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Track Premiere and Free Download: Hello Skinny – Aquarium (Matthew Herbert Remix)

Tom Skinner is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who, last year, joined Matthew Herbert‘s in-house band for the adventurous One Pig Project. Here, the newly appointed head of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop returns the favour by offering up a re-rub of “Aquarium”, a dubbed out cut from Skinner’s debut album as Hello Skinny. In Herbert’s hands – more

Black Dice get piggy with it

With their sixth album hitting the shelves in April, we’re already banging our heads against the wall to the tribal noise concoction that is Black Dice‘s new video for Pigs. Quite similar to their first ever clip for Kokoma in 2007, the Brooklyn threesome goes for harsh DIY aesthetics, adding a fetish imagery that meshes – more

Free Omar Souleyman track

Room for a bit more Omar Souleyman in your life? Of course there is. The Syrian wedding singer turned international hipster firebrand has a new album Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts, and if you head over to Altered Zones you can download the frankly bonkers ‘Haram’ for nowt. If you hadn’t guessed by the title – more

Zomby – free download from Dedication

Still another three weeks until the release of Zomby’s new album Dedication. What a bummer, especially since a shortened version of the album’s been floating around the EB office for a couple of weeks and we’re as eager to get our hands on the record as you are. However don’t fear as in the meantime – more

Will MusicDNA replace MP3?

Bach Technology has created a stir at MIDEM 2010, with their announcement of a new music format. Illustriously dubbed MusicDNA, the proposed format will allow a whapping 32GB of additional content per song, which certainly compares favorably with a 7MB MP3. Hopefully, enriching the digital song will create a more album-like experience and give users – more

Best of the Noughties – The Age of Digital Downloads

Welcome to the fifth instalment of the “Best of the Noughties.“ After previously examining music blogs, public art installations, songs and documentaries, we turn our attention to digital downloads and the music trends which cropped up this decade. In the last ten years, iPods, file-sharing, and legal battles have become synonymous with music culture. Now, – more