doctorfrog on 4/10/2008 at 02:57
(
www.bumpfoot.net) - "Bump Foot is a non-profit netlabel in Japan, created and organized by tatsu.
There are currently two main branches.
bump : Techno, House
foot : Ambient, IDM, Electro Pops, etc."
Been cribbing from the
foot side of things for some time now. Though it is a netlabel based in Japan, most of the music seems to come from all around the world. Some of it is pretty good, some a little strange, like what sounds like a Brazillian a capella experimental jazz choir/rap group.
There is a lot of music here, I've downloaded about 3 gigabytes worth so far.
henke on 4/10/2008 at 11:14
The new GT is mostly good. "Set it off" is the stand-out track. :D
I checked out Kleptones as well, excited to see that they had based an album on Flaming Lips "Yoshimi battles the Pink Robots", but it just didn't deliver. I don't know if it's that I listened to GT just before or what, but it just sounded amateurish and lazy.
Ganstagrass on the other hand was kick-ass. I'm just naturaly weak for heavy ganstarap and fast banjo-playing though. Mix the two and I'm in heaven. :) Very professionally put-together as well, not quite on GT's level but still excellent.
Shakey-Lo on 4/10/2008 at 17:11
Yeah the Flaming Lips and Queen albums by The Kleptones are not their best (or really "his", as it is only one guy) , I prefer the more freeform stuff, particularly the first half of 24 Hours. Maybe it's just me but that album was what convinced me that maybe mash-ups aren't a load of bollocks after all.
henke on 16/10/2008 at 16:19
Inline Image:
http://www.musicbox-online.com/images/todd-snider3.jpg(
http://www.toddsnider.net/store/product/1/Peace-Queer) Todd Snider - "Peace Queer" (available until Oct. 31st, 2008)
"East Nashville Skyline" was the first Todd Snider album I ever heard, about 2 years ago. Right from the first song I could tell that he'd end up becoming one of my favourite artists. There was just something so right, so
true, in what he sang. This is folk music in the truest sense and in my opinion, with the exception of Dylan, Snider is the greatest living folk musician today. He doesn't go as deep, or personal, as Dylan, but he manages to express his opinions in wonderfully witty ways you only
wish you could've thought of. Like the man himself says near the end of this free 8-song EP:
"While over the course of this music I may share some of my opinions with you, I don't share them with you because I think they're smart or because I think you need to know them. I share them because they rhyme.""Peace Queer" starts out strong with the army marching song "Mission Accomplished" which might just be the catchiest song Snider's ever done. After that we have a mellow cover of "Fortunate Son", the chilling spoken-word piece "Is this thing on?"(which gets reprised for the final track), aaand... a few other highly political tracks. At circa 25 minutes it's quite short, but apart from the "Is this thing on" reprise and the CCR cover every track feels absolutely essential.
edit:
Making money out of paper
making paper out of trees
We're making so much money
we can hardly breathecouplet of the year, that. Listened to this EP 7 or 8 times now this evening.
Jackablade on 16/10/2008 at 17:29
I don't mean to nitpick, but you spelled Beautumn wrong on your list Henke. :devil:
doctorfrog on 4/11/2008 at 06:24
Bumpity bump
I haven't sampled it yet, (
http://www.vorbic.com/about/)
Vorbic is apparently a netlabel that likes electronic music:
Quote:
We are Vorbic. We are a Netlabel. We like electronic music.
We like to keep it simple and let the music speak for itself.
All our releases are made using very high quality Variable Bit Rate (VBR) encoded MP3 files.
Gecko on 8/12/2008 at 22:52
i have made my first house Mixtape. I hope u like it...write your opinion ;)
36 Tracks - 3 hours nonstop
(
http://www.bentraxx.de/housemix.html) http://www.bentraxx.de/housemix.html
gecko
Chade on 28/12/2008 at 03:16
Not sure how I missed this thread for so long ... but:
(
http://www.joshwoodward.com/) Josh Woodward is probably the most prolific "give all my music away for free" artist I know of ... the music ranges from country to rock, and is usually excellent.
(
http://www.jamendo.com/en/) Jamendo is a large store of free music, with albums spanning an enormous variety of styles, often of high quality. The nicest thing about Jamendo is that it has a voting system, so you don't have to wade through the crap to get to the gems.
And (
http://www.whiteroom.ca/) Whiteroom rock.
P.S. I do not really "follow music" as such, however, so I am not sure how my tastes will compare to some of yours ...
