prosthetic knowledge
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Nicolas Jaar Boiler Room NYC LIVE Show - Red Bull Music Academy Takeover
Perfect for a Sunday evening - a minimal electronic music mix which is a pleasure to listen to:
Listen to Nicolas Jaar’s first time in the Boiler Room.
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Σclipse
7 tracks of new electronic music by various artists, free to download - recommended if you like future music / beats / glitch-hop / dub-step etc … :
Every six lunar months – when Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned – we experience a partial or total lunar eclipse that can be observed anywhere on the night side of Earth. Lunar eclipses can only occur at full moon, that time when the moon is directly opposite Earth in relation to the Sun. Many ancient civilizations cultivated a multitude of myths surrounding these astronomic events, most of them depicting wild animals or mystical creatures eating the moon or crossing it’s path. Tibetan Buddhists say that during a lunar eclipse, our actions, whether good or bad, are multiplied one thousandfold, whereas, in ancient egypt, a lunar eclipse was considered to be the precursor of natural disasters, catastrophes, wars, and diseases and the biggest possible harm would be cast upon the earth if Isfet, the manifestation of the total eclipse and god of injustice and violence, would make the sky fall onto Earth and therefore bring chaos upon it.
As the soundtrack for the lunar eclipse during the night of the 25th of April, we selected some exclusive and unreleased songs from Robot Koch, Submerse, Rain Dog, Sieren, Daisuke Tanabe, Lomovolokno, KRTS, and Daixie on this mini-compilation.Listen to the embed above, or go to the Bandcamp page for more info / download links here
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Atlantics Vol. 3
Free eclectic electronic music compilation with something for everyone:
One year ago from today on April 20th, 2012, we released Atlantics Vol. 2 - a sprawling collection of tracks by talented friends and artists from around the world. This year, we asked a completely different group of fresh faces to contribute, and the result is something special. Not nearly as ambitious in scope as the previous installment (although pretty damn close) Volume 3 is a more concise and understated compilation, but no less engaging by any means. Spanning genres as disparate as hi-fi footwork and grainy new wave, it is another diverse and soulful collection of tunes that is sure to have something for everyone. Hopefully in addition to recognizing familiar names, you are also able to discover new talent, as showcasing the underground is something we continually strive to accomplish.
Listen to all 32 tracks in the embed above, or for more info, you can go to the Bandcamp page here
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Re: Sound Bottle
An electronic sound sampler in a bottle which constructs music from the sounds you give it, by Jun Fujiwara - video embedded below:
Re: Sound Bottle from Jun Fujiwara on Vimeo.
This is a music medium that can reproduce a recorded voice as music. It makes a database of sound sources that is managed and used as formal and automatic repetitions, and forms a music medium of the day. I felt something missing in the habitual use of music reproduction media, so I thought to create an interactive music medium that changes. By using everyday voices as sources of music, the sounds that are heard all the time every day carry infinite possibilities and help us reaffirm the enjoyment of music. I hope people can experience their own music.
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PK Mixtape 2012
A mixtape of music from and related to 2012 - tracklist then commentary below:
Tracklist:
1) Atari Video Game Logo - Suzanne Ciani (00:00 - 00:05)
2) Zenthial Arches - Team Doyobi (00:06 - 03:12)
3) Ye Ye - Daphni - JIAOLONG (03:12 - 09:17)
4) The Nightcaller - Flying Lotus (09:17 - 12:44)
5) Conversion Theory - Analogue Monsta (12:44 - 16:00)
6) Locked - Four Tet (16:00 - 24:18)
7) I Feel Love (12” Version) - Donna Summer (24:18 - 32:19)
8) Flutes - Hot Chip - In Our Heads (32:19 - 39:22)
9) Ricky’s Theme - Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (39:24 - 43:03)
10) Eclipse/Blue feat. Kazu Makino - Nosaj Thing (43:04 - 47:07)
11) Bamboo Music - David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto (47:07 - 52:13)I felt like making another mixtape (just as I did last year), as … why the hell not. I’m no mixtape god so don’t expect anything masterful or comprehensive. I have to admit I wasn’t so into music this year, but thats not to say there was nothing worth attention. I hope, at least, there will be something anyone can appreciate.
1) Atari Video Game Logo - Suzanne Ciani
Taken from the “Lixiviation” album released by Finders Keepers Records, a compilation of examples and works by an electronic music pioneer.
