a pschedelic activation portal

Bulgarian net label, Ouim.net, lots of gold to mine there, everything is on a Creative Commons license.

Sample from Samdelia: Endless.

There's also a sister site ouim.org -- the descriptions are in Bulgarian (I assume) -- but more to listen to there.

Don't Download This Song

Weird Al Yankovic on the hell of music downloading... check out the video.

Duncan Garage Showroom Radio

This is cool... an eventful/podbop mashup: Duncan Garage Showroom Radio.

Official website: Duncan Garage Showroom

Immashoo Group Schizophrenic

In their own words:

Blind man's bluff with the keychain found Tuvan trance music. All in good fun, naturally. Created with wierdo spirit voices, software, found sound and so forth.

5 stars at the Internet Audio Archive: Mongolian Keychain

RIAA continues to amaze

In a recent RIAA case, the RIAA wanted to question family members about their deceased father's music downloading crimes. You can stay informed about all RIAA lawsuits against music fans here: Recording Industry vs. People.

The more I read about the RIAA, the more I don't want to buy music at all... seems the only way to put money in a musician's pockets these days is to buy a t-shirt off their merch table.

Flower Powder

A DJ from Sweden, Flower Powder, offers psytrance, and progressive mixes and more. You can can find much of their catalog at their page on the Internet Archive. A sample: Mexikhali.

Stuff to put on your music player

Today's link: a large directory of podsafe audio sources at ourmedia.org. This is also a good source of information for publishing media on the internet.

Frequently Awkward Questions

Some interesting questions for supporters of DRM... like -- how much of the $75 million the RIAA has won by suing music fans has it actually given back to musicians? The answer is none, it goes to a legal fund, so the RIAA can sue more music fans.

More questions from the EFF. And, here's a useful article about your rights, should you find yourself named in an RIAA civil suit.

Acoustical Liberation

Only public domain audio books at LibriVox, including a good collection of children's stories. In the mood for some Alice in Wonderland?

Oh Canada!

The closest I can get to hearing great music at the Duncan Garage Showroom is to tune in on CBC Radio 3. They offer a steady stream of made in Canada tunes, a playlist tool (hear your favorites again), and a playlist sharing/ranking system. All free, courtesy of Canadian taxpayers -- which includes me!

There's also a weekly podcast this week featuring authentic Canadian J-pop sounds from Toronto by Shinjuku Zulu.

RIAA Phonecall

Share this: RIAA Phonecall

Found the tune at zug.com. And, while I'm bashing the RIAA... here's a read from Slashdot: Why we think music should be free.

Music Mining at funender.com

I discovered funender.com today -- it provides MP3 hosting services for musicians and DJs, many of whom offer free downloads. A listener community offers ratings. Unfortunately no way to link a sample here, and you must be registered (free) to listen to playlists. I think it's definitely worth the free registration.

Live from the Duncan Garage Showroom

I'm waiting for the day that my favorite venue streams their shows... but for now, I'll have to settle for Live at The Gig in Hollywood... which appears to be leading the pack on this. Obviously, it doesn't (yet) have the presence of a live performance, but there's plenty of us that can't make it to The Gig tonight, even though we might want to see who's on stage.

Konono No. 1 do CONGOTRONICS

I found Konono No. 1 from The Congo at National Geographic's World Music website. Konono No. 1 make some of their gear out of junked cars... sample some congotronics.

[edit 28 Jan 07]: You'll find videos of Konono No. 1 on the TRÂNSITO music blog... scroll down to 15/01/2007.

National Geographic does World Music

Discover and buy music.

Net Audio Worth Listening

Very useful music blog nwl covering netlabel releases. Today's feature is a Nicorola release on the 1bit wonder net label.

I liked one of Nicorola's mix CD's. Sample: Latex Distortion

Syd Barrett died this week

Syd Barrett[W] started Pink Floyd in the 60's, but the band went on without him in the 70's. Still, fan sites run strong. This is a good starting point, and check out the Hype Machine playlist. Also, sample this pre-Pink Floyd demo tape: Lucy Leave.

Music Machine

From Animusic, this video is very popular at google video right now.

shockshadow

Shockshadow is one of my favorites at ccMixter.

Braving The Rain
Below and Beyond

Saxon Shore

I heard Saxon Shore at 3hive today.

A sample: The Revolution Will be Streaming.