Occasionally someone is kind enough,
or inspired enough or has enough free time on their
hands to review a Boltfish release,
write about one of our artists or simply makes a
comment about the
label as a whole. Below are some of the items we've
come across. If you see anything about us that isn't
on this page, let us know - we might have missed
it!
We've split the reviews by release, as well as including
some general comments at the bottom of this page.
General Reviews/Comments on Boltfish
Recordings
E|I Mag
"Better to burn out than to fade away…maybe IDM, as a strict, now probably passé, genre rubric, adopted said platitude years ago, but the enterprising label Boltfish ain’t having none of it. As far as they’re concerned, the propagation of “organic electronica” (Boltfish’s own descriptor) is a categorical imperative. At least from a British standpoint, there’s few labels left out of a once mighty Anglo collective (e.g., Neo Ouija and Expanding’s dormancy, though both poised for resurrection; others such as Focus/Defocus and New Electronica long dead and buried), which seems to smack of marketplace logistics rather than consumer indifference. Certainly on evidence here, these three recent Boltfish outings are testament to a continuing evolution of rhythmic laptop-generated electronica doing its best to bypass genre shoehorning or succumbing to any of its software manipulator’s compositional mouse-traps."
Electric:Electric News Issue
21
"Boltfish is a label set to grow
and grow not only because it has a priceless knack
of picking the best new artists in its field to work
with (Zainetica and Ochre are just two on the ‘Region
Zero’ sampler worth keeping an eye on), but
because there is an underlying, positive ethos behind
the label that keeps the focus on the music and nowhere
else."
Igloomag
"Known for releasing quality electronics
by means of MP3's on their website (feat. Zainetica,
Mint, Bal-a-klah-va, Mediumdan, Cheju, Karmoy), Boltfish
are among a handful of young labels pushing the edges
of cinematic electronics into the right direction.
"
JustAddNoise.com
"The first
thing that makes anything released on Boltfish
recordings so bad-ass, besides
the music itself being great, is that Boltfish
is an artist
owned, non-profit label."
"We are yet to hear anything disappointing from this label and are looking
forward
to the new stuff they have coming up in the near future."
OctopusDropKick
"A non-profit, technology embracing record label
is certainly an unusual thing. I wonder how they
finance their operation... However they do it,
they have some pretty cool music free to listen to on
their site"
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