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Cezary Ostrowski is a Polish artist and is the co-founder of the DiSfish netlabel (formerly known as the Creative Collective). He is a frequent contributer and participant at ccmixter.

From Wikipedia:

“He founded the legendary Polish avant-tronic music group Bexa Lala. Cezary Ostrowski studied arts and art theory at the Poznan Academy of Fine Arts. He works with Marcin Świetlicki, Olga Ostrowska, Małgorzata Ostrowska, Mikołaj Trzaska and many others. He recorded his first album Nowy Swing in 1984. His latest album Crawl with Marcin Świetlicki was out in 2004.”

This song blew my head off the first time I listened. I had new headphones on and was listening at a kitchen workstation at home. I got very excited. I listened three or four times in awe and then made my wife listen several times, as well.

Now you can, too–Swim with the fishes.

Cezary Ostrowski-I Swim (Radio Edit) (3:26)

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Uh, hi! It’s been a little quiet around here for the last few weeks, and many of you have been worried.

I’m sorry we didn’t call or write. That was so wrong of us, and we won’t do it again, we promise. The next time we’re out later than we think, we’ll so call you and let you know.

But we have news. And when I say “we” I don’t just mean me and my keyboard. Two super-fans of cc365 and Indieish.com have joined up with us to triple our coverage of Creative Commons music. Biotic and Subsystem7, who many of you know from the Black Sweater, White Cat radio show and podcast of Creative Commons music will now be regular bloggers on Indieish.

In fact, we’re going to kick this thing up a notch and go all Web 2.0 interactive kung-fu on you. No, we’re not taking on a massive AJAX redo of our site, we’re doing this old school. I invite anyone who loves Indiesh.com to register for an account, and post whatever you like, whenever you like as long as it relates to the progressive domination of the world by Creative Commons means.

So, what are you waiting for? You love us, we love you.. why not make it official?

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Jag makes some really cool authentic 1920’s style guitar blues. This guy really cooks, and he’ll make an acoustic guitar make sounds you never thought it could.

From Magnatune:
“I got into blues after discovering Robert Johnson and RL Burnside in 1998. I had heard lots of blues over the years but the only artist I really liked was Stevie Ray Vaughan. My music sounds nothing like him however. I had put down my guitar for a few years after getting hooked on computers. I only played sporadically but I noticed that I was abscent mindedly playing old blues riffs.

I remembered that I had the Robert Johnson box set from the 30’s and I started listening to it, not really intending to learn that style. A co-worker at the time was listening to internet radio and one fo the stations played lots of old blues artists like Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell and of coure Robert Johnson. I was immediately hooked on the raw, funky style and investigated further.

Learning these songs by ear was difficult as many are tuned differently from traditional guitar tunings and many artists of that era used capos to change keys which made it almost impossible to figure out what the tunings were. Eventually I stumbled across a video of Bukka White playing what looked like open E tuning. I tried it and voila! I was playing Robert Johnson licks in no time.

I recorded my first 4 cd’s in a little less than 12 months, 3 more followed in quick succsession. ”

More from Jag (Three albums in all) at Magnatune.

Jag - Walkin By Myself (3:06)

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This is a fab little insturmental. It reminds me vaugely of Fugazi, or, well.. then again it doesn’t.

This is one you just have to listen to for yourself. Major warning, there is a massive volume change at the bridge.. so just be careful in your headphones. It’s totally worth it though, this track takes the unhealthy northern European obsession with heavy metal and uses it to transport you back to the days of Headbanger’s Ball.

Check out more from The Walt on Simuze

The Walt has a My Space account. Yippie.

The Walt - De Vraag (6:50)

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Lavora Eletro makes jazz influenced drum and bass. There is very little information available about this band in english but, they are fantasticly talented. Maybe if they see this they can fill in some bio information in the comments and I will come back and add it to this entry.

This track is an entry in the CCmixter Crammed Discs Remix Contest and uses soource materials from Apollo Nove.

Check out more from Lavora Eletro at ccmixter.

Lavoura Eletro - Sussuarana Lo-Fi Adventures (4:47)

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I was stunned when I read this announcement, but majorly disappointed when I soon learned that for whatever reason, the video is only available from google if you are within the U.S. No Pearl Jam happiness in Halifax tonight.

The new music video for Pearl Jam’s “Life Wasted” was released today under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs license, so that people anywhere can legally copy, distribute, and share the clip. This is the first Pearl Jam video to be released in eight years and, as far as we know, the first video produced by a major label ever to be CC-licensed. Pearl Jam and J Records are offering the video as a free download at Google Video from today, May 19th, through May 24th. After May 24th, the clip will be made available for sale. For more information, check out PearlJam.com and CC’s press release.

[via Creative Commons]

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