Despite recent upload caps and general pricing changes, Mp3tunes continues to be a high quality service with great support and an active community. One of my biggest complaints was no support for iPhone due to the excessive use of flash. Well, forum member mackgreen has finally made a webapp for the service. While it lacks a number of features from the actual website, it is a great start and actually works.. albeit, slowly. If you use mp3tunes (and you should) and also happen to have an iPhone, please check it out, visit the mp3tunes forum and give feedback.
A hauntingly beautiful video for Twine’s ‘Endormie’ track off of Violets featuring Alison Shaw from the Cranes, one of my all time fave ethereal goth-esque bands. The strange thing is how this track is a perfect blend of Twine and The Cranes and could easily be a cut from either projects past releases… a natural collaboration.
Looks like our dear friends at the RIAA have possibly taken down another gem for good. Muxtape has been down for well over a week now. Let’s hope it comes back.
One of my fave producers, AGF, has released a really interesting, free album on her site full of glitchy broken beats similar to Matthew Dear and Plateau. Grab it now by clicking the pic above and please donate if you can to show your support for independent artists that are unafraid to offer works for ‘free’
If you know me IRL, you know I have a barely controllable fear of spiders. They creep me the fuck out. So, when I run accross a video of the jumping spider mating ritual, I could feel every hair on my body freaking out in a unanimous decision that THIS is a very bad spider. Make sure your sound is up, even spiders sing.
Beehatch, the project of Mark Spybey (Dead Voices on Air, Zoviet France) and Phil Western (Download) have a new track up from the upcoming second album titled ‘In Silence, Too Silent’. Unfortunately, you have to visit MySpace but it’s worth it - more vocals than before and layers of detuned synths and drones. Love the drum circle feel…
Vid from a recent discovery (for me, at least) by Head Like A Kite. Makes me think of early Beck and Folk Implosion. Good stuff - latest album to be released sometime this summer,
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