b-side presents The Congo ep:

The first track is free and the rest are good value too. Enjoy and pass it on. I’m off to the beach for a bit, see you in the new year.

As with the other 6 parts, please feel free to mix & mash, sample & loop, use & abuse, employ & destroy it as you see fit.

Released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License which allows for all types of sampling and remixing for all purposes except for advertising.

Artifice opens in Hamilton this Saturday, and Karin and I will be performing glitchy experimental electronic music on the opening night alongside Der Kranks, Martin TenBroek and others.

It’s a week long gallery show of fashion, music, design, and functional art. An incredible array of stuff represented, facebook page here. There’ll be food and drinks and things.

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In Sept-Oct this year I recorded some new experimental music live at the Hamilton Fringe Festival. I’ll be releasing it as a two-disc set at the Artifice show. It will be on sale in various formats along with other bside music.

It’s all instrumental, a bit ambient, performed & recorded live with a looper, and kind of a blend of electronic, acoustic and environmental sounds. I’ll try to post more about that before Saturday but here’s taste: mp3

See you there, and remember to vote before you come.

• Artifice
• 27 Collingwood St
• From 6pm Sat 26 Nov

(If you don’t see the player above, please click through)

Also: I’ve begun editing the recordings from last week’s performances at the Hamilton Fringe, so stay tuned for those.

(If you don’t see the player above, click through here to the bandcamp page or here to soundcloud.)

This music has been made with the intention that you should feel free to build on it, remix it, rhyme over it, write songs on top of it, mash it up in any way you like.

It’s released under the Creative Commons Sampling + 1.0 License which allows you to use these recordings for anything you want except advertising.

Enjoy and share.

Glue Sniffin’ Beats is a free, open source, 7-part mini-album of synthbass and drum grooves. It’s released (one part at a time) under the Creative Commons Sampling+ 1.0 license which allows you to use these recordings for almost* anything you like.

My intention is that you should feel free to use anything from the album in any of your own projects without worrying about it. Use it as a backing track, use it in a mashup or remix, rhyme over it, write songs around it etc.

The whole thing is about 18 minutes long and can be played as one continuous song. It’s at 99 BPM, sometimes in double time and sometimes half. There are harder bits and softer bits but it’s all fairly tense, quite wobbly, a bit drum & bassy and a few other things.

It’s recorded in a “live-ish” sort of way (by electronic standards), there’s more info about the recording process on the album page.

Part 4

Part is more bass than beats, the other parts tend to be a bit more beaty. It might be the eye of the storm.

I hope you enjoy this music, whatever you choose do with it.

*The only use not permitted under the license is using it to “advertise for or promote anything but the work you create from it“.

Sorry for the delay, been ill.

As with parts 1 & 2, download, share, transform, enjoy.

I was going to hack these tracks up myself and use them to build new songs but I’ve got a lot of other stuff to do and I don’t want them gathering dust so I’m releasing them as-is to see what you want to do with them.

So far it’s all skittish beats and echoes and wobbly synth-bass recorded in a live-ish** manner. Let’s see what else it can become.

Please feel free to take these grooves and mix, mash, loop and sample them as you see fit.

To encourage this, the whole Glue Sniffin’ Beats project is released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License which allows for all types of sampling and remixing for all purposes except for advertising.

I’ll be rolling out the other 5 parts over the coming weeks and months. The download is free so please share this around as much as you can. If you use these tracks to make something, please post links in the comments below.

* Part 2 is released along with part 1 because part 2 happens to be really short.

** The recording process is detailed here for music geeks.

It’s ambient and glitchy and ~14 minutes long. Put it on in the background and go about your business.

download mp3 (right clickety click, save as)

It’s a live improvised one-take with no overdubs, Karin’s doing the voice and messing with a glitchy little looping stuttering device. I’m doing a bunch of signal generators and feedback stuff – no computers or samplers, just analogue noisemakers.

We’ll be doing some live gigs in this kinda vein in the near future. Stay tuned.

In the past it’s been a mix of free/fixed price/pay-what-you-like for different stuff, but I think it’s easier for everyone (including me) this way.

“Pay-what-you-like” means you can pay nothing if you like. But if you do download it for free you should share it with three friends and send them here too. k? Most (but not all) of the albums here are available on CD in some form too if you like those.

It might not be a permanent change, but then hardly anything is. New stuff when it’s released (bit of that coming soon btw) might be structured differently again, don’t know yet. We’ll see how it goes.