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[ June 30, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Brainwashed Podcast MP3

Continuing in the podcast-recommendations, in light of the recent iTunes software upgrade, definitely check out the series from brainwashed.com, whose latest hour-length download (MP3, dated June 30) includes musician-approved material by such goth-noise-art figures as Current 93 and Nurse …

[ June 29, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / French Synthesist Podcast MP3

At a time when concerns about digital privacy and viruses are widespread, it’s somewhat ironic that the big pop-technological trend, one endorsed by Apple earlier this week in its new version of iTunes (4.9), is a system that automatically downloads …

[ June 28, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Scanner Pop MP3s

Singular electronic-music figures are joining bands, writing songs and even going on tour. Prefuse73, aka Scott Herren, has recorded Brazilianate pop music with Catalan singer Eva Puyuelo Muns, under the collective name Savath & Savalas. Oval’s Markus Popp made good …

[ June 27, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Archival 78-era MP3

Some music is electronic by intent; other music accrues the association over time. The Internet Archive, at archive.org, has much intentional electronic music on it: among other places, in the Other Minds archive, which has been featured often in …

[ June 26, 2005 / bookmark ]

field notes / Tangents (survey, scores, Alarm)

Quick Links: (1) CommonTunes.org is “a community directory of freely available music”; among its most popular tags (akin to genres) are electronic and laptop. … (2) Two video-game composers, Tommy Tallarico (Advent Rising, Tony Hawk Pro Skater) …

[ June 24, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Ambient Turntable MP3

Still (aka Hsi-Chang Lin) is the turntablist for Dalek, who is perhaps most concisely described as the rare hip-hop MC on Ipecac, the record label run by noise-meister Mike Patton (Fantomas, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle). Remains is an EP-length …

[ June 23, 2005 / bookmark ]

downstream / Guitar Haze MP3

There’s a voice buried deep in “Jeka” by the group Port-Royal. Perhaps your hearing is better than average, but the spoken material is barely audible on first listen, appearing just out of range, lost in an aquatic murk that suggests …