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    Free internet music: Berglind Tómasdóttir – Icelandic Flute Music

    by 5:4 January 28, 2021 • 05:00
    January 28, 2021 • 05:00

    For the last two years, in the final week of January i’ve been heading off to Iceland for the annual Dark Music Days festival. Like pretty much all festivals at the moment, DMD has been postponed for a few months, but as a small consolation i’m going to conclude this…

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    Free internet music: Sandra Boss – Luft

    by 5:4 January 25, 2021 • 05:00
    January 25, 2021 • 05:00

    As i’m sure i’ve lamented previously, the organ is a bit of a neglected instrument in the world of new music. No doubt that’s due in part to its historical associations and also the site-specific nature of so many of them, but all the same, considering the range, power and…

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    Free internet music: Christina Vantzou – Nº2 Remixes

    by 5:4 January 21, 2021 • 05:00
    January 21, 2021 • 05:00

    There have been numerous occasions when i’ve previously written about and celebrated the art of the remix. Remixes were an integral part of my developing musical taste and understanding at the start of, and throughout, my teens: i got into the habit of buying both the 7-inch and 12-inch versions…

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    Free internet music: Nikita Golyshev – 15 Songs from Glass, Oil and Other Sources

    by 5:4 January 18, 2021 • 11:18
    January 18, 2021 • 11:18

    We tend to assume nowadays that, once something is put online, it’ll never disappear. But in the case of 15 Songs from Glass, Oil and Other Sources, by Russian experimentalist Nikita Golyshev (aka CD-R), that’s not the case. The album was originally released in 2007 on a netlabel called Musica Excentrica,…

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    Free internet music: Brothomstates – ReKobn-Tich-Ey

    by 5:4 January 13, 2021 • 10:06
    January 13, 2021 • 10:06

    Three years ago, i featured in my ‘Free internet music’ series a new release from Finnish musician Lassi Nikko, aka Brothomstates, who had surprised everyone at the end of 2017 by suddenly putting out a new 13-minute track after over a decade and a half of silence. In the final…

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    Free internet music: Chelsea Wolfe – Folkadelphia Session 5/31/2014

    by 5:4 January 11, 2021 • 10:40
    January 11, 2021 • 10:40

    Among my favourite singer-songwriters is Chelsea Wolfe. To spend time with her albums – the last two of which featured in my Best Albums of the Year lists: Birth of Violence in 2019 and Hiss Spun in 2017 – is to become immersed in uniquely spine-tingling worlds of dark lyricism,…

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    Free internet music: Nhung Nguyen – Oblivion

    by 5:4 January 8, 2021 • 05:00
    January 8, 2021 • 05:00

    Last July, i included in my Isolation Mixtape N an excerpt from Oblivion, a 12-minute work by Vietnamese sound artist Nhung Nguyen. In its entirety it’s an impressive and strikingly beautiful piece, one that sets up an interesting relationship between its various elements. Or is it a relationship at all?…

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    Free internet music: Andrew Leslie Hooker

    by 5:4 January 6, 2021 • 12:11
    January 6, 2021 • 12:11

    As has been the custom on 5:4 in recent years, i’m starting 2021 with the financial aftermath of the holiday season in mind, exploring some of the more interesting music freely available online. It’s important to stress that, just because it’s available free, doesn’t mean you can’t choose to pay an…

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    Free internet music: Wixel

    by 5:4 January 26, 2019 • 06:00
    January 26, 2019 • 06:00

    Wim Maesschalk, better known as Wixel, is a Belgian musician who originally set up the label Slaapwel Records, the aim of which, as that name implies, is to provide “music to fall asleep to”. In a way that tells you all you need to know about Wixel, though his music is capable…

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    Free internet music: Zbigniew Karkowski

    by 5:4 January 24, 2019 • 06:00
    January 24, 2019 • 06:00

    One of my absolute favourites at the most extreme end of pretty much all musical continua is Polish composer Zbigniew Karkowski. Karkowski died just over five years ago, and digesting his legacy is something i’ve been attempting to do since his passing. While there are plenty of available recordings of his…

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    Free internet music: The Missing Ensemble

    by 5:4 January 21, 2019 • 16:23
    January 21, 2019 • 16:23

    The Missing Ensemble was a US trio comprising Daniel De Los Santos, John Sellekaers and Mathias Delplanque, who together released two albums around 13 years ago. i forget where the recommendation to listen to their music came from all those years ago, but i do remember that one of the things…

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    Free internet music: Access to Arasaka

    by 5:4 January 17, 2019 • 14:44
    January 17, 2019 • 14:44

    Apologies for the silence on 5:4 for the last couple of weeks, but i’ve been completely wiped out by ‘flu during this time, and have only started to feel relatively human again in the last day or so. Very belated then, i’m going to spend the remainder of January in…

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    Free internet music: Press Charges

    by 5:4 January 31, 2018 • 14:41
    January 31, 2018 • 14:41

    There’s so much i could write about in this series looking at free internet music, that i think it’ll be something i’ll have to return to regularly from now on. For the time being, though, i’m ending this series with an album that’s one of the most imaginative and effective…

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    Free internet music: Ektoise

    by 5:4 January 26, 2018 • 13:00
    January 26, 2018 • 13:00

    It’s Australia Day, so the next artist i’m featuring in my series looking at free internet music is the Brisbane-based group Ektoise. It’s difficult to know where to begin, partly because, stylistically speaking, it’s not easy to summarise succinctly what their music is like, and partly because Ektoise is just…

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    Free internet music: Brothomstates, Stephan Mathieu

    by 5:4 January 20, 2018 • 12:54
    January 20, 2018 • 12:54

    The next recommendations in my series looking at free internet music are a pair of pieces exploring extremes of computer-mangled audio. The first is a new release from Finnish composer Lassi Nikko, better known as Brothomstates, and even writing his name in the context of a new release – something i never…

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    Free internet music: Kreng

    by 5:4 January 15, 2018 • 14:20
    January 15, 2018 • 14:20

    While we’re still caught up in winter, and before the days get too much lighter, it’s one of the best times of the year to get stuck into the music of Belgian composer Pepijn Caudron, better known as Kreng. He came to my attention around six years ago, when Works…

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    Free internet music: Martin Stig Andersen – Rabbit at the Airport

    by 5:4 January 11, 2018 • 14:21
    January 11, 2018 • 14:21

    Next up in my series looking at free internet music is a triptych by Danish composer Martin Stig Andersen. To many, Andersen is likely best known for his award-winning music and sound design work on Limbo, one of the most breathtakingly stunning – and, often, terrifying – video games of recent…

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    Free internet music: Altus

    by 5:4 January 8, 2018 • 11:56
    January 8, 2018 • 11:56

    i’m going to start 2018 exploring an area that seems particularly appropriate and indeed desirable in January, in the wake of the financial blow-outs many of us will have made in the run-up and perhaps also aftermath of Christmas: free internet music. This sort of thing used to be primarily…

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    Altered (steady) states: Kenneth Kirschner – September 27, 2016/November 17, 2016, Markus Reuter – Falling for Ascension, Formuls – entryiseasierthantheexit_exit

    by 5:4 October 3, 2017 • 13:57
    October 3, 2017 • 13:57

    A few years ago, when writing an extensive monograph on the music of Kenneth Kirschner, i used the term ‘steady state’ to indicate the particular way in many of his works that material is deployed and juxtaposed over extended periods of time. This latter aspect, extended time, is vital: both…

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