UK-based electronic artist Northcape debuted at Monotonik netlabel. His Some Bright Valley contains chilled-out strings and many other relaxing sounds.

If so, visit Cratekings website. If you post your MPs there, you will soon receive some feedback and reviews.

iD.EOLOGY prepared recently its first release in a loose compilation-series, featuring selected genre-specific musical gems by iD. stars and other, not yet presented artists. Edition Hiphop comes packed with some 45 minutes of finest hiphop.

Disquiet is a very interesting blog posting reflections on ambient/electronic music and interviews with the people who make it. Name of the site honors Fernando Pessoa (1888 - 1935), the late Portuguese poet.

Once again we investigate the Sonic Walker collection. Sonic Walker Mix 53 features tracks from the music community Micromusic.

Want to hear some new releases from this year, mainly various styles of house music, mixed in interesting and lengthly (Length: 01:00:00) release? Download the Sonic Walker Mix 54: JFMA 2008.

Minimal techno didn’t belong to my favourite genres for a long time. Then I discovered some melodic and sentimental tracks and I was impressed. So I immediately downloaded one of the latest Mixotic releases – Search For Arrival by Pelle.

Abyssal Plains is my beloved guest in the Kahvi portfolio, thus I was very dissapointed when I missed the newest EP – Pictures in Sound. Recently I’ve downloaded the EP and was, once again, very impressed.

Here’s next interesting post found at Free Your Media website. Reeemix.com is an interesting weblog which posts information about current remix contests.

If you plan to visit Liverpool in the coming days, don’t miss the Open Source City festival. This micro-festival of open source practice in the production of media art and music will take place from 17 to 22 June 2008 (Mello Mello, The International Gallery and Tito’s, Liverpool). [...]