Blocsonic: netBloc Volume 5

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

Easily Embarrased

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)

Four tracks released in one mix with a cue file... I've had it on repeat play over an hour now -- it wanders off into different musical territories, and comes full circle when I press play again.

The Internet's new walls

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.

The Resonance Association

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

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

Appendix Two: Lower

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

The week in post-rock

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