Wondering if the Tenori-On is a real instrument or just a toy? Norman Fairbanks has released the first album created entirely on the Tenori-On, 7 Days Microsleep, and it is available for free download. 7 Days Microsleep is a collection of down-tempo soundscapes that showcase the Tenori-on. You can preview the album below. “I borrowed… Read More Free Music: The First Album Created On The Tenori-On
Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman, champions of the happy electropop style, have released a web-based children’s story called Troll’s Story. Perrey and Countryman wrote the text for the children’s book and scored all the original music, and they have made both the text and music available for free download, to be enjoyed by children of… Read More Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman Release Happy Electropop Children’s Story
Here’s a cool ambient track from Monolake, the guru behind Ableton Live. The track is based on some of the source material for the 2004 album release Signal to Noise, and it is mainly a single recording of a longer pad sound of a yamaha sy 77 synthesizer. It has been sampled, transposed, filtered and… Read More Free Music From Monolake
It looks like Nine Inch Nails has decided to give fans what they want, and that includes giving remixers Live Sets to work with. Scheduled for release on November 20, 2007, Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D will feature fourteen tracks from NIN’s Year Zero album remixed by a select group of Trent Reznor’s “heroes, friends, and strangers.” Saul Williams,… Read More Nine Inch Nails to Release Remixable Album – Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D
The Trent Reznor produced debut CD by Saul Williams, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust, is now available as a free download. Here’s what Williams has to say about the new release: My Dearest Friends and Fans, It is my greatest honor to present to you The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, my… Read More Get Niggy Tardust – Free Music From Trent Reznor and Saul Williams
i Promise 2 Be You is a new Internet-based experimental electonic music video show that is available online and also as a video podcast. Finally, something really cool to put on my iPhone! The show is a creation of Geoff Farr. According to Farr, he frequently spent long nights in European hotel rooms in the… Read More Get Your Fix Of Experimental Electronica Videos
While Radiohead and others are dumping the major labels to experiment with offering free music to their fans, trip-hop band Portishead isn’t into all that “music wants to be free” jazz. Don’t expect their music to be distributed for free anytime soon. Here’s what Portishead’s Geoff Barrow has to say about the situation: “so then…….music… Read More Portishead Not Into That “Music Wants To Be Free” Jazz
We don’t talk a lot about rap at Synthtopia, because rap’s focus is primarily on the vocals, rather than the synths. But the music of rap and hip-hop is intimately tied to electronica, with cross-pollination going back at least as far as the sampling of Kraftwerk in the seventies. If you’re a fan of rap… Read More Free MP3s From The Wu-Tang Clan
Liz McLean Knight, aka Liz Revision, describes herself as “a multi-websited busybody, experimental electronic musician, and jewelry designer, with a love of all things technologically innovative and geek-chic.” We found her site while checking out some dj-geek wear and were impressed. Knight’s got one of the coolest portfolios of projects that we’ve seen: Produces experimental… Read More Chicks That Mix: Liz Revision
The UK’s Mail On Sunday has given away about three million copies of Prince’s new album, Planet Earth. The promotion has generated heated debate in the UK, because some consider the giveaway an insult to the music industry. The giveaway is a high-profile example of an established musician experimenting with new ways of getting their… Read More Prince Gives Away 3 Million CDs
