Entity is a netlabel

Netlabel

A netlabel is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio formats over the Internet...

 specialising in experimental

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

 electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

. The label was established in 2003 by Belgian musicians Jan Robbe

Jan Robbe

Jan Robbe , otherwise known by his music project aliases Atomhead, Erratic, and UndaCova, is an electronic music artist. He founded the experimental netlabel Entity in 2003 with friend Nico de Gols . Jan Robbe is known for expressing various musical styles under different pseudonyms...

 and Nico de Gols, working under the monikers UndaCova and Kaebin Yield, respectively. Formed from the remnants of the now defunct dark ambient

Dark ambient

Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Although it had its roots in the 1970s, Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of newer, smaller, and more affordable Effects units, synthesizer and sampling technology...

/noise netlabel Tinnitus, Entity has since expanded its repertoire to include many different genres, and has released music by artists from all over the world. In 2005 Gols parted ways with Entity, leaving Robbe as the sole label manager. Entity is a nonprofit netlabel that distributes its releases for free under Creative Commons

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...

 licenses, hosted by file repositories Archive.org and Scene.org

Scene.org

Scene.org is a non-profit organization, providing the currently largest demoscene file repository. It was founded in 1996 by Jaakko "Mellow-D" Manninen, though originally it existed as ftp.fm.org, an FTP-server for releases from the group Five Musicians. In 1997, it re-opened as Scene.org...

.

Notable in the label's catalogue are releases by Robbe himself, who goes under the names Atomhead, Erratic and UndaCova; Entity-born collaborative groups xE Phalanx and Idle Sunder, Hecq, Xanopticon

Xanopticon

Ryan Friedrich , better known by his moniker Xanopticon, is an electronic musician. One of breakcore's most prominent producers, he has toured internationally and released music with several electronic labels including Hymen Records, Mirex, Cock Rock Disco, Entity and Tigerbeat6...

, Hangars Liquides

Hangars liquides

Hangars Liquides, also known as HL, is a French electronic label. It was created by La Peste in 1998. Initially Hangars Liquides was Speedcore-oriented but was quickly categorized as experimental music within the hardcore techno scene...

-owner La Peste, Zavoloka

Zavoloka

Zavoloka is a contemporary experimental music and electronic music composer, sound artist, improviser, performer and graphic designer from Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. She was born in 1981....

, Subskan, Sytrjv, Cisfinitum

Cisfinitum

Cisfinitum is a post-industrial noise project from Moscow, Russia. It was started in the late 1990s by composer and musician Eugene Voronovsky and has drawn significant attention as one of the most uncommon and distinctive on the national experimental scene...

, and many others. Entity celebrated its 40th release with Tetroid 2012; a game and electronic music compilation. It has been described as a "psychedelic Tetris

Tetris

Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...

 clone (with references to Mr. Driller

Mr. Driller

is a series of video games developed by Namco. Mr. Driller puts the player in the role of a driller moving down through screens of blocks, having to keep his air supply from running out while avoiding being squashed by falling blocks...

 and Arkanoid

Arkanoid

is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. It is based upon Atari's Breakout games of the 1970s. The title refers to a doomed "mothership" from which the player's ship, the Vaus, escapes.-Overview:...

 as well), featuring 21 music artists. It is meant to bring experimental electronic music closer to the people." Entity marked its 50th release with a follow-up compilation entitled Vortex, which was acclaimed by one journalist as the "singular apogee of Entity's artistic vision". It was played on Mary Anne Hobbs

Mary Anne Hobbs

Mary Anne Hobbs is an English DJ and music journalist from Garstang, Lancashire. She launched a new Primetime show on Xfm on 9 July 2011-Early career:...

' Radio 1's Experimental Show

The Breezeblock

The Breezeblock was a weekly radio programme on BBC Radio 1 that premiered on 17 February 1997 and focused on electronic music. The show's earliest broadcasts were unmixed and featured individual songs, some of which were recordings of live sessions from BBC's Maida Vale Studio...

, which often features Entity artists Barbarix and Herd.

In 2004 a micropayments system was implemented, allowing listeners to donate directly to the artists, as well as help finance server costs and future physical releases. The following year "micro-releases" were introduced; short EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

s which can be purchased through paypal

PayPal

PayPal is an American-based global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders....

 for a nominal fee. So far three releases have been distributed this way.

