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I cannot say enough about the sunny cut up electro-pop track “Homeless Hero” by Bufi (Mateo Gonzalez Bufi), from the Homeless Hero EP.

Thanks to the good folks at Phlow Magazine for this discovery!

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Complete release at Poni Republic.

I’ve spent a lot of time the past few weeks pointing the camera at the ever changing colors and textures over my head.  A number of the night-time long exposures were taken with a wonderful Tamron aspherical rectilinear lens (think wide-angle without the “fisheye” distortion).

The weather got pretty hairy here last night with hail, heavy rain, heavy wind, and a tornado sighting at 10:35 (we all sat huddled in one of our interior underground rooms and read stories out loud).

Anyhow, at some point I stood around outside and tried some long exposure photography. Most of it was a bust, but I liked these two pictures despite the grainy high ISO look of them (film grain can be beautiful, digital grain is just nasty).

A few updates to the blogroll today.

The first addition is the Russian netlabel: Fragment. Their releases seem to run from microhouse and minimal techno through glitch and ambient. Their most recent release “sur-dramatic nature” by Gorje Hewek has been in heavy rotation here for the past few weeks!

The second new netlabel in the list is Pueblo Nuevo, a Chilean label (and netlabel) whose releases span the electronic spectrum.   I’ve only recently started exploring their catalog, but it is quality material.

The last link is for Phlow Magazine.  I’m not sure how I neglected to add Phlow for so long, but it is a significant oversight.  The site is a great resource for exploring the electronic netlabel scene with multiple reviewers, a podcast, playlists / compilations, etc.

I couldn’t sleep this morning, so I drove around taking photos. Nothing particularly spectacular or sublime, just a morning…

Here is a little sketch — a fun early morning session recorded live using a collection of SID samples and my Sidstation. I cannot really call it a chiptune since it was assembled primarily in Ableton Live, but chiptunes were certainly the inspiration, and the sounds originated in a 6581 of one form or another (my SX64, the Sidstation, etc.).

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Leo’s Song from impactist on Vimeo.
A beautiful animation set to beautiful music by Kelly Meador and Daniel Elwing.

It is fantastic!

You can download the music (and a number of other great tracks) from the Impactist Web site at:
http://www.impactist.com/mainpages/audiopgs/imp_audio.html

Digitalverein’s (aka Joerg Schuster of Dortmun, Germany) “San Marco by Night” is beautiful, evolving, melodic dub. This is an older release (from 2004) on Thinner, but I’ve listened to it many times in the past few years and continue to enjoy it.

Unfortunately I cannot seem to get scene.org hosted files to play properly in the inline player, but you can easily download and listen to it at “San Marco by Night” by Digitalverein at scene.org.

Complete release at Scene.org.

I made two updates to the blogroll today.

The first is a link to the Hungarian netlabel: Soundpill.  I’ve been enjoying a number of their releases this week and look forward to more!

The second is a link to INQ Mag, a blog and podcast with news and reviews from the Netlabel world (not unlike this site, but with a bit more panache).

There is a new image in the “We Are Starstuff” gallery today.