Virtual painting wall at TEDx Phnom Penh
Warren Daly from Invisible Agent and Chhan Dina presented at this years TEDx in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The event combined live speakers with TED video screenings and discussions on the 15th of October 2011. Their presentation was entitled ‘The art of virtual obsolescence’ and they displayed a working example of an interactive graffiti and painting wall constructed from recycled electronic equipment.
A blast from the past and the future
A brief and incomplete history of undermine, lakker and suburban cutting champions
Happy Equinox! Best of Dub, Ragga, Dubstep, Drum & Bass: Equinox, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
September Equinox is a time of balance when “day and night are equal”, well almost equal. It marks the beginning of winter preparations and is a time to respect the impending dark while giving thanks to the sunlight.
Sort out your digital life, get ready to tag
We all know tagging is important, right? After observing a friend spend endless hours submerged in iTunes, meticulously tagging and rating their music collection track by track, I realized I was naive to think most online music distributors tag their files correctly. You know your digital life is a mess when you see files called […]
Flying free on Bandcamp: Danseizure – ‘This is Danseizure’ now available
Danseizure a.k.a Dan Gorman has been with us since our inception in 2000. His previous albums ‘At Home with’ and ‘Let’s not go out’ were released free of charge in 2002 and 2005 respectively. Since then, thousands of listeners have enjoyed Dan’s wonderful creations. The monster track ‘throw’ sparkled and stood out on the first […]
Ghostkid: Things That Go Dub In The Night – Reviewed
It’s been about 4 months since I heard Donny Jankowski’s last output, The Unlikely Future of Reverse Engineering. His latest album ‘Things That Go Dub In The Night’ on BFW Recordings is different in many ways but you can immediately identify Ghostkid’s sound and that’s a wonderful gift.
Netabel Tracker #11: Born Digital – A new audiovisual Netlabel is born
A media collective called Born Digital has just launched as a new audio visual netlabel. The individuals involved are experience and professional audio and visual producers. Boasting a list of versatile multimedia artists including Marsman, Takuma Nakata, Jonathan Read, Julien Mier, Daan Kars and Zumi, they are set to push the Netlabel cause even further. For more information visit their website netlabel information page.
Art is born from democracy: Leonardo Rosado’s new album – opaque glitter
Opaque glitter is an excellent ambient album that has plenty of experimental elements and found sounds. It remains inviting and evokes further intrigue, making you content to start the journey all over again. Recommended.
Tumbleweed or Twitter?
If you’re not one of the folk following me on Twitter, it would seem like I’ve dropped off the face of the planet. I’ve found it difficult time wise to update the site as much as I would like. Never fear, the AgentCast / Podcast series is always in progress. That being said, if you […]
More electronica and live ambient music downloads
A quick reminder for you to get some quality megabytes saved to your hard drives this weekend. If you’re keen on completely improvised, live ambient music, check out Bing Satellites sixth installment in the Twilight Sessions series. Each live performance starts as a blank canvas and evolves in to atmospheric soundscapes with drifts of clarinet,voice […]
Netlabel Tracker #10: Archaic Horizon
Discovering great new music is gratifying, but some days the thought of scouring the web for freshly pressed tunes can impede even the most determined of us. Recommendations are king, right? So I was delighted to received a commendation for Archaic Horizon from a friend and music producer Bluefood several weeks ago. I knew that […]
Nerd Night Phnom Penh: The war on music
‘The war on music’. I talked about music piracy, the propaganda the music industry spew out and I promoted and prompted people to explore Netlabels and Creative Commons.
New releases to checkout: ikeaboy | Sunken Foal
ikeaboy debut album After a number of acclaimed 12″ EP releases on both D1 recordings and Invisible Agent over the past few years, Damian Tubbritt a.k.a ikeaboy has stepped up to the plate and released an album on Nute. Entitled ‘The Ikeaboy Long Player’, this 8 tracker LP is a sub-bass heavy electro excursion. A […]
RIAA versus Invisible Agent Records
It has recently been brought to our attention by the RIAA that certain tracks released on Invisible Agent Records contain bin-aural beats and must be removed from all distribution channels and online shops.
Lakker: free web series
Ian Mc Donnell and Dara Smith a.k.a Lakker have been producing top quality music under a number of different monikers for several years.
Ghostkid – The Unlikely Future Of Reverse Engineering
Ghostkid’s debut release on BFW Recordings, ‘The Unlikely Future Of Reverse Engineering’ is a 7 track EP consisting of laid back beats layered with melodic curves. All tracks have distorted, stretched or reversed melodic loops with layers of funk influenced breakbeats. ‘Hopeful for a Future (part 2)’ is uplifting and bright, stripes of warbled and […]
Ambienteer – Ataraxia
How I missed this is beyond me. I follow James Fahy’s music dairy closely, my only explanation for leaving his album slip through the net is having Christmas shenanigans with friends who came to visit me in Cambodia. Anyhow, I’ll get on with it… Ambienteer gifts us with an 8 track album of wondrous ambient […]
wAgAwAgA – Hyper Typewriter – Acroplane Recordings
If Phuture and Adamski sold their possessed 303s and Junos to bass crazed space invaders from another dimension, this is what the alien transmission might sound like. Actually, Hyper Typewriter would sound better. wAgAwAga employs earth-shaking bass-lines and a near fanatical use of intricate acid tweaking. The 303 programming is complex and keeps you constantly […]