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[ June 24, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Guitronic Mark Templeton MP3s

The strings are filtered through feedback loops, clipped and set on repeat like an album that’s reached the end of its groove. These strings — acoustic guitars in particular, and also what sounds like a banjo — are heard amid …

[ June 23, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Field Recording Transformation MP3s

Sounds sourced from the real world and transformed into something either unreal or hyperreal serve as the foundation of a new compilation from the furthernoise.org netlabel. It is titled Explorations in Sound, …

[ June 22, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Image of the Week: iKalimba

One of many new music-creation interfaces for Apple’s iPhone — an electronic kalimba, or African thumb piano:

Image by John Biehler (johnbiehler.com), via Peter Kirn’s createdigitalmusic.com.

[ June 21, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Quote of the Week: Tenori-Off

Recent Twitter post by Josh Santangelo (endquote.com, stimulant.io), a Seattle, Washington-based web developer:
Ordered a Tenori-On (tenori-onusa.com). Soon, there will be one more crappy amateur electronic musician in the world.

Original at twitter.com/endquote.

[ June 20, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Joseba Irazoki’s Guitar Intrumental MP3s

When downloading Joseba Irazoki’s new EP, Negurdin, from the con-v.org netlabel, if your time and bandwidth is limited, stick with the odd-numbered tracks. Irzaoki is one of the most interesting guitarists today …

[ June 19, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Henry Mancini Hip-Hop Remix MP3s

The aspiring hip-hop producers who populate the forums at cratekings.com work together for mutual musical benefit — and not only by commenting on each other’s work and pushing the collective to tweak …

[ June 18, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Post-Synth MP3s from Budapest’s Veron

There’s something about Eastern-bloc electronic music that often suggests a heavy influence of synth-rock, the soundtracks of Golem, the space explorations of Cluster, the melodic drones of Tangerine Dream. Veron, of Budapest, Hungary, …