Someday, the “Remix! tree” section of the freesound.org site will get a proper upgrade, one that will organize the ever-growing number of original sound recordings and subsequent versions thereof into something manageable, understandable, more easily consumable.
In the meanwhile, one watches the open-source, community-produced list grow in length, and one searches for recent updates — [...]
Part 3/3: These are — to my ears, eyes, and fingers — the 10 best iPhone/iPod Touch apps of 2009 for sound and music manipulation.
This is a new category for Disquiet.com, and likely a short-lived one. Not because the iPod (or, for that matter, the iPhone or iPod Touch, the latter of which is currently [...]
The past month’s visits to Disquiet.com were weighted unusually — it’s almost always the case that the most popular posts involve the week-daily free-MP3 recommendations, from the Downstream section of the site. But in September, only four of the top ten were Downstream pieces: (1) the remixed African hip-hop of Oh No’s Ethiopium, (2) the [...]
The blues was just made for remixing — the inchoate howls, the minimal rhythms, the mantra-like phrasings, the raw goods just waiting for someone to take them and shape them in the studio. Iterations are among the sincerest forms of flattery in the age of digital home studios. Case in point: Grassy Knoll (aka Bob [...]
There’s a slowly building cache of dubstep being uploaded by Kansdesign to his soundcloud.com/kansdesign base camp — or, make that bass camp. The beat-intensive work is heavy with clubby reference points, but that’s not to dismiss the stuff as mere late-night party fare. One listen to his feral remix of “Blue Flowers” by Dr. Octagon, [...]
The past month’s visits to Disquiet.com were the most heavily dominated by MP3s in recent memory, eight of the top 10 being entries in the site’s Disquiet Downstream series of freely downloadable music.
The two exceptions were images, (1) one of Ron Arad’s artwork “Concrete Stereo” (1983), from an exhibit at MOMA in Manhattan, and [...]
Perhaps it’s the simplest tracks that lend themselves best to remixing. Take “Momento A” by RichVomDorf. It’s a single song that serves as the cornerstone of a six-track release on the broque.de netlabel. It’s pretty much just horns and percussion — and, at first, just percussion: a subtle, minimal-techno beat played out on what at [...]