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[ February 28, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Varese MP3

Another fine Other Minds MP3, from the Internet Archive, at archive.org. It’s a 1973 KPFA broadcast of a 40th anniversary segment on early electronic composer Edgar Varese’s historic percussion piece, Ionisation, which famously included a siren in its score. …

[ February 25, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Shoegazer MP3

After a long work week (President’s Day notwithstanding, at least here in the U.S.), nothing may be as soothing as a bit of navelgazing — or, more to the point, shoegazing. Yes, the genre is alive and well, and at …

[ February 24, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Legal Thievery MP3

Free downloadable music appears regularly, in plain sight, and with little fanfare. Dig a little on the Amazon.com site, and you’ll find not only free music promotions for artists ranging from Cex to Sigur Ros to Depeche Mode to …

[ February 23, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Portuguese Netlabel MP3s

Straight outta Portugal (the country that birthed the poet who gave this website its name, it’s probably worth mentioning) comes Test Tube, a netlabel with 10 sets under its belt, one of the most recent of which is Rui Gato’s …

[ February 22, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Free Moby Download

Two terms get tossed around a lot, and though they sound similar they mean entirely different things. “Electronic music” is music in which the tools of artistic production are inherently mechanized (laptops, turntablism, field recordings). “Digital music” is music whose …

[ February 21, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Nancarrow Biography MP3

Reportedly the first step in breaking an addiction has something to do with owning up to it, so suffice to say my name is Marc W. and I’m hung up on the Internet Archive, specifically its Other Minds catalog, at …

[ February 18, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Toy Piano MP3s

Closing out the week with more archive.org treats from the Other Minds collection: avant-garde piano virtuoso Margaret Leng Tan doing the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” on a toy piano. Perhaps it’s the lo-fi quality of the recording, but the piece, with …

[ February 17, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Francis Dhomont MP3

FRANCIS DHOMONT MP3: Another downloadable prize from the Other Minds catalog at the Internet Archive, archive.org: a March 6, 2004, recording of composer Francis Dhomont performing “Les moirures du temp” and “Phonurgie” (a neologism, meaning “fabrication, shaping, creation of …

[ February 16, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Erik Levander MP3s

Genres come and go. And if one ever seemed ripe to go from the get go, it was glitch. Sure, certainly from early on, glitch was something to behold, especially how Markus Popp managed to make the desecration of CDs …

[ February 15, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / CCMixter.org MP3 Contest Update

If you’ve been paying attention to the ccmixter.org site’s current remix competition, you’ve no doubt gained respect for the musicians who made tracks available for open-source sampling. Name-brand acts, including Matmos and David Byrne, Chuck D and Dan the …