en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices Last.fm Group Journal: Atom Sounds Indie Music http://www.last.fm/group/Atom+Sounds+Indie+Music/journal The Last.fm group journal for Atom Sounds Indie Music. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. Approaching The Trig. Point (a new track from Northcape) http://www.last.fm/user/northcape/journal/2008/10/12/27u3yq_approaching_the_trig._point_%28a_new_track_from_northcape%29/group Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:42:58 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/northcape/journal/2008/10/12/27u3yq_approaching_the_trig._point_%28a_new_track_from_northcape%29 Northcape. It's much more (early) Ulrich Schnauss than M83 though- its a purely electronic instrumental, and there are no guitars... It's hopefully destined for the next Northcape album (please join the mailling list to avoid missing this). Any listens or particularly tags or comments are very, very much appreciated!
Approaching The Trig. Point
Other new tracks can be found here: New Tracks

Yeah, I know that track titles with full-stops don't help on last.fm, sorry!]]> http://www.last.fm/user/northcape/journal/2008/10/12/27u3yq_approaching_the_trig._point_%28a_new_track_from_northcape%29#comments iannis loumakis rmx Adrian Carter + Pixieguts http://www.last.fm/user/Pixieguts/journal/2008/10/11/27s28j_iannis_loumakis_rmx_adrian_carter_%252B_pixieguts/group Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:59:42 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/Pixieguts/journal/2008/10/11/27s28j_iannis_loumakis_rmx_adrian_carter_%252B_pixieguts
new funky dance remix by iannis loumakis featuring my vocals...

Pixieguts - Line by Adrian Carter (Iannis' mo'money mix)

The original minimal techno track by Adrian Carter is here...

Pixieguts - Line (with Adrian Carter)


]]> http://www.last.fm/user/Pixieguts/journal/2008/10/11/27s28j_iannis_loumakis_rmx_adrian_carter_%252B_pixieguts#comments Atom Sounds - HiDDeN RaDiO Site of the Week for Oct. 11, 2008 http://www.last.fm/user/LoadPuller/journal/2008/10/11/27rtvy_atom_sounds_-_hidden_radio_site_of_the_week_for_oct._11%2C_2008/group Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:52:21 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/LoadPuller/journal/2008/10/11/27rtvy_atom_sounds_-_hidden_radio_site_of_the_week_for_oct._11%2C_2008 Beginning October 11/08

CLICK THE ABOVE IMAGE TO VIEW & STREAM THE ENTIRE HIDDEN RADIO PLAY LIST.

Steve's Weekly HiDDeN RaDiO Myspace Blog Post about Atom Sounds]]> http://www.last.fm/user/LoadPuller/journal/2008/10/11/27rtvy_atom_sounds_-_hidden_radio_site_of_the_week_for_oct._11%2C_2008#comments August Chart Toppers: Chez Musinum Artists, Albums, and Tracks http://www.last.fm/user/musinum/journal/2008/10/07/27ic6w_august_chart_toppers%3A_chez_musinum_artists%2C_albums%2C_and_tracks/group Tue, 7 Oct 2008 05:22:00 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/musinum/journal/2008/10/07/27ic6w_august_chart_toppers%3A_chez_musinum_artists%2C_albums%2C_and_tracks
Let's say there is a six-way tie for 13th place one week, at four listeners. Since the next tier would start at 19th place, those 6 artists are the bottom tier and get one point apiece. Those with five listeners would get 2 points, and those with ten listeners would get 7 points. If the bottom tier is at three listeners the following week, that tier would get 1 point and ten listeners would be worth 8 points.

The monthly score is just the sum of the weekly scores. (Note that even though an artist who gets points one week may have one or more listeners in another week, those won't count unless the rank is 15 or higher.)

Two more lists are produced, one for albums and one for tracks, following similar rules, with one difference:

Instead of including the entire last tier when it would extend past 15 items, I omit that tier. In other words, rather than at least 15, I use at most 15. In the example above, with a 6-way tie for 13th place among albums or tracks, I would include only the top 12. The reason for this is that with albums and tracks, the list flattens out very quickly, so you can have something like a thirty-way tie for 11th place... compounding that is the fact that there's not as much consistency from week to week in album and especially track plays, so that each week tends to add a lot of new items. Thus with the rules the same, we end up with perhaps 30 artists, 50 albums, and 100 tracks. This change keeps the lists manageable and meaningful.

