Like trashy 80’s hits & free music? (mp3)
Then you’ll want to check out Buffet Libre. It’s a site that features the Rewind project- covers of 80’s hits by modern indie bands and DJs.
There are lots of quirky electronic takes and some fun bands that you probably don’t know about. Check out Dragonette’s Sharp Dressed Man,  [...]

The PSP RHYTHM development team has released RHYTHM version 8, a free music sequencer for the PSP.
According to the team:
RHYTHM version 8 has been in development for over one year. We have rebuilt the audio engine from the ground up, making many improvements. The User Interface and controls have also been completely redesigned to streamline [...]

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 [...]

 

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Heartcode is the name of the latest free music download from net label iimusic.
It features 10 8-bit style tracks, including:
01 Temp Sound Solutions - The Menu for Today
02 Alex Mauer - Ikea Shopper Credits
03 Disasterpeace - Ensis
04 Animal Style - Stalactite
05 Phlogiston - Crystal Waves (feat. Shnabubula)
06 Alex Mauer - Monstrox
07 Shnabubula - Get Pumped
08 [...]

Stretta’s Matthew Davidson pointed out Cosmo’s latest tip for saving money: wholesale music piracy:
Cosmopolitan’s Bethany Heitman shares a ’shameless money-saving trick’, presumably after penning another fabulous hand-job how-to article:
“Having new tunes is ideal, but shelling out the cash to buy said music hurts. Call up friends, and ask them to burn you a CD of [...]

Ready to chill out for the weekend with a bit of ambient music?
Then check out Matthew Davidson’s gorgeous new release, A Towering Achievement of Indescribable Beauty. It’s a collection of piano improvisations, recorded May 27th - June 11th 2008, between 8:20 and 8:50am each day.
Here’s what Davidson has to say about the album:
There is only [...]

 

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The New York Times has a interview/overview of Trent Reznor today. In it he shares his thoughts on the state of digital music:
Mr. Reznor has no global solution for how to sustain a long-term career as a recording musician, much less start one, when listeners take free digital music for granted.
“It’s all out there,” he [...]

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 [...]

 

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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 [...]

U-No-62 is free virtual Juno synth, available in AU and VST formats.
Features:

More accurate filter sound.
More overtones in the oscillators.
Faster LFO rate (0.1-30HZ).
A lot faster envelopes.
Audio Unit available

Chiptune site 8BitCollective has released a new free CD, Hello World!
Download link
Track listing:
01. MM - 8BC Is Cool
02. Swampyboy - Glacial Floe
03. ChipHydra - Anything with Heart
04. Digital Cait Sith - Krazoa
05. Little-Scale - Hello
06. Raptorface - Cherryblossom
07. Sparkyboy - Gloom
08. Nintenboys - Be Alone
09. Constipation Man - Space Race
10. Failotron - Hello Világ
11. Pandotrix! [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

 

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Remember that little record, The Slip, that we reviewed a few weeks ago?
The audiophile geeks at HydrogenAudio took a look/listen at the files with a scanning electron audioscope and noticed some mastering errors.
The story has a happy ending, though, because the NIN guys are audiophile geeks, too. They’ve released remastered versions of the free tracks [...]

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 [...]

 

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