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Manolis Moumouzias

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Manolis Moumouzias: from Greece


This artist takes the one man band approach, creating layers and harmonies with himself in his home studio.
His talent is clear though collaboration often elvates a sound where one man falls short.  That said, this music by Manolis Moumouzias is impressive and has the potential to captivate an audience.  With dedication to the creative process, Manolis creates his unique interpretation of sound with the motto “just because  a part was recorded, doesn’t mean it needs to be in the mix”.. His cover, Stuck like glue, is his most popular video on youtube.

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Mellow Mood Monday… With some spacy, reverse to close the desert of silence.

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For more info, check out:
Twitter: @iamManolis

His Personal Website

More Free Music: Here

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An Other Great song by Manolis Recomended by freio

 

Tribal Spectrum – Omni Culture

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♠ Tribal Spectrum’s much anticipated new album is finally here! ♠

With a flavor from all corners of the globe, their album truly represents the meeting, merging, and colorful blending of all cultures.  A must-listen-to breakout artist from the Freio Music Community!    If you are in the North West (in USA) don’t pass on an opportunity to watch Tribal Spectrum Play a Live show!

The entire album can be downloaded for free at:  Music.Tribalspectrum.com      (to download a song right here on freiomusic.com, Right click & save the file or link)

 

Tribal Spectrum – Omni Culture – 01 Mystic Nepal

Tribal Spectrum – Omni Culture – 02 Burhan Gypsy

Tribal Spectrum – Omni Culture – 03 Drunken Sailor

Tribal Spectrum – Omni Culture – 04 Can’t Keep A Good Man Down

Tribal Spectrum – Omni Culture – 05 Hardco’ Gangsta $hit

Tribal Spectrum – Omni Culture – 06 Lost Soul

Tribal Spectrum – Omni Culture – 07 Unconditional Love (Marv Ellis Remix)

Tribal Spectrum – Omni Culture – 08 Ambient Temple

Tribal Spectrum – Omni Culture – 09 Soon It Will Be Cold Enough My Friend (Emancipator Remix)

Tribal Spectrum – Omni Culture – 10 Chaahat (Silsila Ye Chaahat Ka Remix)

 

*To download the album check out music.tribalspectrum.com

 

 

Signmark the Deaf Hip-Hop Artist

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Signmark: from Helsinki, Finland

A Deaf Finnish rap artist, Marko Vuoriheimo whose stage name is Signmark, left his (signing) mark on the festival, ‘See the Music’ in June 2011 in Greece.  Signmark, rather appropriately named for being a Deaf Musician, is a young and rising musician who expands the audiences’ mind.  His fluid signing and rhythmic rhyming are impressive, to say the least. “Signmark (a.k.a. Marko Vuoriheimo) started spreading his message over strong beats where hard, low frequencies and bass are playing a crucial part in his performance. These elements help him adapt to the rhythm as he proves; music is more than what you can hear!”

His accomplishments in the Musical community have not gone unnoticed.  He is the first Deaf person to be ‘signed’ to an international major music label.  Signmark has gathered support from friends and the Deaf community to release the world’s 1st ever Sign Language (ASL) hip-hop DVD in 2006.

Signmark shows empathy and support for the hearing world by collaborating with a hearing hip-hop artist Brandon, who is his voice for the hearing audience.  It is arguable that Brandon, a rather bland name, would never have become internationally recognized if it weren’t for Signmark’s commendable efforts with the integration between the Deaf and Hearing populations.  However, without the help and musical awareness of Brandon, there is no doubt that Signmark’s success would have been dwarfed if the hearing audience could not appreciate the music.  By collaborating with a hearing artist who respects Signmark’s style, culture, and language the duo hip-hop team is on their way to change the world.  “Open your mind” signs Signmark, and rapped by Brandon in their song, “Our Life”

