Heard this on the latest Lost Children compilation ( Volume #13). Elemental Gaze is from Indonesia.

I was happy to spot this sign of life from Milhaven, a new video posted on their myspace page.

Labels: video

Michael Waters returned to the Duncan Garage Showroom last week... another memorable concert. This time it was extra special, because it was an incredibly balmy evening in Duncan, the first of the year really, and there were just a handful of us in there gathered around the stage. Michael engaged us during the break. We talked about what part music takes in our lives. Michael made a comment that will stick with me for a long time: You are a success if you can do what you love to do. I like that, to make the standard for success personal, and to reject any other standard.

For an encore, Michael played some music from his upcoming CD. He gave me some tracks to share:

Mind Bandits
Farmers Cathedral

You'll find more to listen to at Ladybird Music.

Labels: acoustic, ambient, showroom

I recently rediscovered OUIM net.label, loaded with psychedelic listening pleasures. The home page has 3 music streams and between the releases and DJ sets, almost 100 well curated psychedelia titles to download.

I'm reminded of an old favorite by Fairytale, released the week before Christmas, it sounds like a drunken Christmas party at first. Soon it wanders into my neighborhood in Vancouver, with a dialog about our seabus transit ferries and lo fi soundscapes that's accompanied by a joyful thumping sound and the ancient chanting of First Nations people that used to make the crossing in canoes.

Fairytale: Native Tales

Labels: chillout, dj

Labels: news, video

I stumbled upon the mixes at the Cardamar Music website the other day. Hours of listening pleasure there.

Globe Spinning

Labels: chillout, dj

From insubordinations, a netlabel for improvised music, this release:

[insubcdr02b] PLAISTOW : Los Criminales Reciclados En Conductores De Autobuses

Yap Yap

Labels: jazz

Michael Bates' Outside Sources:  On Equilibrium

I'm back on The Island, and finally made it to the Duncan Garage Showroom. The Man (Longevity John) himself, told me I should come hear Michael Bates, and so I did. Such a memorable show. And suddenly I'm listening to jazz again.

Labels: jazz, showroom

Saw this article about the iPod generation's future hearing problems. Hearing aids will cost thousands -- get custom earbuds: listen better, and protect your ears at the same time.

Labels: news

microtonner George II

I heard this on the recent Blocsonic compilation netBloc Volume 9.

Labels: music

The San Jose Mercury News offers this interview with the founder of Creative Commons. Lawrence Lessig remains as CEO, but he's started work on something new.

Labels: news

Vacation, travel and other distractions... and I'm not sure I'm even back yet, but I did make it to the Vancouver Folk Festival... wow... Ganga Giri knows how to put on a show... though I'm not sure everyone would call this folk music. Festival rules say no dancing in front of the stage -- but for Ganga Giri, that's impossible -- everybody was dancing.

Labels: video

Google Earth is getting an audio layer. Bernie Krause has been recording the planet for 40 years. He has released part of the collection under a Creative Commons license, for listening on Google Earth.

Tim O'Reilly has published a lot of books... I've been buying them since the 80's. Now he's written a case study of sales vs. free downloads for one of his titles. The free downloads are under a Creative Commons license.

Larry Lessig says in this interview, that there are now over 100 million objects licensed under a Creative Commons license. He participated in a panel discussion at the recent "copyright summit" in Belgium.

Other items: Know your rights with this simple chart that explains copyrights. An open source film project has over 1000 members. The Creatives Commons license, applied to dance.

Labels: links, news

Various Artists - The Silent Ballet - Volume 4
Lost Children Netlabel release
post rock, instrumental, ambient

The Bird Ensemble: Part 1 No. 4

Signal Hill: This New Year's Absence

The Lost Children net label celebrates a year of showcasing new artists, and presents their fourth compilation release.

Labels: music

Various Artists - netBloc Volume 5
blocsonic net label release
rock, post-rock, jazz, hip-hop, electronica, glitch-pop, dub, pop

This month's netbloc compilation held onto me for quite awhile. It's a great (to my taste) blend of music this month.

Misery (myspace) - Misery Sara

Lucrecia (myspace) - Like Being Home Counting Backwards

Labels: netlabel

Easily Embarrassed (archive.org)
Sublogic Corporation net label release
ambient, psychedelic, chillout

From Sunset Last Night to Sunrise This Morning (I Don't Want to Sleep)

Labels: music

American Internet radio webcasters can no longer offer connections to international listeners. Has anything like this happened before on the internet? I guess there's always been illegal data, but this seems big to me. I lost Pandora yesterday. Too bad too, according to this study 77% of music listening internet users, use the internet to discover new music. Obviously, it's not about getting artists more fans.

American soldiers in Iraq lost their radio too -- no more radio or YouTube for them... they say the soldiers are using too much bandwidth, there are also concerns about security. Now the Pentagon has a YouTube channel -- not sure how that works -- they have a channel, but American soldiers will have to go to an internet cafe to watch it.

Meanwhile, back home, webcasters got some breathing room... the new royalty rates are now due in July -- hopefully the deal makers and law makers can come up with a system that will keep the webcasters we've grown so fond of in business. More news about this here.

Labels: news

The Resonance Association (myspace)
Mrs. Vee Recordings releases
ambient, experimental, post rock

Appendix One: Heroes of The Atomic Age (live at Immersion)

Be prepared for a listening journey on these releases. The Resonance Association have also orchestrated the "Fake Numbers Station" that you can hear on short wave radio bands, believed to be encrypted messages sent by either a friendly or unfriendly government to their agents, wherever they may be. Here is a short version:

Appendix One: Fake Numbers Station - Transmission Two

Update May 31, 2009: These releases on archive.org are down for the moment

Labels: dead links

I've been listening to the post-rock keyword on archive.org for a week now. I'm going to split my search results down to a few posts, starting with these tracks which are not part of bigger releases:

Sickoackes: Wedding Rings And Bullets In The Same Golden Shrine

Tom Sweetlove: Janvier Ier

From Delta Waves Under Clouds Over Ground release on Earth Monkey Productions:

Delta Waves: For Your Smile

And also a track from a Gasgiant release on Floppy Records I stumbled upon a while ago... The Silent Ballet raves about Gasgiant in their review.

Gasgiant: Slocore

Labels: music

There has been a lot of coverage of the internet radio Day of Silence next week (May 8th), a protest against the new royalty rates. Those that don't turn the music off will be playing Public Service Announcements. NPR, ClearChannel, SomaFM, and Digitally Imported are the strangest group of bed fellows I've seen in awhile. But with 25% of radio listeners now tuning in to web simulcasts, you'd expect the big boys have a concern about this too. And the U.S. Congress has listened... it introduced bill HR 2060, "the Internet Radio Equality Act". As you can imagine, SoundExchange is not happy about this; their offer of special deals for selected webcasters fell on flat ears.

But it's not over until it's over. So don't forget to either call or email your representative in support of HR 2060, The Internet Radio Equality Act.

Labels: news