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The Residents get my vote for being the strangest music group in history.
There might be other bands that are extremely bizarre, but none that have been making music - a term some would debate - as long, or as consistently bizarro, as The Residents.
If you’re not familiar with The Residents, they are an American conceptual [...]

 
icon for podpress  Smelly Tongues [2:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
 

What happens when you combine age-old contrapuntul style with Gameboys?
One possibility is Joey Mariano’s Gameboy Madrigals:
Early composers of the madrigal used only two to three voices to create counterpoint. Realizing the opportunity for reinterpretation through the gameboy sound chip, Joey Mariano set out to create a body of chiptune madrigals inspired by early RPG games, [...]

 

We’ve got another helping of great free electronic music for you today, courtesy of Part2, an independent record label based in Cambridge, UK.
part2 is a new label, launched in March 2007. The label features ambient, abstract and hard to define electronic music. While currently a net-label, part2 plans to offer cds and other media soon.
Current [...]

 
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It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia.
All month, we’re going to help you kick the RIAA habit by highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
Binary Mind is a French electronica group that has released several CDs of free music. Their tracks range from ambient to techno to industrial.
You can preview one [...]

 
icon for podpress  Naia [4:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
 

March 15: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. All month, we’re going to help you kick the RIAA habit by highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
Previously, we’ve looked at free trance music, free electroacoustic music, Berlin-school bootlegs and some 8-bit madness.
Hopefully, you’ve got some hard disk space left, because [...]

 
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