Artists

39 points
Pixieguts

34 points
Phillip Wilkerson

33 points
Deepspace, Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts

26 points
Northcape

18 points
Felixdroid

16 points
Metricks

15 points
Remergence, VFSix

12 points
HealeyIsland

9 points
Corrientes

7 points
M. Persson: Sounds

4 points
Aaron Marshall, Akashic Crow's Nest, Krackatoa, Max Waves

3 points
Gilles Mathieu, Herrera, inn3rflow, Serkan Süleymaniye, Solid Electro, Streams of Europe, Terry Springford, Tim Doyle

2 points
Hyperborea, Solar-Wind

1 point
Ben Barden, Jukeen, Koobakoop, Lungbutter, Metricks & GaiaBeat, Renato Ventura, skin contact, The Peach Tree, VFSix feat. Pat Appleton


Albums

16 points
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixiegraf

13 points
VFSix - vfsecret

11 points
Metricks - Roots 98

10 points
Pixieguts - Pixieguts!

9 points
Pixieguts - Walking on Mercury

7 points
Deepspace - The Barometric Sea

6 points
HealeyIsland - West Of Here Is West Of Here

4 points
Northcape - Detach EP and New Tracks;
Aaron Marshall - Noir Ambiance

3 points
Pixieguts - evolution;
inn3rflow - still tryin to find that sound;

2 points
Deepspace - Subantarctic Sessions (EP);
Felixdroid - Odd Dots and Squiggles and Soundscape3;
Streams of Europe - Meanders

1 point
Phillip Wilkerson - Collection I;
Deepspace - The Barometric Sun;
Felixdroid - The Longing;
Remergence - The Remixes;
M. Persson: Sounds - Strange skies;
Krackatoa - Sun Dripping Down the Stainglass;
Gilles Mathieu - Irish Mass (version1);
Serkan Süleymaniye - aşk
Metricks & GaiaBeat - Illusory Origin
Aleksandr Shubin - First;
Corrado Rossi - Other Corrado's songs;
David Elsener - Inside My Room


Tracks

4 points
VFSix - Tears

3 points
Northcape - Pacific Highway (feat. Pixieguts);
Metricks - Pearl and Waterfoam;
Dj Sid-the Apocalypze - Liquid Mix

2 points
Pixieguts - In The Night (Mix Hieronymus), End This Day (w Dj SID-the Apocalypze-Trip Into Funk RMX), One Moment (w Dementio13 + TRavvy), and Shot At Midnight (with Dementio13);
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Currawong Rise V2;
VFSix - Say What You Want;
Friends of redhalo - It's Getting Thick

1 point
Phillip Wilkerson - On the French Riviera;
Deepspace - The First Glimpse of The... and Hymn 1 (Through the Barometri;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Prahran;
Felixdroid - The Space between...;
Remergence - Probably (Styler Remix);
VFSix - Mr. Rabbit;
HealeyIsland - Saint Anthony's Dream;
Aaron Marshall - Peace and Gravity;
HealeyIsland - Saint Anthony's Dream;
Gilles Mathieu - Montagnera (A Biasgina) and Irish Mass - 4 - Is Naofa (Sanctus);
Terry Springford - Green & Blue;
VFSix feat. Pat Appleton - chances;
Ben Barden - Moon Eclipse;
Implicit Audio Frequency - State of Mind Winter 73;
VFSix feat. S.C.E. - Utopian Fate



Congrats everybody! Don't touch that dial!



