Sun Ra - Atlantis

i run on laser beams!

(sorry for the 2 month break, i am very good at procrastinating. just wanted you to know i'm still alive!)

impu - Let it all flowers

very good, happy music :3

http://iqtu.com/ is his website, all his music is pay-what-you-want and streamable, enjoy!

múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK

yepz

Access To Arasaka - Oppidan

some great glitch, in a vain similar to richard devine, mixing sound design with noise with harsh glitch music. very cinematic in sound, and high in production quality. many of the albums by this artist are free on his site, this album being one of the few exceptions. visit his site at www.accesstoarasaka.com, it is quite a neat site, too ^_^

Jega - Spectrum

sorry for my long absence, i was on a cruise (!)

here is some classic (and classy) aphex-esque idm (the artist was/is friends with richard (d) james, from what i have heard). all song on this album are great, and many (with a few drum-machine exceptions) show a great amount of effort splicing and juggling and destroying old funk loops. this album is a wonderful example of what some early english idm was like, and why it was so great :)

Ryoji Ikeda - 20' To 2000 - Variations For Modulated 440Hz Sinewaves

a conceptual piece by Ryoji Ikeda, an experimental/glitch electronic musician who has had some very interesting ideas throughout his career (this being no exception!). this piece is an exercise in very limiting minimalism, focusing entirely on rhythm and dynamics, and totally ignoring timbre (texture) and pitch, by using the purest sound that can be synthesized, the sine wave, at 440Hz, or A (above middle C). an interesting listen, but probably not something you'd listen to more than once unless you are VERY into conceptual art and very extreme minimalism.

p.s. use stereo headphones for this piece! the interplay between the left and right sides makes up one of the main features of this album, and without it, the piece becomes even more repetitive :P

Mike & Rich - Expert Knob Twiddlers

mike paradinas, of µ-ziq and kid spatula, and richard d james, of aphex twin and afx, get together and make an album. awesome ensues.

Kraftwerk - The Man Machine

and all the electronic music fans who read this blog collectively go "about time!" :P

VERY early electronic music, and yet it is still great today :)

Jackson and His Computer Band - Smash

Esem - Scateren

pretty pretty tracker music :)

download it free (legally!) here

Plone - For Beginner Piano

sadly, this is plone's only album, as one of the three members died of cancer several years after the creating of this album, and the group then disbanded. rumor has it that they had a second album, which was never released, but somehow leaked onto the internet after the break up.

anyways, this music is rather cheery and analog, almost childish sounding, made mostly with vintage keyboards and fx. the composition is wonderful, and it makes me all warm inside. my only complaint is that it only runs for around half an hour :s

Kaneel - Here Is A Heart So You Can Remember How Much I Hate You

sorry for missing the past few days, blogger is being a jerk... first just being annoying, then "down for maintenance" for a day or so :\

anyways, here is some free (well, pay-what-you-want, but its your choice!) glitchy tracker music for you ^_^

check it out at http://www.mynameiskaneel.com/

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

no comment (<3)

Utabi - Manchurian Candy

check out the guest post i made at http://pattterns.blogspot.com/

its even got the album in there somewhere, for you to download with your internet!

<3 ~~~

http://pattterns.blogspot.com/2011/04/utabi-manchurian-candy.html

µ-Ziq - Brace Yourself

an ep based on another album by µ-Ziq called "lunatic harness", which is equally awesome (though not quite as happy). mostly drum and bass / breakcore with a few acid influences. very well polished and a few tracks that you wont be able to get out of your head (listen to the video below!)

Boris - Amplifier Worship

some of the most distorted, droning, noisy sludge/doom metal on the planet. boris is well known for changing styles pretty much every time they release something, and this release is well known for its heavily distorted, droning guitar, death metal style growling and screaming, and the odd noisy synth and polyrhythm drum beat thrown in for good measure. just listen for yourself :)

James Blake - CMYK

one of my internet-friends, who is into dubstep, introduced me to james blake, and I must say, I don't really consider him dubstep... there is no generic "wubwub" dubstep sound in his music, and I would actually qualify him more as "glitch", "minimalistic dance", or simply "electronic", more then anything else. This ep is a decent starting place in his music, since it immerses you in his strange melodic styles, odd synth patches, and broken sounding beats. make sure to listen with decent headphones, blake really seems to enjoy sub bass!