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*Signmark is a collaborative effort by Signmark (a.k.a. Marko Vuoriheimo), Brandon (vocals), Weirdness (VJ/DJ)

“The live shows are always bilingual. The songs are performed with American Sign Language and spoken English. Signmark has gained international interest by touring in several countries, including Japan, U.S.A., Iceland, Spain, Ethiopia and Namibia…. The album ‘Signmark’ takes a stand for equality and aims to bring people together”.    The FreioMusic community supports Signmark’s worldly vision.   We would like to send out a warm welcome to Marko (signs), Brandon (vocals), and Weirdness (vj/dj) as they prepare for a comprehensive tour schedule in America.  They plan on stopping in Seattle, Portland, SanFransico, L.A, and several other cities.

Whether this is your first time hearing the inaudible raps of a signing-poet and musician, or if you are familiar with this hip-hop duo from Europe, you can help these artists grow their fan base.  Increase awareness for this spectacular form of artistic expression by sharing with friends.

For more info on Signmark:

http://www.signmark.biz/site/en/home
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialSignmark

Sources:

Source 1
http://www.seethemusic.gr/concept_en.html
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialSignmark?sk=info

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See the Music

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Artwork by Luisella Zuccotti

Deaf people are not only amazing visual artists (see above artwork), but musically inclined as well!  In American Universities, music-history classes often discuss influential blind musicians.  History is old, out of date, yet it is being written today. There are some very influential Deaf musicians, alive today, who have yet to be included in the textbooks.
Roughly 5 months ago, Greece had a revolutionary concert for both the Deaf and Hearing populations called ‘See the Music’.  As stated on the ‘seethemusic’ website: “Our goal with hosting this event is to bring together two superficially different worlds, since the only difference between them lies on the language they use.”  The phrase ‘linguistic minority’ is used to describe the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, illustrating the lack of popularity and fluency in Sign Language.  The concert was translated/ preformed in ASL as well as the Greek Sign Language (GSL).  This concert was free to enter and open to the public.
Artists including K.TBHA and Signmark both preformed at the event.

More info:
See the Music – on the web
K.BHTA on myspace

Music by K.BHTA

A Special thanks to K.BHTA for being the first Artist from Greece to be featured on freiomusic!

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Concert Report from Spain

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            -October 11th 2011-

Photos courtesy of Resistance

A warm brisk night in Seville, Spain, leads to the makings to a wonderful night of music. The music-goers start to trickle in the street surrounding the venue around midnight. Nightlife in Europe begins much later than Americans are accustomed to.  As cars pull up, trunks are popped, music played, drinks are passed, and the dancing begins. Inside Cosmos, a large dance-floor is surrounded by stacks of speakers in all four corners packing plenty of bass with amazing quality.  The lights covered the ceiling, with more strobes behind the performers. A full-service bar with beautiful bartenders, a premium sitting area with a good view of the stage, allowed everyone to find a comfortable place to enjoy the music. Top of the bill were Drum-N-Bass heavyweights Counterstrike from South Africa, with local favorites Dub Elements, Venganza, and Qkhack leading us into the night. Qkhack began the festivities with a wonderful set, a bit lighter than what was to come. Dub Elements was amazing, with a wide variety of drops, bass, and build-ups. The much-anticipated Counterstrike, was worth the wait, and brought some of the most serious bass, heavy hitting hard Drum-N-Bass. The dance-floor literally erupted and didn’t stop moving until the end of their set.

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Qkhack – Broke (Unsigned) by Qkhack

Overall, it was much different from anything else I have ever experienced, a wonderful loving crowd, accepting of my lack of Spanish speaking skills, and amazing music. If you ever find yourself in Seville, Spain check out the Resistance facebook page, they have events sporadically, but would definitely be worth checking out.