P.S.: Check out my three sister groups SlowSound, SlowerSound, and the brand-new SlowestSound, all of which share one radio... An astonishing array of 500 artists from all genres with a "slow" feel, from the most celebrated to the totally obscure. Join all three!]]> http://www.last.fm/user/musinum/journal/2008/10/07/27ic6w_august_chart_toppers%3A_chez_musinum_artists%2C_albums%2C_and_tracks#comments Sunburn in Cyprus - HiDDeN RaDiO Site of the Week for Oct. 4, 2008 http://www.last.fm/user/LoadPuller/journal/2008/10/04/27bx4b_sunburn_in_cyprus_-_hidden_radio_site_of_the_week_for_oct._4%2C_2008/group Sat, 4 Oct 2008 12:40:07 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/LoadPuller/journal/2008/10/04/27bx4b_sunburn_in_cyprus_-_hidden_radio_site_of_the_week_for_oct._4%2C_2008 Beginning October 04/08

CLICK THE ABOVE IMAGE TO VIEW & STREAM THE ENTIRE HIDDEN RADIO PLAY LIST.

Steve's Weekly HiDDeN RaDiO Myspace Blog Post about Sunburn in Cyprus]]> http://www.last.fm/user/LoadPuller/journal/2008/10/04/27bx4b_sunburn_in_cyprus_-_hidden_radio_site_of_the_week_for_oct._4%2C_2008#comments Videomakers and Musos Group Project http://www.last.fm/user/Pixieguts/journal/2008/09/23/26kjjg_videomakers_and_musos_group_project/group Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:49:12 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/Pixieguts/journal/2008/09/23/26kjjg_videomakers_and_musos_group_project
Call for videomakers and musos to come and get involved in a cyberspace collaboration project with a network of alternative electronic indie artists...



Let's get together and make some audiovisual!

Click on the image to join us and feel free to pass this on...



]]> http://www.last.fm/user/Pixieguts/journal/2008/09/23/26kjjg_videomakers_and_musos_group_project#comments July Chart Toppers: Chez Musinum Artists, Albums, and Tracks http://www.last.fm/user/musinum/journal/2008/09/20/26evsl_july_chart_toppers%3A_chez_musinum_artists%2C_albums%2C_and_tracks/group Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:35:25 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/musinum/journal/2008/09/20/26evsl_july_chart_toppers%3A_chez_musinum_artists%2C_albums%2C_and_tracks
Let's say there is a six-way tie for 13th place one week, at four listeners. Since the next tier would start at 19th place, those 6 artists are the bottom tier and get one point apiece. Those with five listeners would get 2 points, and those with ten listeners would get 7 points. If the bottom tier is at three listeners the following week, that tier would get 1 point and ten listeners would be worth 8 points.

The monthly score is just the sum of the weekly scores. (Note that even though an artist who gets points one week may have one or more listeners in another week, those won't count unless the rank is 15 or higher.)

Two more lists are produced, one for albums and one for tracks, following similar rules, with one difference:

Instead of including the entire last tier when it would extend past 15 items, I omit that tier. In other words, rather than at least 15, I use at most 15. In the example above, with a 6-way tie for 13th place among albums or tracks, I would include only the top 12. The reason for this is that with albums and tracks, the list flattens out very quickly, so you can have something like a thirty-way tie for 11th place... compounding that is the fact that there's not as much consistency from week to week in album and especially track plays, so that each week tends to add a lot of new items. Thus with the rules the same, we end up with perhaps 30 artists, 50 albums, and 100 tracks. This change keeps the lists manageable and meaningful.

Artists

58 points
Pixieguts

37 points
Deepspace

25 points
Northcape

23 points
Felixdroid

22 points
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts

17 points
Phillip Wilkerson

15 points
Corrientes

7 points
Krackatoa, Metricks, M. Persson: Sounds, Remergence, the mighty acts of god, VFSix

6 points
HealeyIsland, Tim Doyle

5 points
Dj Sid-the Apocalypze,Streams of Europe

3 points
ifal, Metricks & GaiaBeat

2 points,
Herrera, Koobakoop, 8m2stereo

1 point
Ambient Anarchist, Ana Gori, Friends of redhalo, inn3rflow, Jazztobakk, Max Waves, Richard Sydney, Serkan Süleymaniye, Solid Electro


Albums

21 points
Pixieguts - Walking on Mercury

13 points
Deepspace - The Barometric Sea;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixiegraf

12 points
Pixieguts - Pixieguts!

