The Ninja Tune label has finally updated its free Downloads page (here), with a pair of cuts by two of its newest acts: Blockhead and Skalpel. Blockhead is a New York-based solo musician, and “Bullfight in Ireland,” off his …
Later this month, on the 29th, the Novamute label will release Mutant TG, an album of remixes of music from the inimitable psychedelic industrial act Throbbing Gristle, who started recording in the mid-1970s. Contributors to the collection include Carl Craig, …
The latest free EP from 12k.com’s Term sublabel is a three-track live set by Alessandro Canova, who records as Mugen. The music was recorded like at Fabrica, the Benetton Research and Development Communication Centre, outside Treviso, Italy, on October, 25, …
This is New York Times music critic Kelefa Sanneh’s pitch-perfect description of how abstract electronic music tracks differ from their dance-music counterparts:
they are the electronic equivalent of flightless birds, with vestigial beats that serve only to evoke the music’s …
Saul Stokes recently posted three downtempo tracks at the kahvi.org netlabel, all for free download. Combined, they comprise an EP, titled This Road Is Glowing. “Spirals from Zurich,” with its slow build and its riff slightly behind the beat, resembles, …
Aaron Ximm came up with the idea of a “one-minute vacation” — 60-second sound clips that allow the listener to escape to somewhere else, thanks to the immersive properties of headphones. “Surely you can spare a minute to clean your …
One cannot subsist on abstract sound art alone, so let’s close the week with streaming audio from the Astralwerks Records compilation, freq.beats. On the double album’s promotional page (astralwerks.com/freq_beats), there are full-length streams of 10 of the set’s tracks, …
This month’s free MP3 on the Kracfive label’s “MP3 Rotor” is Colongib’s “Nrack.” It’s a singsong bit of electro-acoustic music, swaying back and forth between two opposing elements (a child’s death rattle and a plaintive synth tone), until they join …
Coldcut spun a two-hour mix along with fellow Ninja Tune Records act Strictly Kev on the BBC’s 6 Music show this past Sunday, February 29. The pop-minded affair starts off, gently, with Hall and Oates, of all things, and moves …
Berklee College of Music professor Stephen Webber explains to the Boston Globe about his new turntablism class at the school
It seemed like everything we were doing in the studio in terms of record production was based on what the …