Dissolved has two more slices of eerie electronica goodness up for free download; "13 Part 1 EP" and "K-Zones and Quagmires".

Just started listening to the latter, and already loving what I'm hearing.

In other news, thanks to the postal strikes the Ciaran Byrne CD still isn't here, which sucks. I'm also waiting for a couple of Marumari CD's to come into stock.

…And Saturday Index still hasn't released his "Partly Cloudy EP" - which is a shame. There's a new tune up on his MySpace (called "Your Stars Are Trees") which is absolutely…

Just a quick heads up!

Dusan's little gem "Damn I can't think of anything proper" kicks ass, and is available for download from here!

Yay!

Okay, so with a bit of snooping, I think that Ross Adey may be Ciaran Byrne. Now I could be very wrong, but it really does look that way…

…Anyway, since coming to this (possibly completely wrong) conclusion, I've been scanning the world wide web for any stray tracks of his to listen to. Came across some at his MySpace, and have ordered his album Galtrim, but other than that, nada.

I was also gutted to read that I have apparently missed out on downloading a few tracks he placed up there before I came to hear of…

In no particular order…

Boards of Canada

Fieldtriqp

Dissolved (yeah, yeah, I know I just got two albums of his stuff - but it's gooooood)

Hills West

Portal (as in the electronica guy, not the death metal band)

Orange Crush

Saturday Index

Ross Adey (who are you? You did two of the best track on 'One on Twoism' dude)

Posthuman

Track53

P.S. - Milieu rocks, as do many others, but I'm still gathering together all the odds and ends I can find of your stuff, so for now, I am content. For now.

P.P.S. - Corwin Trails, The Dandelion…

Look, I'm not going to do a big self-important analysis of the Nine Inch Nails gig; not because I'm not a self-important blowhard, who insists on spouting his thoughts in the unwilling faces of all those unlucky people who get to close…oh no…but because I'm feeling deeply lazy today, and will soon be back at work after a week bothering wildlife in the Lake District, and I can't be arsed.

That's right! You heard me! :D

Anyway, the gig was great. Yes, they did play some of the "music" off the last album, but it was actually heart-warming to see…

Dear Trent Reznor,

How's it going? Please don't play too much off "Year Zero" tomorrow night, because it sucks so badly it's like listening to a cruel parody. You have a colossal back catalogue of absolutely amazing songs, so there's no need to dwell on the recent pap. Stick to those, and we will be good friends…well, maybe not, but…bah…just do it please!

Please Mr Reznor, I'm a long time fan, but this will be my first gig with you…don't let me down…I have mutant monkeys in my lab, and they have not been fed anything (other…

Yay!

My copy of Dissolved's “Macrocyclic Blues” arrived this morning (and, I'm one of the lucky ten folks who got the '…special bonus item'), and on first listen, I can say, I am smiling a big old happy smile.

I have been into Dissolved's music big time, ever since it contributed to a massively creepy experience in Leicester, whilst waiting for my girlfriend in a mist haunted car park last autumn.

It was dusk, and I was waiting for her to arrive and pick me up. Streamers of ethereal light were pouring through the gloom from…

Anyone that knows me (either through real life, this thing, or my blog) knows that I hold a colossal amount of respect and admiration for a lot of artists who publish their music (or at least began by publishing it) for free on the internet. Some of my all time favourites are primarily web artists (Fieldtriqp, Loafeye, Orange Crush, Hills West, Ten and Tracer, Track53 and Dissolved, to name but a few).

Well, recently, I came across an awesome mix by some folks I had heard of, and some I had not. It's…

Look at the smile! Just look at it?

Just found out that Gnac has a new album out next month; "The arrival of the fog", and from the bits up for listening on Gnac's (Mark Tranmer's) MySpace page, it is going to be every bit as lovely as all the other albums!

Yay!

Okay, the Tekkon Kinkreet soundtrack was not what I was expecting. I should have focused less on it being Plaid, and more on the fact that it was a soundtrack to a movie. Maybe that way, I wouldn't have felt the crushing disappointment that I did upon listening to it.

The first few minutes are bliss – exactly the kind of sparkly, slightly off-kilter electronic loveliness I was hoping for. However, then things get very mundane. The music is obviously intended to narrate scenes in the movie, which means that as a soundtrack it probably rocks. But from a…