New music: Grimes: Fragments of the future

Montreal Grimes, aka Claire Boucher, is, according to his label, influenced by "R & B, industrial, goth, hip hop and Western medieval organum" and references Salem, Mariah Carey, Gang Gang Dance and the Smiths. In reality, it seems nothing like one of these artists and genres are mixed in such a way that if it touches any of them, then it is so fleeting that to be almost instantly forgotten (we are not yet certain what "Western medieval organum" is). The music of Grimes is described as bizarre pop, with unique Vanessa recently a good example. Altered areas has just posted a new mixtape butcher, from Fragments of the future, a magnificent washing of piano, synthesizer and vocals contortions. On the first listening, it is quite mild - but it is magical in its minimalism.

Download the full mixture of SoundCloud.

Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music

OHM+ : the early gurus of electronic music

Special Edition 3CD + DVD

Leaps in technology: oscillators, generators, vacuum tubes, amplifiers, transistors, magnetic tape, integrated circuits, and the microchip— inspired new instruments: the telharmonium, theremin, ondes martenot, electronic sackbut, clavivox, electronium, moog synthesizer, and computers— and artists everywhere hungry for new modes of expression.

This collection is a humble but bold attempt to give form to the wonderful, multi-directional, inevitable birth of electronic music.

"Many of the ideas in this collection have now been so completely assimilated into popular listening that it may sometimes be hard to remember how surprising it all was on first outing. Some of it still sounds pretty exotic. These CDs are important as part of the story of how we got to where we are now–the cultural conversation so far–and as a still fruitful repertoire of future possibilities." —from the Foreword by Brian Eno

Three CDs—42 original music tracks from 1948–1980 112 Page Book—extensive artist interviews, commentaries, and archival photographs Special Edition DVD—over two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video.

Price: $13.98

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Crimson death & inhabited Lunar program explode "Wordbomb".

Wordbomb

Lunar program Crimson death & inhabited explode this runway exceptionally powerful 'wordbomb' on Brighton based EML recordings label out now on Juno. Lunar program lived (Daniel kent and Richard wolfe) combines dark, urban beats with a pop melodies to create songs that are challenging yet accessible based in London.

crimson death is a DJ Jungle based in Toronto, whose music is influenced by the sounds and images of Black Metal. Known for his creations of extreme, unique studio covers and remixes of high energy, it harmoniously combines elements of genres in the dynamic dance floor anthems.

Characteristics of'wordbomb' Amazon song of Thanet based nikki booth. Powerful tribal voice is a perfect match for the dominant beats of the runway. Although released in April, I heard this a few days ago only track and felt that the urgent need to write and spread the "Wordbomb". The powerful images of the video are reminiscent of the current forest fires spread across the country. I am certain that the song of Nikki Booth could be deployed to extinguish the flames, as if the blows to a candle!

The influencesof the manned lunar program among bands like Pet shop Boys, depeche Mode , Massive attackand Portishead , as well as artists as diverse as pink floyd and tori Amos.

crimson death can be categorized as technically complex reinforced by "wall of sound" drum and bass rhythms box.? The dark, distorted bass lines and cold atmosphere layers are accompanied by demonic vocals providing otherworldly lyrics, haunting, focus on all aspects of the perceived reality and emotion experienced in the collective sub-conscious.

It is no doubt that the Lunar program Crimson death & inhabited occupy a unique and relevant space in the current music scene.

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Music weekly podcast: Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi

Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse) and Daniele Luppi talk Ben Beaumont-Thomas in the podcast this week. Better known for his work with the Cee Lo Green: Gnarls Barkley, Burton also worked with Gorillaz, Beck, and U2. You may have heard working the Luppi on tracks by John Legend, Broken Bells and Sparklehorse.

Now, the pair have collaborated on an album, Rome, which is strongly inspired by the sound of Ennio Morricone spaghetti westerns (you can listen to it on guardian.co.uk/music here). The album contains Jack White and Norah Jones, and Ben discovered what they were working with, and also why the album takes five years to make.

There are also reviews of new avenues of Chemical Brothers, Junior Boys and the Joker featuring Jessie Ware.

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Electronic Music

Iannis Xenakis is without a doubt one of the major figures in the development of music in the 20th century. In 1957, he joined Pierre Schaeffer and others at the GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) in Paris, and it was there that Xenakis composed his early works for electronic tape.