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–Christopher Mitton–
Independent Report for Frieo Music

Quick Links for Above Bands
http://www.facebook.com/resistance.group
http://www.myspace.com/counterstrike
http://www.myspace.com/dubelements
http://soundcloud.com/qkhack

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Chris Ilett

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Chris Ilett form Leicester, United Kingdom

Chris started playing music at the age of 12 and his thirst for music still isn’t quenched. Chris Illet’s tallent spans multiple instruments including guitar, vocals, bass, and a laptop.  His style: Rock.  His signiture: Vocals, which are comparable to the lead singer of Bush, Gavin Rossdale and Bob Dylan.  Bush is from London, coincidence?  I think Not.  Chris’s voice has a raspy weathered timbre. His distorted guitar solos tear through the backing instruments with clarity.  He discribes his sound as “Troubled, intense, [and] raw.” Sound appealing? Hear for yourself!

The Drive:

The Drive

Detroit City Wake Up:

Detroit City Wake – Chris ilett

More info and links to Chris Ilett

Chris is currently working on some solo projects on sound cloud.…

twitter: @chrisilett

skype: chris.ilett

website:  chrisilett.com

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the Beat Molecular

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the Beat Molecular

What is the Beat Molecular? The Beat Molecular is an Electronic Music Label from Pakisan!

Well to start off, what is your name?  “My name is Saquib Malik (pronounced Saakib) and my main partner is Abeer Sheikh. Our two other partners are Talal and Zoi. We are all pretty much best friends and grew up together in Lahore, Pakistan, and all started playing music together…. we grew up in Lahore in Pakistan, but today we are all over the world. Our name as a record label is THE BEAT MOLECULAR- and we each spin and produce under our real names, no DJ-sassyrazmatazz bullshit, no offense… we just think our names are unique enough. But again, our label is the beat molecular and it is from Pakistan.”

What is your vision for the Beat Molecular? “We are Pakistan’s first electronic music label. We want to take the best Pakistani artists, collect them, put them out into the world of electronic music and eventually have them break out onto the scenes and circuits where they belong- not just house parties and basements… Instead to spread them and book them all over the world… Pakistan is full of the most insane, mad, amazing, genius raw talent we have seen and we have seen many scenes! We started an underground house/tech house/minimal/techno/deep house scene in Pakistan which is thriving even though some of us are abroad… after Pakistan, where else could we expand, right?
We are each artists who have accomplished/proven ourselves to be of some worth…. Talal and Zoi are on so many labels we lost count, from Rawthentic (Carlo Lio’s label) to Dirtybird (Claude Von Stroke’s) to Airbus to Dantze (Phillip Bader’s label) to Bosphorous Underground (Ahmet Sendil’s label) and so many more… they have several beatport chartings and just are making noise everywhere! The same goes for Abeer Sheikh who on Dantze Records produced I wanna be like you that hit the beatport top 10 the third day it came out, for our boy Hassan Malik (Vivid) whose on Sorobu records, Deso records, and the massive SETA! and the only person in Pakistan who is any good at producing and spinning deep house! to Saquib who used to run a huge death/black metal label and toured the whole US/Canada and all the way to Imaad Manzar, a man who has owned/bumped/thumped/destroyed dancefloors all over Pakistan and is a well known name in the local Lahore scene. Each artist brings his own cult, and well our vision is to expand that cult to the tiniest corners of the world!”

What instruments do you play, and what style would you call your music?  “We are all multi-instrumental… We all literally play every instrument from guitar, bass, drums, keys, vocals, and Sitar! Squib tall and imaad all used to play in metal bands (death metal) and we each played different forms of music before getting into electronic music.”

www.thebeatmolecular.com
thebeatmolecular
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Beat-Molecular/217267821641921

Sketch, from Pakistan!

