Netwaves have released their first netaudio compilation, featuring the “an anthology of the best electro on the internet from the past 5 years”, as they say. I’m proud the compilation includes my track “Silhouette” from the album “Beyond the Moon”. You can listen here, and download the whole CD as a ZIP file here.

Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1
Pero - Le Ghost [EPS09]
Pureape - Move [ac011]
Mihai Popoviciu - We Love … [arh010]
Simulant - Brenner (C) [rest009]
Lucy And Rone - Chocolate [brq035]
FeldFunker - Silhouette [kreislauf020]
Liquor - Theory of Chemical Reaction [labrec001b]
Lumatico - Europa Model 1908 [Freeosc22]
Lipstick - You Ain’t No Good [elyt01]
Datassette - Eyeballs And Elbows [mtk143]
Reporter - Human (Beta) [Lav11]
G+Shame feat. Tamara Dinka - Midnight Express [dig009]
Ben waH - Diesel Weezil [peromusic007]
7am aka Off Pop - All OK [S!te011]
06-22 - Stratograd [VT5]
DDR Rhythm - Fred’s Track [commie026]

Stumbled upon this music collective from Ramallah (Palestine) today - Trip Hop, Hip Hop and Downbeat well worth a listen (all songs are free to download) and a very interesting site and forum. I have to admit I cannot agree on all their political statements but it’s a very interesting read from a different, non-mainstream perspective.

The new album, “The Absurd Hero”, is out now and available for download over at Kreislauf. While your waiting for the download to finish, also check the PDF booklet designed by Miguel Baptista. The whole album is also available on Last.FM.

Here’s the first of a series of older tracks that didn’t make it on a “official” release I’ll make available for download exclusively on Last.FM: Funky Trickster (big beat/ break beat).

Here’s three short-spoken download recommendations:

1. Dark Hall is a fusion jazz side project with metal bass virtuoso Steve DiGiorgio. There’s only five songs from a 1998 demo for download on their site but they all are awesome, and Steve’s bass work is really amazing.
2. Downliners Sekt just releases their second full-length album. Pretty dark, trip-hopish rock instrumentals that sometimes remind me of Russian Circles, pretty progressive, well produced, and worth a download.
3. Philip Wilkerson offers several downloads on his website, he calls it “spacious and contemplative soundscapes” which pretty much sums it up. I especially liked his piano improvisations.

Tata.

Just a quick sign of life to falsify assumptions I am dead.

I’m still working on the coming album, which is planned to be called “The Absurd Hero”. I have six tracks almost finished that just need some re-structuring and mastering polish, and plan to add four more, so I assume I could be done in April or something. The whole album is gonna be a very loose interpretation of Camus’ “Myth of Sisyphos” thematically, and will fluctuate between minimal techno, dubstep and ambient, music-wise.

As for this sit, I added direct download links to the music page where appropriate as some people seemed to have problems finding the zips. Just click the tiny arrow on the right hand side of a release to download a zip with the mp3s.

Id’ like to present you an older release in my series of netaudio recommendations this time, Marko Fürstenberg’s album “Gesamtlaufzeit” on Thinner.

The album appeared 2003, and is still an unrivaled blueprint dub techno masterpiece. Perfect after-hour music, mostly laid-back, sometimes a little “poppy”. The album has a very cohesive feel to it, though sometimes different tracks sound a little too similar, as Marko uses some sound over and over again. One track I’d like to highlight is the microhouse pearl “Gegenstörung”, which fit’s the album context very well but has a slightly disturbing touch that makes it stand out. Another track that stands out is “Mimerlaven” that starts with a George W. Bush sample that I used in a track as well some years ago - I don’t like the bass drum on that track, though, doesn’t really fit in for my ears.

Frankly, I have yet to inform myself about what Marko did after 2003, but I’m sure there’s other interesting releases by him somewhere. Make sure you check his MySpace for live dates and stuff - oh, and he’s on Last.FM too.

As I’m currently working hard on improving my skills with the bass, I decided to share some of the classic basslines I’m fooling around with. So, expect to find some short tabs in no particular order here from now and them - I’m not gonna post full tabs for songs here for copyright reasons but you all know how to use god google don’t you? Most of these licks aren’t particularly clever or hard or anything, but they got groove which is what makes a good bassline. Feel free to add your favourites in the comments!

So, here’s the first one, arguably one of those you never forget once you heard it, the main bass riff of Pink Floyd’s song “Money” from the magnum opus “Dark Side of the Moon“, a milestone album for rock as well as electronic music. The song’s basically a blues in Bminor, 7/4, about 120 BPM.

G|----4---------------|
D|------4----------0--|
A|--2-----2----0-2----|
E|-----------2--------|