How glitch went from an experimental manifestation of technological unease to a kind of cozy comfort music is a tale for another day. For now, one can simply download a file like Cepia’s “Hoarse” (MP3), off the forthcoming Idol …
The long-running, if long quiet, netlabel No Type is back. A quick glance at its archives suggests that the last significant update to the site occurred in July of last year, and the announcement via email this week of new …
Cut’n'pasted in the studio, and often mistaken for background music when it can play well in the foreground, instrumental hip-hop has much in common with the broader field of ambient/electronica. But there are key differences, and one of them is …
Moonlighting as Beat Konducta, the prolific hip-hop producer Madlib has grafted, in both senses of the word, some 35 bite-sized chunks of instrumental hip-hop into Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes, due out next month. One entry, “Understanding (Comprehension)” (…
The nature of the Internet Archive, at archive.org, is that it’s so big — or, as Monty Python might have had it, so very very big — that one only really knows if one’s seeing, or hearing, something oneself …
Jo Jena’s Rhythm ‘n’ Drones on the test tube netlabel was a standout last summer amid a slew of new freely downloadable music (link), a mix of crafty guitar counterpoint and thick industrial hums. The recent addition of four angular, …
It was billed as “Philip Glass — In Conversation with Robert Osserman,” but as they say in the late-night TV commercials, “Wait, that’s not all!”
Glass was in San Francisco this past weekend with his ensemble for live performances on three …
Darren Bergstein, who edits and publishes the print magazine e/i, for which I do a fair amount of writing, and with whom I’ve debated the culture gap between — how best to put this — tactile and virtual publishing, just …
Christopher Willits uses his laptop as a time-shifting effects pedal for his electric guitar. In the past, that guitar has distinguished his solo work (notably the full-length Folding, and the Tea and his tracks on the guitronic E*A*D*G*B*E compilation) as …
No, not Milarepa Free Tibet, but free sounds of Tibetan singing bowls (and balloons and other odd sound sources), as well as resulting remixes. Bit of a scare today when a routine stop by freesound.iua.upf.edu came up with the …