Trick or Treat?

Some Halloween treats:

John Robinson reads Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell Tale Heart

M Bridgeford Ultra Groovy mix: It Came From Cyber Space

Some "interpretive" tricks:

Notiluca: unsane

The Batcave Terror: Locked In A Shell

Watch out for the monsters!

Psychotronic Horrorbeat

Some horror music for halloween...

The Threshold People:
The Threshold People
Radio Zombi

Orbital picks

Recent highlights from Bahgheera's Orbit... he picks well:

Play this with your Mogwai and M83:

Explosions in the Sky:

Yasmin The Light
Your Hand in Mind

Some atmosphere from found sounds: Arturuo en el Barco: Candy Tucker

French Dub Released

More heard on Britney.: French Dub Released is a netlabel, home of the Dub Echoes compilation... plus other releases:

Zaruts: 80's

R2jeux: Corde à sauter

All releases are in an RAR format. (There's a download link for extraction software on the release page).

Reading from Britney.

The other side of Britney. is starfrosh (starfrog), a blog where artists post samples and news about their new, mostly net label releases.

Also spotted bahgheera's orbit, a music blog that doubles as a bahgheera music showcase: Take a listen: Bad Polarity.

Dharmasound net label

I saw Dharmasound, a netlabel, on Britney. Dharmasound represents several genres of music. Some samples from the catalog:

Paco Alvarez: a summer day
Mark Hamn: on cherche se rapprocher d'un ideal

NPR picks

Picks from the last couple of weeks of NPR music news:

Sting's 'Labyrinth': 16th Century Pop Music
Easy Star All-Stars: Radiohead Meets Reggae
Ed Palermo: Making New Arrangements for Zappa
San Francisco: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

James Brown Live

Just noticed this gift NPR gave us last summer:

James Brown: live in Washington, DC

Troorg netlabel

Came across the troorg netlabel at Britney. Dedicated to exploring biodiversity of sound, and experimenting with found sounds to make music that you can dance to -- electro-organic dance music. Some samples:

Bpill : 120 disco road
D-jet : eastmoon

And if you got this far... don't forget to check out the map of the troorg fan fairy ring!

Songbird

Don't know what I was waiting for to check this out... maybe because it's version 0.2 -- but that's no reason to wait. Manage your music library, follow your favorite music blogs, search for music, and do even more things with songbird. Oh, and don't forget to check out the screencast demo.

sonicSquirrel

SonicSquirrel is a platform and distribution channel for 500+ netlabels. No rating here, listeners create and share playlists. The proposed wikipedia entry goes like this:

"one well-known trait of some species of squirrel is the gathering and storing of free music. these squirrels are scatter-hoarders, i.e. they will gather any kind of sounds and store them in an accessible and open hiding place, usually by uploading them on a web server. recent research shows that they have excellent memories for the locations of these caches. the sonicsquirrel is a social animal and likes to share its gathered treasures with everybody.

Splice

Remix and mashup online at splice. And share the Creative Commons way. I heard rig there:

Listen:
Triumph... or remix it.
Epic Orchestra... or remix it.

Give the remix a try -- click play and watch the music go.

The Meeting Places

Noise pop from Los Angeles. I discovered The Meeting Places on Pandora today.

Take a listen:
Take To The Sun
Numbered Days

Britney. Social bookmarking for music

Britney is a social bookmarking site for music (in all genres) that can be freely shared. Think digg for downloadable music.

ccMixter mix

Earhead#101111 spins his first playlist: Ninety minutes of electro chilled beats from ccmixter.org.

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Church of High Dub

Stumbled across some very cool radio at Shoutcast: dub electro chill from iwayhigh.net. Heard some interesting Radiohead covers there.

Concertino for Cell Phones

NPR had this story about audience participation at the Chicago Sinfonietta. The audience was instructed to use their cell phones whenever a green light was on during the performance.

Here's a review with cool photo of a performer in a tux using his cell phone.

Day Against DRM

Today is the official "Day Against DRM" -- you know -- Digital Rights Management -- or don't you know? The guys that count the money don't want you to know how they control what and how you consume "their" music and movies. Read about DRM here.

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