Newly available from the Red Antenna label, a five-minute MP3 song, “Anemone” — the slightly groovy title track from the new album by the electro-acoustic indie-electronic duo Tomorrowland (file).
Skanky Koala MP3
Turntablist Kid Koala‘s new Ninja Tune Records album, Some of My Best Friends Are DJ’s, is promoted with a download, the reggae-tinged track “Skanky Panky,” in the label’s download department (webpage). And for more Ninja streams and downloads, check out the recent Disquiet.com report.
Percussive Danish MP3s
Among the most recent posts to 8bitrecs.com are three MP3 files (all rich with abstract computerized percussion, and available as streams and downloads) from Barcelona-based, Denmark-born Heidi Mortenson (webpage).
Vibert Video
The animated clip for Luke Vibert‘s retro single, “I Love Acid” — off his new album, YosepH, on the Warp Records label (webpage). Can’t beat a breakdancing cat.
Postscript: Just for the record, this was the first entry in the Disquiet.com site's Downstream section. Over time the section came to focus almost entirely on free, generally legal, downloadable music, though at times it has features streams. It seems ironic that the very first entry was for a video stream.
Quote of the Week: Lethem’s Fortress
From a conversation at slate.com about Jonathan Lethem‘s new novel, The Fortress of Solitude:
That’s why the book ends with a flashback to a drive home with Abraham after Dylan gets kicked out of college. They’re listening to Brian Eno in a snowstorm, and Dylan turns to Abraham and asks, “Do you hear it? How great it is?” Sure, Abraham says, idly. “But do you really hear what I’m hearing? Can you hear the same song I do?” Dylan persists. The book, as a whole, is about trying to find someone who hears the same song you do, and realizing you never will; or that, if you do, you’ll never fully know it.
Dylan is Dylan Ebdus, one of the book’s two protagonists, and Abraham is Dylan’s distant father, a painter.