From the ZU Webpage:
Critic and hydiosincratic music made of drums, bass, and saxophones . Some call it freejazz, no-wave, or hard-core. It's soul music [...] Critic and hydiosincratic music made of drums, bass, and saxophones . Some call it freejazz, no-wave, or hard-core. It's soul music [...] John Zorn: "You have created a powerful and expressive music that totally blows away what most bands do these days!"
Austrian review:
[...] Sie versuchen, die Gräben zu überbrücken, die zwischen den verschiedenen Szenen (Improvisation, Rock, Jazz, New York Downtown, etc.) leider immer noch bestehen [...]
skug - online | David Krispel | 22-05-2001 |
"Animal Collective have been mislabeled as a number of things including "free folk," "drug music," and "improv," but in their own assessment, the group are simply trying a different view of pop. Although this a cliche: there honestly is difficult to describe their sound without simply hearing it. We sat down with three members for an insightful interview in the back of their tour van. Watch closely as a car accident can be heard offcamera outside during one of their answers!"
"A few weeks ago, I read the post you guys made about MoblogUK, a creative commons licensed alternative to TextAmerica. I'd been searching for an alternative for awhile, so I was pretty excited to find it. After switching I wanted a way to get my images from TextAmerica over to the new site at MoblogUK, so I wrote this app to make the process easy. Besides parsing a TextAmerica moblog and sending the entries off to MoblogUK it can also save your TextAmerica entries locally in an XML/XSL format...in case you ever want to do that for some reason!"
More info here:
www.firepile.com
Link found at: boingboing.net
Kinan Abou-afach was born March 26,1977 in Damascus, Syria. He commenced his musical studies at the age of seven with the ‘Ud (Arabic Lute), learning traditional Arabic repertoire and the maqam system (Arabic scale system). At the age of eight he began studying the Cello under Mr. Pavel Coupin at the Arabic Institute of music, he changed to Mr. Rasi Abdullaiev, one year later. At this institution he flourished into an equally over-achieving ‘Ud and Cello player. Music wasn’t his only mode of expression. Along with his music, Kinan was immersed into the world of visual arts.
Big Dada Special
Recently described as "the very best underground hip hop label" in the Observer Music Monthly, Big Dada have taken it upon themselves to release heaps of records on the sly without you even noticing.
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Ty featuring Roots Manuva – ‘So U Want Morre Refix'
Heavyweight pressure as two of the UK's finest MCs come together on a combination of the rawest, most bouncing beats around. Watch, listen and
learn.
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Infinite Livez featuring Barry Convex – ‘Baby One More Time’
Barry - a red teddy bear and the evil svengali behind Infinite Livez'worldwide success - takes centre-stage with a coruscating re-reading of the Britney classic. He may have only one eye, but what a pair of lungs.
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Diplo – ‘Indian Thick Jawns’
Straight from Florida via Philly, the man Diplo offers up more superb avant garde bounce while his buddy, System D-128, cuts up the vintage
erotica/exotica. Blimey, vicar!
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TTC – ‘Live’
Big in France. In fact just big. A short film of highlights from TTC's triumphant performance at Les Trois Elephants festival last summer. TTC are back this year with a new album and the track "Dans Le Club" is already an anthem and it ain't even out yet... Throw ya Hans Blick in the air!
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Busdriver featuring Abstract Rude – ‘Unnecessary Thinking’
Soon, the whole world will know of Busdriver. The LA Underground veteran with the unique flow, GSOH and continuity announcer diction has released a number of superb albums, both as himself and as part of The Weather. His latest teams him with Daddy Kev and D-Styles for maximum blindingness. Oh,
and if that ain't enough, the legendary Abstract Rude's on there, too.
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Bigg Jus – ‘Kingspitter’
Burn, Babylon... The former Company Flow man is about the drop the definitive and complete version of his legendary 'Black Mamba Serums' sessions. Recorded over the last four years in and around Atlanta, it's a must for anyone claiming even a passing interest in underground hip hop. "Kingspitter" is one of the newest tracks - a taster of Jus at his illest and most inflammatory.
