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DMP is happy to announce that Project Tritium Live at the dotmatrix project is now available at Amie Street… for FREE. Get in quick, because the price will be rising soon.
For those of you without Amie Street accounts, here’s a way to get free money in your new account, which supports the artists directly.
The album is also available on Last.fm.
Enjoy!
Not quite the rotation you imagined, I’m sure, but we’re getting some rotating spotlight love over at Amie Street these days. Big ups to Julian over there for the sweet post and placement in their header.
And remember, you can join Amie Street here to get free music. (I recommend the DMP tracks… just in case you were wondering)
cover photo by Michael Dunn
Here’s the song from Molly’s upcoming EP that was supposed to have been released (for download) in the GoTriad article:
Butterflies And Whiskey
Download the .mp3
Molly’s debut album is available at AmieStreet (free money promo code for new users) and iTunes.
We at DMP are happy to announce that Tom Beardslee Live at the dotmatrix project is now available at Amie Street… for FREE. Get in quick, because the price will be rising soon.
For those of you without Amie Street accounts, here’s a way to get free money in your new account.
Enjoy!
original photo by macaddict (mashed up w/ permission)
Amie Street has been a big supporter of our efforts out here to document live performances by local artists. They’ve already included one of our music videos in their Amie Street TV feature and are planning on writing have written a spotlight post about what we’re doing down here.
Now they’ve upped the ante by giving away FREE MUSIC.
If you don’t already have an Amie Street account, but would like to try out our local artist’s music, the staff at AS has made it ridiculously easy to do so.
Here’s what you do:
Once you finish those three simple steps, your account will have $5 worth of credit and 3 Recs to its name.
Some context about Amie Street’s pricing model: As of this very moment, you could purchase & download three DMP albums for less than $5.
So what do you have to lose?
If you’re a fan of Southern Rock, you’re going to love Possum Jenkins.
The live album, free download, is now up on Last.fm. And if you’d like to directly support the band once you try out their sound — my favorite tunes are Carrborro Nights and Someday — head on over to Amie Street and buy the album for a lot less than you might expect.
We just announced the album release over at our DMP Google Group (feel free to join), so download it while it’s still inexpensive over at Amie Street.
As always, we’ll release the full album, with free downloads, to Last.fm in the near future.
If you’d like to support the band, you can download the album at Amie Street for $1.43 (that price is moving up) or download the album for free from Last.fm.
I’m digging this all-electronica album, big time.
Bart Trotman is the guy behind Workday/Schoolnight, as well as the beats guys for the Greensboro-based band, Invisible. He dropped this compilation of primarily electronic and vocal samples the other day. Check out one of my favorite tracks so far:
The Children
Pay no attention, to the children
the world they live in, is unreal til
we shake them of it, or they become us
hold this off til the very last minute
cynical and pessimistic
the children of tomorrow don’t stand a chance in it
cause the people in power are powerless to the system
cause the system runs itself now, and we’re the victims
you can’t plan for the future
if they didn’t in the past
the way we’ve lived our lives was not designed to last
everything’s corrupted
everything’s a mess
it’s hard to change the world when you’re living oppressed
so keep
working and dreaming
working and dreaming
working and dreaming
[...]
The Jimmy Carter sample at the end (from ‘79, not ‘81, but I dig the intro sample) grounds this layered synth track squarely within the zeitgeist of the early 80’s — a period steeped in shaky times and experimental music, which was exposed to suburban kids like myself through the crossover mainstreaming of experimental music videos on MTV (think Devo, Talking Heads, Herbie Hancock)
The textured samples, lyrics and quotes throughout the entire track brought me back to a time when me and my classmates were lectured on a seemingly daily basis about the realities of a potential nuclear war with the USSR. We’d gather around and listen to our Social Studies teacher profess about the dangerous times we lived in, as if he were the authority returning from the front lines of a Cold War that had no front lines.
I actually remember having a half-day class meeting prior to and following the airing of the made for TV movie, The Day After. Remember, cable was just barely in it’s infant stages at that point with no internet. A made for TV movie on one of the big 3 networks caught everyone’s attention.
Here’s a clip:
After watching that bit of propaganda and having “lessons learned” drilled into my skull at school, I’d race home to catch this:
I guess that was the brilliance of the early 80’s — we lived in this culture of fear, while at the same time innovation, repression, exploitation and American Pie co-existed harmoniously.
The timeliness of this music by Trotman is spot on — not much is different in our society, just a new enemy to curse and blame.
A few other 80’s references come to mind while listening to the track — everything from the content of Pink Floyd to the changes/voice overs of The Beastie Boys.
Electronic Trash is anything but trash.
If you’re a fan of the blues, live jam sessions and heavy guitar licks, do we have the band for you. As always, the DMP album is initially free on Amie Street, so hurry up and “buy” it before the price starts to move.
Also, if you’re a Last.fm head, you can listen to the entire album there for free.
Enjoy!
