One of the original ccMixter musicians Sharp is starting a phone sample project: call in, leave a message, noise or music and he’ll publish everything in public domain and use the cool ones for his next album.

You can trust Sharp, he got game.

Brad has uploaded the “last” of his a cappellas to ccMixter. Actually, this just completes the solo tracks to his “I Don’t Know What I’m Doing” album.

I haven’t done a count recently but at one time he was the most (non-contest-related) remixed artist on the site. Since then we’ve had some phenomenal rap pells by Ms. Vybe (kendra) as well as great rap and R&B stand-bys uploaded by J. Lang and killer spoken word by our resident beat poet eight prime.

Either way, this latest upload (reverse dump?) will no doubt put Brad back in front.

here scroll down, click on ’start search’ . These are supposed to be Bonham out-takes from 1978. I’m not 100% convinced but it makes a great story, if somewhat echo-y loops.

Someone named Vitaly Zolotarev uploaded several decent to great percussion loops to the archive a while back under NonCommerical-Sampling+ CC License — I definitely have a favorite.

Slowly but surely modern musicians are starting to leverage technology and community. NIN’s Reznor has released a 70MB sit file for a Garageband project for anybody to remix and contribute to. more info at MacWorld.

This was too weird not to mention. An album called the “The CONET Project” at the archive.org that is, well, numbers being read over shortwave radio. The imagination (with, you know, good chemical additives) goes wild with speculation.

I could not resist listening to the Hungarian one (I happen to know the language a bit) and two things are obvious: it’s a kid reciting the numbers and it’s obviously been sliced together. Just plain creepy.

In a bit of linky-exchange Dave has a good write up with lots of related links.

Apparently, back before there was software called ACID and a genre of music called acid house there was a little tab of paper some hippie degenerates used to put on their tongues to experience euphoric celestial navel explorations with the occasional fire-breathing dragon, disappearing ceilings, spontaneous Catskills comedy routines and VW bugs doing donuts on freeway exits. In Santa Monica. In the middle of rush hour. Apparently.

I wouldn’t know anything about that, but it seems this type of “acid” was celebrated by a nine hour commercial free radio broadcast on (what else) KPFA some 40 years ago. Don Joyce of Negativeland and The Professor have posted half of that broadcast, called The Trip Receptacles and features many informed luminaries in this field including Albert Hoffman, D. M. Turner, Sasha Shulgin and (who else) Dr. Timothy Leary of Harvard.

Culling samples ahoy.

[via Dave]

Unless I’m mistaken GYBO has just opened up a new forum for trading pellas. Not a lot of activity there now but I suspect in the coming weeks/months this could become a very active board.

The RSS feeds are up and working at CC Mixter and they are based on the new genre/tagging system. So, for example, if you wanted to watch for every upload of just loops with a Sampling Plus license it would look like this:

http://ccmixter.org/rss/loops+sampling_plus

Or if you want to watch the remix uploads of a certain person you can add their sign-on name:

http://ccmixter.org/rss/remix+mhite

The feed link itself point directly at the MP3. If you have any suggestions or wishlist items let me know as I’m collecting them now. (Someone has already suggested including a streaming link in the body of the item for the feed.)

The Acoustic Ecology Institute has a great compendium of site links that feature environmental and experimental sound clips. One of my favorites is the “part guaranteed conceptual failure” Audio Recordings of Great Works of Art. (Perhaps it is considered a failure because it took me four mintues to get the RAM files to play.)

The sites that did have more playable clips had various licensing schemes but then what’s three notes between friends when you’re sampling. Even if those three notes lasts seven and a half minutes.

A true time waster if there ever was one.