Perhaps all too often, the sounds of outer space serve as a weak metaphor for electronic music. It’s why “space music” is virtually a genre name for all manner of headphones-only listening, despite the fact that, as we all learned …
Slightly off topic, given that it’s not in MP3 format, but let’s go three for three and close the week with another open-source remix challenge (yesterday’s entry on Wired magazine’s contest here, and the day prior’s entry on Recon’s contest …
OPEN-SOURCE REMIX PROJECT: While on the subject of open-source remix projects, following up from yesterday’s Downstream entry (here) by Chris Coode (aka Recon, aka Motion), it would be negligent to fail to mention ccmixter.org. That’s a self-described “community music …
The Highpoint Lowlife record company and musician Chris Coode, a master of micro-minimal techno, have transformed Coode’s excellent 2004 White Label, released under his Recon moniker, into something of a franchise. First came the record itself, a dozen tracks of …
It feels a little late for holiday music, but there’s really nothing season-specific about “Christmas 1983,” a free MP3 (download) from PanAmerican, culled reportedly from the same recording sessions as PanAm’s Quiet City album (2004, on Kranky Records, whose …
New free Amon Tobin song up in the Ninja Tune record label’s downloads section, and it’s pretty killer (webpage, MP3). Titled “The Lighthouse,” it’s the lead track from his forthcoming Chaos Theory: Soundtrack to Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. …
The Minus Pilots refer to themselves as “sound experimentalists devoted to improvisational aural assaults or otherwise skewed music often played slowly and quietly.” And they have the MP3s to back up the claim. Currently posted on the minuspilots.com website …
You come for the landscape, you stay for the rhythms. More specifically, you head over to David Last’s webpage (somnaut.com) and download his “Landscape” MP3, a survey of grounded atmospheres that’s far more spacious than its 3:10 running time …
The act known as Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) maintains a good track record of posting new free music most months, and the first such MP3 of 2005 is a bit of one of his dance scores (Nemesis, written for the …
One sure contender for a best-of-2004 listing was a small album called Pond, a record constructed almost entirely from frogsong. Olivier Messiaen had his birds, Mira Calix her insects, Ross Bagdasarian his Chipmunks — and Tod Dockstader and his partner …