OffTheSky: compilation of tracks on Autoplate, Resting Bell, Zymogen, and Passage
A fresh Netlabelism podcast is available. An hour long excursion into the works of offthesky. US based artist Jason Corder utilizes adverse software in combination with glitch, guitar, field recordings, and even weather pattern data to create lush and emotional sound collages. This mix touches on his some of his work released on Autoplate, Resting […]
More electronica and live ambient music downloads
A quick reminder for you to get some quality megabytes saved to your hard drives this weekend. If you’re keen on completely improvised, live ambient music, check out Bing Satellites sixth installment in the Twilight Sessions series. Each live performance starts as a blank canvas and evolves in to atmospheric soundscapes with drifts of clarinet,voice […]
Netlabel Tracker #8: Random Access Recordings
The netlabel tracker continues its endless quest in search of quality netlabels that are active and innovative. I’m concentrating hard to spread the tracker across as many genres as possible and encompasses music with acoustic guitars as much as synthesized beeps and booms. After homing in on a particular label & genre I squeeze every last bit out of my Internet connection amassing the collections of quality and free music that are on offer. So far I’ve happily filled 10Gb of my hard drive with netaudio, no credit card needed to ride this train!
New albums and singles on Invisible Agent Records
There are a several singles and albums circling Invisible Agent HQ and I’m too excited about these upcoming releases to stay quiet any longer. Here’s some exciting new music about to coming in for a smooth landing: First in the holding pattern is the rising star Eomac who will soon grace us with a new […]
Lots of services, not much choice.
If you have an account on any of the popular music download services you will notice selected tracks labeled as ‘Album Only’, meaning that you can’t buy them individually, only as part of the entire ‘album’. So who’s in control of this activity? the artist, the record label or the distributor?
The war on music
It’s foolish to ignore the future of music distribution. It’s obvious that the old encumbents are bloated and slow to act.
New ‘Swarm Intelligence’ DJ mix – Against the Grain
Another DJ mix to download from Berlin based label owner & producer Simon Hayes. If you enjoyed Simon’s previous Agentcast you’ll love his new mix entitled ‘Against the grain’ over at SwarmIntelligence.net. Plenty of Irish based labels representing. It’s full of energy and rolling beats, get downloading because it’s absolutely banging. Check out the track […]
Download Podcasts and DJ mixes the easy way
Do you want an easy way to download DJ mixes and podcasts? You need Juice, an excellent program written by the fathers of podcasting Adam Curry and Dave Winer. Juice is a podcatcher, a podcatcher is piece of software that allows you to subscribe to a podcast or RSS feed. Juice will automatically download any […]
Goodbye darkness my old friend – The Death of MP3
Excellent news from the friendly folk at Juno. They are phasing out MP3 downloads. Hooray! As from today Juno have stopped accepting label uploads and deliveries in MP3 and will only accept loss-less WAV, FLAC or AIFF. We will continue to sell your releases in MP3, WAV and FLAC formats, but will only accept content […]