Little Boots caught the synth world’s attention in the last year with her combination of looks, talent and gear. 
Here’s the Baron von Luxxury remix of Little Boot’s Meddle. Get it why you still can!
Image: Guy Martin, via Fader

 

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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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 Taiga Girl: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is almost to ridiculous to be true.
The major music labels are so concerned about Apple’s dominance in the world of digital music that they are betting their future on Napster.
The major labels have teamed up with Napster to offer what they are calling “the world’s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store.”
Yep - the labels [...]

Nine Inch Nails is offering its latest CD, Ghosts I, as a free download from its site. The collection is a teaser to promote their Ghosts I-IV, a new collection of instrumental tracks.The official download requires email registration at the site to get a download link. You can also download the collection officially via BitTorrent.
The [...]

Paul at Microscopics, a new UK net label, sent word about their first (re)release.
Microscopics is the label of Mat Jarvis, aka “Gas”, who had a cult electronic music hit with his CD Gas 0095, on the EM:T label.
Here’s info from the label on Gas 0095:
This first release on the new Microscopics label has been [...]

 

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A Synthtopia reader sent us word about some cool free electronica MP3s.
Mirrorman, the new solo project by Lights of Euphoria frontman J. Machon, has released a free 7-track EP, Follow Your Leader.
“If you’re into bands like Depeche Mode, or musicstyles like FuturePop, EBM, Gothic, Industrial and SynthPop, then you will love this music,” according to [...]

 

 Mirrorman: Fetish - Leather Mix [3:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Amazon.com today announced it will launch a digital music store later this year offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels, including EMI. Every song and album in the Amazon.com digital music store will be available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software.Amazon’s announcement [...]

EMI has beat Apple to the punch, releasing The Good, The Bad & The Queen, an album by Gorillaz’ Damon Albarn’s latest supergroup as a DRM-free download.
It’s the first EMI album to be offered for legal download in mp3 format, free of copy protection.
For the first time, downloads by EMI artists purchased from any online [...]