downstream / WOMAD 2004 Stream
The BBC, which has so much music on its website that one could get lost for a month in its holdings, only to find them replenished anew the month following, has posted a massive catalog of the WOMAD 2004 festival. …
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[ July 30, 2004 / bookmark ]
[ July 29, 2004 / bookmark ]
downstream / MP3 Night Shyamalan
Is there such a thing as a musical spoiler? Spoilers, of course, are details from movies, books and so forth that one learns in advance of experiencing the source first hand. Movie spoilers are perhaps the most notorious. On one …
[ July 28, 2004 / bookmark ]
downstream / Scanner Gristle MP3
Last month, Scanner posted a mix he’d prepared for the ill-fated Throbbing Gristle tribute concert. Described as “a compressed funky collage,” it’s listed under the June 2004 archive of his scannerdot.com website.
[ July 27, 2004 / bookmark ]
downstream / Post-Rave Pop MP3s
The music made by Chance’s End (aka Ryan Avery) is not standard Disquiet Downstream material. It isn’t remotely fragile, abstract or attenuated, and even though it eschews all but the most mechanically tortured of singing — words generally vocoded to …
[ July 26, 2004 / bookmark ]
downstream / DJ Jazzy Jeff MP3s
Who can take a Grateful Dead raga, sprinkle it with a Steely Dan jam, cover it with a Snoop Dogg soundbite, and a miracle or two? DJ Jazzy Jeff can — yes, he of Fresh Prince fame. And he does …
[ July 21, 2004 / bookmark ]
downstream / Un-Saccharine Industrial EP
Robert Willim (aka Selko) has followed up his group field trip with a solo excursion. The IC1 - The Birth of Industrial album, which he organized, featured musicians crafting electronic tracks from a shared set of samples, all of which …
[ July 20, 2004 / bookmark ]
downstream / Hrvatski Streaming Jukebox
On and off, the website of musician Hrvatski (born Keith Fullerton Whitman) has offered a free MP3 of the month, many of them key entries in the ongoing Disquiet Downstream setlist: lightly edited field recordings from overseas, live guitar experiments …
[ July 19, 2004 / bookmark ]
downstream / Matmos Live MP3s
Late last year, the San Francisco-based electronic duo Matmos took over a gallery in the city’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and turned it into its studio, complete with throw rug, piano, computers and all manner of lo-fi noisemakers. …