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Kettel’s “prairieplant 2,” like much of what appears as part of the kracfive.com monthly free download series (aka its “MP3 Rotor”), suggests a kind of modern exotica. Its woodblock percussion and sweet single-note piano line come across like analog …
One of the most prolific musicians in a realm already not particularly well known for its constipation, avant figure Koji Asano has been steadily supplementing his commercial release schedule with a flow of free downloads, ranging from brief sketches, to …
The producer named SkyRider rides with a crew of aspiring MCs, all associated with the label Endemik. And though his music, like theirs, hails from hip-hop, it is largely wordless, and it’s more likely to get creatively lost wandering the …
Clark, formerly Chris Clark, has apparently gotten the sort of digital-to-analog conversion previously applied by Alarm Will Sound to Clark’s fellow Warp Records roster-mate, Aphex Twin. Or at least something that sounds like it.
The forthcoming Body Riddle, due out the …
The remix section of the freesound website (at freesound.iua.upf.edu) is somewhat misnamed. It isn’t really a tree, per se, in that rarely if ever is a remix of an original sample itself remixed. In other words, for a tree …
I-HOP MP3: Scouring the Internet for free downloads leads to unintended mashups. This often occurs when various websites with embedded background music play simultaneously: a little rhythm here, some beats there, some atmosphere. If websites and pop-up ads persist in …
The home page of the estimable, dub-minded label the Agriculture (theagriculture.com) includes a little tagline that casually denotes the company’s aesthetic realm: “roof music.” The phrase suggest an urban refuge, above the fray, which is exactly what the best …