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 [...]
The word is “stem,” and what it refers to in music isn’t — in this case — the narrow vertical shaft of a single note in a written score, but the separate audio elements that are later combined to create a single track.
These are the constituent parts of a studio recording, and they’re the sort [...]
The masterminds behind the remix contest focused on famed Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen (best known as the backbeat of legend Fela’s band) want us to download the 15 constituent parts of the single “Secret Agent,” the title track off his new album on World Circuit label. And no doubt the promise inherent in those tracks [...]