In most instances, the sentiments expressed in the great Country Teasers song "Please Ban Music" (real audio from their WFMU live session) are surely to be applauded, although in reality, the idea is a bit unfeasible unless you were in, say, Iran. Here in the USA however, we will settle for "Please Lock Up Bands." A drastic move, for sure, and while such an activity in the past might have prevented such great moments in rock, like for example this one (2.3MB mpeg for download), we may have also prevented a lot of this. Pictures here were snapped this morning on my bike ride to WFMU down the west side path, on the West 13th Street pier. Upon peering inside, one of the guitarists even came up to the glass to woodle woodle on his axe for me, but sadly that one didn't come out. All I have to say is that if they are indeed subsiding on Dr. Pepper and KFC, I wouldn't want to be near the pier when the bubble finally opens up.

30th May 2007: Manytone Music has announced ManyBass, a new bass guitar sample based synthesizer which comes with a large collection of bass guitar samples intended to form the foundation of your day to day bass ins...

Here are three videos from some beat-oriented favorites of mine. All found around YouTube, all existing well outside the extremely dullzo realm of mainstream hip-hop, all completely different from one another, and all well worth your investigation. Especially if you're cut from the "don't care for the rap music" cloth.

On the left, we have the apocalyptic Wordsound Records duo of Spectre and Sensational, the men who by my ears espouse the best of the broken beat/perplexing rhyme philosophies. You can find more great collaborative work by them here. This song ("Pillars of Smoke") is available on the Retrospectre CD.

At centerstage, all the way from Australia, is the mighty Curse (ov) Dialect. My love affair with fringey Australian music dates back to first hearing the Celibate Rifles on college radio in the mid 80s. From that launchpad, I worked backwards and discovered bands like Radio Birdman, while simultaneously looking ahead to the mutant hip-hop of Macromantics and Curse (ov) Dialect. This song is from their fantastic recent album Wooden Tongues. Get the full skinny on the band here.

Finally, the extreme right gives us a video by Dalek, the Newark/Brooklyn phenomenon that's responsible for some of the most forward-thinking hip-hop records of the last decade. It's not your everyday producer and MC combo that's recorded with Faust and gets invited to participate in the Bang on a Can marathon alongside JG Thirwell, Brian Eno, and Alvin Lucier. This track is called "Ever Somber" and is from the band's brilliant Absence LP. It has been regularly referred to (by me) as one of the best songs of the last ten years. Have at it. You can see more Dalek vids on YouTube with this link, buy their music from Ipecac Records over here, and read up still further here.
 

30th May 2007: NOVUZEIT has released Kinetic Visual Replay, a new VST effect plug-in for Windows that offers esoteric control functionality in the realm of extreme audio manipulation, coupled with an idiosyncratic i...

На улице невероятно жарко и тем не менее всё равно необходимо в день преодолеть определённое растояние. Вероятнее всего данный микс я тоже отнесу к серии передвигаться по городу! Это Jungle Jazz в перемешку с Atmospheric Drum`n`BAss. В ближайшие дни выложу ещё два микса с музыкой в стиле Drum`n`bass! Двигайтесь в ритме ветра! Наслаждайтесь и ВДОХновляйтесь! Track List : Atmospheric Drum`n`Bass #1 1. Darker Than Blue - Big Bud feat. Mc Conrad) 2. Higher Ground - Omni Trio 3. Desideradi- Artemis 4. Still grey - Pendulum 5.Skeleton Keys - Omni Trio (Remix) 6. A Way Of Life (instr.) - LTJ Bukem feat. MC Conrad 7. Twin Town Karaoke - Guardians of Dalliance (Remix) 8. Time (CD version) - Makoto featuring Cleveland Watkiss 9. Sanctuary (Remastered) - Omni trio - Source Site:www.shumix.rpod.ru

30th May 2007: Homegrown Sounds has released Astralis, a new Microtonal Synthesizer VST instrument for Windows. Astralis is described as a tweaker's synth, great for ambient pads/sounds as well as rhythmic effects...

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30th May 2007: PSPaudioware has updated PSP 608 MultiDelay to v1.1.2. Changes include: SIMD SSE2 support for Windows resulting in much better performance. Plug-ins work fine as AudioSuite in Digidesign ProTools. ...

30th May 2007: Expert Sleepers has released Warbler, which is, at heart, a vibrato effect, with additional controls that allow chorus/flange/delay type effects, as well as quite unusual hybrid sounds that aren't eas...

30th May 2007: VirSyn has updated miniTERA to v2.1. Changes: Streamlined sound browser for easier access Fixed: RTAS: changing samplerate is now working. Fixed: Mac: Projects with multiple instances sometimes didn...