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In support of Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, The Crystal Method has released a new remix of their dance anthem Now Is The Time.
The Vote ‘08 Remix features samples from Obama’s DNC acceptance speech, and is available as a free download from the band’s website. An email address is required to download the free track. 
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Following an early morning status check of their vintage electronic equipment, two computer engineers “throw down” in an awkward dance-off that seems to (inaccurately) echo the development of information technology and the Internet from 1951 up to the present day (!?).
This is the second film by Superbrothers, and features a fun retronica soundtrack by Jim Guthrie.
If you like the [...]

 

More free music for sexy day: Love Torture Records has released a free compilation so you can torture your lover with over 2 hours of experimental electronic music.
It features 33 different artists and a variety of styles.
With artists like Assholemouthead, aural resuscitaion unit and Noise Nazi, though, don’t expect to kick of your own little [...]

 

You can’t have a sexy day without some music that gives you space to let your mind wander a bit.
Behind This Soft Eclipse is the latest track from Matthew Davidson’s ambient piano collection Brood XIV. If you’re familiar with the work of Budd & Eno, you’ll find that Davidson is exploring similar territory.
Davidson is releasing [...]

 
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Matthew Davidson is a musician, sound designer, blogger and graphic designer. 
He’s released a series of free albums of electronic music, including the all Monome Grids and an album of ambient piano works, A Towering Achievement of Indescribable Beauty.
The Hand That Paused to Gather, below, is an ambient piece recorded yesterday morning before Davidson went to [...]

 
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Disquiet published an interesting post about the Joy of Hexadecimal MP3 - a look at Hexawe.net. 
Hexawe.net features music made with Little Pig Tracker - a sequencer designed to work on old-school game platforms:
A “tracker” is about as simple a sequencer there can be, locating musical tidbits along a basic time line. In Little Pig Tracker, [...]

 
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SUCKADELIC
A custom-styled “DJ Trooper” toy/artwork, produced by Medicom, 2008
Plastic, cloth and paper. 1:6 scale: 30.5 x 17.8 x 16.5 cm. (12 x 7 x 6.5 in). Signed on original packaging.
This toy is unique and includes matching track suit, sneakers, mini headphones, double turntable stand with two records, and plastic case with twenty-one [...]

 

Unbefriggingbelievable.
Violent crime is on the rise in the US.
We can’t find Osama Bin Laden in seven years.
Millions of illegal aliens are hiding in the country, gainfully employed. 
And we’re arresting music bloggers. 
A Los Angeles blogger has been arrested for allegedly sharing music online. Twenty-seven-year-old Kevin Cogill was arrested by FBI agents at his home Wednesday and charged [...]