downstream / Year-End Catch-Up MP3s
It’s pointless to try to close a year of Disquiet Downstream entries with a bang. When you traffic in understated music, as this site has for eight years, what are you going to do? Break ranks by linking to a …
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[ December 31, 2004 / bookmark ]
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downstream / Six Deep MP3s
There’s a six-degrees quality to sleuthing for MP3s across the web. That’s six degrees of separation, not Six Degrees the record label. Sure, there are the standard sources for free music, among them: established record labels (Ninja Tune, Matador, etc.), …
[ December 30, 2004 / bookmark ]
reports/essays / Best CDs of 2004
What a difference a year makes. As anyone who’s checked in on Disquiet.com occasionally during 2004 knows, my listening this year has been focused largely on music released free and legally via the web, whether by netlabels or by individual …
[ December 29, 2004 / bookmark ]
downstream / Global Eavesdrop MP3s
Signals abound that it’s vacation time. Email and voicemail have diminished. TV’s on perpetual repeats, with the exception of the news, which the past few days has been catastrophic, and will continue to be so in the wake of the …
[ December 28, 2004 / bookmark ]
downstream / Field Music MP3
The Field Muzick record label has produced two CDs thus far, the first of which, Music Out of Open Windows, collected 10 acts working along a single theme: “field recordings mixed with music / vice versa.” Among the album’s artists …
[ December 10, 2004 / bookmark ]
downstream / Extended Murk-tronic MP3
Like a lot of abstract, ambient-leaning electronic music, Maikko’s new release on the netlabel Statisfield, titled Kneedeep, defies the ear’s sense of scale. It could be a close-up audio recording of bionic buglife, or the seeping hum of some giant, …
[ December 9, 2004 / bookmark ]
downstream / Penultimate Musork MP3
In a post titled “The End Is Near,” Kit Clayton and Sue Costabile, founders of the Musork record label, announced on its website that they’ll be closing the organization down in early 2005. Since 2000, the duo’s label has released …