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In addition to being an animator, illustrator, and photographer, Silence (A.K.A. Vincent Girès) is a composer of electro tracks for what he calls his Copyleft Music Project. Music from Silence’s latest album, L’autre endroit, was used for the soundtrack of Chains, an indie-puzzler featured here previously at DoSu. The particular song ridden through below, “Open Electro,” is from the self-titled album Silence. The rest of Vincent Girès’ music, as well as his visual art, can be found through his website Untitledocument.net.
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It’s Minimalism Day, again. I couldn’t find any information about today’s artist, A Truly Inspiring Piece of Wax. But they have a great name. Also, their songs are great, plus they’re free; that is also great. Ride 3 Ghosts:
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Described as “the nearest I get to a blues song these days,” Blue Tooth by Markovich/A.M.P. is a song that was a lot more challenging to play than what I usually go for, but it was a lot of fun. This artist has been serving to break me in to the trip-hop genre, and I’m very much enjoying what I’m hearing so far. Blue Tooth, along with the rest of Markovich/A.M.P.’s music can be downloaded for free under Creative Commons at Markovich-AMP.com.
Markovich/A Music Project. Group with contributors locally and on the Internet, coming together to create music mixing acoustic and electronic sounds with a strong groove and thoughtful lyrics. Markovich/AMP music is a blend of ambient, dance, trip-hop, pop: idm (intelligent dolphin music)
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Macroform is an ambient electronic artist whose music can be a little tricky to find all in one place. The most comprehensive sources seem to be a page on OPSOUND and a Bandcamp website — complete with visualizers. I also came across what appears to be Macroform’s blog. The song featured below, Seeing In Purple, inspired me to do something a bit different with the video than I normally do; I hope you like it.
Macroform is an artist from the Troy, Ohio, USA. He is a musician, drummer, percussionist and computer musician, who also dabbles in guitar and piano and found sound in general to create sketches and compositions reflecting the worlds both internal and external. He draws from a broad range of musical influences from alt. rock to the net label scene at large. Many have found his music both cinematic and evocative. Delve in and find out how much your ears will find.
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Jonathan Coulton just has too many great songs for him to not be featured multiple times. Last time I rode “Always The Moon” from the ever-growing album The Aftermath, but this week is for the acoustic version of “The Future Soon”, which is from JoCo’s demo album Other Experiments.
Jonathan William Coulton (born December 1, 1970, in Colchester, CT), affectionately known as JoCo to his fans, is a musician best known for the geeky subject matter of many of his songs and the nontraditional licensing and distribution of his music. His most prominent accomplishments include his Thing a Week project and his songs Code Monkey, Still Alive, Skullcrusher Mountain, and The Future Soon. Jonathan is largely associated with the folk rock genre, though he occasionally experiments with other styles. Jonathan’s primary instrument is the guitar, but he also plays each other instrument in most of his recorded songs.
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The La Mirada, California-born YTCracker is a former hacker-turned-rapper and is now one of the most prominent artists representing the Nerdcore Rap genre. This week’s Audiosurfing track was generated using “Meganerd”, a song from YTCracker’s free album Nerdrap Entertainment System.
Bryce Case, Jr. (b. August 23, 1982), otherwise known as YTCracker (pronounced “whitey cracker”), is a rapper, former cracker, and Internet entrepreneur. YTCracker began producing rap music in 1998 in the genre that has since become known as nerdcore hip hop. YTCracker is a self-proclaimed “jack of all trades”, also making a name for himself as a professional disc jockey, computer programmer, graphics designer and webmaster.
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I thought I’d kick off June with the appropriately titled “June (I Hate This Month)” from Los Angeles-based artist Monk Turner’s Calendar album, where he’s written and recorded a song for every month of the year. As a self-described “Concept Artist,” Monk Turner makes all of his music freely available under Creative Commons via Archive.org’s Open Source Audio repository.
“With Creative Commons licenses, I have the ability to distribute albums freely to anyone in the world without the need for a distributor and without worrying that someone could be using the songs outside of their intended purpose. I couldn’t do what I do without Creative Commons.” — Monk Turner