[Music] Open Goldberg Variations pres. J.S.Bach (BWV 988)

Today I found out about this nice project called "Open Goldberg Variations". Even though I don't now exactly what the idea behind it is, i think it's worth being postet. After all we get free music, that belongs to the public domain (which afaik means it is open for all kinds of playing, editing, remixing, ..). But you might wanna check what that means for yourself if you consider sampling it.





As you might have figured out by now it is about variations on classical music by the great Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 988 (BachWerkeVerzeichniss), played by Kimiko Ishizaka.

On their homepage you'll find much more to discover like the open source musical score editor Musescore, which will be covered here in a seperate post, and which was used to produce the scores for the Open Goldberg Variations. All for free. Ain't that great ?!

[Music] Monokrak Netlabel

Some days ago Monokrak released its 118th record. As usual, the download is for free. A perfectly fine occasion to introduce this interesting netlabel:


Name: Monokrak
from: Geneva, Switzerland
since: 2006
by: Robert Vitali
Monokrak @ FACEBOOK


Press info:

MonoKraK records is now a netlabel oriented ambient and deep minimal techno. Founded in 2006 by Roberto Vitali and based in Geneva (Switzerland), the first goal was to be a quality vinyl label of electronic music. But faced with the difficulties of finding a distributor and manage an independent label, it was decided to transform the identity of MonoKraK. For those who are out of the music business, just because they are not a “good product”, there is another chance : netlabels. No more money in the affair, just music. The feeling to be free and to produce what or who you want is now a reality.

Recent release: Space Options - Below the Bottom

DOWNLOAD

[Musicvideo] Official Jonti - Nighshift in Blue Video

I wrote about Jonti earlier. The music you are about to hear is taken from a free album. Highly recommended!

 

[Music] ELBIS - The Tinhat Opera

Watch out! My man Elbis' comin through with his new release, presented by KREKPEK and available via Bandcamp for free. "The Tinhat Opera" delivers 18 remixes of MF Doom Tracks, featuring MFs Voice over beats from rough to experimental. Good stuff. Real stuff. No fancy shit.

So what are you waiting for? 
Get your free copy here!

[Books] Richard Price - Lush Life

I mentioned Richard Price in this blog some time ago (here). Besides writing books, he also created the great TV Series "The Wire". But this post is about books. About "Lush Life", to be specific.

As I am tired of thinking about how to write a half-decent book review, I thought about a faster way to post the books I read and like. I always liked statistics, so I am just listing some aspects and give points for them. Like that:

Authenticity: 5/5
Style: 4/5
Humor: 3/5
Dialogues: 5/5
Story: 4/5








To finish the review up. I will post a picture of a double page I more or less randomly photographed out of the book. This gives you a good idea about the style, language and maybe more.

For me it was a cool read. I was kinda scared that it would be hard to read, but no problem at all. I think I learned a lot of new words by reading it. Overall 4/5.

[Net] New Soundcloud Beta

Like Soundcloud?

Using Soundcloud intensively?


You might consider beta-testing the upcoming new Soundcloud ..




  Right there!

[Music] Dubious Methods - Trippin' LP Preview

DARKSIDE MINIMAL HYPNO ACID TRIP TECH BY DUBIOUS METHODS ON BLUECODE 011 !!!!!!!!!

[Music] DOMA Musique Netlabel

More electronic music today on Jazzfucked. More free electronic music! DOMA is a label project run by my Spanish friend Jaco aka SeQ. We got in contact via Soundcloud and he released a track on my label BlueCode Records shortly after that. Great track, by the way. Really dark stuff.  Anyways...here's the press info for DOMA:

Doma Musique is a Spanish based project run by SeQ that includes: Net Label (Electronica, Techno, minimal, Experimental, Dub) followed by a collective of Artists specialized in various Medias (Photography, Moving Image, Illustration, Painting, Installation). All contributors help spread the record labels sound and a good taste of Modern Art around Spain, Europe and the rest of the world.. Plans for the future include bringing doma sound and Arts to as many countries as possible with new releases, LIVE gigs, events, Exhibitions and guest sessions. The label is divided into 2 different projects: Doma Musique Net Series & Doma Musique Digital Series Demos: Please try to fit your music into the style of music we publish. The Net Label will release mainly, either minimal,dub or house & sometimes IDM, experimental, or any other genre. Thanks.

INFO:domamusique@gmail.com

Now let's talk business eehh music: today DOMA presented its 12th net release, going by the name Elysée - Jose El Loco. To download it, go to their blog and show some love. You might even consider to subscribe to the blog. Find the cover artwork -which has been created by another guy you might know from BlueCode Records: Egho- below. 

[Biz] Crowdfunding for musical projects impossible ?!

Damn wrong!


As opposed to informations in the public media so far, crowdfunding seems to work for musicians.
This shows the example of band leader / singer Amanda Palmer. By now, her actual project has founded 400,000+ Dollars, with 28 days to go. 


Nice, right?


Check the link below to capture the respective post on neumusic.


Here you find the Kickstarter-Page.