It was widely reported that David Sylvian, one of the more enigmatic figures associated with so-called progressive rock, collaborated on his most recent full-length album, Blemish (2003), with Christian Fennesz, the generation-younger electronic musician who has artfully employed glitches and …
“I’ve never heard anyone boo a transistor radio,” says John Cage. He’s talking with fellow composer Morton Feldman, who was just complaining about how the presence of radios playing rock’n'roll had spoiled a recent day on the beach. Cage is …
They take digital equipment on their world travels, so we can enjoy the field recordings from our cubicles. Among the latest weekly One-Minute Vacation tracks uploaded from various contributors to Aaron Ximm’s quietamerican.org website are an evening in Barcelona, …
Few netlabels free themselves from the vestiges of traditional commercial recordings as thoroughly as does Term, an ongoing project of 12k, a boutique record company run by musician Taylor Deupree. Netlabels by definition traffic in free downloads. Yet many netlabels …
In its own way, Pilot Balloon’s “Vampire Tonic” (MP3) elegantly compresses the already brief history of pop psychedelics, from the Beatles through the Chemical Brothers and Tortoise, into one seamless montage. But don’t call it a mashup. The track, …
OSYMYSO’S RESOLUTION MP3S: Whether or not they go the full 365, new year’s resolutions make for good web projects. Case in point, osymyso.com, which was recommended in the latest email newsletter from the Warp Records label as a fine …
A post early this morning on gizmodo.com, the consumerist gadget blog with an interest in homebrew hacking, directed readers to an online gallery of psychedelic visual “boot patterns” from arcade video games. Housed at axbx.assembler.org, the screens are brightly …
Following up on yesterday’s Kracfive.com entry, the collective’s latest “Iron Chef of Music” contest has been posted on the site. It’s a “global” battle, meaning it took place remotely (”from afar, over the internet from multiple kitchens”). “Local” battles, …
There’s yet to be a Matador of netlabels, a Sub Pop, a Factory, a Def Jam — a place that, for some period of time, dependably, with a mix of pop magic and monocular focus, produces must-hear recordings one after …
Online electronic-music EPs are generally all-or-nothing affairs: sets recorded on the same equipment, at the same time, with the same raw materials, processed on the same software by the same person. Occasionally one of the tracks will rise above, but …