Music
ZULI, as Swag Lee, turns Egyptian MP3 fragments into dizzying hip hop
It’s long past time to start talking about scenes in Egypt, Palestine, and elsewhere not just like some exotic foreign treat, but dead-center in the history of hip hop experimentation. ZULI casually drops his second Habibi Loops for free, and it utterly slaps. To quote one clip, “that’s sick, man — that’s dope.”
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This script makes endless looping samples out of YouTube
Okay, before someone takes this down – ColugoMusic has made a script that’s ready to generate endless random YouTube audio clips and fill up your hard drive! And who wouldn’t want that?
Peter Kirn - November 20, 2023
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From Detroit and Berlin, a free set of sounds and a blazing compilation
Techno is just one angle – the lifeblood of music between Detroit and Berlin is a relentless underground drive that hustles harder. If you need some of that mojo now, here’s both a pay-what-you-will compilation and a free soundpack with the likes of Tyree Cooper, Sarah Kivi, and Eric D. Clark.
Error Instruments’ Loopman is an experimental cassette Walkman instrument
Peter Kirn - August 24, 2021
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