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Dan Susnara – Blacklite Forest (Cassette, 1993)
DOWNLOAD @ ARCHIVE.ORG ARTIST/LABEL NOTES: This is my blend of 60’s influenced pop. There’s hidden songs, back-masking and all kinds of fun stuff. I tried to take the classic elements of 60’s psychedelia and add my own touch to it. – Dan Susnara GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker, : Extremely musically adept, Susnara mixes a…
ACID Planet: A Glimpse Back at a Forgotten Music Hub
Before SoundCloud, before Bandcamp, and long before today’s AI-fueled music generators, there was ACID Planet—a vibrant online community built around Sony’s pioneering loop-based DAW, ACID Pro. From the early 2000s to its quiet shutdown in 2018, ACID Planet served as a digital stage for bedroom producers, remixers, and experimental musicians to upload, share, and collaborate…
Ken Rubenstein – Invert and Transcend (CD, 2010)
Ken Rubenstein is a self taught guitarist and composer originally from New Jersey, now living in California. In the past, Ken has received praise from such publications as Guitar Player Magazine. In fact, he was the last and perhaps most controversial International Soundpage Winner for Guitar Player Magazine, featured in the October ’91 issue. He…
Electronic Musik (net label)
A DIY label which specialises in experimental electronica and improvised music. Formed in 2000 it’s run by the Sound manipulator / Improvising musician Ian Simpson (aka Noise Research) and is non profit making which enables the label to release exactly what it wants (ie: what it likes). Ian is based in the U.K. Artists include…
Lo Finest
Notes from Jerry Kranitz, Aural Innovations: Lo Finest is a program dedicated to the appreciation of homemade recordings that were made and distributed on cassette tapes during the 1980s and 90s, hosted by veteran home recording artist Charles Rice Goff III. Thousands of sonic artists were cranking out cassettes all over the world during the…
DPRP.net: Gateway to the Progressive Underground
Since 1995, DPRP.net (The Dutch Progressive Rock Page) has been a beacon for progressive music explorers around the globe. Much like GAJOOB, it champions independent creators, diving deep into sounds that defy mainstream molds—whether sprawling prog epics, jazzy post-rock, or cinematic ambient concept albums. DPRP isn’t about flash; it’s about substance. Their vault includes thousands…
Preserving an Artist’s Legacy Online: Beyond Bandcamp and Broken Links
By Bryan Baker In a time when artists can instantly share their work with a global audience, it’s easy to forget that permanence is far from guaranteed. Musicians, visual artists, and creators of all kinds pour years—even decades—into building a body of work, yet their digital legacy can vanish with little more than the collapse…
Bat Lenny – Songs From the Junk Drawer Vol. 1 ’82-’83 (Digital, 2015)
DOWNLOAD @ ARCHIVE.ORG ARTIST/LABEL NOTES: This collection is the result of an archeological dig through the many hours of and miles of reel-to-reel and cassette audio tape recorded by Bat Lenny circa 1982 – 1983. Note the ominous subtitle of “Volume 1”, portending further installments. Bat Lenny tended to record an awful lot of sounds…
Tapegerm Collective – Germination Volume 2 Number 2 (Digital, 2003)
DOWNLOAD @ ARCHIVE.ORG ARTIST/LABEL NOTES: 01 The Incomplete Orchestra Mad Symphony 2010 A redo now that I have a Shure PG58. (I was mostly broke and confident I could make it sound good.) And it is! AND! AND! More new stuff here! More so than I blogged yesterday! Dig in! http://ccmixter.org/people/coruscate Also if you like…
