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I don't know how many of you have heard of the mighty Hippocamp net label, but i owe it a lot. For one, hippocamp.net introduced me to em411; someone recomended me here from there. I've had a couple of releases on there too and recieved some excellent feedback.
Hippocamp was founded by a guy called BSR who used to frequent these boards a lot too. It's sort of based in Manchester, UK, and has had some noteable figures involved including Jim Noir, Batfinks and DNCN who you might have heard of. It's got well over a hundred net releases under it's belt, all at least 4 track eps, many full length albums. It's very unpretentious and covers a massive range of genres - Techno, electro, house, jungle, glitch, acoustic, idm, etc...
Until recently the message board was busy and the releases were coming thick and fast. There was a monthly label showcase night in Manchester town centre which hosted live sets and DJ sets and always interesting visuals from many of the contributors.
Recently, however, the message board is pretty quiet, the night has stopped, and it seems like lots of people have lost enthusiasm. So I wanted to blog it here to highlight what an amazing community it has been, and can (and will) be again.
So if anyone's looking to have some music released online, or wants to listen to some amazing, fresh tunes, or wants to hook up with like minded people, give it a go! link
I reccomend anyone in manchester envolved with electronic music, or trying to find some sort of scene, to try it out. I'm not trying to detract from this place, em411, but would love to see some fresh blood on the boards and some life breethed back into the mighty hippo!
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07/16/08
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mlbot
Hippo what?
what camp?
Just kidding, Hippocamp is amazing. When I first came here I thought hippocamp WAS the em411 record label brand.
07/16/08
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delete
hippocamp rulezes! damn, a lot of great netlabels have been going offline lately. i hope hippocamp doesn't.
07/16/08
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quantazelle
yeah... the gift economy can only run for so long, methinks
07/16/08
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bodo
must admit that's it's been a long time since i checked out hippocamp
there were some real gems on it in the past, really dug the dncn releases and the compilations as well
hopefully she'll live on!
07/16/08
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Unknownforce
maybe we need a new comp top get it going again. We were looking at coming down to Manchester next month (cheap train fares yay!). There should be a regular night again...
07/16/08
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hecanjog
yeah... the gift economy can only run for so long, methinks
4ever!
07/16/08
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quip
yeah it jon and hippocamp basically launched my ahem "career".
so yeah send your releases to them.
07/17/08
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yghartsyrt
hippocamp = yay.
huge place in my heart.
and jon/bsr/biolumi is a really nice person
07/21/08
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prugelknaben
first thing i kinda released was on hippocamp, think it was the first xmas comp, can that be it? yeah.
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