New Musical Order

Less music, more information today on RadioWednesday.

Podcasts for Educators is a free resource from ReCap, providing links to over 5000 podcasts, showing the power of “educational podcasting”. In their words…

This is the first and best UK directory to locate quality podcasts from over 300 carefully selected podcast channels for educational use - ideal for teaching and learning activities with children, young people and educational professionals.

If you’re interested, head over to the podcasting page on ReCap.co.uk.

 

Always working to bring a variety of sounds to the tables, Atma and Rhythmicon present a free two track selection that showcases the flavour that can be found in “dubstep”.

Mondo Dub is pure jazz action with strings, pianos, sax, and huge sub bass. Skanksters Paradise brings the dubby vibes, combining floating synths, horns and rolling drums (as heard on Rhythmicon’s recent CD “Tonight).

Download NOW

 

You may have heard of Alex. He’s been featured on BBC 6music’s “Introducing…” slot, and has been given a boost by the Twitter antics of one Ashton Kutcher.

If you love Bert Jansch, Pentangle or Hotel Brown, you’ll love the 3 tracks Alex is giving away on his MySpace page in exchange for an email address. Like most of Alex’s material, they are melodramatic and folky in nature, his voiced laced with reverb.

Alex is also trying to raise money for his first album via Sellaband, so if you like them, why not help him along?

Find out more and download here.

 

Here’s an interesting promotional idea for all you musicians and labels out there.

Astronomy Records are giving away FREE MP3s in a number of promotions. Firstly, you can sign up to their mailing list on the website to be “gifted” a track from each of their albums.

Secondly, and perhaps more interestingly, reply or comment on something they’ve said on Twitter and you will be send a link to download 4 cool tracks from their catalague. That’s right, all you have to do is retweet or mention them.

To do that of course, you need to follow them on Twitter. After that, it’s easy!

Great stuff guys.

 

Purple Magpie is an album that was lost and found, and finally shared. The songs were finished within a space of a few months in 2007, when Vincent was meant to be studying for his last year exams in school. Although he admits that last year was spent “mainly in a drugged haze, reading Victorian poetry and falling down ditches”.

The music has a definite touch of the industrial, a smattering of punk, a sprinkling of 90s techno, and an off-kilter nod to the past. If you can imagine The Fall, The Shamen and The Shadow Ring meeting in a disused factory for a late night drug fueled jam session, then this is Vincent Lillis’ interpretation of how that might have gone.

Download it NOW.

 

Cock Rock Disco is a record label set up by DJ, electronic musician and serial band member Jason Forrest way back in 2001, and it’s been going strong ever since.

This 2006 compilation features 15 of the labels best tracks and runs to a whopping 57mins! It comes bunded with 2 different cover art images for you to print off if you decide to burn the album to CD.

Download it now from Cock Rock Disco.

 

Today we see the latest release from Minimal System, the No. 1 netlabel for minimal techno.

‘Fukkitol’ is a very clever album combining IDM, Techno, and Breaks whilst being very experimental. Fans of Aphex Twin and Autechre will love it, as will anyone with a penchant for the labels trademark minimalist sound.

Check it out over at Minimal System.

 

Described as “a radio station for the community, by the community”, ALL FM is a community radio station broadcasting to south, east and central Manchester.  A voluntary, not for profit social enterprise, they have over 170 volunteer presenters, producers, journalists, musicians, singer songwriters and advert makers.

Whether you are older, younger, into pop or hip hop ALL FM has something for you. It’s all available on the web for FREE via their Listen Again service, which you can find here.

Alternatively, find out more about how you can get involved with ALL FM here.

 

Building on their previous releases, Messy aimed to capture their team dynamic in the studio. The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered in one week, and all tracks were done live with no overdubs or punch ins.

Utilizing a basement studio and a barrage of vintage gear, Messy Jiverson takes you on a musical journey steeped in tradition yet filtered through a 21st century perspective.

Download it free here.

 

Unplugged is a brand new acoustic recording from Worship Central featuring Tim Hughes, Al Gordon, Ben Cantelon and Nikki Fletcher, available today to download for free. Songs include ‘God of All’, ‘Glory in the Highest’ and ‘Remember’ as well as a new arrangement of a classic hymn, ‘On Christ The Solid Rock’.

The album was recorded in an amazing old church called St Peter’s in the centre of Brighton, off the back of the 2009 UK tour, which saw over 8,000 worshippers gather across the UK. The Worship Central band for the recording included percussionists Ben Bryant (Worship Central) and Jez Wiles (Imogen Heap), cellist Squiff Wordsworth (We Play Parties), and Ben Cantelon (used to be in a boy band) switching between keys and worship leading, alongside Tim Hughes, Al Gordon and Nikki Fletcher.

Download it for free from WorshipCentral.org.