BiP_HOp is a webzine, a radio show, organizing live events, and above all a label documenting the state of electronic art and sound design, unconventional sound adventures, contemporary electronica meet acoustica, modern ambient, minimal techno that is challenging the ears and the mind. Our goal is to avoid categorization, not to fall in a daily routine issuing "everytime the same album", we hope to surprise our listeners.We try to promote them and give to their music some of the recognition it deserves. We do our label out of passion, running a label is our way to share our passion for some musics. We respect people buying our records (don't we share the same interest for good music ?) and try to propose honest prices, good quality & beautifully packaged music. That is challenging the ears and the mind. Our goal is to avoid categorization, not to fall in a daily routine issuing "everytime the same album", we hope to surprise our listeners.
RELEASED Late 2006 :
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BiP_HOp Generation v. 8 [bleep 32]
79 minutes which illustrate perfectly the contemporary alliance of acoustic instruments and digital technologies in music. Exclusive music by MURCOF / TENNIS / MITCHELL AKIYAMA / MINAMO / TU M' / STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESSClick on the art cover
LEO ABRAHAMS : scene memory [bleep 33] A series of contemporary textural studies for the electric guitar. Moody and atmospheric; broodingly melancholic yet melodic; radical but accessible. An air of tension is maintained even throughout the most static and bucolic pieces. Leo Abrahams is also playing with with Brian Eno (appearing on several albums), Ed Harcourt with whom he has toured and recorded for 6 years, and film composer David Holmes (Oceans 12 and Code 46).
SELECTED REVIEWS : an evocative, cinematic, tour-de-force. Essential listening. KULTUREFLASH 175 / UK Abrahams blends piano, guitar and electronics to an almost euphoric effect, the record feels like you are walking in a dream. BOOMKAT / UKClick on the art coverErik Friedlander and Teho Teardo : giorni rubati [bleep 34]
www.erikfriedlander.comwww.tehoteardo.comInspired from pasolini's poetry, in 2004 Italian electronics composer Teho Teardo and New York cellist Erik Friedlander began a trans- Atlantic collaboration, exchanging ideas, creating and remixing each other's contributions. They discovered a rapport that superseded their different backgrounds.The classically trained cellist now Downtown improviser and former electro punk now cutting edge film composer found they shared a drive to create emotionally charged, passionate music. Friedlander has backed John Zorn, Laurie Anderson and Courtney Love. New York's Erik Friedlander is a unique cellist whose work blurs genre borders. He is a composer and an improviser, a classical musician and a jazzbo. The LA Times put it best when they wrote, "Friedlander's performance clearly positions him as the first potential star performer on his instrument."Teho has started the bands Meathead, MATERA (with Mick Harris), OPERATOR (with Scott Mccloud/GVSB) and MODERN INSTITUTE