With an incipient career and only one released album, many artists are coming out in the desired show business universe:
those who can get a high position in charts and appear on radios and music video channels without leaving behind their own —more or less— avant-garde aesthetic. Short careers but with a big future.
Flowmi picked five artists to watch, discover and, maybe, become a fan of.
In November, Get Physical celebrates its 100th release, which will pit some of its best artists in what the tech-house label calls Battle Tracks (the same track produced or remixed by two different artists). Some of the artists are M.A.N.D.Y., DJ T, Booka Shade, and other international artists such as Italoboyz or Nôze.
After three years of working to become one of the best mp3 blogs where you can read the latest and more important news as regards music, Fluo Kids leave behind the web world: the French bloggers are launching in October their label Fool House, another channel with which they take the idea of sharing musical tastes a step further.
In order to promote their latest releases, Wichita Records is giving away a compilation including tracks of some of the best artists of the indie label. In exchange for your e-mail address, you can download 15 tracks of the renown artists Peter Bjorn and John, Bloc Party, Conor Oberst, Les Savy Fav, Los Campesinos!, among others.
For its 2008 compilation, Soma Records is looking for "an exciting idea that captures the vibe" of the label. So, it has organized, together with Resident Advisor, a design competition to choose the cover art of the album that compiles the best tracks of the year.
To celebrate the ten years that have elapsed since its release, one of the biggest house music anthems "Music is the Answer" is the track participants of the remix contest organized by online music store Beatport, its creators Danny Tenaglia and Celeda, and Twisted Records will have the chance to remix.