This is genius! And the overall effect can sound beautiful. The thing I like about this the most is its simplicity - why didn't I think of doing this first?!! Enjoy.
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Dorian Concept (Live)
Check out Dorian Concepts performance, recorded live for Austrian station FM4.(Right-Click / Save link as...)
Past I
Past II
Two Hour Power And One For Oh Ate
Nice.
Saturday, 7 February 2009
Spotify
The future of the Music Industry is one of uncertainty. The number of people going out to buy a CD is at an all time low, as more people continue to file share. Is this a bad thing? I think things need to evolve - be woken up to the future - could Spotify be the answer?
Spotify is a Music Player, it looks similar to iTunes, but the great thing about it is it lets you stream whole albums for free! Okay, what's the catch. Well, the only catch is every now and then your listening experience is interrupted by a short advert - which is where the Music Industry get there money - very clever. For £9.99 a month you can listen advert free. Plus, as the music is streamed it can't be stored as audio files, so say if you liked an album so much that you wanted to listen to it on your ipod you would have to purchase it - hence even more money to the Music Industry.
One draw back though is for this alone to save the Music Industry it would have to offer an endless library of audio, which at the moment is far from the case, and recently they had to pull a load of stuff off their system due to Country Licensing Restriction.
I've been using it for the past couple of weeks and I've generally been impressed by it but equally frustrated by the limited library. I'm not sure that this is the answer to the Music Industries problems, but it sure is a good start.
Here is an invite that allows you to open a Free Account: https://www.spotify.com/invitation/JtjmHnaXuqWLF4Bm
Enjoy... Please let me know what you think?
Spotify is a Music Player, it looks similar to iTunes, but the great thing about it is it lets you stream whole albums for free! Okay, what's the catch. Well, the only catch is every now and then your listening experience is interrupted by a short advert - which is where the Music Industry get there money - very clever. For £9.99 a month you can listen advert free. Plus, as the music is streamed it can't be stored as audio files, so say if you liked an album so much that you wanted to listen to it on your ipod you would have to purchase it - hence even more money to the Music Industry.
One draw back though is for this alone to save the Music Industry it would have to offer an endless library of audio, which at the moment is far from the case, and recently they had to pull a load of stuff off their system due to Country Licensing Restriction.
I've been using it for the past couple of weeks and I've generally been impressed by it but equally frustrated by the limited library. I'm not sure that this is the answer to the Music Industries problems, but it sure is a good start.
Here is an invite that allows you to open a Free Account: https://www.spotify.com/invitation/JtjmHnaXuqWLF4Bm
Enjoy... Please let me know what you think?
Playing Catch Up
It's funny how when ever I post a "Best of" list a load of good stuff appears in late December that either I've overlooked or have just discovered whilst reading another person end of year musings. This year has been no exception. So, here is a brief list of some of the albums I discovered...
Actress - Hazyville
The Alps - III
Byetone- Death Of A Typographer
Crystal Stilts - All of Night
Fire On Fire - The Orchard
The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside
Gas - Nah Und Fern LP
Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals
Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto
Machinefabriek - Dauw
Pale Young Gentlemen - Black Forest (tra la la)
That Ghost - Young Fridays
Scott Tuma - Not For Nobody
Soccer Committee & Machinefabriek - Drawn
Have you too discovered any late 2008 gems?
Actress - Hazyville
The Alps - III
Byetone- Death Of A Typographer
Crystal Stilts - All of Night
Fire On Fire - The Orchard
The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside
Gas - Nah Und Fern LP
Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals
Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto
Machinefabriek - Dauw
Pale Young Gentlemen - Black Forest (tra la la)
That Ghost - Young Fridays
Scott Tuma - Not For Nobody
Soccer Committee & Machinefabriek - Drawn
Have you too discovered any late 2008 gems?
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Best of 2008
Top 10 Albums of 2008 (in alpha order)…
The Abbasi Brothers - Something Like Nostalgia
Balmorhea - River Arms
Benoit Pioulard - Temper
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Deerhunter - Microcastles / Weird Era Cont.
