Creatively Uncommon: Volume 2

We here at Vocoid haven't put up any new material for a while so I thought I'd put together another compilation of fantastic free music that other artists are making. When we were working on the original Creatively Uncommon compilation the scene was much different. I ended up tracking down artists on myspace and asking them to if they'd be willing to put one or more of their tracks under a creative commons license so I could use it for the project. Now there are many new sources for material put out under a user friendly license which makes this kind of thing much easier. I'd like to thank the folks at freemusicarchive.org, which is the exclusive source for the following tracks. I hope you all enjoy this mix!

Media returns!

We're happy to say that our media files have been moved to new servers and all the music links on the site should now be working! If you run across any dead links, be sure to let us know.

Vocoid media temporarily unavailable

The web ISP that's serving the majority of vocoid.com's media just posted this on their status page:

Outage Information
On Saturday, February 20 2010, at approximately 2:20 p.m. MST during an annual fire system inspection of our data center the fire suppression system was inadvertently triggered and discharged into the data center environment. The discharge of the fire system has affected the hardware and operations of our servers. Not all servers have been affected by the discharge. We are working to restore servers and services as quickly as possible. Due to the nature of this interruption we will be experiencing extended outages.

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I'm working to upload the media to another system, so if you happen to be trying to download something and you're getting an error, hang tight and try back soon. I'll have stuff up as fast as I can!

Welcome to vocoid 2.0

The active parties contributing to vocoid.com have decided to do some restructuring. We've decided to turn the site into more of a straight up music blog for the people that use it regularly, and with that decision we've migrated to blogger. Hopefully with change we'll be a little more active.

-The Management ;)

Squelchy remixes Cubik & Origami

Originally known for the slow-burning downtempo funk of their eponymous debut on Wide Hive Records, San Francisco duo Cubik & Origami are back with a new, truly stunning long-player titled "Slept in on Doomsday" which has just been released on Dinner Party Records. I'm pleased to have contributed a remix of the title track which is available for free download at the Cubik and Origami website.

Check it out the remixes here:
http://www.cubikandorigami.com/remix/

And get the full album here:
http://dinnerpartyrecords.bigcartel.com/

Medling Again is finally here

I know I promised this a LONG time ago (seriously, about 9 mos.) and then completely dropped the ball on it, but at long last, I've posted a "Release" for Medling Again. Basically, I added meta-data. That's right, it took me 9 mos. to add m3u tags! Actually, there were extenuating circumstances regarding the late release, but that's neither here nor there, and I want to heartily apologize the the contributors for not getting this out sooner. Thanks to everyone who took the time to participate in this remix. Look at it this way.. it's almost like a double promotion at this point. Anyway, check it out if you haven't already:


Medling Again - Medly Remixes

New Release: Sometime is Now

With DSL's prodding, and a healthy amount of free time on my hands, I entered the RPM Challenge as well. Sometime is Now is the result.

The album is part goth disco, part glam rock, part emo-tronica and all personal.

New Release: Challenged

I just posted my submission for "The RPM Challenge". That's right, a whole album, 10 songs, in one month. Something I haven't managed to do in over a decade, so I guess it's about time. Check out what a highly motivated and stressed someone can come up with when put in a pressure cooker:


Challenged

LNA: new track

my first recorded track with my new sonic choppy toy. 4 instances of a little sample-based instrument i made in pd, based losely on the dr.rex from reason and heavily on the work of miller pucket (the core of the phase-locked vocoder pd example is what i abstracted and used as the sample playback engine)

all sequencing is the result of random-seed computations with a little guidance from yous truly. enjoy!

Bloerp

My new release: Triad

This is my new (and first ever) full release. I hope you all enjoy it:
Triad

Vocoid Artists (members) channel on YouTube

To accompany the vocoid peeps channel, I just created a channel for vocoid members artists. You should see a link in the Releases section (to the right) or you can check it out here.

I've posted some of my old material, as well as some footage of a live EOI set from 2002.

