K.M.Krebs \ 833-45

electronic, ambient & electro-acoustic music.

Month: September, 2008

Mixing music with 8tracks

8tracks.com has been gain­ing a lot of momen­tum dur­ing the last few months.  It offers an alter­na­tive to the now defunct Muxtape.com.  Unlike Mux­tape, which encoun­tered prob­lems with both host­ing costs and legal issues, 8tracks appears to have a solid plan and is not in dan­ger of van­ish­ing like its cousin. I’ve put my first […]

Recommened music podcasts

Pod­casts fill a vital need in my life, allow­ing me to acci­den­tally encounter music I’d prob­a­bly never hear oth­er­wise.  There’s a num­ber of musi­cal pod­casts that I always like to see on my down­load list in Juice. Here’s a list of highly rec­om­mended musi­cal pod­casts: Subnav.com  —  An inspir­ing source of wide-ranging, eclec­tic mixes with a good […]

Max Richter — “Song”

This video was embed­ded using the YouTu­ber plu­gin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video. ‘Song’ by Max Richter, a con­tem­po­rary Ger­man com­poser.  His com­po­si­tions and videos have a haunt­ing ephemeral qual­ity.  Their sparse­ness and emo­tive power remind me of Arvo Pärt’s instrumental works.

Tunguska update

Musica Excen­trica has had a redesign and restruc­tur­ing and now includes an infor­ma­tive and acces­si­ble page ded­i­cated to my full length (and free) Tun­guska album. I encour­age those of you who haven’t heard it yet to visit the page and pre­view it online. 833  –  45  —  Tunguska