A house does not fall into disrepair unaided. Its supports buckle and its walls crumble often while people still live in them. Longtime collaborators CCI (bass, flute) and n.kra (guitar, sax) present two long contemplative pieces of equal length.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR…
Prague to Portland to Chicago to Seattle back to Chicago... this peripatetic auteur wanders the world in search of arcane knowledge and alien debris, along the way creating soundtracks to invisible films and cryptographic novels.. This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
A juxtaposition of spirited real-time spontanaeity and refined process, electro-acoustic improvisation and hard rock, The Keening Audacity of Modern Life will put aside any notions of genre and simply keep the heads nodding.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb,…
Why wouldn't the little lies form from the system of silence? Tuck and run.. This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
Every year, municipalities purchase thousands of trains to carry their citizens from one point to another. Each year more thousands of cars are crashed, recycled, rendered obsolete, junked, and purchased anew.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
Heavy-hittin funky sampler DJ Sheild (the E before the I please as I was recently informed) brings us a fine new album of variegated sound, a grand follow-up to his first Slapart release "Midnight on an Open Highway." An ambitious full-length effort of 7 long mixes (each is more than 6 minutes long).... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
The long-awaited return by laptop composer, n.kra. Wait, can I say that about myself? Awaited by me at least. Seven fragments of aural exposition that might describe distinct places, frames of mind from which we perceive music; fragmented blunted shined by memory.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: 64Kbps MP3, 64kbps M3U, Archive BitTorrent,…
The machine you touch each day is capable of many things. It speaks, it talks, it moves in its own way. 99% of all people though use their machines for their intended use. It never speaks, it never talks, it never gets to move.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Animated GIF, Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
In the fourth installment of the slaptape series, v.stevenson crafts two exquisite extended collage pieces assembled mostly from the contents of a corrupted hard drive. Fragments of his prior work are retrieved by the disk utility in various states of corruption.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile,…
In this second installment of the slaptape series, Jeremy Carter of the jam-improv-rock outfit Carter Bros. explores the more delicate side of his hand-made instruments. This cassette has two sides: one side made using Carter's own uniquely designed electric upright bass (see picture), the other sid.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
In the third installment of the slaptape series, n.kra composes some prepared guitar pieces specifically for distribution on cassette. Please tolerate it in all its digital preciseness here. Side A offers 6 different soundscapes, all but track 2 prepared in the guitar.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item…
Multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Carter (guitar, upright electric bass, flute, electronics) corrals his brother Tim to keep the rhythm, which he does very well thank you. The first is a familiar Coltrane tune showcasing Jeremy on the lead on each of his instruments.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile,…
In this first installment of the slaptape series, ambient/glitch musician Michael Bentley ( The Foundry , Fällt , No Type ) contributes a one-sided 34 minute work based on some old Russian and Hungarian folk vinyl he found at an Oakland library sale.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata,…
Compiled to celebrate the first 10 mp3 releases on slapart, lo and behold our first compilation is now an mp3 release itself. Some gems from the first 10 releases as well as some new stuff by those artists.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
With the references so obvious, I shouldn't have to say more. But don't be scared off, these tracks are two treasures of psychedelic ambient listening from Italian Dj Guignol Dangereux .. This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
Like a monkey that dances for his master at the fair. The old man perpetually cranks a magical box, which due to the slight variations in force of the master's turning hand always emits rhythmic melodies slightly in and out of phase with one another.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata,…
Music is a type of travel. And as you travel, the soundscape always exist in constant flux. A bird, a tree, a truck, the changing distance of objects from a car window play their symphony and the driver and passenger(s) slip in and out of awareness of their melody.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Derivation…
Albert Casais (0mnid) is another tri-state recordist. His technique on "Muhheakunnuk" is more literal, juxtaposing transparent sound sources against one another to create a separate reality. Places that exist simultaneously and forever but never together.. This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG,…
A friendly listener-performer from the North of Here, Michael V. Farley has been tangential to Slapart since the days of No Transmission. Here radios whizz by vacuum cleaners powered by pigs that CaN fly.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
What can I say? Noise set from one of the best. Recorded live via Hi-Fi Super 8 minicam built-in microphone for maximum noise... Rare American rock club performance arranged by Austria's Phonotaktik festival.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb,…
Slapart ran across this Alabama native at Mike Berks now defunct ThinkTank party. Like Berks "idiom neutral reformed" (slapmp3_oo4), this release gets its hands dirty equally with both pop and experiment.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Essentia High GZ, Essentia Low GZ, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, Metadata,…
Mike Berk makes you groove with an imminently danceable 6 track maxi-single. Everyone at the slapart office just can't stop listening to his "idiom neutral reformed." I don't know what you call this kind of music, but it's good.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
Glomag (formerly on Sire, Mode) takes us on a drowsy tour in a goofy 8-bit wonderland. Created mostly with GameBoy Nanoloop software, naught evokes vintage arcade soundtracks and high-profile fashion queens.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
Who is DJ Shield you ask? An unknown electro-soldier from the Deep South, DJ Shield does for experimental/electronic/improv underground what DJ Shadow did for funk 45s and old school hip hop. Although this artist works exclusively with samples of pre-recorded music, you'd be hard-pressed to discern .... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
slapMOVoo1 Digital-noiZe moviemaker Scott Staton submits a non-visual work. "Tourist/Pass" is a 4-track concept EP detailing the international travel experience from transcontinental flight to cultural immersion.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
abstract professor seeks Rock Guitarist. Must enjoy hot licks, harsh melodies, and soothing drones. Must also enjoy Edith Piaf, unknown bikers, and swarthy French men. Raw hard-core experimentalism from Enemy Love guitarist Pete Rinko.. This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
Through our association with online music juggernaut NOTYPE we dug up this release from the flatlands of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which apparently is somewhere in Canada. JON VAUGHN is a young artist who presently resides there.... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
Washington, D.C.-based act V.IOLET is Jeff Surak, one half of the duo V. with releases on Bake/Staalplaat, Public Eyesore, and their own label ZEROMOON Recordings (http://www.zeromoon.com). In the vein of cut-paste-loop ambient industrial musics, "ack" is a new 2-track, 17-minute affair which makes .... This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive…
Nicholas Kramer takes a dive into the cool-cool waters of audio experimentation and pops up with two tracks composed from sounds inspired by recordings of the ocean. Slapmp3_oo6 ain't no day at the beach.. This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
Fantastic Max fanatic, okay?! Processed guitars and analog synth provide an update on that "Forbidden Planet" type sound.. This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
Mystery gardner Dr. Moldy Fingers experiments with odd rhythms and timbres to encourage his big beets to grow.. This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3
Ten one-minute digital remix sketches created solely using samples from Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues.". This item belongs to: audio/slapart. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Derivation Rules, Item Tile, JPEG, Metadata, VBR MP3