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Best of 2019 Series: Post Rock (01-50) – An Indie30 Playlist on Spotify

It is Post Rock’s turn to take the spotlight today in our Best of 2019 series, certainly a year which marked the return of some big guns in the genre. There was a fair amount of originality and nuance...

UPDATE: New House – An Independent Music Playlist by Indie30 on Spotify

Featuring Shanti Celeste ∇ Panthera Krause ∇ The Juan Maclean ∇ Krystal Klear Wax On Mare Street ∇ Lord of The Isles ∇ Chaos In The CBD ∇ Matt Karmil This weeks update of our New House Playlist on...

BÄRTAUB RELEASE MARBLE EP ON R&S

Last week, esteemed Istanbul DJ/Producers Mutlu San & Batu Güler aka Bärtaub dropped their new 12″ single Marble on the ever salient Belgian label R & S. It follows up their contribution to that label’s RV Tracks Vol 3...

LUKE HESS VENTURES INTO THE DEEP

Detroit techno electronic producer Luke Hess has released his latest masterclass in hardware generated techno, Into The Deep. An explorative feel characterises what is essentially a stunning EP with Hess utilising iconic gear to generate and harness a 90’s...

NEW EXPERIMENTAL & ELECTRONIC UPDATE – AN INDEPENDENT MUSIC PLAYLIST BY INDIE30 ON SPOTIFY

Featuring new music from; CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA – SHARDS – EKIN FIL NINA KEITH – RICARDO DONOSO – HTRK MAJEURE – FIRES WERE SHOT REY SAPIENZ – JAVONNTTE – FRANCOIS DILLINGER SASSY 009 – FLOATING POINTS We begin our Experimental...

COUCH PRINTS DELIVER SOFTLY STIRRING DEBUT

The softly stirring ‘Tell U’ is the debut track from Queens electronic pop trio Couch Prints. A deliberative beat establishes a timeless tempo as a magic blend of guitar melodies and treated synth sounds establish a hazy yet focused...

NEW EXPERIMENTAL & ELECTRONIC: AN INDEPENDENT MUSIC PLAYLIST UPDATE BY INDIE30

FEATURING NEW MUSIC FROM LEIF, AFRIQUA, WATA IGARASHI, AGRIPPA, JUNG AN TAGEN, SEAMUS O’MUINEACHAIN & ORPHAN SWORDS. There were a first class stack of new experimental and electronic music releases this week and we’ve just added a whole heap...

A WORLD ON THE PRECIPICE; PAULA TEMPLE RAGES AGAINST OUR UNFOLDING SELF DESTRUCTION ON LONG AWAITED DEBUT ALBUM

Berlin based English DJ/Producer Paula Temple has released her long awaited full length debut album Edge Of Everything. The title and its abrasive textures perfectly capture the parlous state of existence in the face of an unfolding human induced...

NEW EXPERIMENTAL & ELECTRONIC – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST UPDATE

There was a stack of great experimental and electronic music released during the month of April and this update captures the latest 30 of them. Our New Experimental and Electronic Playlist on Spotify begins with the jazzed up ‘Takashi’,...

BETSY PHILLIPS RELEASES NEW SINGLE/VIDEO, EP OUT IN MAY

Nashville based artist Betsy Phillips began a Kickstarter campaign in January to aid her in bringing her second EP Like We’re Talking out into the world. Recorded in May of 2018 with Dan Knobler and a coterie of quality...

WHAT WE’RE ABOUT

Indie30 is a globally focused independent music blog run by a very small band of music tragic's from Adelaide in Australia. We believe passionately in posting about and promoting new independent music from a diverse range of genres and styles.

While many have retreated from using the term indie, it's proudly been our primary name from the beginning. Contrary to how it is often used, the term does not describe a particular music genre or style. Indie is simply short for independent label.

Used correctly, it describes music created and released independently of the three big music labels owned by multi-national entertainment conglomerates, Universal Music Group (Vivendi Corporation - France), Warner Music (Access Industries - Russia) and Sony Music (Sony Corporation - Japan) along with the 500+ subsidiaries and sub-labels they have between them.

As Indie30 exists solely to promote music and culture independent of the narrow confines and constraints of mainstream belief and corporate practice, we do not feature or promote any music by artists signed to these entities.

Given their underground roots and their constant refusal to yield to corporate greed, Techno and House for example are genres more indie than the pop, rock and folk genres that are mistakenly and often disingenuously mis-labelled as such.

As 4AD, Sub Pop and Matador are “indies” so are Warp, R&S and Ostgut Ton.

To ensure complete freedom and transparency in what is promoted on Indie30, we do not accept any payment or favours for content. The blog has always been and will remain a labour of love, a voluntary entity that is completely non-financial in status. All of us associated with this site have full time jobs unrelated to music.

Whether creating it or experiencing it, independent music and culture is in and of itself a political act. We are unashamedly progressive in all spheres of life and will never compromise our commitment to defend freedom of expression, speak truth to money and power, celebrate diversity in all its forms, fight for equality of opportunity for all and respect our place with the planet not above it.

If you are an independent artist, producer, record label, artist centred agent or publicist and you've taken some notice of what we do here feel free to email info through the "Contact Us" link. You can also find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Due the large volume of requests we receive, these are info only avenues. As we gladly do this in our down time we normally cannot reply to messages so please be sure to send what you think we need.

Advance promos of singles, EP's or albums are especially welcome and alerts of new videos too. Indie30 does not engage in musical criticism. Quite simply, if we like what we hear and we can, we'll promote it. If we don't, we won't.

We strongly encourage readers to support the independent artists they like featured here and purchase (not just stream) their music and merchandise. The cultural worth of any society is measured by how it values and supports its art - and independent artists have always given society far more than they'll ever receive.

James Stocker - Indie30 (Founder & Editor)

#indieisnotafuckingenre

NOTE: Indie30 in no way supports or is affiliated with Spotify or its artist unfriendly business model. It is simply used as a platform to promote the artists we feature in our 7 New Music Playlists and their accompanying edition in our Tracks of 2020 Series.

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