I recently started a netlabel. It's sound is very different from my ambient music.

No-Source is a netlabel dedicated to releasing great free music to a broader audience. We like to think of our existence as filling the void left behind by the amazing Starving But Happy netlabel. No-Source was founded by musician Tim Dwyer (aka Off Land & Full-Source). Tim has been a part of the netlabel culture for quite some time, having released music on Kikapu, Poni Republic, Resting Bell, among many other netlabels.

Stylistically, No-Source releases Indietronic / Folktronica / Mellow Experimental Pop / Toytronic / lo-fi Indie Folk / Chamber Pop / Instrumental / Acoustic type stuff.

Please check it out and I hope you enjoy it. The first release is a compilation and is out now.

http://no-source.info/netlabel

Feedback Monitor has a new Off Land artist profile podcast featuring an interview about Commute as well as a selection of tracks from Rest through Commute.

- Pages (2006)
- In Point (2007)
- Lesley Point (Recon) (unreleased new)
- Input Shape (2008)
- Open (2007)
- Commute, part 1 (2009)

You can freely download and listen to the podcast here: http://www.feedbackmonitor.com/fbm15.html

Visit Feedback Monitor on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/feedbackmonitor


Text Interview: Feedback monitor was nice enough to post a full length Off Land interview on their blog - http://www.feedbackmonitor.com/blog/?p=29

Off Land - Commute

01) Commute (part 1)
02) Commute (part 2)
03) Commute (part 3)

Let’s go back to 2006.
I used to hate my job, the dead-end brainless work.
Even more, I used to hate my commute.
An hour by subway what would take 20 minutes by car if I had owned one.
Everyday I walked to the subway, switching lines in town and took a 2nd line to the end.
I dreamed that one day the subway would take me past the last stop, just keep going.
Or maybe I would end up somewhere else, somewhere new.
Music was my salvation, my soundtrack, those two hours each day.
With or without music the commute was a score I listened to countless times.
On two occasions, for posterity, I recorded the commute.
Now it’s 2009 and my life has changed so much.
I look back into the dust of times and accompany a soundtrack to those days of travel.
This was my commute.

En:peg Digital (subsidiary of n5MD) just released my 2nd Off Land full-length, Blue Narration. 10 tracks of minimal ambient melodies. Recorded during the same period as my previous EP, Grey Surfaces. I'm very pleased with how this release turned out and I hope that you enjoy it too!

purchase here for flac format - Enpeg Digital
purchase mp3s - Amazon.com



Off Land - Blue Narration

01. Fog
02. Contrail
03. Kites
04. It's Him
05. Mid Point
06. Cactus
07. Tall Building
08. Stray
09. Marriage
10. Off Spring

Remarks from En:peg Digital: off land's ambient full-length entitled blue narration channels boards and akira kosemura, and for veterans like myself, dilate (cleopatra) and biosphere. dwyer hits the nail on this one.

6 albums that inspired / shaped Blue Narration:

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)
Moby - Hotel: Ambient (2005)
Stars of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline (2007)
Talkingmakesnosense - Surroundings (2006)
Voodoo Child - The End of Everything (1996)
Woob - 1194 (1994)

With "Grey Surfaces" Tim Dwyer, the person behind Off Land, is back on Resting Bell with another beautiful release. The release contains five new compositions by Off Land and two remixes, done by Placement and Ennio Mazzon.

Compared to his last release "Encounter Point" "Grey Surfaces" is much more reduced, compact and monolithic. Each track has a kind of deep fundamental droning with field-recording fragments, shifting melodies and glitches in addtion to it all. The release is carefully arranged and placed to a single peaceful 40-minute voyage.

The two additional remixes give the tracks a slightly new coat of paint, leading to a noisier, harsher direction, but treat the source material with respectfulness and understanding.

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These songs mark a set of pieces that did not quite fit onto my next full length album, "Blue Narration". "Blue Narration" will be released in the next month or so. Stay tuned.

The new Off Land album is out now. Download at Resting Bell. Enjoy and let me know what you think.

Remarks from Resting Bell:

With 8 pieces and 75 minutes duration, "Encounter Point" is a monumental ambient work. All pieces are arranged very carefully and with a great sense for intensity and tension. The single tracks seem quite minimal and pure on the surface, but when you listen carefully, you can hear layers of different sound sources. There are outdoor-field recording parts, layered with soft keyboard patterns that fade into a slight beat, combined with a shy guitar melody. Every layer is like a unique story line through the complete work.

It’s a great acoustic quality when you’ve a huge depth of multiple sounds in the composition which don’t crush you, but instead give you the possibility to explore more and more with each listening.

Off Land - Encounter Point
march 2008
resting bell

1. Take Count
2. Convene
3. Trench
4. Dust
5. Trail
6. Colloquy
7. Evident
8. Places

LINKS:
http://www.restingbell.net
http://www.full-source.com/offland