The Beat Molecular, the first electronic music label in Pakistan, is certainly growing fast and headed in a positive direction with well educated, and cultured individuals leading the way.  One duo to come out of the Beat Molecular is Sketch.  Sketch is composed of Abeer Sheik and Saquib Malik.   Abeer is back in Lahore, Pakistan in law school, while Saquib is in Grenada (a small island near South-America) in medical school.  An interesting combination of cultures styles, degrees, and influences.  Check them out:

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BM001 – Sketch by thebeatmolecular

Click Here to buy music from SKETCH

Currently the members of the Beat Molecular include:

Abeer Sheikh:
abeersheikh
http://www.facebook.com/abeer.music

Talal and Zoi: Talal & Zoi
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Talal-Zoi/145268075806

Hassan Malik : V i v i d
http://twitter.com/HassanMalik_ 
http://www.facebook.com/VIVIDINTHEMIX

Imaad Manzar: Imaad Manzar
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Imaad-Manzar/107014786025241

Saquib Malik: Saquib
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Saquib-music/170133509696946

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Live set- tonights music by Saquib

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StefM

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Stephan Meulen from the United Kingdom

Stefan Meulen has been in the music industry for years floating around genres and bands. Today Stefan is into the dub-electro scene with hints of house, and dance.   “My move into dub and breaks came after a long time performing with bands in different genres when I decided to write some solo material. I have been dj-ing dub for years now and have always loved the dub and ska sounds which have had such an influence in the british music scene since my childhood in the 70’s and 80’s so it seemed a natural progression to start producing dub myself”.

StefM (as he goes by on on Soundcloud) makes his music in his  “home studio near the sea in Yorkshire. Mainly my music is
 created on my PC and laptop using software but I try to fit some of my instruments in where I can, especially the more unusual ones such as the Dan Moi and Didgeridoo”.  Stefan’s ability to play acoustic instruments sets him apart from many DJ’s who only ‘play the computer’.  I asked stephan what age he started playing music at… “I am currently 37 but I performed my first gig as a rhythm guitarist in a heavy metal band at the age of 16 and I have drifted in and out of the music scene ever since.  I have been in a folk/punk band, played guitar and sung at acoustic nights and open mic slots, performed as a didgeridoo player and Dj’d Dub and Psy Trance at raves and free-parties”.

Without doubt, StefM has the sound that will move crowds.  I would like to get to see him play here in the USA someday soon.

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Syzthaime – Nature (StefM remix) by StefM

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The Wife:

Deep Dub Track:

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More Info:

E-Mail: stefm@stefm.co.uk

Personal Website: www.stefm.co.uk

Twitter: @stefanmeulen

SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/stefm

ReverbNation:  http://www.reverbnation.com/stefm

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Mitch Daniels

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Mitch Daniels from London

Mitch is a Singer/Songwriter born in Kenya, now lives in London, Britain (UK). With a mellow and uplifting folk sound, Mitch Daniels is sure to be appreciated by the classic rock fans of the world. There is something everlasting and timeless about acoustic instrumentation, and Mitch has hopped on board the eternal Acoustic Sound Train. Mitch describes his sound as “acoustic folk/pop. Influences include, Jason Mraz, Paolo Nutini, Jack Johnson, Bon Iver, and number of others” he says.  Mitch’s vision: “to work, work and work and make a successful career for myself in music. The dream is to play my own songs for crowds of people, and for them to love them as much as I do!”

Although Mitch Daniels has been on SoundCloud for only three Months, he is taking quick steps in the marketing department, and active on many social networks (see below Links).  With such a work ethic and persistence, Mitch is bound to be heard!  We are anticipating some more new music from this artist within the year.  Mitch collaborates with other musicians in the studio, but will we soon see a Mitch Daniels Band?…Perhaps Mitch Daniels Trio?…  Stay Tuned!

Follow me to the Moon by Mitch Daniels 1

Day To Day by Mitch Daniels 1

For More About this artist check out:
soundcloud.com/mitch-daniels-1
www.mitchdaniels.co.uk
www.facebook.com/mitchdanielsmusic
www.twitter.com/MitchDanielsTwt
www.myspace.com/mitchdaniels1

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