Artist: Jagat Skad
Album: Bloomsday
Year: 2010
Genre: indie pop
Bitrate: 320kbps
Download: HF

We’re an Indie Pop-Band based in Berlin, although our members live all over Germany or even in Switzerland. So the internet is incredibly important for our communication and equally for our distribution. We don’t care where our listeners are and we don’t charge anyone a penny for the download. With “Bloomsday” we completed our most ambitious album to date. The inspiration in our lyrics ranges from Joyce to Godard, the music is pretty hard to describe too. There’s everything from simple pop songs to prog “monsters”, from acoustic ballads to energetic distorted guitars. We like songs with high dynamics and a rich sound with many, even exotic instruments.

Since you already posted one of our previous releases (http://bolachasgratis.baywords.com/?p=3658), we hoped you would like and post “Bloomsday” on your site.

And here it is!

Artist: Mental Health Consumer
Album: Backyard Mysteries
Year: 2010
Genre: ambient, electronic
Bitrate: 320
Download: HF

«Brian Ruskin is a Ph.D in Geology (Stratigraphy branch) and at the same time a musician and producer from Pittsburgh, USA. Science and Art very close together. The music he makes as Mental Health Consumer falls right in the middle of the Electronic genre, slightly danceable and upbeat variant, without loosing too much focus but admittedly keen on experimental ambient explorations. With his music, Brian tries to achieve that special balance between the calculated and the emotive side of the mind.

Such is ‘Backyard Mysteries’, an extremely interesting and uncompromising collection of tracks with a full range of soft pads, techno inspired beats and soothing soundscapes, but also retaining a very curious experimental ambient side, which will keep you interested all through the end.» – Pedro Leitão

Dear Bolachas Lovers,

Since I do not know what is allowed here concerning posting I will not take any risk. I feel sorry this is happening with Bolachas Gratis and Bolachas.org. So, I have decided not to post here anymore. I hope u do understand and I guess some will be gratefull I don’t post here anymore others will be disappointed , anyway I wish U all the luck u can get in your lives,  thnx for the support and maybe I will see u at other places, Jotien

Artist: The Octagon
Album: Warm Love and Cool Dreams Forever
Year: 2010
Genre: indie rock
Bitrate: 320
Download: HF
Buy the VINYL on SBRecords

Again, time for Serious Business!

“Recommended to all who love kinda dark, kinda scuzzy, definitely melodic indie rock.”
Brooklyn Vegan

“Raw yet pervasively warm and wise, it’s the kind of record that reminds you just how poignant lo-fi indie rock can sound.”
Time Out NY

“I’m fully subscribing to the new record by the Octagon, an LP with sixteen crunchy numbers like these, brambled, messy and sincere.”
Said the Gramophone

Rolling Stone

It sucks when our favorite songwriters take the same path, one after another. Sure, that’s the path they chose, but, on a egoist perspective, it’s also a path that leaves us without another chance of witnessing their musicianship on a stage, of listening to new songs they always had on the sleeve for us. Unlike Vic Chesnutt, I could actually get to see Sparklehorse live back in 2006, following their last proper album, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain. Linkous looked like he was on a good shape and as late as 2009, he was involved in projects with Fennesz and Danger Mouse (he never got to see their collab album Dark Night of the Soul being released, due to disputes between them and EMI). Even if he had problems in the past (from Rolling Stone: In 1996, Linkous actually died for two minutes after ingesting a dangerous mix of Valium and antidepressants while on tour in the U.K. behind Sparklehorse’s 1995 debut Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot. He recovered, but the incident left him crippled — he laid unconscious for 14 hours, cutting off circulation to his legs. He suffered a heart attack when medics attempted to straighten his legs, and underwent seven surgeries to save his damaged limbs) no one could see this coming on 2010. Like a friend of mine – who went to said concert with me – said, he could at least wait to see the Oscars tonight. Rest in peace, Mark.

