Description: Welcome to Boomkat - A specialist music website brought to you by a dedicated team who have been operating in this field for over 7 years now - building up a huge resource of information and opinion about music that exists beyond the radar. Our product extends to cover the most underground forms of Electronic music, Hip Hop, Post-Folk, Alt.Country, IDM, Electro, Acoustica, Post-Rock, Ambient, Micro House, Detroit Techno, Mentalism, Electropop, Indiepop, Grime, Free Jazz, Modern Composition, Cologne Techno, Future Disco, Drone, Sublow, Soundtracks, Noise and out and out post-generic objects of wonder.

Digital File Specs: FLAC not specified*

Price: £8.99/album FLAC download

* A Word about FLAC
First, here's what Boomkat says about their FLAC downloads:

What does FLAC mean?
FLAC is a lossless audio format designed for superior sound quality. FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio.

Who’s FLAC for?
You’re a bit of an audio nerd, you regard 320Kbps MP3s to be inferior, you want DRM free, lossless downloads and you want them now! Sound familiar? Then FLAC is for you. Want to know more? FLAC on Wikipedia

Fair enough. Yes, I am an audio nerd and our daughters will offer as much supporting evidence as you require. But the word FLAC is not a file specification, its a file format (I offer this knowledge and the fact that this lack of clarity annoys me as Exhibit A). In other words, you can have 16/44 FLAC, 24/96 FLAC and on and on up or down the resolution scale. I suppose the unscrupulous could even offer MP3 files converted to FLAC as "FLAC Downloads". Thankfully Boomkat has scruples and a bountiful collection of the latest greatest music that doesn't get processed through the remaining bits and pieces of the Music Industry shredder.

I also happen to have a number of Boomkat's FLAC Downloads and they are all CD-quality 16 Bit/44.1 kHz FLAC files. I did send them a request for information asking for details regarding the source, bit depth and sample rate of their FLAC downloads and here's what they said: " ". No, they have not responded but I'm confident enough with personal experience and their implied reference to CD-quality downloads in their statement to offer them up as another rich resource for new music.

A Few Recommended Recordings From Boomkat

Andy Stott
We Stay Together

Brand new release from Andy Stott coming just months after Passed Me By (also recommended) and sounding even more deeply sunk into his slow-churning groove.

Time Hecker
Dropped Pianos

Essentially sonic building blocks for Hecker's 2010 Ravedeath 1972 LP, these manipulated piano pieces still stand on their own as more lovely broken lonely pieces.

Leyland Kirby
Eager To Tear Apart The Stars

Beautiful, sad and cinematic. Piano, sampled strings and other things amid layers of static. I have this record sitting waiting to be played thanks to a very good friend. From History Always Favours The Winners. Cover art is an original painting by Ivan Seal.

Wicked Messenger
Officium Nocturnum

Deep, dark ambient from Martin Kränzel. How deep and dark? Like a or monastery in spiritual decay musical or a symphony foraging the devil.