IG88 - Mututal Mastication

Mutual Mastication marks the second full length solo release from the IDMf net label since the grandiose cyborg-tronica from Synaecide's Scientifica. Being a community of musicians brimming with talent, the label has yet to fully define its 'sound' beyond the extremely liberal constrictions of IDM. However there is one constant throughout their catalogue and that is sheer quality.
IG88's release is no exception. Moving through the brooding 80's darkwave aesthetic of album opener Poission D'avril to the rolling rhythms and luminous melodies of An Ice Cube's Sunrise, you can feel a overwhelming sense of majesty in the music and we're only half way through.
Overall the album feels very visual, possibly influenced from the psychedelic track titles, but images of hazy digital forests and purple smoke fill my mind, extremely dreamy yet never sedating. I also contribute a remix of the track Nebulous Eyes which acts as the album closer, so there's another reason to go and get this musical gem for FREE.

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IG88 on Myspace

Frequency Nine

Carl Sagans Ghost

Awesome ambient (duo?). Very mellow, very slow shifting washes of sound and ebbing melodies.
Lots of stuff to download for free, and they have stared a collaboration project that i'm interested in. Check it out on the site.
http://carlsagansghost.com/

Daniel Klag

Was looking for some experimental music stuff for Lydia Loop to check out when she went to New York. Stumbled upon this guy. More mega ambient experimental stuff in the vein of William Basinski but with more composition and harmonic development. He told me he's looking for a label to release on, from what i heard i would suggest Moteer or Raster Noton.
http://www.myspace.com/danielklag

Length & Brecht /Remixed/

Three awesome remixes of my tune Length & Brecht which appeared on the second idmforums.com compilation - IDMf002 - Concord.
A very big thanks to Perm, Fid, Stu and AT for their time and effort into what is becoming and incredible net-label. Just sick music, all for free.
Beautiful artwork commissioned by the magical hands at www.Goreki.com

Tracklist:

01: Halogen - Length & Brecht (Original Mix)
02: Halogen - Length & Brecht (Synaecide Remix)
03: Halogen - Length & Brecht (Field Rotation Remix)
04: Halogen - Length & Brecht (Woodnote Remix)

Download here

The Future of Music

I was so musically deprived after doing my final year degree work for uni that i managed to squeeze out a mini album of material over the past four days.
It was intended to be a futuristic take on what music may become...
The name is pretty ridiculous but the music is even more so.
Includes: Horror Ambience / Wonky Classical / Underwater Pop

FREE DOWNLOAD LINK:
http://drop.io/therealgrin
http://rapidshare.com/files/226762436/TheGrin_Neo-Symphony.zip

Frequency Seven

There are many things i want to say, but, alas, i have no time.
I am in the middle of making my final year uni project (some kind of interactive installation involving glass bowls...)
thus, in haste...

Comfort Fit
Awesome abstract hip-hop, that i believe, nowdays, one calls 'wonky'.
You can grab his Forget And Remember LP for free on his website.
Definitely go an download it.
Comfortfit.de

Taylor
Very well thought and out and excellent composed glitchy techno.
Just got his track out on the first release from Wigflex. There website has awesome artwork and graphics.
Myspace.com/adamtaylor84

0.1
Haunting post-rock electronica with a signature eerie falsetto.
Really tight production and sound design.
Download his track The Dance of Mechanical Birds for free here
a very intense but awesome 17 minutes.
myspace.com/0point1

Fluid Mix - Vol.3

My latest mix was aired on Fluid Radio last night so i'm putting it here for free download.
Its a very mellow mix of non-electronica acoustic centered bliss and i'm very much in love with every track used, hope you do too.

Tracklisting:
Bombay Bicycle Club - You Already Know
Department Of Eagles - Phantom Other
Fleet Foxes - Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
Cortney Tidwell - Mama From The Mountain
Here We Go Magic - Fangela
Flanger - Crime In The Pale Moonlight
Jim Noir - Computer Song
Deerhunter - Activa
Origamibiro - Vitreous Detachment
Grizzly Bear - Foreground
Bon Iver - Flume
Taxi Taxe - Heart.
Richard Skeleton - Fold
Halogen - A Less Exciting Mutual Friend

Halogen Fluid Mix-003 by Halogen

Halogen Motion Mix

Iambic asked me to make a mix for his Phuture Frequency drum and bass centered radio podcast site. The Motion Podcast section deals with mixes of various genres and has some really great stuff up there. My mix has some tracks of many of the people i have mentioned in the Frequency posts on this blog, also included are some previews from my debut album, an awesome track from a recent find: Friendly Foliage, and also a track from my mate Dirty Long Legs who is also one quarter of our 80s inspired music power team (all will be revealed).

