News
June 15th, 2009
So much news at hands, but so little posts lately.
Most important news item for now is the release of the amazing album Broadcasting on Ghost Frequencies by Erstlaub.
After several releases on the London based label Highpoint Lowlife we get the opportunity to present a next work that explores more of the dark moody drones world this Scottish musician lives in.
Broadcasting on Ghost Frequencies is an album you really don't want to miss out on; inspired by the Ganzfeld Procedure where the participant is deprived of visual stimulus and bombarded with white/pink noise drawing the mind to form patterns in the chaos often hearing voices from the past or inventing entirely new constructs within their consciousness, this release pays tribute to the parapsychological mind and its many wonders.
As ussual, the album is limited to 100 copies and available through our shop here or through the EAR/Rational website.
Moving Furniture Records now also moved further in the web 2.0 world. Besides the already active accounts we are now also using Twitter for the occassional news items. You can follow us at http://twitter.com/MovingFurniture.
You can now also check some of our music for free at Bandcamp. It's not possible to download or buy them digital from there, but it's a new option for previewing to replace last.fm which is not available for free everywhere at this moment. Check it out at http://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/
In the past time we had some reviews online for several releases read them here:
Freiband - True Type at EARlabs.
Five Elements Music - Kapotte Muziek By at Heathen Harvest
Five Elements Music - Kapotte Muziek By at Gongzo (Circus) (magazine)
We also have some sad news: We were talking with Celer about doing a release for MFR, but because of a too busy schedule for them they decided to stall it for a while. We might do a release with them later on next year, but we haven't really talked about that yet.
April 14th, 2009
The Christopher McFall album is still fresh, though here we are already with the next release: Freiband - True Type.
Freiband is one of the many projects by Frans de Waard, one of the Dutch masters of experimental electronic music.
For True Type he has not made new music but he selected mp3 releases that needed a proper release because of quality. The 4 selected releases we find here are Reflection previously released on the now defunct mp3 label techNOH, the release Parallel for the 12K side label Term., remixes for the now defunct .Tiln/Antiopic mp3 label and EARLabs released on the now defunct mp3 label EARLabs (still working as review site) which contains remixes of the music by Jos Smolders.
The music is now finally available in full quality as it was supposed to be.
For the Freiband project he gets his inspiration from Asmus Tietchens making use of glitches and pops from scratched cd's and such. Because of this Frans himself would call this popmusic. True Type is a lovely collection of music which shows the diversity of the Freiband project very well.
True Type is limited to 100 pieces.
Next releases coming up are by Erstlaub and Jos Smolders, which both can be expected in May.
In a far away future the plans are there for new work by Celer, Small Things On Sundays, A Vibrant Struggle and much more.
March 6th, 2009
Wow, it's been quiet around here, at least that's what you would think, but enough has happened in the time since last update.
Coming Monday (March 9th) the second moving furniture records release will be presented and it's one I am proud of to announce:
Christopher McFall - Red Is The Color Of Price By Relation
Christopher McFall has made a really personal album with lovely drone and field recordings music.
Later this weekend, or else in begin next week I will make a small diffusion page about this album.
Also later this weekend the album will be available for stream on Last.fm.
If you are interested in the album, from now on you can order it on the left. These orders will ship earliest Monday the 9th.
The Five Elements Music album has received a great review at EARLabs.org (click the link to read it).
We still have some of them available so if you are interested you can buy them by clicking the buy me knob on the left.
You can now also find Moving Furniture Records at Facebook. There is a group and a fan page which you can both join in at.
Click for the group.
Click for the fan page.
These sites are updated on a regular base, much more than this site, so keep up to date by checking there.
Next releases coming up are by Freiband and Jos Smolders. After this most likely a reissue of Erstlaub's album DeConstructed and some new work by him. Keep your eyes open, because more artists who will release here will pop-up soon on some of our sites.
November 25th, 2008
The first review for Five Elements Music - kapotte muziek by has been published.
Niels Mark from Vital Weekly wrote:
FIVE ELEMENTS MUSIC - KAPOTTE MUZIEK BY... (CDR by Moving Furniture Records)
Only a few week's back the album titled "The black and white album" by the project Zebra was reviewed in Vital Weekly (#649). Behind the project was Roel Meelkop and Frans De Waard. The album was a very crossover-based experience with a nice balance between catchy expressions and avantgarde electronics. Present CD find the the two sound explorers back in one of their legendary projects. Kapotte Muziek was established back in 1984. Since then, the trio consisting of Roel Meelkop and Frans De Waard together with Peter Duimelinks has specialized in electroacoustic music. Present CDR is a recording from a live show in St. Petersburg in May 26th 2008. It is one lengthy piece of electroacoustic music combining field recordings with processed and manipulated found sounds and its recycled/remixed by [s], the man behind Five Elements Music, also from Russia. Despite its starting point in found sounds the expression is quite often alienated and otherworldly, with buzzing drones and crackling
noises resulting in an intriguing hypnotic piece of sound art. Five Elements Music manage to create soundscapes that function both as "music" and "abstract sound art". Thus the album will appeal to a wide range of listeners from ambient listeners across Noise-heads to listeners of conceptual sound art thanks to the atmospheric drones offered on this album. (NM)
Address: http://www.movingfurniturerecords.com
November 3th, 2008
Last Friday, October 31st was the release date of Five Elements Music - Kapotte Muziek by. This is the first album for MFR, but more will come soon.
The Dutch duo of Frans de Waard and Roel Meelkop traveled all the way to St. Petersburg, Russia in May 2008, where they did some live performances as Kapotte Muziek. From these performances one has been reworked by the Russian sound/drone artist [S] who also works under the name Five Elements Music. The result is an amazing piece combining field recordings with metal scrapping and oozing drones.
You can listen to some samples on our myspace or last.fm page.
You can order the album through paypal from the menu on the left for 6 euros when in Europe and 7 when outside Europe.
October 5th, 2008
We are working hard to get everything rolling.
Our first release will be Kapotte Muziek by Five Elements Music and should be out by the end of October or begin November. It will be limited to 100 pieces.
We also have a myspace page where you can add us and soon check some samples of the releases we will bring.