If you’ve been waiting a long time for that 8-bit cover of Smack My Bitch Up, your wait is over.

Russian chiptune artists got their lo fi on and put together three (3) – count ‘em – The Prodigy tribute albums.

The album site is sort of inpenetrable (when it’s not in Russian) so look:

• here
• here, and
• here

You can preview $ele?’s Smack My Bitch Up below.

Musicians featured:

• PHILIPPE JELLI
• JIMMY BEHAN
• VENUS VULTURE
• THOMAS ANFIELD & DAVID BIRCHAM
• RICHARD LAINHART
• CIMARRON CORPÉ
• SHIN ICHIRO A
• ROB THEAKSTON
• SIGHUP

InFrequency asked the musicians to submit their own interpretations of an 1860 recording by Édouard-Léon Scott that’s thought to be the first recording of the human voice.

The free release goes along with a limited-edition two CD release of the same name. Details at the Infrequency site.

Download link (zshare)

This project is a conceptual extension of breathing life back into this document through modern technology; deciphering a voice that was etched into a thin layer of oil lamp smoke, and featuring a diverse group of international contemporary composers, creating new works from this ten second piece of history.

The original recording was made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on April 9, 1860 using his own invention, the phonautograph, and consists of a series of scratches on a roll of blackened paper. Scott had never developed a way to play back his recordings and they went unheard for 148 years. In 2008, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory converted the thin lines back into audio, allowing us to hear a woman singing a segment of the folk song Au Clair de la Lune.

via Wha! – the bastard pop netlabel – comes a free album, the Mashups of the Year 2008, compiled by Simon Iddol. 

[download links >> torrent / uploaded.to]

01 Go Home Productions - Finally, Did You No Wrong MOTW #69
(Spliced Krispies album)
Ce Ce Peniston VS The Sex Pistols
02 Divide & Kreate - Livin’ la vida MOTW #99
Bon Jovi VS Coldplay
03 dj lobsterdust - Epic Black Rock
Faith No More VS Queen VS AC/DC MOTW #67
04 DJ Morgoth - Ace Of Spades Feels Good MOTW #94
Gorillaz VS Motörhead
05 Pheugoo - Sign me Baby MOTW #78
Snoop Dogg VS Red Hot Chili Peppers
06 Hi-brid - Golden Boy MOTW #88
Klaxons VS Bronski Beat
07 DJ Zebra - Roxanne should be dancing MOTW #90
Bee Gees VS The Police
+ beats by Groove Armada 
08 Copycat - Singing that A-ha melody MOTW #91
A-ha VS Swingfly
09 Dunproofin’ - Electro Sandman MOTW #87
Metallica VS Deadmau5 VS F*kkk Off*
10 locK3Down - Snake Pusher MOTW #75
Ice T VS Audio Bullys
11 Apollo Zero - Robot Music Forever MOTW #82
Bruce Haack VS Kraftwerk VS Men Without Hats VS Donna Lewis VS Tracey Thorn VS I Robots
12 DJ Earworm - United State Of Pop MOTW #51
Billboard TOP25 2007
13 ComaR - Wonderlie MOTW #72
Oasis VS Black Eyed Peas
14 10 000 Spoons - This Charming Caravan MOTW #60
Smiths VS The Housemartins 
15 Mighty Mike - My love letter MOTW #57
Renan Luce VS Justin Timberlake
16 Wax Audio - Born In A Bad Place (When Jimi met Björk) MOTW #71
Jimi Hendrix VS Björk
17 Phil RetroSpector - The Good, the Bad and the Creepy MOTW #85
Radiohead vs Hugo Montenegro & his Orchestra
18 G3RSt - Pretender To Heaven MOTW #65
Led Zeppelin VS Foo Fighters
19 DJ Schmolli - Wicked Wedding MOTW #95
Chris Isaak VS Billy Idol VS HIM

parameters
the .zip file is 153 Mb
you have to unfold it with a software like winrar(PC) or ZipIt (Mac)
it contains 19 tracks, in mp3 files, an m3u playlist,
plus a txt info file and the printable cover,
use the attached playlist file (m3u) for listening
the order of the tracks is very important as always
but  the tracklist is not a chart!!
this is not a top list, it is the best of collection of the  MOTW series

It’s a free set of Christmas-themed mashups, featuring a mess of improperly cleared samples, mashed up like a scoop of Idaho potato goodness.

Sources include Radiohead, The Jackson Five, Brenda Lee, Bert Kaempfert, Petula Clark, The Ramones, Paul McCartney, Blondie, Johnny Cash & Neil Young, The Chemical Brothers, The Grinch Theme, 50 Cent, Chuck Berry, The Bee Gees, Django, The Who, James Brown, Augie Rios, The Specials, Charles Brown, Curtis Mayfeild, Jennifer Lopez, M.A.R.R.S, Destiny’s Child, Shakin’ Stevens, Run DMC, Mariah Carey – and a bunch of other people. 

Don’t miss the likes of Xmasploitation & The Chemical Drummer Boy!

Download page.

TRACKLIST:

1. Christmas Bop- Smash Up Derby (San Francisco, USA)
2. Christmas In The City – Martinn (Sas van Gent, The Netherlands)
3. You Should Be A Freaky Christmas, Baby – ATOM (NYC, USA)
4. Whoville: Won’t Get Yuled Again – mojochronic (Berkeley, USA)
5. Xmasploitation (Santa’s Baddass Revenge) – mojochronic (Berkeley, USA)
6. High Tides And Blocked Peace Pipes – Go Home Productions (Watford, UK)
7. The Nightclub Before Christmas – dj BC (Boston, USA)
8. Chemical Drummer Boy – Cheekyboy (Southend-on-Sea, England)
9. Pumping Up Christmas – DJ Schmolli (Vienna, Austria)
10. A Message To You Santa Claus – FAROFF (Brasilia, Brazil / Cambridge, MA, USA)
11. O Chanuka Dubstep Bassline Remix – DJ Flack (Boston, USA)
12. Scarey Xmas – DJNoNo (London, England)
13. Little Saint Grinch – Mr Fab and His Bag O’ Heads (Hollywood, USA)
14. Polex Swing – Ace of Clubs (Virginia Beach, USA)
15. Sugar Plum Fairy Coda (dj BC recoda) – dj BC (Boston, USA)
16. It’s The Little Things – Voicedude (Anaheim, USA)
17. Blitzkreig Santa – Divide and Kreate (Stockholm, Sweden)
18. Nude Christmas – Solcofn (Washington, DC, USA)

From its name, you might think Älymystö was a shelving unit from Ikea – but it’s Aktually a Finnish band that combines “elements of ambient, noise, industrial, triphop and god knows what in the mix.”

They’ve put up their latest album as a free Creative Commons download:

Our first album Atomgrad is now a free download (direct & torrent) and copying is highly encouraged, as are comments.

Direct Download HERE.
Torrent HERE.

via Warren Ellis