Xenakis' distinct sound is already apparent in 'Diamorphoses' (1957) which incorporates sounds of distant earthquakes, car crashes, jet engines, and other 'noise-like' sounds, and 'Concret PH' (1958), based on the sounds of burning charcoal, which was played along with Varese' 'Poeme Electronique' in 1958 in the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair (which Xenakis, also an architect, mathematician and engineer, designed). 'Orient-Occident' (1960), commissioned by UNESCO as music for a film by Enrico Fulchignoni, uses the sounds of bowed boxes, bells and metal rods, sounds from the ionosphere, and a speed-altered excerpt from Xenakis' orchestral work 'Pitoprakta' are combined to create a work suggestive of the themes of the film, which tracks the development of civilization. 'Bohor' (1962), was composed mostly with the sounds of Middle Eastern bracelets.

'Hibiki-Hana-Ma' (1970, 'Reverberation-Flower-Interval'), composed for the Osaka World's Fair, was composed with the UPIC system, a graphical input device that Xenakis invented, using recordings of an orchestra, a biwa, and a snare drum. And 'S.709' (1992) is the first of two compositions created with the GENDY-N program at CEMAMu (Centre d'Etudes de Mathematiques et Automatiques Musicales / Center for Studies in Mathematics and Automated Music), Xenakis' research center near Paris.

This music is extraordinary! And the CD is an essential part of history.

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Moby: Destroyed - review

Tenth Moby studio album was released alongside a book of ￡ 25 of his own photos, render the songs a soundtrack for the book. Music and pictures alike aim to capture the inconsistency of life tour, i.e. of instant Moby of airport corridors and lonely-as-a-cloud electro-smoke-filled 71 minutes. Bearing in mind that the music on the tour is most interesting artist that listeners, it is always easy to assess the swathes of destruction. The best - a Dour Symphony called Stella Maris, the magnitude of the Chemical Brothers - meet - John Barry of the after - transmit some the uprooting of constant travel. Other segments of the folder are delivered to the bleak chill-out, prestidigitation sleepless nights that have inspired insomniac Moby to write music. Moreover, there is a return to the era of the plush room, Lie Down in darkness of energetic female vocal mix and moping synth sublayer. Even without photos, destroyed has something to say, just.

Forbidden Planets: Music from The Pioneers of Electronic Sound

In 1950, the Columbia University Music Department requisitioned a tape recorder to use in teaching and for recording concerts. In 1951, the first tape recorder arrived, an Ampex 400, and Vladimir Ussachevsky, then a junior faculty member, was assigned a job that no one else wanted: the care of the tape recorder. This job was to have important consequences for Ussachevsky and the medium he developed. Electronic music was born. Over the next ten years, Ussachevsky and his collaborators established the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, which Ussachevsky directed for twenty years. It was the first large electronic music center in the United States, thanks to the path-breaking support of the Rockefeller Foundation and encouragement from two of the country’s leading universities. The Center became one of the best-known and most prolific sources of electronic music in the world. All of the music on this historic reissue (originally released on CRI CD 611) is the result of the pioneering work of the Center and its composers. The guest composers and Columbia-associated composers who have produced pieces at the Center include Bulent Arel, Luciano Berio, Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, Arthur Kreiger, Daria Semegen, Pril Smiley, and Edgard Varese. Ussachevsky’s own students at the Center included Jon Appleton, Wendy Carlos, Charles Dodge, Robert Moog, Alice Shields, Harvey Sollberger, and Charles Wuorinen. Of the seven composers most closely associated with the Center from its early years, six are present on this disc.

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Disco empty to release the album "from zero".

New album of Disco "zero" in white

Blank disco

is primarily the musical personality of London / Home Counties based electronica artist Dan Seville.

Although Dan's musical activities have their roots in the experiences back in the mid-1990s, its empty Disco only started project to take full form in 2009, since when it began a process concentrated refined his sound aestheticscombining elements of techno, ambient and field records for its biased vision of the contemporary landscape.

The registration from zero process well implies taking account of the sound approaches and traced pass manipulations strongly focused on the sample to a stronger orientation on the use of analogous instruments, while trying to retain a visceral feeling to the music. Several tracks have been altered or discarded in the process of weeding out any hint of "filling" ruthless, and the result is a set of handles from beginning to end. The album was mastered by Noel Summerville at the Metropolis, whose resume includes work with Autechre, Boards of Canada and Mira Calix.

Dan Seville says:

"I wanted the music to feel as there was a lot of strange, slightly disintegrating, machines to play music in a concrete bunker somewhere in the future and I have just a machine for projecting band and recorded with."

