GIMME TINNITUS

Big Spider’s Back is the electronic music project of Seattle musician Yair Rubinstein. He uses synthesizers and field recordings to create a wonderful “blissed out cacophony”. Here is a track from his recent free remix EP called Turns which was made available by Circle Into Square. Listen.

Downloadable: Turns (mp3)

You can get the rest of the EP by forking over an email address over to Circle Into Square. Use the widget or follow the link below.

Free Album: Turns EP (cicrle into square)

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BONUS: Perfect Machine (USF RMX) (mp3)

Did you know that Brian Miller of Foot Village has a side project. It is called Back To The Future The Ride, and consists of “super mellow drone music inspired by the cold tech-capitalist 80s.”

This here video was created by Angie Meng, along with Miller and Margot Padilla. The tagline for the video is: Shot on a distant, oceanic planet. Returned to earth via a wormhole in my cat’s eye. Watch it.

Streamable: Black Bones Inside the Sun Pink Bones Encircling the Sun (vimeo)

The song will be available on cassette from Accidie Records in the near future. Furthermore, in a move that may be described as “too perfect”, BTTFTR is reportedly planning a tour with none other than Universal Studios Florida (the band, not the theme park).

You can download BTTFTR‘s free back to back to the future the ride EP over at Deathbomb Arc.

Listen: Sitting Under The Pyramid of Silence (mp3)

BTTFTR was also on the recent Summer Compilation 2010: An Empire of Fun brought to you by the good folks over at SOLID MELTS. Download it for free… here.

Back To The Future The Ride is on Tumblr
Back To The Future The Ride is on elbo.ws
Back To The Future The Ride is on Hype Machine
Back To The Future The Ride is on Deathbomb Arc
Back To The Future The Ride is on Deathbomb Arc’s Big Cartel Store
Back To The Future The Ride is on Deathbomb Arc’s Bandcamp
Back To The Future The Ride is on Accidie Records

BONUS: Father Figure (Chopped And Skrewed BTTFTR Remix) (mp3) (source: BTTFTR Tumblr)

Is it time to start listing the best tracks of year already? Why yes, yes it is. Now, a lot of these tracks have been available for a while (e.g. last year or in the GT 2010 preview), but they either had their official release this year or I just thought they should be on this list for some other reason or another. Without further ado, I give you the first volume of the Best Downloadables of 2010.

Downloadables:

Spector (mp3) by Signals

BEAD (mp3) by Dinowalrus

Swim (To Reach The End) (mp3) by Surfer Blood

M.B.T. (mp3) by Susu

C’mon (mp3) by The Soft Pack

Written In Reverse (mp3) by Spoon

Ambling Alp (mp3) by Yeasayer

I Do (mp3) by Screaming Females

Self Awakening (mp3) by Ernest Gonzales

Blessa (mp3) by Toro y Moi

Friendly Ghost (mp3) by Harlem

See Waves (mp3) by Nice Nice

some lonesome street corner (USF remix) (mp3) by cars & trains

Excuse Me (Memory Tapes Remix) (mp3) by Gucci Mane

Jail La La (mp3) by Dum Dum Girls

Me Thing Drawing Me (mp3) by Javelin

Everything Will Be Alright (mp3) by Golden Ages

Hold (mp3) by Hands

Years (Five – Eight) (mp3) by Starscream

Teenage Whore (mp3) by Dinosaur Feathers

Can’t Stay Awake (mp3) by Cloud Nothings

Be sure to check out the rest of the year’s Best Downloadables:

Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4 | Vol. 5

Additionally, if you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers:

Insound | Amazon MP3 | eMusic | Other Music

Also, If you want to download all (or most of) the tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions.

Editor of Circle Into Square and PDX multi-instrumentalist, Tom Filepp is cars & trains. He has a new album entitled The Roots, The Leaves coming out on Fake Four on Jan 26.

Filepp fuses experimental folk and electronic sounds using a large pallet of sounds, including:

layers of decaying feedback
out-of-the-box electronics
woodwinds
glockenspiel
tape samples
vocals
trumpets
malfunctioning toys
electronic stutters
organic drumming
banjo
acoustic guitar
sampled americana

Here is a snapshot of some of his gear:

On the day of the release, cars & trains will be giving away a remix album The Roots, The Remix on http://www.carsandtrains.net/. I am particular looking forward to hearing the Ernest Gonzales remix. What I have for your downloading pleasure right now is a remix by Seattle-based knob tweakers USF a/k/a Universal Studios Florida .

Downloadable: Some Lonesome Street Corner (Universal Studios Florida Remix) (mp3)

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eMusic page is here.