2) Zenthial Arches - Team Doyobi
Taken from “Digital Music Volume 1” on Skam Records, a worthwhile addition to anyone who likes contemporary electronic music.
3) Ye Ye - Daphni - JIAOLONG
A solo effort from Daniel Victor Snaith, who also made the excellent “Swim” under the guise of Caribou.
4) The Nightcaller - Flying Lotus
Taken from “Until The Quiet Comes”, the album is generally mellower than his previous outings, yet still has plenty to offer.
5) Conversion Theory - Analogue Monsta
Any release from TOKiMONSTA is always something I look forward to: a collaborative album with Suzi Analogue available for the price of an email address, is 10 tracks of psychadelic electronica soul. More Here
6) Locked - Four Tet
Taken from a compilation album of 12” releases, all enjoyable
7) I Feel Love (12” Version) - Donna Summer
2012 saw the passing of Donna Summer from cancer. For me, she will always be important for this track she made with Giorgio Morodor, released in 1977. A true archetype of popular electronic music which has withstand time (and employed a production hack to get it’s new sound as the technology at the time could not perform the way it does), noticed by Bowie and Eno as the sound of the next 15 years, can be played pretty much anywhere. RIP
8) Flutes - Hot Chip
From the ‘In Our Heads’ album, which I would say was mixed. However, I think this track is one of their best ever, and probably my most played tracks this year.
9) Ricky’s Theme - Beastie Boys
2012 also claimed the life of Adam Yauch aka MCA of the Beastie Boys (again, from cancer) at the age of 47 :( It was very sad news. Everyone here should know all the Beastie Boys classics, but here I decided something different, something that stood out for me from their ‘Ill Communication” album, a jazzy instrumental. RIP
10) Eclipse/Blue feat. Kazu Makino - Nosaj Thing
When I heard Nosaj Thing was going to release new material this year, I couldn’t wait. His Drift album was fantastic. Sadly, it was only this track that was released, and I can’t wait to hear new material in 2013.
11) Bamboo Music - David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto
My favourite release this year was not a commercial one - it was a compilation from the Root Blog called ‘野生の野望’ featuring 80’s Japanese electronic pop music related to musicians of the band Yellow Magic Orchestra. A wide range of music which until now I had a lack of knowledge of. More about the compilation (and links to get it) can be found here.
I hope you enjoy it :)
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Rooftop Sessions V.25 by Aldous
Nearly an hour and a half mix of downtempo, leftfield electronic music put together by aldous:
1) Blockhead - Midnight Blue\
2) Broadcast - Subject To The Ladder\
3) Arms And Sleepers - The International\
4) Amorph - Rainy Evenings\
5) Yppah - Film Burn \
6) Mike Flowers Pops - Debase (Aphex Twin Soft Palate remix)\
7) Telekinesis - Please Ask For Help (Populous remix)\
8) James Yuill - Head Over Heels\
9) Malcolm McLaren - About Her\
10) Arms And Sleepers - The Paramour\
11) The Green Kingdom - Radiance Reflected (The Boats remix)\
12) Two People In A Room - Been Trying To Meet You
13) Donnacha Costello - Nothing, Still Nothing\
14) Arc Lab - Slow Down\
15) Boards of Canada - Open The Light\
16) Displacer - Elbows Bent At Right Angles (w/ Broken Fabiola)\
17) Soulja Boy - Pretty Boy Swag (Shlohmo remix)\
18) The Remote Viewer - Last Night You Said Goodbye, Now It Seems Years.\
19) The Boats - There Are Tunnels Where We Live\
20) Xela - Streetlevel\If you prefer, you can listen to this at it’s MixCloud page here, and check out other great mixes in the series at Aldous’ music site here (Personal Tumblr blog here).
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Boards of Canada - Live on Disengage Show (2000)
A recording of a live set recorded from the UK’s Kiss FM radio station, about an hour long.
No tracklist, but if you are a fan of the band, you’ll enjoy it - Link
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Dyskograf
Interactive sound installation developed by Avoka can let participants create music by marking sequences on a paper disk with a pen, which is then read by the machine - a sort-of Oramics Machine in turntable form:
Dyskograf from Jesse Lucas on Vimeo.
DYSKOGRAF is a graphic disk reader. Each disc is created by visitors to the installation by way of felt tip pens provided for their use. The mechanism then reads the disk, translating the drawing into a musical sequence.