Taken as a whole, the zero maps a territory of ripping and subtle atmospheres, exploring an ambiguous emotional borderline between elation melancholy and immaterial sore. Highlights the metronomic euphoria off kilter 'Midsummer' and electronic Jacuzzi and subliminal whispers insinuating their way through 'numbers'. 'Blind faith' skittering percussion are eccentric put in orbit by radiophonic synth, while that the languorous throb of transformed Crackle and hiss onlast transmissionrefers to the final vestiges of a pale sun disappear over the horizon.

Zero is likely to evoke comparisons with some of the great players of the electronica world, but while maintaining the full respect of the pioneers of music Seville Dan also discussed outside of this world for inspiration and intend to be viewed on its own terms. Although equipment from scratch was digitally composed the goal throughout with along to was to achieve a physical presence in the music, and a means to which has been through the field recordings to provide sound textures :

"I have a recorder I carry round with me and when I started originally it that I thought people would speak on the tube or anywhere where I the would discreetly carrying obtain their conversation and it works in a track.". But in reality, it is more that you find this non-specific ambience to be in a subway station and hearing just a fingerprint, one small thing, which I think can be haunting enough in itself.? If you can incorporate that into a track, it provides a physical sensation of place or environment. There is an article in 'The mistakes I made' where I used the background noise of a walk in a park and I have come to a stop, there is not many people around, complete just a loud silence. It is unexpected, sometimes what sounds good and what doesn't. ?

Much work on the album was done on train travel, and this work environment has become a factor in the aesthetic sense has taken the noise:

"I am sure that I am not the only person who finds a certain beauty in decay, and I am interested in this atmosphere of"corporate grottiness", you get public transport." Everything is made in a world that is supposed to be neat and tidy, but inevitably over time, begins to deteriorate. The seats that were very pleasant and clean at the beginning are now covered in shit, Windows are filthy and cloudy. It is the environment we are always - seeing shittiness, but also to see what is in fact quite poetic in it. ?

Dan has already started to work on the next version of Virgin Disco and is also currently experimenting to translate documents in a live context. He hopes to follow up the release of zero with live appearances sometime in 2011.

Blank disco album "from zero" was released on 13 June 2011, on subexotic Records.

Smootrab "Welcome to my Jungle" Remix Contest

Smootrab (templates) Welcome to my Jungle

Smootrab, alias Bart ooms, known previously as 'jigs' just announced its "Welcome to my Jungle" Remix Contest. Smootrab is a new upcoming Belgian producer, which strives to make an impression on the music scene in the next few years and his enthusiasm and passion is no doubt infectious.

Since the age of 14 years, avidly followed Smootrab electronic music & club scene, turn the wheels of steel as DJ local. As the years, never lost his love for music, he is not the focus by becoming a name known in the club scene. He is a graduate in clinical chemistry and later started a family, however, his passion for production remains strong while he recited events online and broadcast a few Internet radio shows.

Smootrab later found 'Open Music synergy ', a Flemish DJ/producer group on the social networking site "Facebook", where he met with producers fresh and more advanced, therefore he could not resist simply not join the group is anxious to learn more about the production of music.

Now he prepares for the remix contest (June 5 closing date), the remix winner of his home in Tech 'Welcome to my Jungle' , will be published on his upcoming EP due for release by ' Kornerhouse Records'

Smootrab - welcome to my records of Kornerhouse jungle (Original Mix) [Remix this track... read more] by SMOOTRAB (templates)

Dedicated to his vision that "anything is possible" for those who believe in it, his determination to succeed and the motto "living your dream" gained him respect and recognition as a new producer in the city.? He acquired his first signing in January 2011, such as jigs, Label with his first EP "Rise Up" (Retorica records).

Soon followed by a 'ambo' track on an album sampler WMC 2011 and March 2011 he signed all his other songs under his new name 'Smootrab'. With 'producer of TWIST3D', that they produce, by the name of SMO3D, No Man s Land (T & T Records) , a cool new project that will publish Tech House, minimal Techno tracks.

SMO3D (Smootrab, Twist3d) - Land of No Man (T & T records) by SMOOTRAB (templates)

It is certainly a highly motivated producer, trying to create his own game without having a specific style of music. It ranges from Tech House Club-House, for straight up Techno progressive with pas de frontieres. He likes to use tribal percussion, loves very deep, funky or grooves Latin and experimented more edifying progressive to breaks, Fx & drops.

To learn more about how to participate in the contest to remix here

Stay to listen to Smootrab, because that more exciting releases are coming with certainty!

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May best new music from across the map

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Each month, the Music Alliance Pact – a group of 36 music blogs from around the world, including this one – simultaneously post tracks chosen by each blog.

