The Green Kingdom - s/t cd release

Hi, this is my first "official" cd release brought to you by my French bretheren of the lovely new SEM label. Very nice digipak with artwork designed by Markus Schaefer (th.ink™) and lovingly mastered by minimal techno and ambient artist Benjamin Fay (Benfay), from Germany and Switzerland respectively. Links below for more info + samples. Will also be available for download and hopefully from various distibutors soon...</spam>

SEM Website

SEM MySpace

congrats man.

Sweet, sweet.

samples sound good. very fennesz inspired. mei-li especially.

count on me for a sale in the order book.

samples on the player sound very nice.

well done man.

whoa man, the samples sound really sweet. sort of reminds me of marsen jules a bit. i will be purchasing this

Wow, thanks for the kind words and support fellas- it really means a lot to me coming from you guys!

Y'all are right on with your points of reference as well...

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

-Mike

congs

will buy when i get money

Hey dudes, just a little bumpage- you can now preorder from Smallfish in case anyone was sketchy about ordering directly from the label. And they even wrote up a nice little review...

http://www.smallfish.co.uk/shop/browse/?aid=19621

"This debut release from Sem is a delicious charmer of an album from Michael Cottone (previously to be found on the Post Piano Remix Project on 12k's Term offshoot - one of the highlights, in fact). Sounding something like a cross between 12k's more organic releases and a label like Plop, for example, the sound is delicate, yet robust, beautiful and atmospheric and packed full of lovely textural sounds. Elements of folkiness creep into the gentle guitar plucking, but it remains resolutely an electronic based work throughout and the way it builds on sounds and themes is warm, friendly and very, very listenable indeed. Scratchy background samples and layers of static, click and really interesting samples combine with the more musical aspects to give it a dense, yet still spacious feel. Fans of the aforementioned labels will find a huge amount to enjoy with this album and it comes highly recommended."

I won't bump again unless The Wire reviews it or something

hey do you got any copies? i'll buy it direct from you so you get all the money

  awkward said:

hey do you got any copies? i'll buy it direct from you so you get all the money

Hey Andy, no I just got mine today actually- only 2 copies though...

Thanks for the thought anyway

hhhm so i can buy from france or from the uk....but i'm west coast us. where best to buy from?

  awkward said:

hhhm so i can buy from france or from the uk....but i'm west coast us. where best to buy from?

Yeah, no US distributor yet, they are still working on it. The disc has been sent out to various distributors, so hopefully soon...

k keep us informed

hey, love the samples, sounds great to me, especially "mei-li" reminds me stephan mathieu.

one more buyer!

going to check your previous ep (y)

the design is very nice too.

  drei said:

hey, love the samples, sounds great to me, especially "mei-li" reminds me stephan mathieu.

one more buyer!

 

going to check your previous ep (y)

 

the design is very nice too.

Thank you so much drei, I'm definitely a big fan of Mr. Mathieu, your on the right track albeit maybe a bit more melodic than his usual output. Did you hear his album with Janek Schaefer last year on Cronica? Just beautiful!

Glad you like the design, nice and minimal eh? Very similar to my own design style. Was done by Markus Schaefer from Germany http://yookando.com/ Think his new website is a work in progress...

  The Green Kingdom said:

  drei said:

hey, love the samples, sounds great to me, especially "mei-li" reminds me stephan mathieu.

one more buyer!

 

going to check your previous ep (y)

 

the design is very nice too.

Thank you so much drei, I'm definitely a big fan of Mr. Mathieu, your on the right track albeit maybe a bit more melodic than his usual output. Did you hear his album with Janek Schaefer last year on Cronica? Just beautiful!

 

Glad you like the design, nice and minimal eh? Very similar to my own design style. Was done by Markus Schaefer from Germany http://yookando.com/ Think his new website is a work in progress...

hey, thanks you for the music and the info, (just downloaded your ep on eko and sounds very nice)

checking now the stephan/Janek collab, thanks for the info again ; )

i'm designer too! : )

at this moment only have a dumb php colors experiment on my site -heitif- (press F5), hope to upload something soon : )

12 quid, holy shit lol

gonna bump this as it's a beautiful release. it's getting played a lot these days.