The installation is above all a tool, which allows the creation of musical sequences in an intuitive way. The notion of a loop, closely linked to electronic music, is represented here by the cycle of the disk. The disk passes indefinitely in front of a camera fixed onto an arm. This substitution for the needle converts the drawing into sound by way of a specific application program (software). Through this system, the sequential ordering of music is learnt in a playful way, at the same time creating a unique object, souvenir of the musical composition.
More info can be found here
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“ [Interviewer]: I think when most people think about synthesizers and computers, the last thing they imagine is something organic or natural. What does it mean for you to use these “artificial” technologies as a mirror to hold up to nature?
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King: It’s funny, because a computer is made up of silicon, one of the most abundant elements on Earth, and copper, which is found in abundance in the Earth’s crust, is used for circuit boards. These are natural elements, which we don’t think of as natural because they are encased in plastic, but their ‘essence’ is organic in the beginning. So in a sense, once you know this fact, you dont think of the hardware as artificial. The funny thing is with the mirror idea, you’re essentially showing nature how it looks in a new outfit (plastic).—Interview with King Britt at Create Digital Music on his latest project with Data Garden, “The Bee and The Stamen”, which combines electronic audio with nature …
… also an interesting thought for the day …
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Giorgio Moroder Has A SoundCloud Account
70’s popular electronic music producer (who pretty much cast the format of dance music since) now has a SoundCloud profile:
My name is Hansjörg “Giorgio” Moroder and during the last 50 years I made Pop-, Electro-, Disco-, Hi-NRG-, Rock- and Synthesizer-Music.
In the 80s I created Soundtracks like Scarface, Metropolis, Neverending Story or Flashdance.Enjoy my tracks, some of them are rare.
~GM~
You can enjoy his music at his SoundCloud page here
[Embedded track: Utopia - Me Giorgio (1977)]
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The Beat Oracle: 09/08/2012: Unused Calendar
Second recommended mix is the latest one from The Beat Oracle show, two hours of future music - best show I’ve heard in awhile, highly recommended:
The summer may be coming to a close, but the season is still ripe for future music! This week we play a host of new releases to usher in the autumn. Part one features the new single from Flying Lotus (with some help from Erykah Badu), a track from Daphni’s (aka Caribou) debut album, the latest from the Sea and Cake, a hypnotic cut from Holy Other’s debut LP, and another week means another new album from bvdub, this time under his East of Oceans moniker (a must listen). In Part two you’ll hear the much anticipated return of Lukid, the soulful beats of Jessie Ware, more from the legendary Radioactive Man, a brand new track from Matthew Dear’s new album “Beams,” and Michael Mayer closes things out with a great remix of Gui Boratto’s “This is Not the End.” Certainly not.
Tracklist:
01) Ta-Ku - #dusty 29
02) Mala - Calle F
03) Flying Lotus - See Thru To U (feat. Erykah Badu)
04) Daphni - Cos-Ber-Zam – Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)
05) Laetitia Sadier - Fragment Pour Le Future De L’Homme
06) The Sea And Cake - The Invitations
07) Groundislava - Olympia 2011
08) Maria Minerva - The Sound
09) sobrenadar - Junio
10) Holy Other - Held
11) East Of Oceans - 1983
12) DeepChord - Glow
13) Lukid - Manchester
14) Mohn - Saturn
15) Jessie Ware - Still Love Me
16) Underworld - Minneapolis (High Contrast Remix)
17) The Orb Featuring Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry - Golden Clouds
18) Radioactive Man - We Make Techno Party!
19) Shlohmo - The Way U Do (Airhead Remix)
20) Pariah - Signal Loss
21) Matthew Dear - Fighting Is Futile
22) Anstam - Observing The Patterns
23) Skyler McGlothlin - Retro/Grade Groove
24) Minotaur Shock - Ocean Swell
25) Gui Boratto - This Is Not The End (Michael Mayer Mix) -
The Electro Compendium
A free compilation of 116 (!!!) tracks of intelligent electro - I’ll leave the Anti-Social Network to explain it:
Electro.
Kraftwerk invented it in the seventies. Hip hop jacked it in eighties. Techno took it underground in the nineties. And then strange things happened in the noughties. House and dubstep co-opted the word “electro”, shifting its meaning and confusing people. Good people. People like YOU.
You’ve forgotten what real electro sounds like. But that’s ok, because we’re here to remind you. Electro is the sound of robots dreaming of a science fiction future, making machine music in their bedrooms with pulsing drum machines, while their keytars gently bleep. OK, maybe not so much the keytars, but probably some squelching synths, and sci fi samples and even the occasional vocoder, all washed down with lashings and lashings of funk.