Tracklisting:
Juri - Thought It Was Love
Saine - Live A Little
Friendly Foliage - The Way to The Western Sea
Jonti Danimals - Nightshift in Blue
Rumpistol - Rehux
Praveen - Float
Dirty Long Legs - Eugene and Ezra
Halogen - Millicent
Juri - Void
Bluermutt - Shaping My Vision of a Nice Day
Helios - Shoulder to Hand
Halogen - Etik
Fennesz - Perfume for Winter
Listen and download here

Free We Yes You No track

The Maternity website is growing! Although still in its prepubescent developing stages, i am happy to announce that the track 'I Live In NY' by We Yes You No is available for free to download off the maternity website.
Its a delicate and melancholy piece of music that commences the gradual release of their entire EP 'Somewhere on a Train' and it's awesome so go on and download it.
Maternitymedia.com

You Are Atlas

I finally uploaded the album to archive.org
i thought it was safest there, it's a magical place and people actually listen to your music, which is nice.
Continuing with the previous ethos employed by the past albums, all music is improvised and recorded on to cassette tape. This means there is a lot of muffled whispers and random clattering, which can be interpreted as added 'ambience' if you like...
I condensed about 3 hours of material into 8 separate tracks, its very strange, but i like that and hope you will too.
Download Link

Frequency Five

Over the past week i have been doing some intense Myspace rummaging, contacting a plethora of musicians to get them to listen to my music. Along the way i found some really incredible artists, who also have some beautiful free releases.

Juri
A nice dude from Finland, he directed me to his free 'Thought It Was Love EP', filled with slowly weaved and fragmented guitars, whistling synths and subtle rhythms. Annoyingly short, but nonetheless very stunning and beautfifully produced.
www.archive.org
www.myspace.com/jurimusic

Saine
Another inhabitant of Finland, what is it with these guys? His 'Clockwork EP' uses wonky and sterile beats surrounded by jazzy riffs and glowing melodic swells. The composition is really impressive, so simple that it requires many listens to appreciate the craft used.
www.sainemusic.com

www.myspace.com/sainemusic


Jonti Danimals
This music is very special. Its is also very difficult to describe. There is an aged and weathered texture to the overall sound, as though written and pressed to vinyl in the 1940's and then sampled by Animal Collective. Very jubiliant and playful, this Australian has some impressive times ahead. A must listen!
www.myspace.com/jontidanimals

Iambic
I first met Guy only recently through recommendation of a mutual friend, and i hope to soon be collaborating with him on some obscure music. He showed my a demo for his most recent album which conjured an image of Portico Quartet playing God Is an Astronaut. His free download EPs however show a far more ambient and subtle approach to its content, calm and serene and impeccably constructed
www.iambicmusic.com

www.myspace.com/iambic

Fluid Mix - Hypnotize

So this is my first mix for Fluid-Radio, i don't have any fancy mixing software so the mixes are pretty medieval....but it means you get to hear the whole tune, so there.
Friday 19th December
7pm GMT
www.fluid-radio.co.uk

Halogen - Hypnotize (Fluid Mix) by Halogen

NOISE

I've been taking an increasingly added interest in all thing generally noisy. Tiny little machines of wires and circuits that create dense oscillations and waves of ambient sounds...
I recently purchased an FM3 Buddha Machine 2.0 from boomkat.com. A very concise and dainty piece of equipment that houses 9 different loops, i aim to buy several more to have my very own orchestra.


You can also download all the WAVs of the loops here:
http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com/site/?page_id=29

On a similar note is the awesomeness of bleeplabs.com.
They make strange little robot people with flashing minds that emit pulsating death rays of sonic chaos and digital madness. Soon they will be mine.

Frequency One

The posts are slow, but i assure you they are steady. 'Frequency' will be a series of posts dedicated to current musical findings: albums, songs, websites, sandwiches etc.

Net-Labels

Some of the best music i have heard recently has not been bought, but downloaded (and no, not illegally). Net-labels provide quality EP and albums for download complete with artwork, all for free. Most music is held under the beautifully tame jurisdiction of the Creative Commons License, an alternative to Copyright.

some of my favourite's:

http://www.acroplane.org/
- An incredible collection of free releases from "Irelands best free net label".
Mostly deals with music of IDM/Electronic tendencies.

Recommended downloads:

• Barry Lynn - 98 ep

A melodic and rolling hip-hop ep similar to Dj Shadow's 'Entroducing' album from Barry Lynn aka Boxcutter.

• Koen Park - Pastoral Pioneer

Glowing synths and crisp beats immersed in glitchy tape saturated warmth.


http://www.net-lab.co.uk/
- Another electronic music orientated net-label that also includes a some very inspiring independant short films.

Recommended downloads:

• TV Youth - Dawn EP

A must have. Some tracks are jaw-droppingly beautiful.

• Michael Manning - A Week At Night EP

Moody textures and sharp half-step rhythms centered around vocal loops and samples.

• pani K - Tramway

A short documentary about the tramway in Poland. Beautifully shot with interviews with the tram drivers. Who knew trams could be so interesting?

Albums

Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart
(Warp/Inertia)
I started a math-rock band called Penguin with some friends from uni and Teej, the drummer, recommended we all listen to this album. Pivot are a three piece from Australia creating seizures of post-rock instrumetation with a distorted sheen. Squealing guitars over minimalist synths all underpinned with a thumping rhtyhm section. Maybe not for everyone, but it should be for everyone.
http://www.myspace.com/pivotpivot

IDM Forum Compilation

One of my tracks was picked for a lovely little EP by very special website:
www.idmforum.com, they made their own Netlabel and InDepthMelodics is the first of many free download albums they're releasing.
There are some really incredible tracks on here, my personal favourite our by 'ZXYZXY', 'Binary Pulses' and 'JWilson', but they are all pretty stand out tunes.
A special mention to the Mastering engineer: Altered Tensions, who did a stellar job.

Download here