To download all 36 songs in one file click here.

ARGENTINA: Zonaindie
Pablo Krantz - Et C'est Ainsi Que Tu T'en Vas
Pablo Krantz is a well-established musician and writer born in Buenos Aires. After making a name for himself in the local alternative scene with two great albums, he moved to Paris for several years, where he released an album in which he sings entirely in French. Demonos Cita En Una Autopista (Para Volvernos A Estrellar) is his fifth record, and the first one since he returned to Argentina. A mix between these two stages in Krantz's career, Et C'est Ainsi Que Tu T'en Vas is a great song to start digging into his work.

AUSTRALIA: Who The Bloody Hell Are They?
Chet Faker - No Diggity
Chet Faker is a new electronic artist on the Melbourne scene. His tie-dye facial hair + wifebeater singlet + smoooooooth cover of a bangin' 90s anthem has definitely brought him some attention. TOP THIS. No, this isn't a (total) joke - it's a sweet 2011 treatment for a song that many people probably didn't think was worth a revisit.

BRAZIL: Meio Desligado
Lise - Parece Constantina
Parece Constantina is a preview of Qualquer Fragil Fio de Fantasia, the new album from Lise, which is the side-project of multi-instrumentalist Daniel Nunes (drummer of the band Constantina, who played at this year's SXSW). The name of the song means "sounds like Constantina", in reference to his main band. Despite being a very experimental post-rock/electronic project, this track dialogues with hip hop through the vocals from members of Zimun and increases the musical spectrum of the genre.

CANADA: I(Heart)Music
The Guest Bedroom - Tough Luck
Buzzing guitars, thundering drums, impassioned female vocals... Sleater-Kinney and their grrrl-y ilk may be gone, but The Guest Bedroom show they're not forgotten. For three albums now - up to their most recent, A Year's Supply Of Rabbit's Feet - TGB have shown that there's plenty of life in a genre too many people thought died at the turn of the century and, as songs like Tough Luck show, they know how to make that old music sound as fresh and as vital as ever.

CHILE: Super 45
Megajoy - Rainbow Drama
"Techno sudaka sci-fi from the information age" - that's how Megajoy (alias for Hector Llanquin) defines his peculiar musical view. Nervous beats, insane samples and a million pop references per second are the raw materials which Megajoy works with. His debut album Avidya (self-released, 2011), available for free download on his website, is a collection of twisted dance songs with a strong sense of humor and a subversive spirit, making this record one of this year's essentials.

CHINA: Wooozy
Shanren - Thirty Years
Yunnan folk-rock phenomenon Shanren fuse Yunnan/Guizhou indigenous music with various modern styles to produce a fresh sound as accessible as it is unique. They aim to promote and preserve the combined and diverse heritage of Yunnan and Guizhou's many ethnic minority groups through their own original compositions and reworkings of local folk melodies.

COLOMBIA: Colombia Urbana
Katamaran - Ella No Es Como Tu
Katamaran is a ska band from Bucaramanga. Their most recent album, Imparable, mixes horns with others styles including rap. This single, Ella No Es Como Tu, is in the Colombian indie chart.

DENMARK: All Scandinavian
Mescalin, Baby - She's Near, She's Near, She's Here
Mescalin, Baby release their full-length debut, Air Air, on May 23, following up on 2009's debut EP, No Time For The Old In-Out Love, which earned the quintet both praise and airplay. The retro-orientated rock with splashes of folk on the forthcoming album stands a good chance of repeating the success, and I'm happy to be able to share She's Near, She's Near, She's Here with you as a MAP exclusive.

ENGLAND: The Guardian Music Blog
Ben Howard - Empty Corridors (Live)
Male British singer-songwriters are hardly thin on the ground and yet, even given the crowded market, Ben Howard stands out. A 24-year-old Devon boy with a penchant for surfing, he's just released an EP on the Mumford-affiliated Communion label and has signed thereafter to Island - he apparently inked the deal because of their history with Nick Drake and John Martyn. And that's Howard all over: folk-pop with substance and class. On this, a live version of Empty Corridors, he showcases, as a recent New Band of the Day article put it, a "guitar sound that recalls Drake's complex tunings, while every so often you expect his gently gruff tones to start warbling Martyn's Bless The Weather". Marvellous.

ESTONIA: Popop
Kali Briis - Home Alone
After releasing some EPs, two of them available for free here, Kali Briis is finally bringing out his full-length debut album Homewrecker on May 16. Kali doesn't care much about borders of genres, feeling equally comfortable in R'n'B, electro, hip-hop or any other style he feels like trying. MAP exclusive Home Alone from the new album is a full-on handmade electro track featuring synths, guitars, bass and drums all played by Kali himself.

