From New Scientist, 28 November 2009:

THE tunes may be a little avant-garde for most tastes, but they’re impressive achievements all the same. Musical twitterers have found a way to condense entire compositions into single, 140-character tweets. Earlier this year Dan Stowell, a computer scientist at Queen Mary, University of London, encoded the sound of waves crashing on the shore in the programming language SuperCollider. He tweeted the code and soon others responded with their own compositions.
Now a free-to-download album of 22 original compositions for Twitter by 14 programmers has been released, entitled sc140. “My granny might raise her eyebrows if I gave her sc140 for Christmas, but if yours is the Aphex Twin type, she’ll definitely love it,” says Stowell.

Sample tracks here

Hummus rules (Belly Hop, various types of dub, qawwali, digi, balkan, ’step etc) ….is the name of this interesting mix on the SoundCloud website, put together by a gentleman named Ghandi. Features a few of my favourite artists…have a listen.

TRACKS

Flying Lotus ‘GNGBNG’

Bassnectar & Kraddy ‘Snakecharmer’ (instr.) 2.22

BJ Nevenko ‘Infusion Du Ment’ 5.48

Gypsy Caravan ‘Sputnik’ 8.32

Knossos ‘Tarak’ 10.57

Orient Expressions ‘Ehmendo’ (Pressure Drop rmx) 15.00

Nusrat Fatih Ali Khan / Gaudi ‘Dil Da Rog Muka Ja Mahi’ (Pinch 4/4 rmx) 20.28

Cesaria Evora ‘Angola’ (Carl Craig rmx) 25.04

Praful ‘Says Kabir’ (Kareem Raihani Broken Beat rmx) 32.36

Pole ‘Winkelstreben’ (Ghislain Poirier rmx) 37.10

Vieux Farka Toure ‘Ana’ (Captain Planet rmx) 41.04

Disrupt ‘Riddim Grid’ 45.21

Radiq ‘The Grass Roots’ (Radiq’s Babylon dub rmx) 48.50

Disrupt ‘Selassie I Continually’ 53.53

Gnawa Njoum Experience ‘Sourie’ 58.39

Bigga Bush vs Kocani Orkestra ‘L’Orient est Roots’ 63.00

SubSwara ‘Backwater Dub’ 65.42

Grim Feast ‘Beast VIP’ 68.23

Fundamental ‘The Last Gospel’ 72.04

Our friends over at Generation Bass drew our attention to this one….this is hiphop the way it should be. Listen out for the drop 2′:27″ in…….amazing!

How the East Was Won: Episode 15 of the Secret Archives of the Vatican Podcast

Tracks

Falludjah Car
Kasbah Rockers with Bill Laswell
Release Kasbah Rockers
http://www.myspace.com/kasbahrockers

Ten Iraq Commandments
The Narcicyst
Release Stuck Between Iraq and a Hard Place Vol 1
http://iraqisthebomb.com/

Bring Some Crevettes
Sushidread
http://www.dogmazic.net/sushidread

Dark Night of the Soul (Jean Delacroix Remix)
Secret Archives of the Vatican
http://www.brokendrumrecords.com

Khanjar Battle Steps
The Narcicyst
Release Stuck Between Iraq and a Hard Place Vol 1
http://iraqisthebomb.com/

Khyber Road Dub
Sushidread
http://www.dogmazic.net/sushidread

Hamdulillah City of Life remix featuring Stefan Christoff and Shadia Mansour
The Narcicyst
Release Stuck Between Iraq and a Hard Place Vol 3
http://iraqisthebomb.com/

Also includes some interviews with music podcasters at the annual Podcrawl in London

I received this message on MySpace today from Norient. Sounds very interesting!

SEARCHING TRACK FOR CD COMPILATION ON EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FROM THE ARAB WORLD

Please spread this announcement!

Norient (www.norient.com) and the Belgium Label Sub Rosa (www.subrosa.net) are working on an 4CD Anthology of Experimental and Avantgarde Music from the Arab World. The CD is similar to their Anthology of Experimental Music in China.

Do you have ideas, suggestions and contacts of musicians/artists that should be included in this project? And do you have new tracks? If so, please send us your latest CDs/Tracks (if possible with some information) to the following mail address:

Norient – Network for Local and Global Soundscapes
co. Thomas Burkhalter
Lorrainestrasse 19
3013 Bern
Switzerland

We would like to make a great selection of tracks early next year. We will decide and send you contracts for licensing in spring 2010. It would be great to hearing from you.

Kindest Regards
Thomas Burkhalter
(norient.com)

Here’s a new remix of an old tune. This tune, Dark Night of the Soul, was on our 1998 album, Reformation. The original tune was our attempt at drum and bass, before we really knew anything about drum and bass.

Dark Night of the Soul (Jean Delacroix Remix)

Turn your jeans into a drum kit…..this blog tells you how: http://mtifall09.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/ubiquitous-drums/

…and here’s the video:

Check out this awesome mix by DJ UMB of Generation Bass:

Unreleased music by Celt Islam & featuring a worldwide exclusive stream of a track by the SUFI DUBSTARS (Celt Islam & DJ UMB)….perhaps, the first ever QAWWALI DUBSTEP track!

Recorded Live on Pioneer CDJ 1000MKII & DJM600! One cut/first take-un-mastered!

1. Raqs Al Maghreb (UMB live sample drop version) – Celt Islam feat. Dawoud Kringle
2.Mureed – Celt Islam
3. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde – Celt Islam
4. For who Jah bless – Celt Islam
5. Wahddaat Ul Wajood –Celt Islam
6. Al Jihad – Celt Islam feat. Dawoud Kringle
7. Sufi Dub – Celt Islam
8. Pressure – Celt Islam
9. Presence – Celt Islam
10.Time is coming – Celt Islam feat. DanMan
11.Ya Allah – (Sufi Dubstars feat. Dawoud Kringle RmX) – Layah Project (SUFI DUBSTARS are Celt Islam & DJ UMB)

There is so much good music out there at the moment! We’ve just discovered Persian Mynx who has a new release just out called Dirty Skank Dubs. Persian Mynx’s music is a kind of clash of dubstep, IDM, breakcore and electronica…we like it a lot!

Check out some tunes here:

http://www.myspace.com/persianmynx

The Persian Mynx website is here, although it’s a little minimalist:

http://persianmynx.com/

We’ve just discovered the music of illumined phonetiks and we like it! It encompasses dubstep and glitch hop and more. Codi Kodama, who is illumined phonetiks is based in Portland, Oregon, USA and you can find out more and hear some tunes here:

http://dubstepxclusive.ning.com/profile/illuminedphonetiks

and here:

http://www.myspace.com/illuminedphonetiks

or follow him on Twitter here: twitter.com/Illuminphonetik