The Atomic Archive includes free mp3 downloads in a variety of electronica styles... breakbeat, ambient, trip hop, downtempo, chill out... you name it, Atomic's done it. You can download individual songs or entire albums. (Some are set up as "pay what you want" but $0 is an option.)
There are also quite a few house and breakbeat DJ mixes available for free download.
In conformance with the estate of Dr Atomic, we are hereby required to post announcement of the death of said artist. Inquiries regarding the estate may be directed to estate at dratomic.net.
At long last, the new (non)concept album Syzygy has been released on an unsuspecting world. For contained within is not the secret to life, the universe and everything. Also not to be found (hardly, anyway) are grand theories of the collapse of civilization or other similar themes from years past. But rather, a lot of fun and funky tracks that make up the conjunction of opposites (light and dark, happy and sad) that is the Mind of Atomic.
Get it before the world ends. Oh crap, there I go again...
NEW!Dian TiaoWu tracks released Sept 1, 2010.
10 remastered tracks and 2 new ones (David Bowie Mothership and Toybox Rebellion) from the forthcoming album Syzygy.
Started working on this month's ago and got distracted by too many other things. Recently shot some missing footage in Beijing's 798 art district with my pal Ruozheng which gave me the missing bits to finish it off. Enjoy! It's a silly one!
There's been so many great articles of late, poking a stick into the still-warm corpse of Amerikan Demokracy and how the money machine keeps faking its heart beat, distracting us from realizing that something smells funny in here. Too many articles, too little time, but I just HAD to save a few of these for posterity:
Here's my take on it... Wall Street is Dr Frankenstein and Washington is its Monster. The metaphor brings up inevitable images about angry villagers and torches, but personally I think that approach is a waste of time as it will likely result in a lot of unnecessary ideological clashes of the blue/red kind (which is all just an argument about what kind of daddy you want).
So what's to be done? Go local. Like REALLY LOCAL. Start with blocks, then neighborhoods. Because when the beast falls and the dust settles, its you and your neighbors that will be out cleaning up the mess.
For a few weeks now I've been working on an essay about the military industrial complex and about how it utterly transformed American society after WW2. Its a tough nut to crack, because one wants to provide comprehensive depth, which is often beyond anyone's scope, given the level of atrocity and insanity that exists in the world's largest war machine:
This is a mini-documentary I produced about climate change. I've been blogging about our hot globe for six years now and one recent, profound conclusion I've come to is that we need to talk about this issue using powerful, passionate, INSPIRING words. Those lead to action. I hope this does to:
Just learned today that MySpace bought out iLike which was a music sharing service that I, er, used to like.
But since Rupert Murdoch is the anti-christ (he owns MySpace along with Fox "News") I'm sure that I'd lose sleep (or my lunch) knowing that his slimy little gollum fingers were all over my music.
So sayonara iLike. So sorry you had to sell out and make yourself all icky.