FINLAND: Glue
Mummypowder - A House
After a few years struggling with the precarious stability of an indie band, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Janne Lehtinen got his mummies together and this month he is finally publishing Mummypowder's long-awaited fourth album. The first single, A House, is a melodic power-pop ballad with Janne's vocals upfront accompanied by layers of guitars to build up an intense momentum.

FRANCE: Yet You're Fired
Porco Rosso - 10.000 Lieues A La Ronde
Singing pop in French is not easy, and not every band gives it a try, but some brilliantly succeed, as Porco Rosso show. Formed in 2002, the three members have found their own style - a balance between their influences and their personality. After releasing two EPs (2004, 2006), they dropped their LP, La Vie Sans Moi ("Life Without Me"), last year. You might not understand the lyrics of 10.000 Lieues A La Ronde, but you don't have to - the rhythm and the vocals are too catchy not to appreciate.

GERMANY: Blogpartei
Angela Aux - Smells Like Screen Spirit
Angela Aux is the solo project of Heiner Hendrix aka Flo from last year's MAP featured L'egojazz. He calls the style of his recently released debut, Whatever You Guess It's Not, weird Kraut-folk. Smells Like Screen Spirit is a fine melange of groovy, catchy bass, scratchy sound effects and melancholic vocals. It will fit perfectly with a summer sunset at your local lake when you're cheerful as well as blue.

GREECE: Mouxlaloulouda
May Roosevelt - Dark The Night
May Roosevelt's sophomore, self-released album harnesses a spectrum of emotions unveiling a dark and reclusive universe defined by motion and dance. Rhythms rich with contemporary elements weaved on theremin sounds, electronic beats and synthesizers coalesce with evocative melodies drawing on Greek traditional musical heritage. Every note is considered and played with care and a sense of craft. The more you listen to it, the more it falls into place and traps you under its spell.

ICELAND: Icelandic Music Maffia
Nolo - Pretty Face
Nolo is a young, very promising band from Reykjavik. They are two 18-year-old guys, Nonnji Lorange and Ivor Bjornsson, who had already played together in different bands for some years before they deceided to work together as Nolo. They record all their music with lo-fi equipment in Ivor's basement, using two guitars (electric and acoustic) and an organ.

INDIA: Indiecision
Peter Cat Recording Co - Love Demons
Peter Cat Recording Co is one of the newest, freshest young talents to emerge out of the growing Indian indie music scene. The quartet from New Delhi create orchestral soundscapes that throw Neutral Milk Hotel and disco Bollywood in a washing machine with cabaret Tide. Love Demons represents this musical laundry cycle perfectly. The song, one of the highlights of the band's wholly refreshing debut album Sinema, channels Quincy Jones and Bappi Lahiri for five minutes of an exciting car chase through the crowded streets of Delhi.

INDONESIA: Deathrockstar
Swimming Elephants - Sarah
Swimming Elephants are a collective of young people who write complex arrangements of pop music pieces using simple chords. They are one of the best newcomers in the Indonesian indie scene.

IRELAND: Nialler9
Le Galaxie - Midnight Midnight
Dublin-based mischievous visualists Le Galaxie release their debut album Laserdisc Nights II on June 10 after a few years honing their astral night-time music. Midnight Midnight is a perfect indicator of the four-piece band thus far: thumping electro, sci-fi synths, big 80s drum drops and vocals that make you go "woooooooo". TUNE.

ISRAEL: Metal Israel
Spawn Of Evil - First Stone
Spawn Of Evil is an iconic death metal band that's been on the Israeli scene for 13 years. Guitarist Miko Haronian describes First Stone as not "so political as it looks - more reality. Some leaders say 'Destroy Israel' all day long and the world is silent... so this is our answer to this - come on, try!" Spawn Of Evil mixes rambunctious gleeful energy release with quality meat and potatoes death metal. They are seeking a label for their latest album, Ecstatic Aggressive Behavior. Check them out.

ITALY: Polaroid
Quakers And Mormons - New York Town
Maolo and Mancho are from the band My Awesome Mixtape, which was featured in the June 2009 edition of MAP. Now they've started a new project, more hip-hop oriented. Think of a sound influenced by Anticon and Antipop Consortium, and mixed with some of the sumptuous TV On The Radio arrangements. Add dark lyrics delivered with an apocalyptical strain and, bang, you have this killer debut album, aptly named Evolvotron.

