Microcosm Music

July 6, 2008

Textura reviews of the new digital releases on Microcosm:

"When not overseeing Anticipate and working on his Scattered Practices follow-up, Microcosm head Ezekiel Honig dons his saidsound alias to indulge a jones for eccentric and experimental dance music-making. The two cuts comprising Singing Laundry offer a succinct portrait of the saidsound style: in "Singing Singers Singing," rattles and croaking voice fragments careen over a pulsating throb of subterranean bass lines and warbling chords; by comparison, "Reworking The Laundry" (a rework, naturally, of Macrofun Volume 4's "My Laundry is Drying") is a little less cubistic in spirit, elastically stretches out a base of lapping pulses and shimmering chords for the voice snippets and percussion accents that flutter overtop."

"Tanaka Hideyuki's disjointed dance music fits the microcosm aesthetic like a glove (and, by extension, those associated with foundsound and goosehound too). On Think Zero's three tracks, Hideyuki's nominally funky tech-house material feels like it's constantly on the brink of being hijacked by the flotilla of machine noise with which it's relentlessly besieged. A viral quality permeates the opener "In the Middle" with background whirrs and a woozy, slip-sliding trail of willowy chords threatening to derail the song's more solidly-grounded foundation of hefty bass prod, hand-claps, and sprinting house groove. Similarly, all manner of burbling bleeps and machine scrapes slather the rollicking pulse of "Digestion Is Fine" while in "Think Zero" a punchy house skip charges forth despite the dense blanket of noise accompanying it. The idiosyncratic character of Think Zero suggests that Hideyuki purposefully designs his futurist material to exist equidistant from the dance floor and listening post."
- Textura - July 2008

May 15, 2008

Our newest digital releases are out now! You can find exclusively digital EP's from Tanaka Hideyuki and saidsound in your favorite shops now. The Macrofun Collection #1 is also now available in wider digital release.

April 7, 2008

Macrofun Collection 1 is out this Thursday, April 10, on Beatport. Look for it in other web shops beginning May 13, along with the Tanaka Hideyuki and saidsound releases.

March 7, 2008

Two new exclusively digital releases are on the way this May, from Tanaka Hideyuki, and saidsound, respectively. Audio clips and info will be on the site in a few days.

February 28, 2008

Halcyon, the legendary music store, event space, and all around good place to be, has opened their digital shop, which features the highest quality 320 kbps mp3's. You can find Microcosm releases in their shop, here.

January 22, 2008

A selection of Microcosm releases can now be purchased directly from the label, using secure checkout through paypal.

New digital releases from Tanaka Hideyuki and saidsound, respectively, coming in March and April.

September 18, 2007

The Microcosm in-house mp3 shop is up and running here. It features high quality 320 kbps mp3's of a healthy portion of the releases. More to come. For Anticipate releases in mp3 format, you can find the digital shop here.

August 30, 2007

The new Socks and Sandals record is out! You can find it in your favorite record store or at Kompakt MP3.

July 3, 2007

Ezekiel Honig was interviewed for the new issue of Vague Terrain, which concentrates on sample culture.

April 25, 2007

Come to this year's MUTEK festival in Montreal, Canada. Someone Else and Miskate are both playing, as well as Anticipate artists Mark Templeton with aAron Munson and Sawako.