Disquiet

Among the top 10 posts on this site last month were (1) “What’s Japanese for ‘Netlabel’?” (on the translation of my list of suggestions for giving away music) and (2) a viewing of Brian Eno‘s appearance on The Colbert Report.

Seven of the top 10 tracks were drawn from the site’s Downstream department of free/legal downloads: (3) the Apparat instrumental that appeared in the season-closing episode of TV’s Breaking Bad (pictured up top), (4) new essential instrumental hip-hop from Philadelphia’s Y?Arcka, (5) a film score by Sun Hammer we’re hearing before seeing the film, (6) a track from a Hungarian collection of dubstep, (7) click music by Krotos, (8) Gregory Chatonsky‘s music from a broken hard drive, and (9) Mark Broude‘s punk drone.

And, as is often the case, among the top posts was (10) one of the automated weekly summaries of what was tweeted at twitter.com/disquiet.

The most popular post of the last 30 and 60 days is a collection of field recordings by Richard Devine of various types of information technology.

The most popular searches of the month, in descending order: outra-g, autechre, dub, cronenberg, custom label, music, fernando pessoa, gold, ingram, kidstreet, rjdj, salvagione, sunn, youtube, accidental psaltery, akumu, alan lockett.

This site covers often ethereal music and sound, so it makes sense that it is now, as of today, hosted in the cloud.

The technological switch from standard hosting to cloud hosting may result in some turbulence, so if you happen upon any broken pages or other issues, please report them to marc@disquiet.com. Thanks.

• Yeah, Apple's mail doesn't mark replies consistently, which is why (well, one of the whys) I've used Thunderbird. #
• Ambient music is especially meaningful when perpetrated on tools that were previously relegated to a supporting role. #
• Thunderbird is proving just as (un)stable in OS X Lion as it was in Windows 7. #
• For Black Friday all MP3s in Disquiet.com's Downstream department available for free download. Oh wait, that's true every day. #
• Digital thanks for Soundcloud HTML5 player, genial Twitter correspondence, revival of Delicious, and 15 years of Disquiet. #
• "Audio cassette" jack in back of cash register. http://t.co/GvdPr3kQ #
• Foil on pies in back of car rattling like snare drums. #

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• 9/11 had some people wishing Superman existed. Occupy just has me wishing Public Enemy was still fully functional. #
• RIP, Gary Garcia of Buckner & Garcia, best known for early-'80s novelty hit "Pac-Man Fever" #8bit #
• You shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but you can far too often judge a netlabel release by its first track. #
• Copyright Timecops head to 1731 to keep Benjamin Franklin from founding early peer-to-peer system, the Library Company. #
• Says man with em-dash eyebrows. RT @improvingthomas: I think emoticons have begun to affect people's actual facial gestures. #
• ► Late-week audiostream of drone + guitar by @ChisatoOhori of Tokyo: http://t.co/hTHaBJyg #
• Got email from band saying how many gigs they'd played in 2011. Briefly thought it meant accumulated data not live performance. #
• RIP, Lee Pockriss, author of “Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” a #sonicweapon in Billy Wilder’s “One, Two, Three” http://t.co/dSccI0JF #

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• Be nice: Please record & share. RT @fishwhisperer: Someone is playing the church bells spectacularly somewhere in Astoria. #
• Goodnight noises, frigidaire. #
• New record from Prong due in 2012. First in over half a decade. #
• After 11pm, the Macbook Air's speakers need several intervals between the lowest volume level and mute. #
• If you (1) fiddle with Instagram & (2) make vaguely ambient electronic music & (3) would like to participate in a group project, lemme know. #
• 6:00pm bells make neon-lit Geary feel like a village. #
• Listening to precise, pinging music via Macbook Air, pondering how its brittle sound matches the formal purity of the vessel. #
• Still not used to the idea that Bleep.com alphabetizes artists by first name. #
• I used to dislike Instagram photos. Now I seem to see each one as the cover to a fictional record album. #

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