Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And where there’s a campfire, there are ghost stories to be heard. So in the spirit of Halloween, the final MP3 for this week’s Downstream is a five-minute tape of a late night fire. It’s …
An album of science-fiction-themed electronic music from Canada, Pheek’s new collection, Tabisuru Kokoro, is the latest release from Thinnerism Records. Thinnerism is a German label that distributes its music online as free sets of MP3s. Pheek is Jean-Patrice Remillard, a …
Wondering what Daft Punk, the French electronic group, has been up to? They’ve collaborated with longtime anime figure Leji Matsumoto on feature-length release, Interstella 5555, due out on DVD on November 18. The film is subtitled “The 5tory of the …
From a review of Saira Shah’s Afghanistan memoir, The Storyteller’s Daughter:
[S]he is disturbed by the Taliban commander, met on leave in Pakistan, who tapes the sound of battles he has fought “so that I can play them later for …
The online label Microbio’s (microbiorecords.net) latest release provides not only free MP3 files, recorded at a high level of data integrity (224kbps), but also a nifty free CD sleeve, in color, ready to be downloaded and printed (in the …
Steve Reich, the minimalist composer, has his own website, at stevereich.com. And since the website’s launch, it has featured, on its multimedia page, a single MP3. It’s no meager offering. It’s a live recording of the world premiere, from …
For inclusion in Disquiet’s Downstream department, the Polish label Vivo has graciously uploaded two full-length MP3 tracks, one from each of its two most recent albums. “Daygan” is the first track on Amir Baghiri’s new album, Yalda, and it’s something …
DJing has always had its fair share of gamesmanship and combat, from reggae dubplate soundclashes, to hip-hop battles, to remix one-upmanship, to the more recent explosion of live laptop jams. Enter the Kracfive label’s Iron Chef of Music contest. As …
Plastikman, born Richie Hawtin, is one of the great techno minimalists of North America. His new album is titled Closer, and he has posted the entire thing online in streaming mode (here). Closer is the first new Plastikman full-length …
Today’s MP3 listing is something of a Disquiet.com exclusive. Saul Stokes, a San Francisco Bay area electronic musician, made available earlier this week a five-file batch of MP3s that document his solo ambient-electronic performance from just a month ago, on …