Video: End of the Beginning, bpmf
Posted on | August 24, 2007 | Comments Off
Parousia Fallacy, bpmf
Posted on | August 23, 2007 | 2 Comments
Jason Szostek produces electronic music as bpmf. I recently got a copy of bpmf’s Parousia Fallacy, and it’s an interesting mix of synthy washes and spaced-out techno sounds. The best way I can describe it is it sounds like what a movie in say, 1984, would depict what a computer would sound like if it produced sound and you could hear it while it worked. And the the computer is maybe evil, or at least kind of weird and brooding. And also it speaks Russian.
Stop by bpmf.us, where you can preview tracks from the record.
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bpmf MySpace Profile
Submissions Policy Added
Posted on | August 23, 2007 | Comments Off
Just a quick not to mention I’ve added a Submissions Policy page to the site for artists and management interested in getting music submitted for review.
Last.fm Normalised Rankings
Posted on | August 23, 2007 | Comments Off
I came across Last.fm normalised rankings recently, an interesting site that takes a look at your last.fm statistics and figures out which artists you’ve listened to for the most amount of time based on the average track lengths of songs.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I’ve spent 5,959 minutes listening to Stars of the Lid.
This kind of stuff really excites the info/data/web nerd in me. The more data in the world that’s collected, and the more it’s released and set free in standard formats, the more opportunities creative people have of finding ways to analyze and visualize it to help people make sense of things in their lives.
If you’re a last.fm user, have a look at the Last.fm normalised rankings, it’s pretty interesting.
New Amiina Web site & Tour Dates
Posted on | August 22, 2007 | Comments Off
Amiina have updated their Web site, and announced some North American tour dates for the fall.
Northern, Taylor Deupree
Posted on | August 22, 2007 | Comments Off
Taylor Deupree runs 12k records, and he makes some rather nice ambient music himself. Northern is a record full of long drones and meandering, glitch-like sounding tracks. The songs have quite a bit of nuance and texture to them and grow into themselves over time. I’m finding the record works nicely played through as well as it does when you’re pulling tracks out at random throughout the day. Highly recommended if you’re into the more electronic end of the ambient music spectrum.
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Taylor Deupree MySpace Profile
Taylor Deupree Bio at 12k records
You Who Pretend To Sleep Now on iTunes
Posted on | August 21, 2007 | Comments Off
Just a quick note to mention that You Who Pretend To Sleep by Ambient Music Blog favorites Joy Wants Eternity is now available for download from the iTunes Music Store.
Thanks to the always helpful Andy Boyd of Prescription Audio for the heads up!
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Ambient Music Blog: You Who Pretend To Sleep, Joy Wants Eternity
Somnia, Greg Davis
Posted on | August 20, 2007 | Comments Off
A really nice recent find is Somnia by Grey Davis. Six tracks of quiet atmospherics and synthy drones. The shortest track clocks in at 4:02, and track 4, Campestral (version 2) is over 22 minutes in length. The record is full of nice long tracks that are really quite good at fading into the background.
I picked up a few other records from Davis recently as well, and they’re quite good. I’ll likely have something to say about them around here shortly. In the meantime, have a listen to his work, it’s really top-notch stuff.
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Greg Davis Bio at Kranky
Greg Davis MySpace Profile
Video: Efterklang Parades
Posted on | August 18, 2007 | Comments Off
New Eluvium Track Download
Posted on | August 17, 2007 | Comments Off
The great Matthew Cooper, who you likely know as Eluvium, has a new track available on his site for free download. Have a listen, it’s really nice stuff.