"Almost a yaer ago we decided to start a new dutch netlabel, because of a number of reasons. The main reason was a lack of interest of most the labels. They're just interested in money, nothing more and nothing less! And as artists we're just interested in showing our work and the work for free to others to the world.
So after 24 releases this is the 25th. And it is a special one. We did take 2 tracks from the very first release on EAR-min. The one from Phil Baker. We did take Roomservice and Iselande and challenged producers, who did releases for us and guys we know from the netlabel-scene to make a remix.
The result is a very varieted album with tracks from minimal to techno and from ambient to experimental. There are remixes from Sascha Müller, Ambient Field, Basszüchter (from Oftengrüven records), Tioneb and Strial (from Edensonic), The Moderator, East Island, Igor Vlasov, Peninsula, ZZX, JR-1, Maas and more. We would like to thank every one who did cooperate with this release and supported us over the last Year!
Together with this 25th release we did a hugechange of the artwork. This all is done by R. Giessen aka "The R" (a graphic designer from our part of Holland), who also helped us with the restyling of the website, which will take place within a couple of weeks. Before that enjoy this 25th release on EAR!" (From the Ear's release page)

"A very special release on Ear-Land. It is a complete album from the guys of East Island. The album is called Sadly Brain, also a title of one of the tracks on the album. It's an ambient album which contains 11 of their best tracks, selected with great care and compiled for this album. Typical for this album are the beatiful soundscapes and layers, every now and then supported by sophisticated rhythms, who'll take the listener to new and strange worlds.Because of the fact it is a whole album, as an extra we'll deliver you next to the usual small cover, the CD-cover (back/front) and the diskcover.
Tracks 01,02,04,06,08,10,11 by Peter & Tonie van der Loon
track 05 by KJ Jongsma & Peter & Tonie van der Loon
tracks 03,07,09 Tonie van der Loon.
all tracks created between 1996 and 2004.
Grafiks and ideas by "The R" email; r.mail@home.nl" (From the Ear's release page)

"East Island are Peter & Tonie van Loon, twinbrothers based in Almelo at the Eastside of the Netherelands. They produce a nice progressive melancholy melody. On the whole East Island provide the more endearing listens with their catching blend of elegant melancholy melodies and klumsy funky techno rhythms. On this release they combine electronic with a little accoustic elements. The 5e trakc 'NoiseBeat' is from Peter, the Soundengineer. Wierd sounds from a wierd man. More to come in the near future" (From the Ear's release page)