howsthatsound has posted an interesting experimental track that explores using the iPod’s shuffle function to create chance music: [display_podcast] Here’s the background on the track: This track was assembled in real-time, or as I implied, improvised by my ipod. I selected three sound files to use as material and chopped them up into individual sound… Read More iPod Chance Music
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… Read More Trent Reznor Announces New Free CD; Lights In The Sky
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… Read More Free Music From Taiga
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… Read More Free Music From 8BitCollective
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… Read More Free Album Download: Gameboy Madrigals
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… Read More Matthew G Davidson: A Monome Glitchtronica Take On Harold Budd
This is the trailer of the upcoming Dreamwatchers DVD: Dreamwatchers’ Tales is a common project managed by Darklion The concept is simple. It’s a compilation album with electronic musicians from around the world. In the year 2000 the members of the tadream mailing list in the yahoogroups decided to joined their musical talents to create… Read More Dreamwatchers DVD Preview
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… Read More Nine Inch Nails Re-Releases The Slip
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: [display_podcast] Tracklisting Four Tet – Ringer Liquid Liquid – Bell Head (Harvey edit) Avus – Tear Burial – Raver Sam Clarence – Sextant daktari Wookie –… Read More Free Music From Four Tet
Radionomy, a Belgian startup, is a site that lets you create a free, ad-supported Web radio station The site, now in beta testing, is designed to make creating a Web radio station trivial, letting you browse through vast music, jingle and content libraries made available by Radionomy. You can also integrate your own musical creations… Read More Radionomy Lets You Create Free Web Radio Station
