135th Kontrapunkt Radio Show (Tears in Eden) October 12th, 2017 Announcement

Tonight Thursday October 12th, 2017 at 21.00 (CEST, UTC+02:00) the 135th Kontrapunkt Radio Show will be live on air on Rock Serwis FM.

Show première - Thursday at 21.00

 Show replay - Saturday at 19.00

Unfortunately, it happened again that the upcoming edition of Kontrapunkt will not be live from the Rock Serwis FM studio, it has been recorded for you before. But it will be a bit longer. Why?

44th Kontrapunkt Radio Show (Inventory #2) December 10th, 2015 Announcement

On Thursday December 10th, 2015 at 21.00 the next Kontrapunkt Radio Show will be broadcast live on air by Rock Serwis FM.
I realized that a lot of releases have been waiting for their presentation on Kontrapunkt, the time has come to reduce the queue at least a little. And since the Christmas holidays are approaching these are even more desirable.
The nature of the program will be very autumn- and winter-like filled with a serious, thoughtful, sad and grim mood.
But everything will start from birthday wishes for the Rock Serwis FM Radio, which turned 1 year old this Sunday.
Stylistically the show will feature dark ambient, Berlin school electronic and post punk and gothic.
Stay tuned!

W czwartek 10. grudnia o godzinie 21.00 kolejne spotkanie na antenie Rock Serwis FM z programem Kontrapunkt.

Ponownie uświadomiłem sobie, że wiele tytułów czeka na swoją prezentację w Kontrapunkcie, nadszedł czas by choć trochę zmniejszyć kolejkę. A że zbliżają się Święta takie porządki są nawet wskazane.

Charakter programu będzie wybitnie jesienno-zimowy, wypełnią go nagrania poważne, zadumane, smutne niekiedy wręcz ponure.

Ale całość rozpocznie się radośnie od urodzinowych życzeń dla radiowego solenizanta czyli Rock Serwis FM, który w niedzielę ukończył 1 rok swojego istnienia.

W programie sięgnę po płyty, które już swoje odczekały w kontrapunktowej poczekalni ale pojawią się też 2 przyszłoroczne przedpremiery. Stylistycznie będzie m.in. dark ambient, elektroniczna szkoła berlińska oraz gothic.

27th Kontrapunkt Radio Show (Continuum #4) August 20, 2015 Announcement

Subtitle of my next radio show (Continuum) means that once again we will meet the artists and the bands who were featured on the previous programs or have been intended to be presented more often. However, new titles will also appear. This time you can expect a little bit more gothic and post punk guitar sounds, although the beginning will be electronic. Almost the entire program will be drawn with a rather gloomy colours.

In "Lost in Time" we will listen to the archive tape "Hot-Bip" published in 1983, which included compositions by Philippe Laurent, known to us from last week's presentation of this year's single "Mithra". 

I'll also have prepared for the air play a new single by a post punk legend which returns after 31 years of silence. For fans of Bauhaus a must! The single will be released in late September this year.

For the first time in the history of the show, in its giveaway section I will have for you not only a new physical release but also long BEFORE its official street date in September. In an era in which no one trusts one another being afraid of music leak to the internet it is a remarkable event, worthy of appreciation and special thanks, an expression of confidence in us meaning in the show and its listeners by the artists themselves. These will be the "Acedia" CD by Polish act Hidden By Ivy.

Stay tuned!

The Insight Indiegogo.com campaign

The French post punk band The Insight has started their Indiegogo.com campaign. They need your help to release their newest album "White Noise". You are all welcome to join and contribute, surely they deserve your attention and support.

Here is the story written by the band: 

After troubles with our label, we are back to unsigned and need you to release White Noise.
As soon as you listen The Insight, you feel back in the suburbs of Liverpool or Manchester. Expressive voice, English poetic texts on a cold and post punk music, the band wields brilliantly saturated guitars, minimalist keyboards, heavy bass, as well as acoustic and electro beats, that surely will make you vibrate.

Proudly brandishing their post punk English influences, they are anyway French, coming from the city of Rennes in Brittany, where the band was born more than fifteen years ago.

After two albums self produced (“Into the fall” 2001 and “Hidden things”2007), the band joined Crysella Records’ roster in 2014 for the production and distribution of their 3rd album, “WHITE NOISE”. But after big disagreements and disappointment with the company about the release, the band has chosen to end this contract and came back to unsigned.

Now we need your help to release a new edition of White Noise both in CD and vinyl limited edition.

What you will give today will be entirely dedicated to this release and to prepare a tour ! You can be an activ part of the project and support actively indie music ! You can direcly help us to keep on making good music. We plan this new release for September, so keep in mind that you will receive your copy of White Noise in September. The vinyl limited edition could only be done in case we reach our goal, if not unfortunately, we won't be able to make it and give it to you...

Thank you for understanding and above all for helping us !

Free download set 3

Every now and then artists / bands / labels publish music on creative commons license or on "name your price" basis meaning this is legal and offered for free or as "pay as much as you want to donate us".  Such offers may be only temporal, some not. 

To spare your time I'll be hunting down the most interesting ones from my point of view and put them here for you.

Please note that some links may be inactive in time.

This time interesting Polish post punk / new wave band from Krakow, worth checking.

Kandahar - Czarno​-​białe plamy w oceanie name your price 2015

Kandahar - bo jeden to szereg name your price 2013
 
Kandahar - First Studio Live Session name your price 2012

Kontrapunkt Radio Show May 28, 2015 Announcement

In the 15th edition of Kontrapunkt not only new releases will be presented but also artists and bands known from previous shows. 
The beginning will be under synthpop flag - Polish band NUN Electro with brand new limited single "Thunder"( free giveaways for listeners prepared), Midge Ure still before his Polish concerts in Warsaw and Krakow and few more synth acts.
Then the show shifts into post punk, krautrock and experimental.
In "Lost in time" series I'm going to play 2 tracks from never released EP "Lost" by great band The Final Scream.
A month prior to it's street date after almost 26 years since the last one brand new John Robb's album will be presented (this release is fantastic, believe me!).

Next week special edition of the show due to holiday of Corpus Christi in Poland. Stay tuned!