Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto group, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Me...
https://disquiet.com/2021/12/09/disquiet-junto-project-0519-looking-glass-remix/
Been a while. This is a new entry in the occasional Buddha Machine Variations series. The previous one was about 10 months ago. This was a test run of something I’ve never done before: recordin...
https://disquiet.com/2021/12/06/buddha-machine-variations-no-40-mcp-bmv-vcv/
Just shy of 10 years after I founded Disquiet.com, I did something here I hadn’t done before: rather than write about music and sound someone produced somewhere else, I published music that I m...
Disquiet.com 25th anniversary countdown, day 2 of 13. In 2012, I had the pleasure of engaging eight musicians to explore the sounds of Lisbon, Portugal. These were: Steve Roden, Robin Rimbaud, Pe...
https://disquiet.com/2021/12/02/disquiet-com-25th-anniversary-countdown-2-13-lxrmx/
One of the great internet pleasures is to have your music reworked, all the more so to find that someone has taken one of your guitar loop experiments and expanded it to a nearly 30-minute amalga...
I’m not entirely sure how or when precisely this glitch occurred. It was sometime yesterday shortly after I uploaded a series of camera shots of the dan dan noodles I made for dinner. This resu...
Tapeloop (Kidkanevil Remix) by Hector Plimmer Another great A/B listen, comparing and contrasting an original and its remix. First came “Tapeloop,” a brief, lofi, understated groove from Hect...
https://disquiet.com/2020/12/18/hector-plimmer-kidkanevil-tapeloop/
There’s nothing quite like a remix A/B, one of my favorite forms of listening pleasure: comparing the before and after when one artist reworks another. It’s all the better if the experience o...
https://disquiet.com/2020/10/28/loraine-james-lunch-money-life/
Almost a year after releasing the album Cake on Jupiter, Munich-based synth musician Panic Girl has followed it up with a remix collection. Six of the original album’s eight tracks are reworked...
This is my weekly(ish) answer to the question “What have you been listening to lately?” It’s lightly annotated because I don’t like re-posting material without providing some context. In ...
https://disquiet.com/2020/07/19/current-listens-noctural-tokyo-philly-beats/