For a couple of years now I’ve wanted to devote a blog to promoting the best in netlabel artists—musicians (generally electronic) who produce & release their work for free on the internet under Creative Commons Licensing (which, as you all know, is one of my favorite things). This is my secret labor of love; don’t ever, ever ask me to talk to you about netlabels if you’re not ready for me to rant at you for a full 15 minutes about how important they are. Maybe someday I’ll be able to devote more space to this project.
For now, though, I figure writing about these artists at all is better than not. But I’ve never intended for this to look like a music review site. I’m not all that interested in writing plugs for these artists—you can check them out for yourself—because not only is it all available for free on the internet, I’m giving you the links. That’s the point of this business. I spend countless hours sorting through the morass anyway, so more people might as well reap the benefits.
Sr.Click is a Spanish mnml producer of whom I’ve been a ridiculous fan for several years now. For one thing, how can you not love an artist who titles tracks things like “My Girlfriend is a Cephalopod”?
Seriously, though, Sr.Click makes mnml that’s all of those things we like about the genre: dark, complex, &, most important, consistently interesting. I can’t tell you how easy it is to get bored with mnml. Oh, god. & unlike house music, the genre of which much mnml is a sub-, you can’t disguise the fact that you’re a boring piece of shit with ALL OF THAT THUMPING BASS. That’s what I like about mnml; you know what you’re getting.
Lest I be distracted from my true cause, though, which is to promote Sr.Click, who most certainly does not make boring mnml, I’m going to cut this rant short & just present you with a party bag full of links to some of my favorite Sr.Click EPs.
Things of a Surrealist City [Intoxik 19, 2006]
01. The Illustrious M.C. Escher
02. My Girlfriend is a Cephalopod
03. Illusion Factory
[NB: Normally I just link to the details page, but Intoxik's site could stand some renovation in the way of usability.]
Sr.Click’s been releasing on inoQuo since 2005.
Dispares [InoQuo 41, 2008]
Minimal Rustic [InoQuo 37, 2007]
Sentido [InoQuo 27, 2007]
There’s lots more, but that’s a good place to start. Check out the Surrealist City tracks first—they’re what sold me on Sr.Click in the first place. For more, check out his discogs page.
—c.
