Wednesday, September 27, 2006

limbus: Best of Breed

The album cover art iadcell - limbus draws you in... after the apocalypse we will be dead -- but the machines won't notice. This album sounds like it was entirely pasted together with found sounds -- very well done, with a good amount of industrial rhythms and drones mixed in.

Listen: limbus-remix
Listen: s1

iadcell - limbus dark ambient industrial on Jamendo

Warning: Bush Bashing

Here's a funny one -- tho I must tell Eric -- he didn't need to bash Bill's wife to make it funny... it's such a guy thing to blame the wife!

PS: this is more fun if you sing along!

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

The Internet, The Music, and the implications

I read these two stories at The Digital Music Weblog about recent news items. This item about the USA Today's take on the music business. And, this item about the BBC's finding that a huge proportion of iPod owners prefer to buy and rip CD's over buying music directly from iTunes.

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Tuvan Chillout

Ran across this today... wow! As chilly as Siberia is, I didn't expect I'd see Siberia on the chillout map.

Sainkho Namtchylak: Let The Sunshine

Friday, September 08, 2006

The Empire Fights Back

David Byrne comments on a new internet music venture that offers free (as in advertising supported) music downloads from two of the worlds largest catalogs.

via The Digital Music Blog

Roots of Electronic Music

Emerson Lake and Palmer brought some respectability to the synthesizer, but it wasn't until Gary Numan and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark that the synth sounds took center stage... There's a 7 part video series about Gary Numan at Sonic State.

Gary Numan Are Friends Electric

OMD Maid Of Orleans

Sunday, September 03, 2006

c|net's music genre explorer

c|net's music download website is pretty cool -- seems a little like epitonic -- well suited to exploring genre's of music. Each genre has a pick of the day, an editor's playlist, and an audience playlist. Many downloads, and some entire albums to download.

Saturday, September 02, 2006

Michael Franti and Spearhead

Heard "Yell Fire" on 3hive today. How timely... Local boy, Michael Franti, throws his annual Power to the Peaceful party in Golden Gate Park next weekend... you can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb the world to peace. Michael Franti and Spearhead went to Iraq earlier this year and have a new album out.

Michael Franti and Spearhead: Yell Fire

Check out the Yell Fire poster contest.