[Archpl021] Jin Choi
June 26th, 2010 - Pheek
Jin Choi returns to Archipel to release his second 12″ in Archipel’s vinyl series entitled “Dig Your Own Out”. Just as masterful as his first Archipel 12″, Jin’s second coming is surrounded by an aura of warmth and is highly jazz influenced providing the birthing ground for his fervently smokey textures.
[Arch072] Vincent Casanova
June 26th, 2010 - Pheek
Release Date: 10-5-2010
After his 2009 album on Archipel, we’re now proud for the return of Vincent Casanova and present to you his latest EP called “Bohemian Cybernetics”. Vincent’s EP is full of a particular bounce and hop which is totally irresistible. In “Enter The Shaolin” and “Locks Keys Levels” there is a very playful bounce which spring loads a wide
[ARCH070] Sul.a – Barberie Binaire
April 19th, 2010 - Pheek
“Barberie Binaire” LP
Sul.a shine’s his warm light once again from within the arms of Archipel and brings us his stunningly beautiful fourth album entitled “Barberie Binaire“. Sul.a takes his already excellent production to another level here and reaches out into a distant binary star system, capturing its light and bringing it back for all to feel. So many styles are featured here and yet they all snuggle up and share with each other so well.
[ARCHPL020] Eric Johnston – Silly Girl
April 18th, 2010 - Pheek
Detroit’s Eric Johnston who has already brought Archipel a remix of Marc Neyen and an EP on Kalimari now brings us a superb four track 12″ entitled “Silly Girl”. This whole package is a highly rhythmic affair
[ARCH 070] Mark Thibideau – Left Behind
March 18th, 2010 - douglas.fugazi
Mark Thibideau should be a familiar name in your mental cache for his work on Sub Static and with his brother Matt as Repair. Without hesitation Archipel is pleased to bring you his newest work, a brilliant full length entitled “Left Behind” which features an excellent remix from fellow Torontonian Eric Downer. Continue reading »
Happy 5th Anniversary Remix Contest!
February 16th, 2010 - Pheek
[arch069] “Archipel’s 5th Anniversary Remix Contest, Various Artists EP” out now!
Archipel’s sixty-ninth digital installation is a special one. We’ve held a quiet remix contest and this release brings with it the top results. Somfay and Tom Ellis have provided the originals for the contest in question. read more
A 12″ goody of Stefny out now!
January 26th, 2010 - Pheek
[archpl019] “Echinodon EP’ by Stefny now out!
After releasing the excellent ‘Wormhole’ on Japan Excursion Joint 3, the most talented Stefny gives us her debut solo Archipel 12”, “Echinodon”, featuring remixes from Bruno Pronsato, Isomer Transition and a newly birthed project of Somfay’s called Flourish. read more
Releases for free!
January 5th, 2010 - Pheek
[Arch057] Orbits Decaying by Isomer Transition now for free!
We know, we have been really behind in the updates of our releases for free and this is due to some technical problems mixed with discouragement. That combo does no good and now we decided to face 2010 with a lot of courage and to put all the releases that are due up. First at bat for this year is our friend RJ Valeo, aka Isomer Transition. That techno release is all about bouncing beats in pure rubbery thickness. Check it out now!
Note:
Every now and then, someone will come up and ask us why our free releases are encoded at 192kbps. The reason is, most the people who are interested in free music see it as evaluation or are quite fine with low-quality music. In case you didn’t know yet, making music costs something, takes loads of time and energy. If you love music, please invest a few dollars into supporting artists. Thank you!
Best wishes to all! Some thoughts about 2010
January 3rd, 2010 - Pheek
It’s a tradition to wish everyone a happy new year and so, I’d like to also wish you a great musical year for 2010!
What is music in 2010? I wonder what people were imagining music would be by now, about 100 years ago. If you look behind in sci-fi movies from the 60′s, the music usually played for the future is something of arpeggiated old school synths with a few swooshes here and now. That was pretty accurate if you think about it. There is that kid of music, as well as drone ambient music with futuristic fx. The last thing our grand parents would have imagined for the future was music being for free. Right?
But that is so 2001!
It’s pretty crazy to say that 10 years ago, the best way to promote yourself was to give your music for free. You’d reach a bunch of music lovers that would be really excited by their findings and would be really feeling lucky too. Now, I’m not so sure. It seems the music has not much value anymore. Everyday you can find more (good and bad) music for free (legally or illegally) than you can listen to and I know so many people that have terabytes of music, most of it, listened a single time and then stocked. It sort of reminds me of those homeless people who walk with a grocery cart filled with suff…
That said, what’s left of music is not so clear. Selling the music seems to get more attention then giving it for free. We, at Archipel, believe in both method as an hybrid approach that we have been doing for a few years already. Perhaps this is where the role of a label is important as a moderator of music we believe in. We’re not going to change our approach; we’ll still release both digital and physical releases (CD, vinyl). The digital will still be for sale then for free.
I’m not sure about you, but I feel that we have more power by buying the stuff we believe in. It sends a direct message that you are supporting something. My local grocery store started to have a few organic products and myself, with others, started to buy as much as we could. Now they have a dedicated section for those products and we get more and more quality food. It’s the same with music. If you want more music like you enjoy it, you can support it. I’m going to start an anti-piracy discussion here, but one problem behind that is, it doesn’t give any message back to the artists. Perhaps this is why Facebook is having a lot of success with their fanpages, where people can directly reach their favorite artists?
We’ll be turning 5 years old in October by the way and that is great news!
What’s in the plans?
There was a lot of thinking of what should do for the next year. First off, there will be an evolutive artwork throughout the year. You’ll need to collect all artworks to get the full picture by december. Since it’s an important year, we finally decided to try to release artists that have been affiliated to us, so less new comers and more new material by friends.
Eric Johnston from Detroit will be releasing a new album with us along with his first vinyl. This is very exciting since Eric is crafting really heady, mental music just like we love it.
Hailing from Quebec city, our friend Sul.a was due for a return with us. He already has a few albums out and wonderful releases with us, so it’s more than a pleasure to see where he’ll take us next.
Then we have Jin Choi, Marc Neyen, Rudolf, Niederflur, Christian Dittmann that will make new awaited appearances. Many others as well, don’t worry!
The next vinyl release will be by Stefny with remixes of Bruno Pronsato, Isomer Transition and Flourish. Stay tuned for that one, it’s already making dancefloors move worldwide and we’re quite thrilled to introduce those tracks to you!
Til then, I personally wish you all the best! I hope that you will follow us this year and we can share a musical excursion that will be the soundtrack of your life.
Archipel Podcast 024: Suso Flores
December 20th, 2009 - Nadir
Born and raised in A Coruna, Galicia (Spain). Suso Flores moved to U.K. in 2005 to study Sound Design, when he collected residencies at various venues in London. He has been kind enough to put together an exclusive Live PA for us. Enjoy!
If you haven’t seen it in your iTunes, you might want to register to the podcast (www.archipel.cc/podcast) or get it here