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Their dark burlesque attire and awe-striking live energy have cemented the Dolls' growing cult following and secured them a spot in the roster of underground bands currently trying to exhume the lost art of impeccable musicianship paired with a tragicomic flair for the absurd. The Dolls recently finished recording an unreleased CD with producer Martin Bisi (SWANS, Sonic Youth) and have just begun work on a new EP with producer Sean Slade (Radiohead, Courtney Love). Stolen from here
We've compiled a sampler featuring all new and some old releases from the 2.nd rec catalog, including tracks by Nitrada, Chessie, epy, Noah23, Giardini di Mirò, Pilot Balloon, Twig Infection and Tellaro.
And best of all: This CD sampler is free! The postage ain't though. It's 2 euro for shipping within Europe and 3 euro elsewhere. You can pay with paypal (to paypal@2-nd.com), send us cash or german stamps (2.nd rec, Laufgraben 27, 20146 Hamburg, Germany). First packages will be shipped on May 5th.
Tracklisting:
Giardini di Miro - A New Start (Styrofoam remix) (from 2ND008)
The Roots are an influential Philadelphia-based alternative hip hop crew, known for uplifting lyrics and live instrumentation. Originally composed of Black Thought (rapper) and ?uestlove (drummer), The Roots soon added Malik B. Moving (rapper) and Hub (bassist) and earned themselves a respectable fanbase in Philadelphia. Their debut album, Organix, was released on Remedy Records. With significant hype, The Roots soon signed to DGC and released their major label debut, Do You Want More?!!!??! in 1995 (see 1995 in music).
Do You Want More?!!!??! included no samples and was recorded live; sales were slim among mainstream audiences, though it was very popular among devoted hip hop fans and some alternative rock audiences. Preceded by the moderate hit "Clones", 1996's Illadelph Halflife (1996, 1996 in music) included some samples but still did not sell well.
In 1999 (see 1999 in music) The Roots' Things Fall Apart (named after Things Fall Apart, a novel by Chinua Achebe) was a breakthrough commercial and critical success which made it on many best-of lists for the year. Though The Roots' were no superstars, they vastly expanded their fanbase, leading to high hopes for their follow-up, the long-awaited Phrenology, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music), which was similarly acclaimed, though sold somewhat less than Things Fall Apart. From the wikipedia
The Roots Live.com
Each month The Roots Live.com will host live shows from THE ROOTS. These shows are intended to be shared among Okayplayers and fans of The Roots . They ARE NOT to be SOLD or AUCTIONED in any manner.
Is there anyone who hasn't seen those funny poster from modernhumorist.com ? They were created during the napster era.
You can buy those posters at:cafeshops but there are also some very well hidden pdf files to download and print availible at the homepage of the modernhumorist.
"This piece is the result of my reflections on Mark Rothko's paintings currently on display in the Tate Modern. The display is set in a darkened room within the Tate, producing an intense and intimate experience.
I visited the Tate in March with a binaural microphone and a minidisc recorder, and sat contemplating the paintings. I tried to capture the experience and the environment by recording the sounds around me. The recordings were then processed (twisted, warped, granularised) to encode my own ideas about the paintings and the experience as a whole."
Mit der Entwicklung des MP3-Formats hat Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg dafür gesorgt, dass Musik heute im Internet gängiger "content" ist. Was Fans freut, hat die Industrie vor grundlegende Probleme gestellt. Prof. Brandenburg erklärt im Interview die Hintergründe der Entstehung von MP3, die hausgemachten Probleme der Musikbranche und die Stereoanlage der Zukunft. Mehr
Weblogs have revolutionised the media. But are they more than just vanity publishing? And if so, what kind of content is best? Leading bloggers Salam Pax, Rhodri Marsden and Gregor Wright debate the issues. Via email, naturally. More
Thingamablog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application that makes authoring and publishing your weblogs almost effortless. Unlike most blogging solutions, Thingamablog does NOT require a third-party blogging host, a CGI/PHP enabled web server, or a MySQL database. In fact, all you need to setup, and manage, a blog with Thingamablog is FTP access to a web server. More
SOUND ON SOUND is recognised internationally as the 'bible' of the hi-tech music recording industry.
