Disquiet

downstream / Delicate Folk-Noise MP3s from Brometer

If you have time this evening for one track, dig into the free EP Three feet of by Brometer and focus on its penultimate entry, titled “Rotation.” The track opens with a mere …

downstream / Peer-Reviewed Hip-Hop MP3s

Internet forums dedicated to hip-hop production and other forms of electronically mediated music are packed with posts from bedroom beatmakers and home-studio soundsmiths sharing their work, most of them just looking for some feedback.

At the better forums, the feedback isn’t …

downstream / Dissolute Ukrainian Electronic MP3s

If the idea of electronic music from the Ukraine brings to mind crackling radio static, melodies seemingly sampled from rusty old circus carousels, and vintage synthesizers that have seen better days, then the album Disaster in Room 208 …

downstream / New Highpoint Lowlife MP3s from Mandelbrot, Marcia Blaine

The new album on the Highpoint Lowlife label, Magnetism, That Electricity, is less a various-artists collection than it is a set of four individual EPs — one on each side of a double …

field notes / Image of the Week: Byrne’s Squawking Floor

Art student turned pop musician turned sound artist David Byrne takes the idea of flooring the pedal literally with an upcoming installation:

Byrne describes the piece at journal.davidbyrne.com:

I’m currently working on a piece …

field notes / Quote of the Week: Meta Rucker

This is from Rudy Rucker’s recent novel, Postsingular:
But you have to be kidding about including all that data. Just do a link. If you put too much into a metanovel, it’s as dull as a nearly empty file. Everything …

downstream / Live Greg Davis Drone MP3

The pastorally minded electronic musician Greg Davis played a show at the Knitting Factory in Manhattan back on April 30, and within days, on May 5, he’d posted news of a publicly available MP3 of the set. The recording opens …

downstream / Loren Chasse and Jason Honea MP3

The one free sample track off Music Heard Far Off by the Child Readers plays like a mixtape set on random. It opens with piercing, lo-fi accompaniment paired with a nu-folk vocal that’s buried in the mix (the album’s title …

downstream / Type Records Podcast Mix MP3

The Type label supplements its regular releases with a series of podcasts. That’s not unusual for a record label. What distinguishes Type’s series, as exemplified by a new mix by Aeioux (aka one …

downstream / Venician Enrico Coniglio Field Recording MP3

There’s a gap between the Touch Music record label and its ongoing MP3 series, TouchRadio. While Touch album releases generally focus on processed sound, the sound on TouchRadio is generally unprocessed. The recent entries on TouchRadio have been raw field …