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes / Sun Giant (ep)
Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Colour
Peter Broderick - Float / Home
Why? - Alopecia
Just Missing Out…
2562 - Aerial
The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain
Alias - Resurgam
Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior
Breathe Owl Breathe - Ghost Glacier (ep)
Deadbeat - Roots and Wire
The Dodos - Visiter
Hauschka - Ferndorf
Horse Feathers - House with No Name
iTAL tEK - Cyclical
No Age - Nouns
Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
Port O’Brien - All We Could Do Was Sing
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
Small Sur - We Live in Houses Made of Wood
Starkey - Ephemeral Exhibits
Sunken Foal - Fallen Arches
Throw Me the Statue - Moonbeams
Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends
Zomby - Where Were U in ‘92
Best of the Rest…
Aidan Baker - Fantasma Parastasie
Ass - My Get Up and Go Got Up and Went
Au - Verbs
Azeda Booth - In Flesh Tones
Battle of Land and Sea - Battle of Land and Sea
Barry Lynn (Boxcutter) - Balancing Lakes
Blitzen Trapper- Furr
David Karsten Daniels - Fear of Flying
Distance - Repercussions
DJ/RAPTURE - Uproot
The Drift - Memory Drawings
Fjordne - The Last Days of Time
Frontier Ruckus - The Orion Songbook
Grails - Doomsdayer’s Holiday
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Up a Hill
herq - Night Falls
James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes
Johann Johansson - Fordlandia
Koushik- Out My Window
Leila - Blood, Looms and Blooms
LITE - Phantasia
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez - Why is Bear Billowing
The Lord Dog Bird - The Lord Dog Bird
Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniatures
Our Sleepless Forest - Our Sleepless Forest
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
Pete and The Pirates - Little Death
Shugo Tokumaru - Exit
Sleeping In The Aviary- Expensive vomit in a Cheap Hotel
Tape - Luminarium
Three Trapped Tigers - Three Trapped Tigers (ep)
The Uglysuit - The Uglysuit
Well Worth a Mention…
Ben Benjamin - The Many Moods of Ben Benjamin
The Black Keys - Attack Release
Black Mountain - In the Future
Brightblack Morning Light - Motion to Rejoin
Chad Van Galen - Soft Airplane
Dr. Dog - Fate
Dungen - 4
Erik Levender- Kondens
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Gavin Bryers, Philip Jeck, Alter Ego - The Sinking of the Titanic
James Pants - Welcome
Lackthereof- Your Anchor
Marching Band - Spark Large
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Mr Scruff - Ninja Tuna
The New Year - The New Year
Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart
Roots Manuva - Slime and Reason
The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
School of Language - Sea from Shore
Shearwater - Rook
These United States - A Picture Of The Three Of Us At The Gate To The Garden Of Eden
Wolf Parade - At Mt. Zoomer
The Abbasi Brothers - Something Like Nostalgia
Balmorhea - River Arms
Benoit Pioulard - Temper
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Deerhunter - Microcastles / Weird Era Cont.
