Free Music Online – DJ Sets, Trance, Techno and More

While I’m listening to streaming radio via iTunes or Pandora, I typically try to keep an eye out for new tracks that I like and write the artists names down to search for later.

During this process I end up finding lots of new websites dedicated to electronic music, DJ remixes and so on. Here are a few of my favorites.

On www.hybridized.org search for DjKira aka Nick Lewis.

Join hybridized.org to download basically everything without limits.

On www.sense.fm check out Ashley Bonsall – Into Trance 011

On sense.fm, go to the forums and you can download complete DJ sets for most of the tracks they spin.

Just listen at www.protonradio.com.

With the protonradio free streaming player you get some of the best dance, trance and electronic artists of our time.

3-D Rendered Musical Instruments

I have to credit this post to my brother.

We both received an email forward from our uncle about an unbelievable musical instrument created using “John Deere” parts. Well, we have both seen 3D-rendered musical instruments, and that got him searching for more over his lunch break.

Called “Resonant Chamber”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toXNVbvFXyk&feature=relmfu

Called “Drum machine Set”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af3w8LornUY&feature=relmfu

Called “5 Minute Countdown”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgE0m5C5PCc&feature=relmfu

Called “Pipe Dream Set” – This is basically showing you the construction of the John Deere movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLf2nsZ9m9o&feature=relmfu

I’d send more, but lunch is over.  WOW!!

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Mustard Plug

I just discovered that a friend of mine from high school plays trumpet in the band Mustard Plug from Grand Rapids, Michigan.

How cool is that?! Go Brandon! I had no idea.

Mustard Plug MySpace page has some awesome inie ska / punk / rock music videos if you like ska bands.

Check it out!

Tosca No Hassle

Slow down. Relax. Take a deep breath. Steal back an hour from your busy life. This is really worth your full attention. 

So the info page opens on the microsite for the new release album No Hassle by Tosca. The Austrian duo of Richard Dorfmesiter and Rupert Huber are “back with their most magical and mesmerizing album yet, a luxurious tapestry of analogue and digital sounds, submerged samples, live instruments, soundscapes and sensual rhythms,” - Steven Dalton  

In the interview video on the microsite, Dorfmeister says, “It was a really nice experience at the first concert. We didn’t use a normal P.A. with, you know, left and right. We didn’t do the whole left-right thing. We had six speakers on the first floor, and two more upstairs. It was crucial, because you can do so many things that nobody’s used to.  So we had 8 channels to mix sounds with. We looked for special locations. Churches are perfect, because the feeling of the room is like an instrument. Churches have a feeling. A feeling 10 times deeper than any club situation that we’re normally used to. It’s more like a concert, in which to invest 1 hour of your attention, more like an ‘audio massage’.”

“We didn’t do any of it on purpose. It’s just our sounds. We love this merging of different things from anywhere. If you can explain the way we do it, then like this. We’ve been reducing all the time, to try to get rid of things. We really tried to keep it as minimal as possible. We have much more material, but we’re choosing the stuff that off from the sound. Unpretentious. We’re not trying to be different, we just like it this way. it’s perfectly uncommercial, but this is just how we like it.”

Dorfmeister: “This is what everyone wants but what nobody has: no hassle. We just want no hassle. Not too much of anything. A good balance. Feel right music, without boringness.” 

Huber: “I think it’s a human right not to have to deal with reality all the time.”

Your job? Forget about it. Things to do? Ignore it. Put the crackberry down. Just take an hour and chill out to the most unique and original ambient electronic album to come out in a very long time, and certainly one of the best for 2009.

Great Piano Tunes

I was trying to remember the other Scott Joplin piano piece I used to play as a kid. Of course the most famous song of his (that just about everyone has heard) is The Entertainer, which many people mistakenly call, The Sting, since the song was used as the 1973 Robert Redford & Paul Newman movie’s theme.

I don’t love the bridge toward the end as much as the beginning part of the song, but Maple Leaf Rag is a terrific ragtime melody. Also I think that The Entertainer has a much better bridge. Anyway, this performance of the song by Glenn Hardy, as many commenters suggest, is played at the correct tempo. I love the interplay of major and minor chords in ragtime music.

Here are some more amazing piano songs…