Every month our UK edition delivers over 300 pages packed full of in-depth product tests of Synthesizers, Keyboards & Rack Modules, Music Software, Samplers, Soundcards, Recording Systems, Mixing Consoles, Effects & Signal Processors and not forgetting studio essentials like Microphones and Monitors, plus the best Musician, Engineer, and Producer interviews you'll read anywhere. Our regular Tutorials and practical 'how to' Workshops offer no-nonsense advice for beginners and professionals alike, helping readers get the most from their equipment.
Indeed, lots of interesting interviews on thiswebsite. I wonder if I can find the time to read them. Here are a few examples:
Autechre interview in "Sound on Sound" from 1997
Autechre's own take on techno is so far from the mainstream that the duo, Rob Brown and Sean Booth, can scarcely understand why anyone shares their tastes. The fact is that they do, in their thousands. CHRISTOPHER HOLDER heads to Sheffield to work on his studio tan. More
Autechre - Recording Electronica - "Sound on Sound" April 2004
Didn't read it yet, but looks very technical. More
YOU KNOW THOSE FAKE SONGS put out by the labels on filesharing networks that have 20 seconds of music followed by intense screeching noise? Claire Chanel and Scary Sherman, the hilariously-pseudonymed music activists behind jayzconstructionset.com, are now telling us that these annoying fakes constitute an entirely new subgenre of music: the RIAA-mix (get it? re-mix, riaa-mix?). They’ve put out a compilation of some of the greats of this genre, including “remixes” of Aerosmith, 50 cent, Sheryl Crow, and G&R. More at:
downhillbattle.org
tonight (Wed, 21.4.) between 20.00 and 20.30 we'll be airing a Textone label special with some Textone tunes and an interview with Textone co-founder Jay Haze. It will take place in our radio show "Zündfunk" on Bayern 2 Radio (complete show starts 19.00 h, in German).
A man of many guises, the tireless producer and remixer deconstructs techno as Uusitalo, explores experimental sound design as Vladislav Delay, and has plans to blunt hip hop with an as yet unnamed future project. Always hungry for new experiences, this time around Delay delves headfirst into what he describes as a fruitful love/hate relationship with his surroundings.
Keith Fullerton Whitman has recorded and released music under a number of pseudonyms, most notably Hrvatski. Hrvatski has appeared on more compilations than you can shake a stick at and criss-crossed the globe laying down breakbeat concret for the kids. He has worked at the Forced Exposure distribution center, written about music, lectured at Ivy League universities and is a graduate of the Berklee School of Music. And Keith Fullerton Whitman runs a record label and mail order service.
From the ZU Webpage:
Kinan Abou-afach was born March 26,1977 in Damascus, Syria. He commenced his musical studies at the age of seven with the ‘Ud (Arabic Lute), learning traditional Arabic repertoire and the maqam system (Arabic scale system). At the age of eight he began studying the Cello under Mr. Pavel Coupin at the Arabic Institute of music, he changed to Mr. Rasi Abdullaiev, one year later. At this institution he flourished into an equally over-achieving ‘Ud and Cello player. Music wasn’t his only mode of expression. Along with his music, Kinan was immersed into the world of visual arts.
Their dark burlesque attire and awe-striking live energy have cemented the Dolls' growing cult following and secured them a spot in the roster of underground bands currently trying to exhume the lost art of impeccable musicianship paired with a tragicomic flair for the absurd. The Dolls recently finished recording an unreleased CD with producer Martin Bisi (SWANS, Sonic Youth) and have just begun work on a new EP with producer Sean Slade (Radiohead, Courtney Love). 
