Listen to Röyksopp – Senior before it arrives on September 13th
Category: Music
Biocaust
Posted by – 05/09/2010
Biocaust is an instrumental music project for various metal covers. All instruments are software-generated, as this is an attempt to learn and perfect production techniques.
Everything is available for free download in 320kb/s MP3 from http://biocaust.eternalcode.com
Example song:
Top 10 Free Ways To Discover New Music Online
Posted by – 28/02/2010
[via makeuseof.com]
Bored with your music and want to discover some new bands or singers? There are two main ways you can do that online. You can use services which create music maps, allowing you to explore artists similar in genre to the artists you already listen to. Or you can use music blogs and websites that showcase independent or up-and-coming artists, whether the music is being reviewed, or posted by the musicians themselves.
Some of these websites have a community built around them, which gives fans the opportunity to interact directly with these new talents.
Downloadable Album Costs More Than CD On Amazon
Posted by – 09/02/2010
[via consumerist.com]
Rob points out a pricing quirk on an album he’s after, noting that the physical CD is considerably cheaper than the digital download.
A little freaked out, he writes:
Forget about Target… Amazon is even worse with their pricing (note: I LOVE Amazon and I’m sure this has to do with licensing but still…wtf!?!). I was looking to get the new OAR CD, “Rain or Shine.” I was going to buy the CD when I thought to myself, “Wait…I’ll just get the download instead,” since I’m impatient. Well the PHYSICAL CD is $13.99 but the digital (NOT PHYSICAL) album is $20.99! Less work for them and yet they charge more! Ahhh! Amazon…please don’t turn evil like everyone else!
Belong – October Language
Posted by – 17/01/2010
[via irritainment2000.blogspot.com]
Sometime between my twelfth life-shattering revelation of the morning, my two hundred and thirteenth lap around my bedroom, and noticing the eighth secret pattern hidden among the other, more obvious patterns in my fractal wall calendar (It was August. It’s always August. Why do they always place the best image in August? August sucks.), I decided to slump down, in an ethereal haze, in front of my laptop and put on Belong’s October Language. She had made a cocoon out of my fuzzy blankets, a chrysalis in a comforter, and was busying herself with the task of completely forgetting that anything existed, so I really carried no qualms about changing the songs up a bit. Besides, I was in some sort of semi-poisoned state and was fervently compelled to find the album for reasons that are still beyond me. I reasoned that if I did not put this album on, I would spend my entire life trapped in some sort of personal Hell, contained forever within the walls of my room, forced to spend every waking moment in intense mental pain and anguish.
William Basinski – 92982 (2009, FLAC)
Posted by – 10/01/2010
[via holyfuckingshit40000.blogspot.com]
“Something from a long time ago…In Brooklyn, 351 Jay Street…A fruitful evening in the studio…Home at last after a day of work at the answering service, answering phones for Calvin Klein, Bianca Jagger, Steve Rubell, and all the other somebody people…
“In our space station: home in my studio experimenting live. James is in the adjacent studio painting masterpieces. Roger is in the front, gluing old shoes on canvas and painting them orange…I’m clicking the old Norelcos back and forth between channels…All the windows are open. The sound is spreading all over downtown Brooklyn mixing with the helicopters, sirens, pot smoke and fireworks…
The Omega Core
Posted by – 09/01/2010
The Omega Core is a one-man ambient project based in Bristol, UK, started in 2008.
The soundscapes are dark, oppressive and apocalyptic with a few light reliefs. Or so it likes to think.
Albums released so far include:
Prognosis (EP, 2008)
Sarcasm In High Places (EP, 2008)
A Light For The Hemisphere (EP, 2009)
Massive Black (Full-length, 2009)
Of A Frozen Escapement (EP, 2009)
Department Of Incidents (EP, 2009)
Free, legal download of entire discography
All downloads in 320kb/s MP3:
Prognosis
Sarcasm In High Places
A Light For The Hemisphere
Massive Black
Of A Frozen Escapement
Department Of Incidents
Olive + Thiel’s $7,900 Audio Server is the Sheeeeeeeeit
Posted by – 06/01/2010
[via gizmodo.com]
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Olive and Thiel may sound like a TV pilot about a crimefighting duo starring Joey Tribbiani, but it’s not. The former do swank AV stuff like this , while the latter do expensive speakers and whatnots. Behold their bastard child.
The Olive + Thiel is, basically, the Olive 4HD, a server with 2TB storage, gigabit ethernet, 24-bit/192Hz sound, Wi-Fi, analog and USB digital inputs, plus an app to let you use your iPod Touch or iPhone as a remote.