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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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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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GlitchDS is a free cellular automaton music sequencer for the Nintendo DS that could be great for creating IDM and Glitch style loops. 
Features include:

Customizable Cellular Automaton sequencer
Create your own “trigger points”
Load in your own sounds
Save and load your work
BPM settings, or “strum mode” for controlling tempo
Up to 6 sounds can be loaded at once
Each sound [...]

 

This video, via AcePinter, explains creating glitch drums with Reason. Included: RV7000 Gating, Automation, Matrix offsetting, Filtering by gate, and Distortion.

 

Glitch is a genre of electronic music derived from a fascination with the sound of technology failing in interesting ways. While the music originated with musicians exploring things like CDs skipping, the sound of glitch has been absorbed into all types of electronic music, with musicians using glitch noises and effects within a rhythmic framework.
Here [...]

 

Nusofting has released Broken Drum Machine for Mac OS X.
BDM is a plugin instrument designed for musicians who love chaos. BDM offers four drum pads in the style of an old beat box — one each for Bass Drum, Snare, Hi-Hat and Stick. Each pad features the usual suspects for shaping the synthesized sound, including [...]

 

Equinox Sounds and BeatHive have released Binary Code, a downloadable loop pack from electronic composer and sound designer Stuart Sweeney (Node), containing 250 loops and phrases for creating Experimental Electronica, Glitch, Industrial and IDM music.
The collection features melodic elements, beats, rhythmic pulsating textures and atmospheres, all presented in ACID / WAV format.
You can preview [...]

 
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Uruguay-based producer Gustavo Bravetti demonstrates his process of glitching out in Live.
djbravetti via CDM

 

Glitch Gumbo Vol 1 is a new download pack from Atypical Audio featuring electronic breaks and percussion loops. It is aimed at adventurous producers of breaks, IDM, techno and other electronic music styles.
Glitch Gumbo Vol 1 is available in PC and Mac loop formats at the introductory price of 4.99 EUR.
You can download a collection [...]

 

Ever wonder what the New York Times would sound like translated into electronic music?
Hell no! But lucky for us, Bill Orcut did and created a Lily App that he controls with his Monome to “play” web pages:

When the patch starts, the browser enters a DOM inspection mode and mousing over a DOM element highlights the [...]

 

Soniccouture have released Konkrete 2, the follow up to their Konkrete - Glitch Drums and Synthetic Percussion Library.
Konkrete 2 builds on Konkrete Drums 1. The kits are bigger, at a full 61 keys, and now velocity layering is for added detail and control. The sonic range is vast, from booming subsonic kick drums to crunchy [...]