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from the incredible Comic Covers database

Very fun and chirpy chip tunes, stompy chaotic pop made with worthless electronic junk. I would recommand the track Efedrin. Cheers.
download, candymind via archive

And from the same candymind label, Hectopascal is also very fine.

Not the first time we write about the very nice chip-music of Binaerpilot. It’s the perfect soundtrack to run around in the street pretending you’re PacMan. Now you can download a whole LP with sleeve art and all from Microhertz. Licensed under Creative Commons.
Microhertz on archive.org

Some months ago, I saw (I think it was in Edge magazine) pictures of people dressed as Pacman and ghosts running around in the street, playing the game (kind of). It looked more like a very funny cosplay than like an experiment in gaming. Now people in Singapore did this, Human Pacman:
“a novel game that mixes elements of physical game play, mobile computing, tangible interaction and multiplayer interaction. The game is based on the original Namco arcade game of Pacman where a small yellow creature moves around a maze eating pellets while avoiding ghosts. In this version of the game players interactively role-play the characters of pacmen and ghosts. Through the use of wearable computers, and wireless networks the players wander around a game area that is defined in virtual and augmented reality. Each player has a helper viewing the events on a laptop to aid in navigation and strategy. Objects are represented in both virtual and reality form to provide novel experiences of seamless transition between different world views.”

their website
another article about the project

Plundermaniac Chenard Walcker recently added this 1994 recording to the archive.org collection, adding an unknown piece in the history of the wild sampling :
“Two American from the east coast found their drummer in the eastern suburb of London after having auditioned 7000 of them. They worked 9 months on of the 3 titles of this ep, which was released in limited edition in 1994.
The result is FABULOUS ! Absolutely !
The band explained in the sleeve why they refused to pay royalties for using samples. They encouraged artists to follow their policy. They had no success, neither with the music nor with the Free Sample movement. Too bad…
So i’ve decided to share the furious grooves of this EP. I own the number 0286. Those who have other numbers please let a message. Yeah ! Peace.
-Chenard Walcker-”
UPDATE : archive decided to take it down as the copyright status of it wasn’t so clear and Chenard couldn’r reach the musicians. So now it’s there.

“Lesbian couples raise well-adjusted teenagers ” says a new study. Not that we had any doubt about it.
New Scientist article

In the other positive writings of the day, nice interview with Wilco on Wired news about why music is not a pair of shoes. In other words, downloading is good, watermarking is not. Is there a relation between quality of music and position about the download question? (remember Metallica vs their fans…)
wired interview

What to do with old tape recorders : the proposition here is to transform it into a fast racer, win the race and enjoy the glory.
I should maybe try something like that with that enormous Studer reel-to-reel that has been sitting in my living room for years. I think it’s big and powerful enough to use as a mean of transportation for cats or medium sized dogs, if we can solve the power supply problem.
recorder race website

For the radioswap.net project, I did a little page listing things like netlabels to help people in non-commercial radio stations. Its aim is to provide them with a starting point in a potentially neverending quest for good music under alternative licenses.

Outside those radio stations, other people may find something useful in it so there is the page. Should be updated once in a while.

Among the creative commons licensed tracks that i have been downloading for weeks now, those are really my favourites. Her Highness is filed under grrrl, and cut and paste, and experimental pop and children’s music, and some other categories (we could add zottigheid, and bricolage), and she ranks really high with the album “Broken Music Box”.
All of the above categorizing is true, even the pop aspect of the music, as you find yourself humming and tapping you feet. Blimey, those experimental recordings are really catchy!
It is released by Bird Song, an israeli based netlabel specializing “in creative home recordings”
Download her highness

compilation mix with an impossible to resist description :
“Getting older is something strange, one gets more and more obsessed with jazz and chocolate. So this is a trip betwenn electronic free jazz – with some tracks on autoplate, embryo, hazard recordings and comfort stand – and idm.
The whole thing was first broadcasted on RBS in Strasbourg.”
Harrisson lived in Strasbourg and confirms RBS (Radio Bienvenue Strasbourg) is a very good radio (I can’t find their website though).
downloadable from netlabels page of archive.org