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes / Sun Giant (ep)
Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Colour
Peter Broderick - Float / Home
Why? - Alopecia
Just Missing Out…
2562 - Aerial
The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain
Alias - Resurgam
Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior
Breathe Owl Breathe - Ghost Glacier (ep)
Deadbeat - Roots and Wire
The Dodos - Visiter
Hauschka - Ferndorf
Horse Feathers - House with No Name
iTAL tEK - Cyclical
No Age - Nouns
Plants and Animals - Parc Avenue
Port O’Brien - All We Could Do Was Sing
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
Small Sur - We Live in Houses Made of Wood
Starkey - Ephemeral Exhibits
Sunken Foal - Fallen Arches
Throw Me the Statue - Moonbeams
Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends
Zomby - Where Were U in ‘92
Best of the Rest…
Aidan Baker - Fantasma Parastasie
Ass - My Get Up and Go Got Up and Went
Au - Verbs
Azeda Booth - In Flesh Tones
Battle of Land and Sea - Battle of Land and Sea
Barry Lynn (Boxcutter) - Balancing Lakes
Blitzen Trapper- Furr
David Karsten Daniels - Fear of Flying
Distance - Repercussions
DJ/RAPTURE - Uproot
The Drift - Memory Drawings
Fjordne - The Last Days of Time
Frontier Ruckus - The Orion Songbook
Grails - Doomsdayer’s Holiday
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Up a Hill
herq - Night Falls
James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes
Johann Johansson - Fordlandia
Koushik- Out My Window
Leila - Blood, Looms and Blooms
LITE - Phantasia
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez - Why is Bear Billowing
The Lord Dog Bird - The Lord Dog Bird
Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniatures
Our Sleepless Forest - Our Sleepless Forest
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
Pete and The Pirates - Little Death
Shugo Tokumaru - Exit
Sleeping In The Aviary- Expensive vomit in a Cheap Hotel
Tape - Luminarium
Three Trapped Tigers - Three Trapped Tigers (ep)
The Uglysuit - The Uglysuit
Well Worth a Mention…
Ben Benjamin - The Many Moods of Ben Benjamin
The Black Keys - Attack Release
Black Mountain - In the Future
Brightblack Morning Light - Motion to Rejoin
Chad Van Galen - Soft Airplane
Dr. Dog - Fate
Dungen - 4
Erik Levender- Kondens
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Gavin Bryers, Philip Jeck, Alter Ego - The Sinking of the Titanic
James Pants - Welcome
Lackthereof- Your Anchor
Marching Band - Spark Large
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Mr Scruff - Ninja Tuna
The New Year - The New Year
Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart
Roots Manuva - Slime and Reason
The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
School of Language - Sea from Shore
Shearwater - Rook
These United States - A Picture Of The Three Of Us At The Gate To The Garden Of Eden
Wolf Parade - At Mt. Zoomer
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
The Sight Below - No Place For Us (free EP)
The “No Place for Us” EP is a three-song introduction to The Sight Below’s hopeful sonic gloom. On the release—his first for Ghostly—the reclusive, Seattle-based producer smears his waterlogged guitar in broad, oceanic strokes, swirling the haze around his tracks’ tantalizingly subtle electronic beats. It’s a sound that encompasses shoegazers’ obsessive tone layering, ambient’s mood-setting sprawl, and techno music’s horizon-spanning momentum at once. The EP opens with “No Place for Us,” a diamond-studded haze of hiss and pulse that recalls a beat-driven cousin of William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops; from there, “With Her Kiss (I’d Pass The Sky)” sends distant foghorns floating over a tiny kick and hi-hat; and on the melancholy closer “Twice Failed,” the artist preserves time in an ether bottle, all bleary-eyed piano and glinting nostalgia.
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Bleep Clash Compilation @ www.bleep.com
Free Bleep Clash Compilation. all you need is an Bleep account.
TRACKLIST:
01 - These Days (Dntel Remix) (3:26) - People Press Play
02 - They Have A Name (2:26) - The Chap
03 - Minerva (Radio Edit) (5:44) - Mr Copy
04 - Didn't I Furious (3:29) - Pivot
05 - Lower Allston (4:37) - Thalia Zedek
06 - Golem (4:29) - Principles Of Geometry
07 - Negative Thinking (2:15) - The Death Set
08 - Puree Hiphop (2:06) - Gable
09 - Fade And Saturate (6:13) - Fairmont”
Enjoy!
TRACKLIST:
01 - These Days (Dntel Remix) (3:26) - People Press Play
02 - They Have A Name (2:26) - The Chap
03 - Minerva (Radio Edit) (5:44) - Mr Copy
04 - Didn't I Furious (3:29) - Pivot
05 - Lower Allston (4:37) - Thalia Zedek
06 - Golem (4:29) - Principles Of Geometry
07 - Negative Thinking (2:15) - The Death Set
08 - Puree Hiphop (2:06) - Gable
09 - Fade And Saturate (6:13) - Fairmont”
Enjoy!
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