catalog: SYNR013
Genre: IDM, Ambient, Minimal
Download: Archive.org

01 1913 People (intro)
02 Virus
03 Fat Man (edit)
04 Chiba City Blues
05 Musui’s Theme
06 rec out

This is my latest release. I know it is a bit of a surprise, as I have just released UMASA not too long ago and have been knowingly working on a release titled Sonnfinsternis for Dystopiaq. However, I wanted to compile some material I had done that did not necessarily fit what I was doing for Dystopiaq, and Sayonara Records (based in Tokyo) seemed to be a good choice.

Artist Nabux
Title Introspect
Release FNET013
Label FatureNet Recordings
Date June 13th, 2010
Genre Ambient, Breaks, Downtempo

FatureNet Permalink: http://www.fature.net/release.php?id=674
Archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/FNet013

Here is the tracklist for the upcoming Dystopiaq 3.

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01 Azotic Compounds Laboratory – Eclipse
02 Nick R 61 – Mulatto
03 Fature – Mindstream
04 catchers of mad wreck – 3 palms 1 finger
05 Euphobic – Cheap Shot
06 okhotsk – Little Boy
07 ENV(itre) – tustence
08 Zombie Ninja Schmoe – it’s more like a bad dream
09 Tucker the Circuit – Mission Panther 236
10 Incentive – Pig Song
11 Scissor Shock – psychic existentialist
12 O.B.B.B.M:\/ – Italotillian Schizochic Garment District
13 ShakySuperFly – 1050AM
14 concrete swords – Slow Fen
15 rex mentula – no way out but backwards
16 je.vi – Escape Rober Steemp

je.vi finished the artwork for Dystopiaq 3. Here it is!

I watched the 1992 documentary, “Manufacturing Consent,” with je.vi today. I found it interesting that, later in the evening, I ended up having a discussion at my friend’s house about how to create an egalitarian society. When you have the understanding that 80% of the population is structurally designed to live in perpetual ignorance, it does make the future seem rather bleak. Anyway, the film is available for free on Hulu.com and I highly suggest anyone interested in power politics and media take the 170min to watch it.

As for updates on the upcoming Dystopiaq 3 compilation, things are almost complete. All of the tracks are currently in London being mastered by Concrete Swords. The projected release date is now June 8th. I’m also observing je.vi do the cover artwork as we speak, and it is some real cool stuff. I hope everyone enjoys the hard work of every artist involved in this upcoming compilation.

It also seems that Dystopiaq is becoming a little popular. Concrete Swords, last Friday, had 1,300 downloads in a single day on Archive.org! That is quite an achievement for such a new, and small, net label.

Until next time…