MEXICO: Red Bull PanameriKa
Aeiou - Vivimos In L.A.
Aeiou's album Space Hymn is the unexpected joint venture between elfin vocalist Juan Son and Simone Pace (Blonde Redhead's drummer), with some surprising collaborations with Kelley Deal (The Breeders) and an unnamed, mysterious character. Vivimos In L.A. ("We Live In L.A."), reflects the city-hopping lifestyle experienced by the members: Simone has lived in Milan, Montreal, Boston and New York; while Juan, born in Guadalajara, has also had L.A. and the Big Apple as homes. Irrespective of the passports, the song and album show touches of ethereal, androgynous space-beauty.

NETHERLANDS: Unfold Amsterdam
Aux Raus - Oh No, It's Them!
You can technically get away with calling this Amsterdam duo's music 'electro punk', but whereas most bands courting such a label want to fuse those two elements, Aux Raus come across like a drunken punch-up between them - the wiry punk riffs and roars virtually taunting the techno and gabba-spewing drum machines. And that's just the start of a series of contrasts which include: songs channelling equal measures of political fury and silliness; that they're part anonymous anarcho-freaks and part leaders of style cool; and that they're at their best wreaking havoc in a club with 300 moshing kids but can easily transfer such energy to headlining festivals. This track is from their newly released third album, All Creeping Things Stopped Creeping.

NEW ZEALAND: Einstein Music Journal
Sheep,Dog&Wolf - Not Aquatic
A MAP premiere - former Bandicoot drummer Daniel McBride presents his solo project Sheep,Dog&Wolf, leaving behind his punk roots to weave a complex fusion of Motown, jazz and pop music. After months recording in his bedroom, the 17-year-old multi-instrumentalist's music resembles a young Sufjan Stevens, layered with strings, horns and percussion, while curious time signatures and his beautifully incandescent voice balance an unusual amalgamation of whimsically flirtatious styles.

NORWAY: Birds Sometimes Dance
Burning God Little - Notes On Being Snowblind
Martin Hartgren aka Burning God Little has been played quite a lot on Norwegian radio lately. Call it chillwave, call it dreampop, bedroom electronic, samplertronica, even shoegaze - whatever it is, it's great. You can easily hear inspiration from Neon Indian, Washed Out, Panda Bear and Gold Panda, but he's never a dull copy. He has his own way of mixing heavy backbeat drumbeats, samples and sometimes hauntingly beautiful harmonies and melodies.

PERU: SoTB
Pilotocopiloto - Infante
Pilotocopiloto is an instrumental rock duo consisting of Carlos Freyre and Juan Pablo Aragon. Their music can be described as a powerful fusion of guitar and drums, with their interest in experimentation allowing them to dabble in minimalist ambient sounds and psychedelic effects. This mixture fills their instrumental songs with freshness. They recently released their self-titled debut album which is just as well because Infante definitely makes you want more.

PORTUGAL: Posso Ouvir Um Disco?
Norton - Two Points
Norton is band from a city in the center of Portugal with a considerable fanbase and three albums to their name. Their latest one, Layers Of Love United, is a turning point for the band after their lead singer left and was replaced by one of the members who used to be on backing vocals. They have toured Europe and have had quite favorable international reviews.

ROMANIA: Babylon Noise
Blue Nipple Boy - Bear Comes Naked
Blue Nipple Boy are actually four boys from Bucharest, ready to conquer the music scene with an indie/alternative approach. Although new to it, they are rapidly increasing their fanbase with each single. And how could people not like the smooth rhythms, catchy lyrics and good vibes their songs have? The guys are working on their first album, but till then, I give you their freshly released third single, Bear Comes Naked, which will soon have a video as well.

SCOTLAND: The Pop Cop
We See Lights - My Oh My Oh My
Let's see if you can guess what We See Lights sound like before you listen to them. The group hosted an event this month called The Twee Jamboree in their native Edinburgh with live music and home baking, while their new Twee Love Pop EP features a song entitled I Hope You Like The Smiths. I think you get the picture. My Oh My Oh My is by far their finest moment to date - it's an utterly adorable anthem for the lovestruck and has some delightful banjo playing. Check out Bandcamp or iTunes for more of their music.

