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Clinical Archives is independent netlabel for eclectic and illogical music. The basic directions : abstract, avant-garde, alternative, indie, intuition improvisation, free improv, jazz fusion, electronic jazz, free jazz, funk rocktronica, jam band, live electronic, experimental, manipulation, neoclassicism, illbient, ambient, musique concrète, noise, tape music, minimalism, acousmatic music, sound sculpture, sound collage, electroacoustic, acoustic; drone, new wave, field recordings, microsound, montage, psychedelic, folk; quasi-folk; prog-rock; post-punk; trip-hop, soundscapes, sound art, spoken word, strange and other forms ... "Clinical Archives is about expanding the definition of music" All those works are released for free under Creative Commons Licences.

The birth of soundscape aesthetics; postmodernism; minimalism and droning minimalism; second-generation minimalists; event music in the electronic age; collage and field recordings in the electronic age; collage in the age of the sampler; post-jazz; post-chamber; glitch; digital minimialism; ambient avantgarde; database of contemporary composers; chronology; selected works...

"(Harrington) utilized the entire ensemble in an alternately dark and rhythmic collage of styles, textures and bits and pieces from all over the world." - R.L. Ragsdale, Riverfront Times, St. Louis, Mo. Electronic music that is tonal and intensely contrapuntal, inspired by New Orleans and classical music traditions. "Harrington is the most intriguing new figure I've discovered on the Web..." Kyle Gann, Village Voice, July 7, 1999

QUALITIES: tribal, minimalistic, trance-like claps (rather than progressive house's snare drums); deep, penetrating, lowtempo beats, foreboding, lyrics+sounds, melancholic, dreamy...can get horrific (screeching, moaning, electronic pulses found in horror movies), intricate basslines w/ pitch changes

Reviews of the underground, eclectic dance music scene, with jazz, latin, electronics, funk, soul, and house mixed in...Eclectica!

Rarely: core melody, prolonged synth, Often: acoustic, live, percussive, chanting, ululation, a capella, drums, drum-centric ~Fuses following ingredients: Latin House, African House, Dark House, Progressive House, Tech-House (techno/jazzy)...like mixing tasteful (intelligent) dance w/ minimal techno.

dhol mridang pakhawaj drums percussion india indian dholak sitar rabab sarangi dilruba sarod santoor harmonium "shruti box" tanpura "electric tabla"