downstream / Wire and Drum MP3
The October 2006 Instal festival hosted three days of experimental music, and much of it has been uploaded for a broader audience than was able to make it to Glasgow. Among the many MP3s is a 45-minute set that pairs …
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[ November 30, 2006 / bookmark ]
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downstream / Willits Raw Remix MP3s
Many remixes involve little remixing at all. Often as not, a so-called remix entails someone cutting up a pre-existing track, rather than working with the individual elements (bass, drums, vocals, what have you) that were mixed to achieve the original. …
[ November 28, 2006 / bookmark ]
downstream / Live Grassy Knoll MP3s
In the late 1990s, shortly before Bob Green, aka Grassy Knoll, moved back to Austin, I spent an afternoon in the stark San Francisco apartment where he’d been residing. I spoke with him about his final major label album, III, …
[ November 27, 2006 / bookmark ]
downstream / Theater Score MP3s
The performance of the play In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Bernard-Marie Koltes, earlier this year at the Battersea Arts Centre in London, sure must have been quiet. That’s judging by the score, which its composer, John Chantler, has …
[ November 24, 2006 / bookmark ]
downstream / DJ Duo MP3
Call it post-rap, call it i-hop (or instrumental hip-hop). At just 45 seconds, “A Stroll Down Sutter Ave” (MP3) is less a track than a teaser, but this collaboration between DJs Wally and Willie Ross, off their recent Mrs …
[ November 23, 2006 / bookmark ]
downstream / Apologetic Dub MP3
Sample-clearance payback is sweet, for listeners. Apparently DJ Olive used some music by a group called Sounds from the Ground on one of his tracks. They call him on it, and by way of apology he offered/agreed to remix one …
[ November 20, 2006 / bookmark ]
downstream / Pete Kemble Drone MP3
Among the many overused words in the description of drones is “quotidian.” It suggests daily experience so pervasive as to have become nearly invisible, but such a word, and such an experience, best sums up much of the sound art …