Free Music Friday: Red Sky Lullaby has released an album of chilltronica, am pm that features two 26 minute sides of ‘chilled Electronica, dub, glitch, ambience and all manner of synths’. It’s available as a name your own price download (including free).
Free Music Friday: Reader Jono Wise sent word about a free EP created primarily with the Korg MicroSampler. Here’s what Wise has to say about the release, inVALID INvalidE.P.: I recorded various sounds into the Microsampler, often making use of the 6k lofi mode, after this the tracks were played live into Ableton live, some tracks… Read More Free Music Friday: Korg MicroSampler Experimental Electronica
This is an introduction to IanniX – a graphical open-source sequencer, based on the work of Iannis Xenakis. IanniX Features: Sequencer – IanniX can be used with a diversity of software and hardware tools. Real-time – IanniX can be modified and operated in real-time. Space & Time – IanniX’s graphical space spans several dimensions and time scales. Open Sound Control… Read More IanniX, A Free Open Source Graphical Music Sequencer
Here’s a little something from the free music category for you – Kraak & Smaak‘s My Synths Are The Bomb. via Simon Iddol at APC
Free Music Friday: Reader Mike Leghorn has completed the last section, Neptune, of his new synthesized arrangement of Holst’s The Planets. Leghorn follows in the tradition of classitronica arrangements by Isao Tomita, Wendy Carlos and others.
Free Music Friday: Netlabel Ethereal Live has released a free, Creative Commons licensed album by Simon Walsh, aka Symatic Star. Recorded live at the electro-music.com streaming concert Autumnal Equinox 2011, Transmissions is a performance that spotlights Simon’s instrumental and vocal skills. Description: The release begins with a spellbinding mix of droning synthesizers and spacious melodies… Read More Free Music Friday – Symatic Star’s Transmissions
While researching an The Analog Roland Orchestra, a one man band (Michal Matlak) that makes music with vintage Roland gear, I noticed an interesting comment on the group’s Facebook page that highlights the human cost of unauthorized file sharing: “One week after releasing “Home”, some great guys uploaded it already on the internet. It’s very sad because this… Read More How Should Electronic Musicians Deal With File Sharing?
Free Music Friday: Reader Stig Fostervold let us know about a new release by kr(Æ)ft, We can’t always fight nature, John: kr(Æ)ft is an electronic act from the north of Norway, with a taste for jazz, ambient and glitch. If you imagine a CD filled with electro-remixes of jazz-tunes, skipped across the asphalt on a summer-morning, you’re on… Read More Free Music Friday – Ambient Glitch Jazz From The North Of Norway
Reader Kim Culetto tipped us off to the music video, and a free EP, by independent Swiss producer Echoraum. Echoraum’s EP, You Are The Enemy, features 7 chilled downtempo tracks. You can preview You Are The Enemy with the official music video, below, for Stasis. You can download the EP here (.zip at Mediafire).
Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s a subtle synth jam, Hard Talk, via reader Andrew Current, that makes clever use of a Roland MC-303. Here’s what he has to say about the MC-303 and his track:: It gets a lot of flack as a groovebox and for good reason. But if you dig deep, you can squeeze out… Read More Ambient Groovebox Jam On A Roland MC-303 (+ Free Download)
