22/01/12

I recently came across the Tumblr website for The Wire magazine, subtitled 'Sleeves Recieved'. It's a superb archive of interesting music artwork and packaging drawn, presumably, from items sent to the magazine for review. Inspirational and of interest: Sleeves Received.

21/01/12

I'm very much enjoying exploring the droney, spacey soundworlds of Whirling Hall Of Knives, a collaborative project between Magnetize and The Last Sound.

I was turned on to them by Trensmat Records who recently released a split 7" featuring Whirling Hall Of Knives and New Zealand's Tlaotlon, continuing their ongoing run of high-quality product.

Lots of sounds, video and information can be found at the Whirling Hall Of Knives website, and here's a memseric video for their 'FCXO Analgesia (Midst)' from a few years ago:

17/01/12

14/01/12

The latest fourier transform release is vibrafuzz family by vibrafuzz family. This six-track exploration of musical areas including Krautrock, Kosmische, acoustic guitar and gamelan is being made available as a free download, as well as in an exceptionally limited edition CD format.

Find out more about vibrafuzz family here.

10/01/12

Not sure if it proves anything or means anything, but here are some numbers from Google searches:

• Search results for buy music: 2,350,000,000
• Search results for free music: 653,000,000
• Search results for steal music: 117,000,000