The November issue of Wired includes a CD with 16 tracks licensed under
the Creative Commons Sampling licences. See
http://creativecommons.org/wired if you like.
This message is more about the music than the concept.
Track 13, "Wataridori 2" by Cornelius is sublime. Extremely melodic and
with a lot of depth, it's the best track I've heard in several months.
At 7:09, it's also the longest on the CD. The rhythms are uptempo
(about 140 bpm) with enough progression and interaction between elements
to remain interesting throughout.
It appears that Cornelius (aka Keigo Oyamada) has several releases on
Matador, although Matador's web site is currently down so I can't check
these out (hmmm... perhaps there are thousands of Wired subscribers
hammering Matador's web site at this very moment... or not).
Cornelius' web site (
http://cornelius-sound.com) has sound clips, but
they are in Real Audio. No thanks.
How is the rest of his material?
BTW, the Wired CD has several good tracks (though not exactly IDM) from
Dan Nakamura (aka Dr. Octagon), Thievery Corp (if you're into that
shiz), DJ Dolores, and Matmos. As a side note, "DJ Dolores" would have
been my mom's stage name, if my mom was a brazillian DJ and remix artist
who happened to be proficient with a sampler.
The CD also has some shwag, but the good tracks justify the cost of this
year's Wired subscription (one dozen bones), especially when you
consider it was delivered to my doorstep free of charge.
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