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Recently added to my music library and now recommended to you: Danger Beach’s EP “Milky Way”, which is available from the label as a free download – a work in which musical and visual aspects go hand in hand.

I have wanted to share this with you for a long time: Richard, owner of the Waaaaaah! label and fanzine from the early 90s, has put all publications online for free download – digitized from the LP, so please do not expect any sound revelations.

Something new for your ears in the form of a sugar-sweet indie pop EP by The Cults.

It is time for a new musical discovery: the cool, free Ghostly Essentials – Rarities One (email address required), a lovingly compiled collection of rare recordings from the Ghostly label catalog.

Vate has released an album worth listening to under Creative Commons, full of chilled electro sounds.

Besides many beautiful individual songs, every now and then a complete album crosses my path as a free download that inspires me so much that I absolutely want to write about it. This has recently happened with the collection of cover versions by Okkervil River, and for quite some time now, the download album Worldwide Renewal has been doing just that. It has fantastic, contemporary hip hop that reminds me of the time when hip hop could still inspire me. And because it is so nice, here is a short review of the individual songs.

When I blogged about the Radiohead-OK X-Tributes a few weeks ago, I became aware of Mobius Band. At the time, I was impressed by their idiosyncratic interpretation of “Subterranean Homesick Alien”: the deeply sad original was transformed into a pounding piece somewhere between drum’n’bass and indie pop, with echo loops and atmospherically swirling sounds.

This year, December 10th, marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the most famous composers of the last century. Olivier Messiaen, born in Avignon, categorically rejected musical terms such as modes and scales and pursued a different concept: he described associations of colors and music, called synaesthesia in the technical jargon. He based his compositions on this assumption.

“OK X” honors the epochal album “OK Computer” by Radiohead ten years after its release.