Black Sweater, White Cat

Barabeke, Electric Lady (2006) Well, here we are. It's been over a year since the last post. Nothing for 2016, nada. It's a new year and here we go...no promises. Fitting to start wit...

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Back from a little break and just in time for some Fall chill from our new favorite netlabel, Dusted Wax Kingdom. The name of the release is Damaged and the artist is Viktor Van River hailing...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/11/viktor-van-river-ocd.html

Today we feature a fine release from our friends at Bump Foot .   The release is called Mouseen and was released last August. Jovern Palerosi found some wonderful Brazilian artists to sam...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/05/jovem-palerosi-deuses-mutados-feat.html

Man, we love strawberries. Today we dip into a pretty cool hip-hop scene in Mexico City. We have posted music by LFA and Billano and Luis  René in the past and decided to visit Billano's S...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/05/billano-ninas-fresas.html

In honor of Creative Common's 10th anniversary a few years ago the netlabel Bad Panda put together a playlist that we discovered on CC-Europe's Soundcloud page .   Some really nice stuff on...

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Today's track is from a blocSonic netBloc release called Antididonai .  This was #39 in the series. It was released in November 2012.  netBloc #39 has a great collection of tracks from a br...

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Back on February 18 we posted a track by the good professor for the first time.  Time to circle back 'cause this is pretty awesome. This is the title track off the release which you can fin...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/05/professor-kliq-wire-flashing-lights.html

Things are bubbling right along here at BSWC.  No dust gathering beneath our feet. Featured in this post is a lovely 2012 VKRS release called Talk to Me . Miranda Shvangiradze is originall...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/05/miranda-shvangiradze-ready-for-trip.html

We've been looking back at playlists of old to check in with some artists we followed back in 2005 and 2006. Many are nowhere to be found, remembered only by the tracks they left on archive.org...

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Artist, social media, netlabel...we are not quite sure how to describe Hasenchat , but we found this track on Jamendo.com and wanted to share. Hasenchat has a bunch of tracks on the ever won...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/05/hasenchat-everybody.html

Our old friend, Gurdonark has a new release out called Constellation Blackbird from the netlabel, we are all ghosts .  WAAG describes his sound as "weirdbient".  That works.  We have enjoy...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/05/gurdonark-i-cannot-play-my-mothers.html

Another day, another post.  I've always been a fan of the album as a composition, and Rainy Days by Erik Jackson is just that. > American producer and sound maestro Erik Jackson; sh...

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And for our first oops... a fantastically pure 8bit composition by nullsleep from the collective 8bitpeoples .  Lots of great stuff here! > "Equally suited for use when dancing in fr...

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Bump Foot has always been an interesting place to dig, quite a number of picks from past posts and shows have been from either the Bump or the Foot side of this Japanese net label formed as fa...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/05/shin-wada-scene-1-do-you-know-what.html

Sometimes it pays to look back through our Black Sweater White Cat playlists, when we hosted a two or three hour Creative Commons only show on WBCR-LP in Great Barrington Massachusetts. One of ...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/04/beth-quist-monsters.html

After our belated discovery of the aural excellence of Boogie Belgique earlier this year we have been digesting their back catalog .  This is some really great stuff. Today's track comes f...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/04/boogie-belgique-stairway-to-ussr.html

The netlabel Evoke Records goes back to 1995 with it's roots as an art label with physical releases distributed mostly at art galleries.  Later it morphed into a digital netlabel.   They r...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/04/april-age-of-moon.html

When in doubt go with the Dusted Wax Kingdom catalog . Wow. There is some great stuff therein. Remarkably, I have absolutely nothing on the artist Sp. Ace except they are from Latvia.  It's ...

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Here is an older, perhaps wiser version of Nambavan.  He has appeared on the BSWC radio program here , here , here , here , and here . He also has a track in the One-a-Day feed that was posted...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/04/nambavan-devushka-naprotiv-po-glazam.html

We decided to take a loop through ccMixter.org to see what's up.  Smooth dance rhythm with a message anyone? Loveshadow and Snowflake sound like they have been working together in a studio...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/04/loveshadow-this-lifeboat-lets-change.html

We are going to stay with Japanese netlabel Tanukineiri Records and are pleased to present their latest release, Primitive by Parapunte. This release hit the streets on Friday. Dreamy Indie ...

http://biotic.blogspot.com/2015/04/parapunte-you-are-dreaming.html

We were very happy to discover today's artist. Super Magic Hats is a Melbourne-based musician, beatmaker and producer. This Last Week appears on a collection called Slowly that was released F...

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Getting wild...the weekend is nigh... Thanks to our friends at Netwaves for posting their tribute to Da ! Heard It Records , a netlabel that has catalog going back to 2006. This track come...

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Here is an awesome track from a 2013 release from the Russian netlabel, Clinical Archives .  The release is called You in the Future . Ancient Lasers hail from lovely Whatcom County in the ...

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This track comes from a Various Artists compilation released on the Foot side of the wonderful netlabel, Bumpfoot . The release is called Footprints 2 and hit the streets on April 21, 2012. ...

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