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Came across a link to a song, “Goodbye Electronica” by Dave Graham, on the electronic music board xltronic tonight. Really, really enjoyed it – lovely guitar work, atmosphere and lyrics. He’s allowed me to share it with you here, saying it’s a “freebie”, so give it a listen and pass it on to anyone you think might enjoy it!
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You can download it locally here:
http://ventolin.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/GoodbyeElectronica.mp3
A friend who goes under the name Red Box Recorder did a live mix last Friday and I’ve decided to host it here for your enjoyment. It’s 22 minutes long and contains music from him, most of which I didn’t recognise. Give it a listen!
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You can stream it using the player above, or download it in its entirity here: http://ventolin.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/redboxrecorder-live.mp3
He’s currently on the Irish net-label Acroplane, where you can get his most recent album, Colour Codes, which comes with a PDF booklet of art by Max McLaughlin.
Cassetteboy’s gone to work on The Apprentice:
I’ve been working on this video for a couple of months, on and off. I watched 45 episodes of The Apprentice (most of them several times), and material from 43 of them made it into the final piece. Basically, it was a lot of work.
Watch it here:
If you enjoyed it, make sure you check out more of their work at their Youtube channel.
There’s a special place in hell reserved for people who take the complete piss at gigs by doing things like this:
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Radiohead – Nude (Live at 93 Feet East, London, 2008-01-16)
Well handled by Thom, though, I must say. Reminds me of the Autechre bootleg, Live @ Lees Palace (2008-04-12), a fantastic bootleg in quality and setlist, almost ruined by some stupid bitch who keeps screaming and talking in the left channel… Or the drunken idiots who kept coming up to the bootlegger at Aphex’s 2008 Oxegen Festival gig.
It’s more excusable in the last two cases, but even so — what do you go to a gig for? To experience, enjoy and dance to the music? Or to scream into your poor, resentful friends’ ears any banal shit that comes into your thick head?
Thanks to Padraig for bringing this to my attention: a page full of bootlegs of mainly experimental electrinica artists (Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Murcof, Björk and Autechre, to name a few), with a few odd ones (Fugazi, for one) thrown in for good measure.
The legality of this page is questionable, especially since it hosts Boards of Canada’s rare “A Few Old Tunes”, so get on it before it disappears.
I found this on reddit, linked to as “Don’t click this if you need to do anything productive today”, so this blog post is already redundant before I even click “Publish”. Despite this, I’m still writing about it – it’s really that great.

It’s basically a matrix of tones (who’d have thought?) represented vertically, with time represented horizontally. For those interested, the scale is A, B, D, F#, A, which goes some way to ensuring that whatever you come up with sounds somewhat pleasant.
Press SPACE to clear. Right-Click for Copy & Paste.
Enjoy, and check out some of Andre Michelle’s other stuff while you’re at it!