32nd Kontrapunkt Radio Show (Mosaic) September 24th, 2015 Announcement

The subtitle of this show (Mosaic) suggests that its content will be quite varied.

The program will present you the recordings almost exclusively from new albums released this year.

The show will be opened by an artist from Iceland who is the Golden Globe winner for film music, then we will listen to the tracks by projects from Russia and Ukraine, later also from Hungary. Polish accents will also appear.

Once again, I encourage you to take part in the Warsaw Dark Electro Festival and IV Kalisz Ambient Festival, which Kontrapunkt Radio Show supports as media partner.

Stay tuned! 

31st Kontrapunkt Radio Show (Bipolarity #2) September 17, 2015 Announcement

Our second meeting under the title "Bipolarity" will be dominated by two themes - EBM and dark ambient.

In the first hour of the program I will tell you about the origins and the beginnings of the group Front 242. In the second part we will be listening to the classic dark ambient - the great Swedish project raison d'etre.

Stay tuned!

30th Kontrapunkt Radio Show (Continuum #5) September 10, 2015 Announcement

This week I'm strongly behind the schedule, which is why this time the announcement of the next show will be fairly brief.

The subtitle of the program means that I will continue the topics and themes already begun in previous editions. Among others the show will feature "Synthpop Pill no. 2" and next edition of "Lost In Time" section of the show (with tracks by A Sordid Poppy). I have also the next giveaways for my listeners and invitation (double!) to Die Krupps gig in Warsaw prepared.

What else? Traditional handful of news and some older recordings from various shelves.  

Also some very famous voices will sing for us (including Robert Smith of The Cure).

Stay tuned!

29th Kontrapunkt Radio Show (Suspense) September 03, 2015 Announcement

I'd  like to build the upcoming show according to the canon of good thriller movies, that's why it is entitled "Suspense".

Therefore everything will start from the earthquake, will be shock, will be scream and then the tension will only grow, but there will be the moments of calm as well and at the end the destructive and uncompromising attack of mechanized armoured forces will take place.

Again we will meet in "Lost in Time" section where the music  for fans of The Cure will sound, will be new "Synthpop Pill" section (including fragments of a strong candidate for synthpop album of the year), for the first time we will have a look at the lineup of this year's IV Kalisz Ambient Festiwal.

And will be contest for listeners, this time I will give away 3 genuine copies of the new and ATTENTION still not officially released full length album "Alchemy" of Polish band NUN Electro, I know that my listeners have been waiting for.

The program will be filled with the overwhelming majority of new titles and also some still unreleased albums.

Stay tuned! 

28th Kontrapunkt Radio Show (The Night) August 27, 2015 Announcement

I invite you to our next meeting in last Thursday evening of August on the Rock Serwis FM radio.
  

This edition will be both unusual and special.
The second hour of the show will be dedicated to the music of one band only. I was impatiently awaiting for the latest album by Lycia entitled "A Line That Connects" and now the great opportunity arises to dedicate the whole hour to this amazing American band. We will be listening to the best, most personal recordings of this release selected for you by Mike VanPortfleet himself, separated by tracks from the first three albums recorded by Lycia. 

And the first hour? I will try by using music (in most cases brand new) and a poem to enchant you and lead you into the night. 

"Take my hand and lead me to the garden of delight"
 Garden Of Delight (Hereafter), "The Mission" Gods Own Medicine "1986

Stay tuned!

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!

Kontrapunkt Radio Show (Ice) August 13, 2015 Announcement

Weather forecasts predict approx. 2 weeks more of tropical conditions here in Poland. This time I will propose to you music, which at least partially should bring a little coolness.

Among other things, there will be a new ethereal music of John Fryer, brand new single by Philippe Laurent, the latest recordings from Maciek Szymczuk, fresh music by Andrzej "Andy" Turaj known to you from God's Own Medicine and whose music has been highly regarded by listeners, who along with Rafal Tomaszczuk (earlier in Polish synthpop band Agonised by Love) will release a new record as Hidden by Ivy on September 4th. (4AD alert!). Certainly Edward Ka-Spel will appear and his story about rats and pigs which did not fit week ago and there will be of course several new recordings more.

In addition, the promised competition (for fans of synthpop) and by the special request of many of you Minuit Machine will return. The next meeting of "Lost in time" this time will cover the lost project connected personally with the group Tangerine Dream but sounding surprisingly different.

Stay tuned!

Kontrapunkt Radio Show (#25) August 06, 2015 Announcement

This Thursday the premiere of  25th edition of Kontrapunkt (another small jubilee) will take place so the subtitle of the show is obvious.

As usual the program content will be the music from a variety of genres, in the vast majority from new releases (for instance unreleased until now tracks by John Foxx and Kirlian Camera and if time permits, Edward Ka-Spel). In several recordings we will hear Polish language and few Polish projects will be on air as well..

There will also be a little jubilee summaries, also I have prepared a contest, this time for music fans of cold wave and post-punk.

Also we will bid farewell to our dear music friends - Louis Zachert (Cycloon, Metroland) and Stephen Huss (formerly Psyche), who passed away this weekend.

Stay tuned! 

Kontrapunkt Radio Show (Bipolarity) July 30, 2015 Announcement

This week the first edition of a new sub-series entitled "Bipolarity" will take place on Kontrapunkt Radio Show. In the future programs subtitled like that I will present the selected two topics in a more systematic form than usual.  
In "Bipolar" programs, I will be telling you the stories of artists, bands, labels, will present their full discographies in chronological order etc. I will also talk about musical phenomena, development of genres and so on.