7 points
Pixieguts - evolution;
VFSix - vfsecret

6 points
Deepspace - The Barometric Sun

5 points
HealeyIsland - West Of Here Is West Of Here

4 points
Streams of Europe - Meanders

3 points
Felixdroid - Odd Dots and Squiggles;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixiegraf Reworked;
VFSix - VF's World;
ifal - preview tracks

2 points
Deepspace - Subantarctic Sessions (EP);
Phillip Wilkerson - Collection I;
Metricks - Roots 98;
Metricks & GaiaBeat - Illusory Origin

1 point
Northcape - Detach EP;
Jazztobakk - Jazztobakk;
Serkan Süleymaniye - aşk


Tracks

7 points
Pixieguts - Lullaby (with Dj Sid-the Apocalypze)

6 points
VFSix - Tears

5 points
VFSix - Princess Of Nothing

4 points
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Last Time V2, Clearview V2, and Green Red Blue Yellow;
ifal - Uncle Dubious

3 points
Deepspace - The First Glimpse of The...;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixieswim V2;
Dj Sid-the Apocalypze - Liquid Mix;

2 points
Pixieguts - End This Day (w Dj SID-the Apocalypze-Trip Into Funk RMX), Phantom Brain (w Electromagnetic Impulses), nda (with Phase Speed);
Felixdroid - Pulse;
Corrientes - Romantic Dream - Corrientes & Titee;
Koobakoop - Beginnings & Ends

1 point
Pixieguts - Currawong Rise (with Dementio13 - Pickfords Mix), Pacific Highway (with Dementio13), and In The Night (Mix Hieronymus);
Deepspace - The Barometric Sea, Sol, and Euphandemonium;
Northcape - Rainfall;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Clearview, Currawong Rise V2, Pixieswim V2, and Shot At Midnight V2;
Phillip Wilkerson - On the French Riviera;
VFSix - Moscow(Reinvented RMX w DJ Sid-the Apocalypze);
HealeyIsland - Saint Anthony's Dream;
ifal - Something from you;
Solid Electro - Lost in a Star;
C.P. McDill - Spread a Little Happiness "new mix" (Saluki Regicide);
Streams of Europe - From the Top of the Mountain to the Bottom of the Sea;
The Golden Dawn - MOONLIGHT


Congrats everybody! Don't touch that dial!]]> http://www.last.fm/user/musinum/journal/2008/09/20/26evsl_july_chart_toppers%3A_chez_musinum_artists%2C_albums%2C_and_tracks#comments Calmscape Review of Indidginus - "Align" http://www.last.fm/user/MikeIndidginus/journal/2008/09/18/2671hm_calmscape_review_of_indidginus_-_%22align%22/group Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:16:42 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/MikeIndidginus/journal/2008/09/18/2671hm_calmscape_review_of_indidginus_-_%22align%22 Calmscape:

As the name implies, Indidginus is a look into foreign cultures where the sounds are only local to those inhabitants of the region. Michael Martin is Indidginus and he resides in Cape Town where the land of Africa meets the sea on its southern shore. South Africa is a melting pot influenced by many cultures from around the globe. So too is the work of Indidginus. Martin pulls together an expression of the world's music, blending electronic beats amongst the sounds of his personal didgeridoo. Foreign instruments and languages work to transport his modern medium of electronic music. On Align, you will find raw beats that graduate to the school of the old world with sounds and instruments dominated by ceremonial rhythms.

Martin has been creating music for several years now. It began with a love of the didg and a personal trip to Tanzania where the idea burst to incorporate his instrument into danceable music. His journey into electronica transformed into his solo work as Indidginus. Along his musical voyage he collaborates with Matt Hillier of Ishq on a project entitled Open System. Ishq records on the international Interchill Records, a location not unsuitable for Indidginus given the overwhelming influences of organic music. The style of Indidginus and Ishq meld together beautifully and their collaborative work can be heard on several tracks of Align.

