https://soundcloud.com/user18081971/iwanttobewithyouafx-editionala-sideedwrdget-dwn-crosby88-street-side-boyzprodmaster-cj Free Music Friday: Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) shared this take on a 1988 Chicago house track, the Street-Side-Boyz’s I Wanna Be With You.
This video, via composer & sound designer Richard Devine, captures a new modular synth performance, Ascension. He’s also released it as a free download, via Dropbox (.zip of an .mp3 file).
The latest episode of Amsterdam’s Dekmantel Festival Podcast features a 4+ hour session of the tracks that influenced Autechre (Rob Brown and Sean Booth).
This video, via FACT TV, takes a look into the studio of Dutch producer Legowelt (Danny Wolfers). In the video, Wolfers makes a track from scratch, using a combination of his own patches and sample packs, a tape player and more.
https://soundcloud.com/scanner/phenol-time Free Music Friday: Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) shared this track, Phenol Time, as a free download, via SoundCloud. In the track, Rimbaud explores the abstracted emotional quality of processed vocals, along with the sound of the recently introduced Kilpatrick Audio Phenol synthesizer. Here’s what he has to say about the track:
Free Music Friday: The Sonic Encounters podcast features ‘soundscapes synthesized from sounds around us.’ With the Sonic Encounters podcast, synthesist Mark Mosher explores his experimental side Each episode features a soundscape that falls somewhere between ambient music and experimental electro-acoustic music. In the most recent episode, Mosher credits the ground-breaking work of Louis and Bebe Barron… Read More Free Music Friday: The Sonic Encounters Podcast
Moog Music this week released a free EP of music by synthesist Robert Rich. The EP, Hiding In Daylight, was created to commemorate the retirement of the Minimoog Voyager Rack Mount Edition (Voyager RME) analog synthesizer. Hiding in Daylight is a 3-song EP, embedded below, of evolving soundscapes. Moog describes the EP as “a meditative… Read More Free Music Friday: New Music From Robert Rich
Netlabel Spheredelic has released a tribute to Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream as a free download (Creative Commons License 3.0 Germany-BY-NC-ND). The music “reflects Edgar Froese´s work in various facets, partly continuing the tradition of Tangerine Dream, partly seeking new ways. This way Edgar Froese remains alive in the collective musical memory.”
Aphex Twin/Richard D. James has deleted the tracks that he’d previously shared on SoundCloud and is now offering them as a free download.
https://soundcloud.com/fsk1138/sets/fsk1138-ringtones-2007 Electronic musician and multimedia artist FSK1138 (Donald Baynes) shared this collection of 55 free ringtones.
