Here is a beta design of the Bitkins T-shirt designed by Tom Phonic.

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He now have a virb page where you can stream all of our music on demand and check out new tracks.  you can find it at http://www.virb.com/bitkins

You can check out the Bitkins Artists as well as friends of Bitkins by going to http://bitkinsradio.com:9300/ .  We have tons of releases as well as unreleased material streaming at 128kbps stereo. 

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You can download Five Step Path's release at its release page.

After listening to Blue Sign several times; it's still hard to categorize it. There are so many different influences on the Five Step Path sound. Taking elements from industrial over to hip hop (those two genres seemed to be linked a lot) and into ambient. The album is very versatile and varied while still staying coherent. You get this gritty, raw, big balled synths mingling with distorted and disjointed loops in tacks like '135' to completely drone based workouts like 'Hlow'. There seems to be some nods towards classic Warp artists like Autechre and Boards of Canada. Previous efforts from Five Step Path have seemed to wear their influences on their sleeves; but this one homogenizes it into its own slurry of sound. Blue Sign is a bit short, but doesn't leave you feeling let down; especially with an album closer like 'Your Well', leaves you feeling just peachy.

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You can download Tom Phonic's album "Don't Be A Delimiter at the release page.

"It's sad that electronic music gets cut into subdivisions, stacked up in silos, and confined to genre ghettos with the names hyphenated together to fit whatever the new style is that just came out this week. In his new release, Tom Phonic ignores all of this to make an eclectic and creative record that opens the party doors wide. The album, "Don't Be a Delimiter" plays with styles but it sounds more like pointillism than collage. All the micro-parts come together to make a smooth whole, full of surprises without sounding like a mixtape. "Skizzer," track 3 on the album, has a little housey 808 action, a little IDM, some breaks and some rock bass guitar all in under three minutes. It's a contemplative album with a personal element that's most obvious when Tom sings, often with vocoders and unprocessed singing as on "The Sun that Sinks Me", adding a warmth and a seriousness that non-fans tend to assume electronic music can't provide." - Richard of Powerstrip Circus - http://www.myspace.com/octoid

Khoral's album "Uniforms Of Snow" is available for download.  You can download it from the release page.

« Uniforms of Snow » started out a couple of years ago as a tribute to early electronic music, using retro drum machines and analogue synth sounds… it gradually evolved into a full instrumental album inspired by HP Lovecraft’s 1931 novel “At the mountains of madness”, about a scientific expedition to Antarctica that uncovers the remains of a strange ancient culture… now what if the novel had been put into movie around 1975, with John Carpenter providing the soundtrack? This is how it could have turned out... an all-instrumental, vintage-sounding album, with plenty of primitive beatboxes and Moog sounds, and musical inspiration ranging from Brian Eno's 70's ambient textures to Kraftwerk's synth-pop grooves.

SpeaK's album "Your Choice" is available for purchase on CD from Kunaki for $3.00.

You can also download this release for free.

This album was inspired mostly by jungle from middle to late 90's.
It's filled with tons of break edits on every track, so if you're
looking for a steady comfortable 2-step beat, you've come to the wrong place! Most of the tracks are pure atmo choppage, the exception being Smashing Pyramids. The tempo ranges from about 155bpm to around 170bpm.

Ruin's album Happy Drone Day is available for purchase in CD format.  You can purchase it for $3.00 at Kunaki.

You can also download this release for free.

Happy Drone Day is, really, the first official Ruin LP. I say this, although I have released other long play format albums before, because what has been released before have mostly been compilations, or edited into long playing format after the fact.

Here is the mp3 version of the album "Second Hand Sequence - Electronic Music Cover Songs By Neat People." It is a compilation of v