A Wonderful Life Indeed – The Songs of Mark Linkous (tracklist below)

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listen: soundcloud
Try: Yuki Yaki
label: Yuki Yaki
Buy: discogs
Watch: youtube

“maps and diagrams” is well known in the world of electronic music. He releases on several labels such as Static Caravan, Expanding Records and Smallfish.
In addition to that, he collaborated with many other labels, released tracks on compilations and did remixes.
Apart from releasing music, he also co-runs Cactus Island Recordings with Steve Broca.
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Artist: Rob Theakston
Album: I Am Waiting For You To Stop Being Mad At Me
Year: 2010
Genre: experimental, sound manipulation
Bitrate: 320
Download: HF
Buy: Moodgadget

I Am Waiting for You to Stop Being Mad at Me is the first full length Rob Theakston has recorded for Moodgadget and his third full length in as many years. Extracted from a sleep deprived 42 hour marathon recording session during the winter of 2009, this record is a smoldering excursion into the shale colored landscapes of Theakston’s Detroit upbringings and his current self-imposed isolation in the Kentucky countryside. Highly inspired by the early recordings of Jim O Rourke and the recent work of Taylor Deupree and Three Legged Race, IAWFYTSBMAM sees Theakston manipulate and improvise with bass guitars, acoustic guitars, cassette tapes, djembes and analog synths in continuous but sublty changing compositions that’ll make the most hard hearted of Pitchforkers gently tweet “yeah, that’s the stuff #Rob_Theakston” while flipping through the pages of the latest issue of The Believer on a calm Sunday night with a nice cup of earl grey. And if that wasn’t enough, there are carefully curated remixes included from such electronic music luminares as Christopher Bissonnette, Off the Sky, Three Legged Race and Koda, all close friends who treat the original content with great reverence and find fresh reinterpretations that don’t insult the listener’s intelligence or pad out the album in a typical routine exercise.

Artist: New Order

Album: Live in NY 05-05-05

New Order at the Hammerstein Ballroom 5-5-05: The Perfect Transmission! [Read full Review]

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Artist: Dag for Dag

Album: Boo

Year: 2010

Buy / MySpace

This brother/sister Swedish duo is a great offering to the world of music, a definite shift from what we are use to from the Scandinavian north, as NME agrees that it is,  “Nice to hear a Swedish band who don’t sound like fey tambourine-tapping Sandie Shaw-obsessives who always smell of vintage clothing. This gothically dramatic, murky psych-rock is a good taste of the depth of this brother-sister duo’s forthcoming album, the appropriately scarily titled ‘Boo’. ~ NME. It brings to mind the new album from Smile Smile in that these can been heard as pillow love songs, but with an added boost of juice from the sonic envelop.

Artist: Loafeye

Album: In The Pines

Year: 2003

Genre: Indie Pop / Alt-Country

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I recorded this album a few years ago in my barn with a few of my close friends. It was a two year project that came out of an idea I got while watching people at my local town fair. The songs cover a variety of styles, but most readily, sentimental pop songs, country rants and jam band tendencies. I want to show those that care that music should be accessible to everyone, and even artist like it when the masses listen to their music and get some form of reaction. So here is my free album for all to listen, comment, or simple delete! I put this album away a year or so ago, due to the sheer overplaying while recording and mixing, but coming back to it after some time has given it new life – I like it! So hopefully you will as well. New material is in the works…

Artist: dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS
Album: II EP
Year: 2010
Genre: indie rock, instrumental, post-rock
Bitrate: 320
Download: HF | archive.org
Label: enoughrecords

Check this out if you are into bands like Hella or Lightning Bolt. Nice album that could be a soundtrack to some wicked old film. Their new EP is freely available online and there is a limited edition of 222 handmade copies with cover in hand-sewn tissue printed on silk screen which can be ordered through their email, duassemi +at+ gmail +dot+ com. Pics and more info on their myspace.

Artist: Contact +/-
Album: Vogels van Stiltscene
Year: 2010
Genre: ambient, dark ambient, electronic
Bitrate: 320kbps
Download: HF | RS
Label: Test Tube

«’Contact +/-’ is a new project founded in 2007 by Zydrunas Maciulis, a lithuanian sound artist and a very productive one I might add. Zydrunas is currently exploring ambient and abstract music, but also enjoying the concept of improvisating, which is relatively new to him as an artist.

‘Vogels Van Stiltescene’ is his newest work and very is very experimental in kind, with much emphasis on field recordings and sampling techniques without discarding an ‘easy’ side reminiscent of some of Iceland’s best ambient pop from the last decade.

