E_Boss’ three-song Electronic Brainscape EP opens, on “Elektro Body Music,” with a train’s distant thudding and a swivelling line of static. Though the heavy electro that follows may never achieve — let alone aspire to — the minimalist piquancy of …
There’s a backlog of downloads coming soon in the Downstream, but for the time being, here’s another recommended audiostream: the latest on betalounge.com celebrates the site’s relaunch, with sets by Metrologic, 370, Picadub and Millhouse. Besides being a longstanding …
DSP Holiday is an aural photo album from a true busman’s holiday: three accomplished electronic musicians holed up together in hotels and studios, doing collaboratively that which they generally do individually and professionally, at home, on their lonesome. HAT (to …
Leif Inge’s “9 Beet Stretch” is getting deserved press for its deep-listening approach to the golden oldies, notably in the New York Times this weekend (”Beethoven’s Ninth Around the Clock”). Inge has taken Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and slowed it …
When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. When life hands you a rat infestation, you purchase a trap, you set up high-fidelity audio-recording equipment — all the better to snag the rattling of the mechanism, and the feral squeal …
The fourth and final segment of a wide-ranging BBC interview with composer Gavin Bryars (Sinking of the Titanic) has been posted on its website (here). The occasion for the interview was provided by a formidable new Bryars work, From …
Credit the Notype netlabel with a smart business plan. It’s released a free downloadable album of remixes, 16 MP3 tracks featuring Tomas Jirku, Claudia Bonarelli, A_dontigny and others being reworked by Books on Tape, Dick Richards, Infoslut and others. The …
John Peel, the legendary BBC radio host, is streaming audio from the recent All Tomorrow’s Parties events in the U.K. Up now is a set by Cex — and up this coming Thursday, April 8, is Kid 606. The streams …
Aaron McCammon is said to have recorded the entirety of his seven-track EP, APM, on a pair of inexpensive Casio machines: the RP-1 (”RP” being short for Rapman, which was aimed at kids) and the CA-110. The result is not …
The San Francisco-based Betalounge.com site is one of the oldest, longest-running webcast sources for electronic music. It has a special interest in dub, downtempo and underground hip-hop. And among the most recent treats in its streaming archive are (1) …