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 [...]
Free Glitchtronica MP3s
Musica Excentrica - an avant garde post-music netlabel - has released a free album of electroacoustic glitch music, Digital Snow.
Here are the details:
Nikita Golyshev, known as CD-R, and Bogdan Dullsky (Quest.Room.Project) met virtually and have recorded an album. First, they share music file sources in the net, and then processed with real-time sound recordings through [...]
Trent Reznor today announced another free music download, the line up for his touring band and took the opportunity to trash Windows along the way:
I am proud to announce the final personnel lineup of nine inch nails for the foreseeable future. We’ve added, we’ve subtracted and we’ve wound up with unquestionably the strongest lineup I’ve [...]
Free Music From Taiga
Taiga is a solo project of Denis Taiga from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Bitter Tragic Joke is a collection of previously unreleased tracks, recorded in a period of six years, from 2002-2008.
Description:
Sampladelic experience and ethnic eclectic jazz are the basic lines of Taiga: we can hear a lot of samples from Soviet movie pictures and cassette tapes, [...]
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I’m a massive Budd & Eno fan. The Pearl & Ambient 2: The Plateax of MIrrors are two of the most gorgeous and important works of ambient music.
So I was excited to see music blogger Matthew G Davidson (Stretta) offer his take on the classic work of Budd & Eno. Here’s a little background on [...]
Free Music From Four Tet
To promote his new 4 track mini album of minimal techno, Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet has produced a special 30 minute DJ mix of similarly minimal grooves, Ringer:
Tracklisting
Four Tet - Ringer
Liquid Liquid - Bell Head (Harvey edit)
Avus - Tear
Burial - Raver
Sam Clarence - Sextant daktari
Wookie - Manchu 2
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Nine Inch Nails is riding high on the publicity of its heavily hyped Ghosts I-IV release and is capitalizing on that buzz with a new free album release, The Slip. It’s available exclusively as a free download, but physical releases are in the works.
There’s a 2008 Nine Inch Nails Tour coming up this fall, and [...]
Nine Inch Nails has announced that it is giving away its latest album, The Slip, for free:
as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.
the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, [...]
Not only is the deluxe edition of NIN Ghosts I-IV one of the most beautiful box sets ever, they’ve thrown in some extra music.
The deluxe edition was limited to 2,500 copies ,which sold out within 36 hours at $300 each. It includes two CDs, a data DVD with multi-tracks for remixing, a 24 bit/96 kHz [...]
Free New Nine Inch Nails Track
There’s a new free Nine Inch Nails single, Echoplex, that they are distributing via iLike.
NIN has become the band to watch, if you’re interested in the future of music:
The group recently released Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license, which means you can share it or use it in your podcast,
The group offers an [...]
Free Music From Portishead
Portishead gets the 7-minute plus remix treatment from Jay Fields, aka Exillon, a Bay Area electronica artist.
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Netlabel Musica Excentrica has released a new album of free MP3s from Astrowind, Fresh Wind in the Valley of Dreams:
Astrowind might be a slightly ridiculous band name, especially if you consider the fact these two Latvian guys play lush ambient music on Soviet synthesizers. But nevertheless, it’s a good name. An accurate name, at least. [...]
New Nine Inch Nails: Discipline
Nine Inch Nails are on a roll. They are releasing a new song, Discipline, today via their site. It’s a free download, and after all the Ghosts I-IV hype, it’s destined to get some significant airplay.
Preview it above, while you can, and check their site for the download later today.
Carl Stone is one gurus of live computer music in the classical tradition, having worked with computers in live performance since 1986.
I remember picking up a copy of his Woo Lae Oak - a sort of minimal ambient work - in Lawrence, KS.
This was back in the vinyl days, and I hadn’t heard a lot [...]
Dave Cornutt, an aerospace software engineer based in Huntsville, AL, is also an experimental electronic musician, as Source Code.
He blogs at Sequence 15, and has an interesting collection of free tracks that you can download from his site. With each of his pieces, he provides some information on the process and gear that he used [...]
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