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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, [...]

 

 Taiga Colobox: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Taiga Girl: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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 [...]

 

 Where Abundance Lies [4:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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:

 

 Four Tet DJ Set [30:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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 [...]

 

 1,000,000: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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 [...]

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 [...]

 

 Echoplex: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Portishead gets the 7-minute plus remix treatment from Jay Fields, aka Exillon, a Bay Area electronica artist.
via missingtoof

 

 Portishead Remix: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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. [...]

 

 Lost and Found on the Moon [7:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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.