At his best moments, Contact +/-’s music is really really good, with some heavily cold dramatic moments – some dark ambient too – and many other nostalgic feelings, which are typical of northern europe countries’ music. Enjoy.»
- Pedro Leitão

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Artist: myspace
Try: 12rec.net
label: valeot
Buy: n5mailorder

after eight years of band history, milhaven’s second, self-titled album is a masterful piece anchored deep in the tradition of post-rock, shining with compactness, consistency and firm beauty. recorded by guido lucas at blubox tonstudio, the cd comes with a special packaging designed and hand-crafted by the band.
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Artist: Recue
Album: Leftover Love
Year: 2010
Genre: down-tempo, electronic
Bitrate: 320
Download: HF | RS

After the well received kick start with Jolea’s album Ghostly Figures in 2009, Audiobaum is proud to start the year 2010 with a brand new album from Helsinki based electronica producer Recue! The release is called “Leftover Love” and it is the third full length album by the finn after his succesful releases on Rednetic and netlabel One.

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1. Emanuel and the Fear. Listen
2. Peasant. Shady Retreat
3. David Thomas Broughton. Boating Disasters EP
4. The Tallest Man on Earth. The Wild Hunt

• 1 + 2 are two brand new releases from the flourishing Paper Garden Records. Listen is the debut LP from the up and coming 11-member folk/pop/rock ensemble Emanuel and the Fear, which self-titled EP, available for listening on their last.fm was highly bloggable on the past few months. They’ve developed a modern, schizoid, 19-track-long rock opera that obviously drinks some influence from past decade’s North American multi-instrumentalist indie rock  bands like Calexico, Devotchka or Broken Social Scene, but the main influence here seems to be Broadway and its musicals. Head up to magiska to check the album.
• Peasant is the moniker of Damian DeRose, a singer-songwriter from California, who released its third album, Shady Retreat last Tuesday. Shady Retreat is a pleasant collection of immediate songs that clearly recall a place like the one pictured on the album cover. Like the other 3 albums featured here, you won’t find a download link for it on Bolachas, but you won’t have any trouble finding it.
• Boating Disasters is the prelude EP to David Thomas Broughton’s brand new couple of albums he’s planning to release on 2010, like we wrote on his concert review last month. Unlike his previous output, this disc features four short songs, including a live rendition of “Not So Cruel” on the Holy Trinity Church of Leeds.
• Kristian Matsson, more widely known as The Tallest Man on Earth or the Swedish Bob Dylan, has a new record coming out on Dead Oceans and it’s my favorite album of the year so far. This is coming from the fingertips of a die-hard Joanna Newsom fan (who, still, is more than pleased with her last effort). The King of Spain is perhaps one of the best songs on the record and you can listen to it below.

Emanuel and the Fear – Dear Friend

Peasant – Well Alright

The Tallest Man on Earth – King of Spain

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Artist: Ice Dwarf
Album: Ice Dwarf
Year: 2009
Genre: indie rock
Download: HF | RS

It all started with a drum set and a fuzzy bass. 2 friends who grew up together started jamming in a cozy 2 bedroom apartment in Tel Aviv, Israel, with the assistance of some digital companions. They were capable of creating the following compilation.

Here! Thanks, Gregory Finch.

01 Pool Swimmers
02 Basement
03 Beach Comber
04 Younger Than Yesterday
05 Suburban Beverage
06 The Mall (Ducktails)
07 Fake Blues

Genre: funk, soul
Download: HF

This is a compilation born out of the budgies and my own love of old funk and soul records and we tasked ourselves to knock up a 40 minute mixtape each. Foo’s selection is Side A, the cheeky wee budgie boy is Side B. There was much crate digging for both of us. Constant calls and texts bagsying records, hoping there was no duplication and taunts about gems we had found. It’s been a wee labour of love as it did take quite some time to compile. Speaking for myself, I coud easily have just lobbed together loads of stuff that has been sampled by hip hop acts and the like, but I wanted to delve a bit deeper into my record collection to unearth things I had even forgotten I had and not to put on obvious and big records, though a few do surface here. So give your ears a blast of something different for a change, it fits perfectly on a CD too… Enjoy.

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