Brad Mitchell, like a growing number of electronic musicians these days, distributes some of his crafts for free on the Internet, on so-called “netlabels.” These websites, such as No Type, Monotonik and Stasisfield, offer MP3 downloads of independent music at …
It’s hard to know what some deep-pocketed audiophiles might make of freq_out, a compilation on Ash International Records of art music seemingly crafted for effete dogs — high-pitched experimental music that was commissioned for, in the immortal phrase of songwriter …
The compilation Active Suspension vs. Clapping Music, featuring acts from both those two Parisian record labels, is an album to get lost in repeatedly. From futuristic campfire music to robotic hip-hop, from sad and damaged pop songs to self-described “interstellar …
What do electronica maven Aphex Twin, rap trio De La Soul, and Roedelius, of the ambient-prog band Cluster, have in common? They all fit into the latest free mix tape (well, lengthy MP3 file) from the Corewatch netlabel, at …
Steve Reich is on the phone from his studio in downtown Manhattan. He’s taken some time to talk about Reich Remixed, a compilation album on Nonesuch Records. Nonesuch celebrated Reich’s tenure with the label in 1997 with a boxed set, …
The latest free MP3 EP from the Stasisfield label is Three Works, three tracks of anxious, if spacious, introversion by Meri von KleinSmid: “The Unrest-Cure,” which at times suggests the visits of UFOs in classic science-fiction films, the sense of …
The Traffic film franchise has entered its third stage. It began as a BBC mini-series, Traffik, then was transformed into a Hollywood motion picture, and now it’s a six-hour (including commercials) mini-series on the USA Network (the final of the …
Aphex Twin, speaking to the Syndey Morning Herald newspaper in Australia:
For a few years, I only made stuff on a laptop just because I wanted to train myself. But now it’s like being released from a spell that I …
Following up on last Tuesday’s Downstream entry (here), there are three tracks made on the Nanoloop tool (a cartridge that turns the Game Boy into a rudimentary musical instrument) archived on the readymade.tv site: “Ich Traume Nur in Super8″ …
Following up on the December 9, 2003, entry in Disquiet’s Downstream (here), there’s a free online EP by the same artist, Pocka (aka Brad Mitchell), which saw release in mid-October of last year, and it’s well worth the download time. …