music – An Autonomous Agent

Bandcamp.com and Bleep.com

anautonomousagent — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 04:23:00 +0000

This is just a brief post showing my appreciation and support for HQ music and musical freedom. Two of my favorite music stores: bandcamp and Bleep. I’ve been buying music from these site almost since they first started. It’s a great way to buy music directly from the artist and in my favorite digital music format – FLAC!

TEAC UD-501, Sennheiser HD 650, Audiophile Linux

anautonomousagent — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 18:11:00 +0000

UPDATE (2016-Feb-01):

Upgraded from HD 650 to HD 800. Now in audiophile heaven. Also, added SOtM internal USB port with SOtM SATA In-Line power filter.

I recently switched my computer’s audio system from the Objective2 Amplifier and ObjectiveDAC (a good low-cost set-up) to the TEAC USB AUDIO DAC UD-501. I connected the TEAC to a spare laptop running Audiophile Linux. Listening with Sennheiser’s HD 650 headphones, the system playing native DSD albums sounds remarkable. All instruments and vocals are crystal clear and superbly smooth. It’s the way music was meant to be heard.

DSD is the future of music — beautiful high quality audio. With a well produced DSD album, it sounds as if you are at the recording studio with the artist. Granted that a typical DSD album can be around 2-4 GB, it is rather disappointing that people seem to prefer poor quality MP3 recordings playing on low quality DAC chips in iPods and cell phones. NOTE: If you want a portable option, see the Geek Wave. An MP3 album is less than half the cost of a DSD album, but it is also less than half the quality IMO. I don’t think many people are aware of how amazing DSD quality music played back with professional quality electronics can sound. Since we live in a time where hard drives in the 2-4 TB range are rather cheap, I hope that consumers begin to demand that music producers focus on providing high fidelity music.

YouTube Channel and Playlist – bloublouxp

anautonomousagent — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:32:00 +0000

It has been a number of months since I last posted an entry on music. Well, I think the following playlist will definitely be worth the wait. Some of the best songs I have heard in a long time. Thank you bloublouxp for this list.

Playlist: Amazing song

YouTube Channel – physicalfilms – Get Physical Music

anautonomousagent — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:19:00 +0000

I can sit for hours and hours listening to the playlists on physicalfilms, a YouTube channel. The channel hosts numerous jazzy, house, garage, funk, Ibiza style music hits. If you are interested, make sure you visit the channel. Here are links to some of my favorite playlists:

Full Body Workout Vol. 11 mixed by Tiger Stripes

M.A.N.D.Y. Presents: Get Physical On Ibiza

Get Physical Music

Ben Hoo

anautonomousagent — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 02:24:00 +0000

Ben Hoo is just awesome. Warm, dark, groovy, electronica music.

Check out Ben Hoo’s SoundCloud.

underset

anautonomousagent — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:56:00 +0000

underset, aka Paul Volkanov, from Krasnodar, Russia does a nice job at creating electronic music. Mostly deep or progressive house and techno, I suggest listening to the following playlist:

underset YouTube playlist

Bonobo

anautonomousagent — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:52:00 +0000

Bonobo is really a talented musician. Great music. He just released a really nice sounding album The North Borders (buy).

Listen to some of the songs before they get deleted: YouTube Playlist – The North Borders

Here is one song from Ninja records on YouTube:

Heaven For The Sinner feat. Erykah Badu – Bonobo

Another album by Bonobo:

Bonobo – Black Sands Vinyl (full album – HQ audio)

Andre Lodemann

anautonomousagent — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 02:03:00 +0000

Andre Lodemann deserves a massive following for producing such amazing originals and remixes. His songs are incredibly DEEP and pleasing to the ear. So, whenever you feel like chilling out to some nice tunes, just listen to this YouTube playlist: Andre Lodemann Playlist.

Andre Lodemann Soundcloud

Kanal von CircolocoishMusic3

anautonomousagent — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:07:00 +0000

Kanal von CircolocoishMusic3, is my new favorite YouTube channel. It’s incredible how many good songs have been uploaded. Categories: house, minimal, electronic, trance, dance, remixes.

DJ Minnesota

anautonomousagent — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:10:00 +0000

For anyone desiring a trippy electronic hip-hop/dubstep vibe, I would suggest DJ Minnesota. He recently released Altered States which can be heard here: Altered States EP – DJ Minnesota. Also worth listening too: Astral Projection EP. Minnesota does many nice remixes as well. DJ Minnesota SoundCloud.