I’ve told you about Standing Waltz in a Daily suggestion in April.
As you may or may not know, the band’s drummer, the very excellent Pascale Mercier, also has a side project named Mathématique, which she describes as
“an electro/8bits project from Quebec City, born in december 2008, started by a girl who loves video games and vintage synths.”
I don’t think you need more words.
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Mute has announced a major reissue programme for our beloved Kraftwerk to be released in early October, as reported here by FACT Magazine.
This reissue will coincide with the 35th anniversary of their Autobahn album.
The reissue, however, will not include the band’s first three albums — Kraftwerk 1 (1970), Kraftwerk 2 (1972), Ralf und Florian (1973) —, focusing on the better known part of their catalog, from Autobahn (1974) to Tour de France (2003), and including The Mix (1993).
Leaving out the first albums and including The Mix is a decision I find questionnable, but hey, I don’t work for Mute, do I?
As for Tour de France, it’s so recent, does it really need a remastered version?
In any case, I don’t want to sound like a party-pooper, I’m really happy about this news!
Entitled 12345678, the reissue will be available in these various formats:
As a mini-grieving for the non-inclusion of their first albums in the reissue, I propose you listen or discover this track:
Kraftwerk – Ruckzuck (from Kraftwerk 1, 1970)
Kraftwerk – Ruckzuck
A very interesting read from CNET | Digital Media, a blog post by Greg Sandoval on the demise of SpiralFrog: Inside the short, troubled life of a music start-up | Digital Media – CNET News.
I’ve known for a long while that Jesse Somfay is one outstanding artist in the music world (yes, at large, not just in the electronic one), as his work as a composer has proved many times over.
Now, the man has dropped an even bigger bomb on our avid — and possibly unsuspecting — ears yesterday via SoundCloud.
It came in the form of an astounding three hours and twenty seven minutes mix recorded for Henry Salz’s podcast The Labyrinth.
Again, I’ll let his work speak for itself, but…
ALL DJS SHOULD TAKE HEED.
Seriously.
I know I have.
And don’t miss his masterpieces A Catch In The Voice and the mind-blowing Fricative White.
Here’s the very impressive tracklist:
01 Atlas Sound – A Ghost Story
02 Brothomstates – In
03 Autechre – Dropp
04 Plaid – Sincetta
05 Brothomstates – Adozenaday
06 Bola – Forcasa 3
07 Plaid – Cedar City
08 Bola – Effanajor
09 Boards of Canada – A Moment of Clarity
10 Boards of Canada – Amo Bishop Roden
11 Wisp – Flat Rock
12 Autechre – Rae
13 Clark – Future Daniel
14 Boards of Canada – Tears from The Compound Eye
15 Boards of Canada – You Could Feel The Sky
16 Burial – Archangel
17 Current Value – Requiem (Balkansky Rework)
18 Burial – You Hurt Me
19 Sneaker Pimps – Spin Spin Sugar
20 Burial – Prayer
21 Nine Inch Nails – In This Twilight
22 Nine Inch Nails – Head Down
23 Portishead – Roads
24 Beck – Chemtrails
25 Radiohead – Scatterbrain
26 Blonde Redhead – Dr. Strangeluv
27 Radiohead – 2+2=5
28 Nine Inch Nails – We’re In This Together
29 Nine Inch Nails – Beside You In Time
30 Torche – Across The Shields
31 Acid King – Bad Vision
32 Kyuss – One Inch Man
33 Oneida – 10:30 at the Oasis
34 That Fucking Tank – Ludwig II Of Bavaria
35 Boris – Farewell
36 Deftones – Minerva
37 Slowdive – Melon Yellow
38 Astrobrite – Amorotic Zoom
39 Sigur Ros – Untitled
40 Belong – I Never Lose. Never Really
41 Grouper – Heavy Water / I’d Rather Be Sleeping
42 Belong – Remove the Inside
43 Ulrich Schnauss – On My Own
44 Ladytron – Tomorrow
45 Radiohead – Let Down
46 Nine Inch Nails – Right Where it Belongs V2
FACT magazine reports that Kanye West has made available a demo tape by WTC on his blog.
Get the file here
Online music spot Stompy is giving away it’s Summer Sampler, 12 tracks totally free that you can even download in WAV format, and there’s lots of yummy stuff in there, too!
To wit: 1200 Warriors feat La Bru, Alland Byallo, Dan Curtin, Matthew Bandy, Gramophonedzie, Hard Mix!, James Braun & Dan M, Jay Tripwire, Lars Behrenroth, Marko Militano feat Sunny (A Dub instrumental by Fred Everything), Nick Chacona & Anthony Ma (remixed by Brothers Vibe), Nikola Baytala & Myles Eg.
Head on to Stompy, all you need to do is create a free account.
Oh! Boy!! Can’t wait to see and hear this! 😀
Daft Punk have recorded 24 tracks for Tron soundtrack. Apparently.
Hey y’all! Sorry ’bout the wee hiatus, I was off on a small holiday with my daughter, last weekend, and well… that’s it!
As is customary when I do not post for a few days, I try to come back with music you can keep legally and for free!
Well, I found a few great things for ya!
First, if you remember, a coupla days ago I told you about The Mungolian Jet Set releasing an excellent double compilation of their work. Well, turns out they are giving out one of the tracks on said compilation, and it happens to be the best one of the lot!
Clairevoyage (A Medley Performed By The 16th Rebels Of Mung) – Dominique Leone
As you can see, it is offered by RCRD*LBL, “a network of ad supported online record labels and blogs offering completely free music and multimedia content from emerging and established artists.”
There’s tons of good stuff and there’s a newsletter you can subscribe to that will send a free track to your inbox on a daily basis!
Today’s free track, for instance, made me discover the excellent Memory Tapes.
Bicycle (Horrors Cosmic Dub) – Memory Tapes
I’ve also mentionned FACT Magazine before, they also give out free stuff regularly, and latest on the list is British MC Ms. Dynamite.
Never heard of her? Check out the video for her debut hit from a coupla years back, Dy-Na-Mi-Tee