The Medly Remix Contest is over

I'll be posting the full thing shortly. There will be a total of 6 tracks, four of which are available below (minus mix-down and proper tags), and two are missing from a couple of medling kids. Thanks again so much to everyone who submitted for the great release!

Remixes:
So many stars (Muchas Estrellas Remix) - Luke Tripp
Back Stuff Goes (Stuff Goes Back Remix) - grok243_
Summer Never Came Mix (Summer Came Late Remix) - cubikbeats
Summer Will Never Come Again (Summer Came Late Remix) - Blue Vitriol

Video killed the mp3 star

I just started putting together a channel on youtube of vocoid peeps and members' videos. Check it out here.

Medly Remix Contest

Medl is giving you a chance to make a new melody with medly. Using the great Creative Commons tools at ccMixter, we're releasing the parts from all the tracks on our album, Medly, for your mixing and mashing pleasure. Use the raw audio to come up with a new take on our track, and if we like it, we'll include it in a remix compilation.

Contest Rules:
All tracks must be submitted by June 1st through ccMixter.
Feel free to add your own stuff, but remixes should be comprised of at least 50% content from our samples.
Absolutely no samples from copyrighted material allowed in the remixes!


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Creatively Uncommon 2006 now available for download

I'm happy to announce the compilation Vocoid put together for the Creative Commons 4th anniversary party is now available for download here. Most of the tracks were available via the artist's sites, but now you can get the all together here individually or in one zip file. Enjoy!

Vocoid @ Creative Commons last weekend

Creative Commons celebrated four years of working to promote and enable a participatory culture last Friday night, and Vocoid was there. We put together a compilation CD made up of Vocoiders for the event, using tracks under CC Licenses.

The line-up:

01 Organ Music - Al Hotchkiss
License: v2.5 Attribution-ShareAlike
Location: US

02 Every Good Boy Deserves Favor - Jacob Z.
License: v2.5 Attribution-NonCommercial
Location: US

03 plusvolume - Reverend Micah
License: v2.5 Attribution-NoDerivs
Location: US
Special Thanks to Girlfight Recordings for contributing this Pre-Release from the full album coming next fall

04 Muchas Estrellas - Medl
License: v2.5 Attribution-NonCommercial
Location: US

05 Talk S#!+ - Squelchy with Low Noise Amplifire
License: v2.5 Attribution-NonCommercial
Location: US

06 Switch - Adhesive
License: Spain v2.5 Attribution
Location: Spain

07 Untitled - Dsl
License: v2.5 Attribution-NonCommercial
Location: US

08 Ofelia - Rominger
License: Spain v2.5 Attribution
Location: Spain

09 FLA-MIX - Antuan Graftio
License: v2.5 Attribution-NonCommercial
Location: Russia

10 future bird conference - Low Noise Amplifire
License: v2.5 Attribution-NonCommercial
Location: US

11 Frutta - Lebenswelt & ONQ
License: v2.5 Attribution-NonCommercial
Location: Italy

Download the complete compilation in one zip file

We distributed 80 copies at the party, and introduced people to some good music in the process. Many thanks to the artists that contributed.

lna tracks are back

lna tracks, plus 1 *new* eoi mix, are back on the low noise amplifier "releases" section.

revel in the horror! listen to the robots squeek!

Videohead: News

Videohead is currently working on a live set using a number of hardware synths, samplers and groovebox's hopefully will be ready by the end of november early january. Minimal stuff filthy beats.

Lebenswelt: News

Latest DIY release by Lebenswelt. This brand new record’s called “corners of a drowning faith

Al Hotchkiss: News

Download outtakes and live tracks from my forthcoming record 'Jazz-Pill-Flight-Manual Cafe' by following thisy here link:

http://www.archive.org/download/JazzPillFlightManual/JazzPillFlightManual_vbr_mp3.zip

Or just put it in your earhole here:

http://www.archive.org/details/JazzPillFlightManual

Douse the Edisons, lay back and dream with a jazz-pill.