SINGAPORE: I'm Waking Up To...
Monster Cat - Mannequins
It intertwines like a ball of yarn unraveling as feline claws playfully pounce upon their five-track debut EP Mannequins. The guilty party is collectively known as Monster Cat, who at first mention do not hint at their psycho-folk-rock tendencies. Yet, as you sink deeper into their depravity, it starts to make perfect sense. Mannequins is a bold debut that bares all and holds nothing back, along with all the vulnerability of a gentle kitten. You can download their EP for free via their website during the month of May and pledge your allegiance.

SOUTH AFRICA: Musical Mover & Shaker!
The Pretty Blue Guns - Shed Your Skin
The Pretty Blue Guns are four best friends who love making a noise. With their second album, Shed Your Skin, they abandoned any expectations people might have had and the result is a record that is deeply personal and shows the band's growth. The first single, Shed Your Skin, is an introspective look at life and people around them aptly showing off their self-described sound - a mix of "blues, rock 'n' roll, country, soul - all put together in a little wooden box, doused in gasoline, set alight".

SOUTH KOREA: Indieful ROK
Paryumchiakdan - A Night Of Wine
Paryumchiakdan, which translates as "The Infamous Orchestra", was formed three years ago with the vision of making music based on 70s punk-rock with an East Asian pop sound, playing it as if they were a 60s garage rock band. The sound has changed a bit since, but the members still cite GO!GO!7188 and Korean psychedelic musicians of the 70s such as Kim Jung Mi as influences. The band recently self-released their first EP, A Night Of Wine, and the title track has an awesome modern retro sound that invites foot-tapping.

SPAIN: Musikorner
El Estudiante Larry - Mejor Que Yo
Formed in Murcia, a city renowned for its hot indie music scene, El Estudiante Larry is frontman Larry Sandoval and fellow musicians Victor, Seka and Porras. After releasing three CD-Rs (available for free download), they collaborated with #Fo - side-project of Klaus & Kinski's Alex Martinez - to release a split EP, Gulag Split, which can be downloaded for free on Bandcamp. El Estudiante Larry songs can be made from psychedelic beats, a classic indie sound or even a Nashville rock taste, which is the case with Mejor Que Yo, the last but not least track on the EP.

SWEDEN: Swedesplease
Masquer - Happiness
Super lo-fi indie-rock that reminds one of 1/3 Cure, 1/3 Siouxsie Sioux and 1/3 Madonna. Count me in! Masquer is the new side-project of Kiki from Lowood/Idora and Pelle of Idora. The new song is called Happiness and continues to play to the band's strengths - mainly its 80s retro indie-rock sound and the spellbinding vocals of Kiki. Lyrically, its anti-establishment lyrics and chorus of "I'll never conform" would be a perfect addition to the soundtracks of any John Hughes films from that period.

SWITZERLAND: 78s
We Love Machines - Carpentizer (feat. Orlando Menthol)
The two Swiss guys from We Love Machines nailed our attention a year ago. They caused a big stir with Ed Banger-influenced sounds that totally hit it. Now they've released their debut, which is actually full of hits and some surprises. One of them is the Balkan-esque electro tune Carpentizer which features another Swiss electronic genius, Orlando Menthol, and some Swiss-German singing parts.

UNITED STATES: I Guess I'm Floating
Auditorium - Sunday
Auditorium (formerly Field) is the work of Spencer Berger, whose debut album Be Brave was released in January. Berger specializes in 'glam-folk', whereby theatrical, multi-layered vocal harmonies shine throughout the album, telling stories of love, nature, cities and people in a remarkably engaging way. Auditorium is beginning to make waves in LA and beyond - get on board now before your friends are barking at you about it in a few months.

VENEZUELA: Musica y Mas
La Abuela Disco - 4.30
La Abuela Disco is an alternative rock, post-grunge and electronic-influenced band formed in Acarigua (Portuguesa) in mid-2009. In late April, they finally released their first studio album Polvo Lunar, a name that fits perfectly with its sound. It can be downloaded for free at the band's website.

Australia: Feel it Break - review

Trio Canadian Australia have been grouped in with synth-gothisms of Zola Jesus and Fever Ray, but there is a clean and sharpness to their subject which belies these associations. Katie Stelmanis sings of a cut glass voice and the accuracy of the electronic music behind it - always carefully mastered, never overwhelming - perhaps chilly, but rarely is foreboding. Losing its hook combines a silent chirrupp with triple synth line that looks like ice tumbling, but it is obvious pop. The Beat single pulse is perhaps the reason for goth comparisons: the dark from the album, and most is time happened with a video YouTube has seen fit to ban in its original form. Nevertheless, it would not call feel it simple Break: Stelmanis is high enough to keep the listeners on the toes, without switch being irritating, adding a pinch of spice capable of fascinating art crowd and pop record.