On 'Doors to the Deathless' we hear Martin's experimentation of incorporating the didg into electronic music. Initially, this track slowly starts with chants and ambient soundscapes that build to a discernible rhythm. An organ begins and makes it feel like some truly religious experience. The didg is added for complexity in subtle waves.

On 'Machu', Martin collaborates with Josh Hawks and they bring an ethnic beat of maybe some Mayan or South American culture. It is a slow beat raised with an interesting base line and occasional funky, twisted noises. Some rolling synths along with a traditional morphed flute transport this track to a distant, remote village unknown to many outsiders. You can hear the influence of another culture as the electronica carries this historic music to a new age.

Off we go to the Indian continent on 'Chakrasonic'. Not unlike the Hindustani or Qawalli, 'Chakrasonic' drives home the sounds of traditional Indian or Pakistani music as we hear a male vocal wash over the beats. The rhythm is upbeat with distorted sounds that carry a curious connection to some of the more traditional sounds of this regional style of music.

The incorporation of worldly music into electronica is nothing new and in fact, it has been going on for some time. But as time goes on, one occasionally finds an interesting twist where the ethnic sounds are changed and modernized in an entirely new and refreshing way. For Indidginus, Align solidly falls into this category.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/MikeIndidginus/journal/2008/09/18/2671hm_calmscape_review_of_indidginus_-_%22align%22#comments New Pixies Palace Blog http://www.last.fm/user/Pixieguts/journal/2008/09/18/266wsm_new_pixies_palace_blog/group Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:32:08 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/Pixieguts/journal/2008/09/18/266wsm_new_pixies_palace_blog
A shiny new blog site for monthly group bulletins from the independent artists and listeners group Pixies Palace. The first instalment includes featured artists, chart list, collaborative music making opportunities and more. Get to it by clicking the banner...



Featured new artists this month: Voide, DJ Stylin, PredWilM! Project.

Independent group artists prominent in our listening this month: Deepspace, Phillip Wilkerson, VFSix, Titee, Remergence, Solid Electro, Terry Springford, Dementio13, Aleksandr Shubin, Fugdale.

Friendly new season vibez to all!
Pixieguts
]]> http://www.last.fm/user/Pixieguts/journal/2008/09/18/266wsm_new_pixies_palace_blog#comments TWM and Zentropa film http://www.last.fm/user/guthorm/journal/2008/09/11/25rbua_twm_and_zentropa_film/group Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:11:03 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/guthorm/journal/2008/09/11/25rbua_twm_and_zentropa_film ENGLISH: we proudly announce an agreement with Zentropa (that is a branch of Nordisk film, a film production house from Denmark who produced, as Zentropa, also Lars Von Trier's movie such as "Dancer in the Dark" with the great Björk) to officially put the music of The Wimshurst's Machine in a bank for the artists produced by Zentropa and Nordisk film. We hope to soon see some scandinavian movie using this music! Album they selected: Time Traveller, The Alchemist and A traveller who didn't ask for glory these last two in the Remaster version.

ITALIANO: siamo lieti di annunciare la firma di un accordo con Zentropa (branca della Nordisk Film, casa di produzione cinematografica danese che tra gli altri ha prodotto i film di Lars Von Trier come "Dancer in the Dark, con la grandissima Björk) per inserire la musica dei The Wimshurst's Machine tra la musica per colonna sonora da proporre ai propri registi. Speriamo di assistere presto ad un film scandinavo con qualche tema dei TWM! Gli album scelti sono Remaster (che ingloba i primi due album The Alchemist e A traveller who didn't ask for glory) e Time Traveller.

Main influences for the music of The Wimshurst's Machine:
Morcheeba, Depeche Mode,Marillion, The Alan Parsons Project,Jean-Michel Jarre, Pink Floyd, Moby, Clannad, Loreena McKennitt, Mike Oldfield, David Arkenstone.

Some artist who collaborated with TWM:
Corrado Rossi, Sally Cooper, Queenie, Gamma Leonis, Lisa & KMP, Jered McKenna, Trulala and many more.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/guthorm/journal/2008/09/11/25rbua_twm_and_zentropa_film#comments