Bipolar programs will appear on the air from time to time, unless of course you don't like this formula. I will be waiting also for your suggestions of topics that you would like me to take in subsequent sections of the series.

This week I will tell you in a condensed form the story of the legendary Cold Meat Industry, and in connection with the recent death of Dieter Moebius we will be listening to the archival Kluster music from the vinyl.
Stay tuned!

Kontrapunkt Radio Show (Inventory) July 23, 2015 Announcement

I finally decided to carry out the little clean-up and play for you the titles that have been politely waiting their turn for some time. Stylistically from gothic through minimal synth, film music and dark ambient. There will be mainly releases from this year.

In "Lost In Time" album recorded in 1986 by the American quartet formed by young musicians fascinated by the sounds of Factory and 4AD.

Two genuine copies of the Atomzero "Symbiosis" CD are waiting to be given away during the program.

I will also invite you to Combichrist concert, which will take place on August 5, 2015 in Progresja club in Warsaw (invitation for someone of you with accompanying person has been already waiting).

Stay tuned! 

 

 

Kontrapunkt Radio Show July 16, 2015 Announcement

Holiday summer season is on the run thus everyone thinks about resting, vacations, travelling, festivals... Well, maybe not everyone, I can only dream about all of these still staying on Kontrapunkt's post.

This time it will be summer show dominated by synthpop and minimal wave themes. Something by Polish artists will be presented as well, there will be also an accent for Depeche Mode fans.
 
At the end the atmosphere will be chilled a bit, I will air great Bad Sector album and the newest Attrition release (Attrition giveaways are prepared for listeners - thank you Martin!).
 
Furthermore as usual - hot news and older tracks, for instance still fresh KMFDM and new Chant prior to it's street date.
 
"Lost In Time" series will be also presented again, this time with the cassette release from 1982.
Stay tuned!

Free download set 4

 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.

At Sea Compilations with very good selection of tracks. Recommended!

VA - Snowflakes I name your price 2012
"Snowflakes I" features acts from the genres Folk, Neo-Folk, Goth-Rock and Singer-Songwriter

VA - Snowflakes II name your price 2012
The compilation "Snowflakes II" is a journey through Folk, Neo-Classic, Post-Rock and Dark Wave. With artists from Russia, Japan, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, England and Hungary. 

 
VA - Twist The Past 1 name your price 2014
The compilation "Twist The Past I" contains Post-Punk, Gothic-Rock and Wave music from all over the world.

 

VA - Klangrausch name your price 2014
The fourth release of At Sea Compilation features Singer-Songwriter, Indie Pop and Pop Folk artists from Germany, Scotland, Russia and Canada.

 

VA - Snowflakes III name your price 2014
The compilation "Snowflakes III" containes nearly three hours of romantic folk, ethereal, piano and neoclassic music. Due to its self-contained diversity "Snowflakes III" is a very atmospheric journey through dark romantic music from all over the world.

 

VA - Twist The Past 2 name your price 2015
19 great modern acts of New Wave, Minimal and Old-School-Goth-Rock.

 

VA - Efflorescence name your price 2015
"Efflorescence" collects modern Dream Pop and Shoegaze music. Spheric and ethereal pop and rock music enchants the birth of spring with elaborate melodies, good lyrics and soulful vocals.

 

VA - German Gothic Isn't Dead name your price 2015
"German Gothic Isn't Dead" shows and presents the other side of the modern german gothic music scene. No Aggrotech, no NDH! Simply Gothic-Rock, melodical Gothic-Metal, Wave and other older styles of dark music.

 

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 !

Kontrapunkt Radio Show July 09, 2015 Announcement

The subtitle of the program ("water") refers to the fluid, without which it would be difficult to imagine our existence, especially in such hot weather we experience recently. Thus, in the first part of our meeting streams of water will flow...

Again I will invite you to MPM "Ambient Festival 2015" in Gorlice Poland which will take place this Friday and Saturday. One double invitation is waiting for someone of you.
On the show tracks by projects from current festival line-up Ebauche, Aquavoice and the brightest star of the festival Pieter Nooten will be presented. I also have free Aquavoice CDs for listeners. 

What else? During the show I will also play some new tracks including another Dave Middle's band - Black Buttercups and fantastic brand new Bad Sector.

I don't forget that July 11th we will be celebrating the 35 anniversary of one of the greatest electronic album of so called "new romantic" movement. Relevant songs will also be air played.

Next episode of "Lost In Time" will bring back Sudeten Creche tracks.
 
Stay tuned!

Kontrapunkt Radio Show July 02, 2015 Announcement

We are stepping into summer holiday season (unfortunately not me, I'm thinking about the work which is ahead of me and must be done soon) but Kontrapunkt is not slowing down and I have for you a handful of music premieres.

This time I will lead you from post punk and gothic rock through ambient and broken electronic to dark ambient and tribal.

Last week Mittageisen competition will be finished, I will be talking about The Inside croudfounding campaign , Frank Weyzing and his Born for Bliss will show up, we will meet again Dave Middle but this time as a part of Long Bone Trio project.

In news few very interesting, strongly electronic releases will sound including one done by Russian artist and newest release by Attrition.
Stay tuned!