Monome: Music with buttons

The Monome is revolutionizing the music industry and musical performances. A evolved from the 40 h, the Monomes new began as an interface for the personal musical and art shows.

But he quickly developed on a larger scale. Now, it consists of a reconfigurable grid composed of key backlit pads.

Monomes are connected to a computer and an application on the computer and then determines the interaction between the enlightenment and the keys.

Feature cable is eliminated. Its capabilities and its functions are virtually unlimited. The Monome operates as a live sample cutter, a rhythm box, a sequencer and a tonal map. It can also make math simulations and create visualizations. The owner may even play the games on their Monome.

The Monomes are unique in their modern design which allows them to blend effortlessly between technology and instruments of music alike. Rubber keyboards are made from silicone for quality custom and features a bright orange backlighting. There are no visible screws anywhere on the Monome even in the sandbox clearly constructed from aluminium.

The enclosure of Walnut black is small-scale and uses a black rubber along the bottom to remove the slips that are likely the structural integrity and function of the Monome. The Edition grayscale of the sixty four characteristics model a backlit keyboard White gloss with black silicone mounted on a casing steel protecting the Monome hardware artist.

There are four options centered around three major models: a sixteen by sixteen, a sixteen by eight and an eight by eight. The model two fifty Six is the largest, with a display of sixteen by sixteen and total two hundred fifty six buttons. This model has 10,75 inches long, 10,75 inches wide, and 1.5 inches in depth. Second, the One twenty eight model features one hundred twenty eight total buttons on a sixteen by eight display face and 10,75 inches long, 6 inches wide and 1.5 inches in depth... The last two options are the same size - sixty four is eight by eight until with sixty-four total buttons and has 6 inches long, 6 inches wide and 1.5 cm in depth.

The only difference between the standard sixty-four and sixty four grayscale is the grayscale sixty four characteristics of silicon steel. All other Monomes are anodized 6061 aluminum, translucent and conductive silicone and Walnut black. All components are lead-free and models are powered by USB 2.0, compatible with OS X, Windows XP, and Linux.

Current availability is in flux due to the popularity of the Monomes but the price for the departure of sixty-four models to $500 for two and mounted arc at $800 for the four arc. The twenty eight One model starts at $800 and model two fifty Six will run musicians and programmers $1,400. All models require a North American shipping fee of $20 or a royalty of $120 for international orders for navigation. All prices are for the latest edition of the Monomes, distributed in January 2011.

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Monomes have been created by Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain. They strive for making economic and environmentally sustainable practices with an overall objective for the production of more versatile technology even less complex.

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Get the Message: The Best of Electronic

The '90s never sounded better than on this first-ever hits compilation from the U.K. alt-rock supergroup with pedigrees, including: New Order, The Smiths, and Pet Shop Boys

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Pioneers of Electronic Music

In 1950, the Columbia University Music Department requisitioned a tape recorder to use in teaching and for recording concerts. In 1951, the first tape recorder arrived, an Ampex 400, and Vladimir Ussachevsky, then a junior faculty member, was assigned a job that no one else wanted: the care of the tape recorder. This job was to have important consequences for Ussachevsky and the medium he developed. Electronic music was born. Over the next ten years, Ussachevsky and his collaborators established the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, which Ussachevsky directed for twenty years. It was the first large electronic music center in the United States, thanks to the path-breaking support of the Rockefeller Foundation and encouragement from two of the country’s leading universities. The Center became one of the best-known and most prolific sources of electronic music in the world. All of the music on this historic reissue (originally released on CRI CD 611) is the result of the pioneering work of the Center and its composers. The guest composers and Columbia-associated composers who have produced pieces at the Center include Bulent Arel, Luciano Berio, Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, Arthur Kreiger, Daria Semegen, Pril Smiley, and Edgard Varese. Ussachevsky’s own students at the Center included Jon Appleton, Wendy Carlos, Charles Dodge, Robert Moog, Alice Shields, Harvey Sollberger, and Charles Wuorinen. Of the seven composers most closely associated with the Center from its early years, six are present on this disc.

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[GSREC037] Dastan - brighter than Sunshine

Artist name: Dastan
Release name: brighter than Sunshine
Cat #: GSREC037
Track1: Brighter than Sunshine (Original Mix)
Track2: I will be here (Original Mix)
Track3: I will be here (breaks Mix)

Supported by: D-Phrag, Dingle (Metadeko), Duane Barry, Matteo Monero, Aliihsan, k., Semih Karakas, Mert Onat, Marc pole...

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