Entity is commonly associated with the terms "flashcore" and "cybercore", which are used to describe an acousmatic

Acousmatic music

Acousmatic music is a form of electroacoustic music that deals specifically with acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The practice has a historical basis in musique concrète. It can be created using non-acoustic technology, exists only in a recorded format , and is composed for reception...

 form of highly-complex hardcore techno

Hardcore techno

Hardcore techno is a type of electronic music typified by the rhythmic use of distorted and atonal industrial-like beats and samples...

. Considered a leading proponent of the style, Entity has released albums by flashcore artists such as Atomhead/UndaCova, Kaebin Yield and Sedarka.

Artists

.at/on a.s. Acta Antanas Jasenka Atomhead Autopsy Protocol Barbarix Beatwife Binray BLÆRG Bogdan Dullsky Casual Coincidence CD-R Chango Feo Chlorophyll Fluxbunny Circuit Paralelle Cisfinitum Critikal d.compose Danny Kreutzfeldt Disastrato Dotkràz Duncan Avoid element.act Elín Ellende Erratic

Esther Venrooy ETO Exclipsect Fabrice Planquette Flimmer Foul Shape fp Giorgos Stefanou Hackeronte Hanga Gallon Hecq Herd hns.dly Idle Sunder Inshizzo Isopussy Kaebin Yield La Peste m__ Mathieu Ruhlmann Metro_NM N.Nenov no Xivic Om Otets Dekan Pandemia Photophob

Plagasul PlanetZoo ps Quest.Room.Project Ronny Ragtroll S.A.T.K.A. Scene Sedarka Siegmar Fricke Somaticae Subskan Sytrjv Takeshi Nakamura The Ambling Band Tirriddiliu Tomoroh Hidari Transcendent Device UndaCova v4w.enko vteb White Nois Stasis Xanopticon xE Phalanx Yannis Kyriakides Zavoloka Zoogoo

Catalogue

Note: other labels' discographies presented in this catalogue include:

• Tinnitus (TNS); a netlabel founded in 2002 by Nico de Gols, which is the precursor to Entity. Its primary focus was on power electronics, noise, abstract industrial and musique concrète
  Musique concrète
  Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...
  
  . Breakcore
  Breakcore
  Breakcore is a style of electronic music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and Intelligent dance music. Its sound is largely characterized by a high-tempo, well-timed mingling of distorted kick drums , break beats arranged from samples of the Amen break, and audio samples from a...
  
   and speedcore
  Speedcore
  Speedcore is a form of hardcore techno that is characterized by a high rate of beats per minute and aggressive themes. The name originates from the high BPM rate, which rarely drops below 300 BPM. Earlier Speedcore tracks averaged at about 250 BPM, whereas more recent tracks sometimes exceed 1000 BPM...
  
   were also explored in its first and final compilation, Digital Insanity Compilation v1.0, featuring artists such as Ed Flis and Pr0metheus burning
  Pr0metheus burning
  Pr0metheus Burning is a two-member electro-industrial group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which started in early 2001...
  
  . Tinnitus closed in 2003 when the illegal server that hosted it was shut down. The "lost" Tinnitus releases have since been re-uploaded by the cyber-organization
  Cyberculture
  Cyberculture is the culture that has emerged, or is emerging, from the use of computer networks for communication, entertainment and business. It is also the study of various social phenomena associated with the Internet and other new forms of network communication, such as online communities,...
  
   Scene.org
  Scene.org
  Scene.org is a non-profit organization, providing the currently largest demoscene file repository. It was founded in 1996 by Jaakko "Mellow-D" Manninen, though originally it existed as ftp.fm.org, an FTP-server for releases from the group Five Musicians. In 1997, it re-opened as Scene.org...
  
  .