Today, electro continues to evolve, embracing modern production techniques and digital sound design, mutating into something so alien it barely resembles most of today’s dance music. And yet it does. It SO does, and we have over 100 tracks that prove it, from relentless hardcore dancefloor tracks to intricately tweaked bedroom chin-scratchers; from melodic retro tributes to the escapist soundtrack of science fiction futures.You can check the music out in the embedded player below, or check out it’s Bandcamp page (with tracklist) here
Thanks to Lewis Hadler for the heads up :)
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Haunts mix WBRS Waltham, MA July 13, 2012
I got a message from ghostmittens the other day ….
hi! if you like electronic music sets here’s a mix i did last month for a radio program in the US. its 30 tracks and it runs about 74 mins. maybe its stuff you’ve heard already but i thought you might enjoy it
It’s great … the kind of IDM / Electronica mix that is great to play when you travel around.
0:00 Dopplereffekt - Z-Boson
0:09 Four Tet - You Could Ruin My Day
2:01 Prhizzm - I Miss You Already
3:58 Iris - Vacant
7:19 Bleep - Coils
9:14 Phantogram - Futuristic Casket
12:19 Kalx - Gravitron
15:01 Esem - Dispherse
18:47 Carbon Based Lifeforms - Init
22:10 Christ - Making A Snow Angel
25:56 Legiac - Tretz Dizm
28:40 Professor Kazkaz - Europium
31:05 Arovane - Theme
32:59 Washed Out - Before
35:45 Planet Boelex & Lisa’s Antenna - Not From Here
38:37 Koss - SpeedofSound
41:34 Dissolved - Every Pulse Is Noted
44:12 Arc Lab - Spectres
44:29 El Iqaa - Rated Raqs „ #Things That Quicken The Heart
45:49 Ametsub - Peaks Far Afield
48:49 x|k - Warm Wishes
50:25 Patrick Pulsinger - Grey Gardens featuring Hanz Hautzinger
52:33 Weird Continental Types - Rizing
55:08 Sasha - Coma (Spangled Rubdub)
57:30 Anders Ilar - Cries Of The Wilderness
57:49 Culvre - The Consequence Of Love And Indecision
59:11 Charlie May - Midnight (Original Mix)
63:15 Soliquid - Music Is For Rich People (Original Mix)
66:54 Burial - Kindred
68:48 Gridlock - ChrometaphorIf you want to download it, you can get it from it’s SoundCloud page here
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TshirtOS
Cutecircuit have teamed up with Ballantine’s Whiskey (???) to pitch to you a semi-Internet Of Things ‘digital T-Shirt’ with features operated through a phone. Watch the video embedded below, and decide if you would want one …
tshirtOS is the world’s first wearable, sharable, programmable t-shirt.
The original canvas of personal-expression, innovated by Ballantine’s and Cutecirctuit.
A working, digital t-shirt that can be programmed by an iOS app to do whatever you can think of.
Ballantine’s & Cutecircuit believe in the power of personal expression and want to make tshirtOS available for everybody to buy.
How will you Leave An Impression with tshirtOS?To find out more about tshirtOS go to http://www.tshirtos.com and register your interest.
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Gorilla VS Bear - July 2012 Mix
Pretty decent hour-long mixtape of moody summer electronic music:
01 Diana :: born again 00:00
02 Blood Diamonds feat. Grimes :: phone sex (jensen sportag remix) 03:44
03 Frank Ocean :: thinkin bout you (ryan hemsworth bootleg) 07:22
04 Fiona Apple :: every single night (LOL boys edit) 11:16
05 LOL Boys feat. Heart Streets :: changes (shlohmo remix) 14:56
06 Maria Minerva :: the sound 19:58
07 Puro Instinct :: dream lover 23:40
08 Panda Bear :: soft serve rip curl 27:55
09 Taken By Trees :: dreams 28:47
10 Holy Other :: held 32:34
11 Las Malas Amistades :: duquesa 38:30
12 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti :: only in my dreams 40:56
13 Mac DeMarco :: my kind of woman 44:02
14 The xx :: angels 47:06
15 Frank Ocean :: bad religion (C & S by slim k) 49:45
16 Frank Ocean :: sweet life 53:32Available to download at Gorilla vs Bear here
