Uh, damn... THANK YOU jsilas! I woke up to a piece of candy in my email from a stranger that turned out to be a legitimate gift from someone I don't even know... it was a copy of "THƎSƎ HOPƎFUL MACHINƎS" to download from the iTunes Store... for free. WTF!? Both sides are downloading now.

In the letter, it says that it is a gift for me as well as BT. Jsilas goes down somewhere in the Book of Awesome. Seriously. For all y'all who haven't even listened yet, here's the links again.

THƎSƎ HOPƎFUL MACHINƎS
Full-length preview, Side A : Full-length preview, Side B : Amazon : iTunes Store

Downliners Sekt, who were pushing the limits of grime and dubstep before the genres were even named, have declared their return. A 4-track EP is scheduled for release from them this coming March. As usual with D.Sekt, high quality cuts of each song will be available for free download when the EP is released. Keep an eye on their main page:

http://www.downliners-sekt.com/

BT is one of those rare artists who is able to master multiple genres and actually bring them together to create new sounds. He has done this with trance, big beat, ambient, psytrance and IDM. Now, he has brought them together into an opus work titled "These Hopeful Machines". Anyone who is a fan of EVERY album he has created will LOVE this new album. Anyone who HATES even one album he has done, however, should run in fear. It is black in white with this new release from him, and to me it is nothing short of a five-star masterwork from one of electronica's living legends. We've only been able to listen to the album via Last.fm, but both sides can be listened to for free here [Side A] and here [Side B].

If you're going to buy the album via Amazon, use this link. We'd love to have it, also, and your purchase kicks us back credz. If Amazon's not for you, it's also on the iTunes Store here.

The new EP from San Jaya Prime came out this last Saturday, a year from his last EP. It's experimental as all hell and sounds a lot like a video game. Having heard samples from the album he is working on for this summer, it's hard believing this EP is made by the same artist. Listen for yourself:

For fans of Girl Talk, The ADHD Revolution, or both... The Kleptones are right up your graffiti-filled, dark, grimy alley. Their "Up/Down" collection of mashtracks is their best work to-date. I'm partial to the up-side of the album, especially the mash of Prodigy's "VooDoo People" with "Sabotage" de la Beastie Boys. It's available for free download from their main page here:

http://www.kleptones.com/pages/downloads_ud.html

One of the most anticipated collaborations of the year is from The Knife. The first song off the two-part, evolution-based album is called "Colouring of Pigeons" and is available for free download. For fans of Bjork, Dead Can Dance, Wagner, Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Peter Gabriel and/or the Polyphonic Spree. If the remainder of the album is as good as this first song, it may prove to be one of the year's hottest releases. Here's where to drop your email and begin downloading:

http://theknife.net/

For fans of folk, experimental and ambient electronica. Tunng has basically defined the very narrow niche of folktronika for the past few years. Their next album--And Then We Saw Land--is due out in March. It is definitely more Polyphonic-style than previous releases from Tunng, at least the first single is. How will the album compare? Here's the news and where to download the first single for free (email required):

http://www.tunng.co.uk/news.html

Did we already drop the Ugress vs. Ninja 9000 track on y'all? I could check... but I'm not gonna. For fans of chiptune, big beat and frenchy, french, french, frenchie. Ok, so GMM is the overmind mad scientist behind both projects, but he isn't the first artist to form a collaboration between two of his entities. The end result is insanely awesome. I have no idea what it is about, but it's made its way onto two of my major playlists where it's not likely to leave. Here is where to download:

http://www.ugress.com/post.asp?id=1308

...and 2k10's first month is just now coming to a close. I love this year already!

Review: Wax Tailor's debut album, "Tales of the Forgotten Melodies", was my favorite album of '06. It certainly defined entire spans of that year. I remember hearing "Que Sera" playing from someone's laptop at a coffee shop (as I was hitchhiking almost all of 2k6, I practically lived outta coffee shops). Ever since finding out who was behind the music, I've been turning on one person after another to the love of the Tailor. Their follow-up album was a partial let down, if only because of the expectations built up by the first album. However, their '09 release, "In the mood for life", is the best of both albums. The entire album can be listened to on their site here. Their style is part turntablism, part trip-hop, part hip-hop and with heavy splashes of film noir. Building out of this first track is Diplo's remix of "Veni Vidi Vici" by The Black Lips. Diplo's second album moved away from the leftfield sound of the first and more towards big beat, hip-hop and rock. This song makes a good signature for how the rest of the album sounds and leads well into "Autumn Kaskade" by KnowSleep. KnowSleep, the premier artist for the Street Ritual label, was an instant surprise to my playlist. Their debut, self-titled album was originally released with two free songs to "try them out". After hearing "Voice of Dissent", I knew I had to complete the album. Their borderline grime style combines elements of hip-hop and glitch. "What will they do next" is the only question that remains.

Gays and lesbians have been against nearly every movement we've stood up for or political stance we've taken. As far as we're concerned, they're the same polarized thieves, murderers and rapists as the rest of the population... only with a different sexual orientation than the majority. But they are frakking under attack, people, fighting for rights the rest the pop takes for granted... so we frakking hold the line...

Don't matter if you are in the US, or gay, or whatever, it's easy to lend your support. Here's two easy ways to stand up against this sanctioned racism right-da-fuk-now without even leaving your laptop:

* Share the Prop 8 Tracker site's URL with anyone in your email book or on Facebook who you think would take a stand as well, or who's affected by this. Here's the link: http://prop8trialtracker.com/ (/w thx 2 BurnAsOne dot Org for the heads up).

* Follow the CourageCampaign during the trial on Twitter and RT significant tweets that catch your eye. Here's the official page: http://twitter.com/CourageCampaign

Perry vs Schwarzenegger is going into its second week. Don't miss your moment to do something that's actually worth something. Act now!