Title	Artist	Cat No	Year
Distress EP	D.I.N.	TNS001	2002
Drug Bad EP	Lost_Bit	TNS002	2002
The Delegation From Nowhere	Ellende	TNS003	2002
Tehdas EP	no Xivic	TNS004	2002
Assembled and Disassembled Structures	Carroña	TNS005	2002
A Girl Raped Before Her Marriage Is a Whore	ps	TNS006	2003
Digital Insanity Compilation v1.0	Various Artists	TNS007	2003
Ergchie	Nightech	TNS008	2003
Pragmatic Impulse	5E Phalanx	NTT001	2003
...	element.act	NTT002	2003
Sleepsoup	Ellende	NTT003	2003
The Garden of Unearthed Machines	White Nois Stasis	NTT004	2003
Analysis	d.compose	NTT005	2003
Sous quel ordre	Acta	NTT006	2003
Ilion	m__	NTT007	2004
Pulse	7E Phalanx	NTT008	2004
Impressions	Elín	NTT009	2004
Venus Urania	Pandemia	NTT010	2004
Signs of the Unseen	Chango Feo	NTT011	2004
Smart Disable For All	Ronny Ragtroll	NTT012	2004
20040701	a.s.	NTT013	2004
Universumix	Say My Lovehole, Hanga Gallon	NTT014	2004
Revery	8E Phalanx	NTT015	2004
Degree Absolute	Transcendent Device	NTT016	2004
Elettra	Tirriddiliu & Hackeronte	NTT017	2004
Activation Fields	Erratic	NTT018	2004
Incessant Subversive Decibels	BLÆRG	NTT019	2004
Virtual Love Cell	Beatwife	NTT020	2004
Shibashi Todomen	Sedarka	NTT021	2004
Folding Light	Idle Sunder	NTTD01	2005
Spiral Field Velocity 1.0	Atomhead	NTTD02	2005
Fiuk & Csajok	Fabrice Planquette	NTT022	2005
Highly Coloured Places	Yannis Kyriakides	NTT023	2005
Landschaft	Cisfinitum	NTT024	2005
The Calm of the Suns	Mathieu Ruhlmann	NTT025	2005
Aspekt / Audience / Ascent	CD-R	NTT026	2005
Untitled	Dotkràz	NTT027	2005
Mouthscapes #1	Hns.dly	NTT028	2005
The Recombinant Design	Satka	NTT029	2005
Malgyl	Cisfinitum	NTT030	2005
Aether I	Idle Sunder	NTT031	2005
Polymorphism	Kaebin Yield	NTT032	2005
Cederoth Bloodstopper	Binray	NTT033	2005
Umami	Autopsy Protocol	NTT034	2005
Skazka	Metro_NM	NTT035	2005
Sonic Machine	Antanas Jasenka	NTT036	2006
Rust	Dotkràz vs. Idle Sunder vs. Casual Coincidence	NTT037	2006
Silhouette	9E Phalanx	NTT038	2006
Winter Center	ETO	NTT039	2006
Aether II	Idle Sunder	NTT041	2006
Neuromecanismo	Siegmar Fricke	NTT042	2006
Room Number	Quest.Room.Project	NTT043	2007
Undertones	Elín	NTT044	2007
Psygnosis I	Idle Sunder	NTT045	2007
Strange Animals	Takeshi Nakamura	NTT046	2007
Greatest Clubhits From Beyond	Ronny Ragtroll	NTT047	2007
Nothing Stands Between Us	Elín vs. Erratic	NTTD03	2007
Endlessly Regurgitating Pattern	Otets Dekan	NTT048	2008
2 Humans in a Cage With Their Everything Box	PlanetZoo	NTT049	2008
Tetroid 2012	Various Artists	NTT040	2008
Vortex	Various Artists	NTT050	2008
Lucifer's Happy Hunting Ground	Barbarix	NTT051	2008
Cendres	fp	NTT052	2008
Très Textual	Disastrato	NTT053	2008
Water Message	Scene	NTT054	2008
Psygnosis III	Idle Sunder	NTT055	2008
Metal Alloy	Antanas Jasenka	NTT056	2009
Life, This Strange Discharge	PlanetZoo	NTT057	2009
Tangents 32 - 39	Herd	NTT058	2009
Psygnosis II	Idle Sunder	NTT059	2009
Pack	.at/on + v4w.enko	NTT060	2010
Songs for 14 Years Old	Takeshi Nakamura	NTT061	2010
Floating Eye Syndrome	Foul Shape	NTT062	2010
Cosc	N.Nenov	NTT063	2010
Selected Rooms	Ryukau	NTT064	2011

External links

• Official site
• The main Entity Portal
• Entity at Last.fm
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• Entity Group at Last.fm
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• Entity at Discogs
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• Entity at Myspace
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