Monthly Archives: April 2011

As the first in what I hope will turn into a series on the plethora of amazing free downloads that the internet provides, there’s no better way to kick off than with Brooklyn’s finest, The Stuyvesants. A collaboration between music producer Allan Cole (Algorythm) and record collector Darien Victor Birks (Flwrpt), they concieved The Stuyvesants [...]

Support tonight was provided by Anchorsong, a one man electronica artist from Tokyo. His music is a hypnotic series of stacked loops – he plays most in on a keyboard or sampler – that grow and repeat throughout the track with not a huge amount of deviation from the original themes. He was joined by [...]

The moment we (well, I) have all been waiting for, Mount Kimbie have announced a new EP containing three remixes and two exclusive tracks, and given us all a free download to celebrate. The track available for download is Baves Chords. It begins with a long atmospheric intro with effected Eastern string sounds shifting around [...]

Here is the track Glitch from Brian Eno’s new album Drums Between The Bells, a collabortative effort with writer/poet Rick Holland. The album is out on July 4th on Warp. Brian Eno – glitch (taken from Drums Between The Bells) by Warp Records Also, check out Rick’s myspace and blog for a glimpse into the [...]

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti have been around for a while, but it’s with their latest album Before Today that they’ve really started to turn heads. Here’s the track Bright Lit Blue Skies, pretty apt for today I think.

In a nutshell, and as described on his website, Japanese sound artist Ryoji Ikeda’s Datamatics ‘seeks to materialise pure data’. In a slightly bigger shell, it is ‘an art project that explores the potential to perceive the invisible multi-substance of data that permeates our world’. Sound pretentious and crap doesn’t it? I mean, which data? [...]

Last night was finally time for The Correspondents album launch party. After several years of sweating in the fumes of the more insalubrious festival tents at unsociable hours of the morning they have reared their heads and tasted the mainstream, detaching themselves from associations with the dying monster of electro-swing and hooking up with Freshly [...]

Carrying on from the last post, here is one of Barbara’s dubstep mixes. You can get some more here http://soundcloud.com/barbnerdy/ Mix (Pt.1) Next10 (Conference – Background Music) Berlin2010 – Dubstep by barbnerdy

While visiting Berlin last weekend I stayed with a cool as hell woman called Barbara in Prentzlauerberg, and one of her friends introduced me to this tune. It’s Burial – Fostercare and it was written for the 5 years of Hyperdub release.