Re: laptop albums?

[mech <mech@m3ch.net>]

At 8:13 AM -0800 2/10/06, scott hansen wrote:
>after last months topic of laptop performances,
>i was wondering if anyone could recommend a laptop album/cd
>that they've heard/thought was good.

(sorry for the late entry here.  but the very day I was about to 
suggest this, the site I wanted to recommend -- 
http://www.modsquare.com -- went down to move to a different server. 
they're finally back up...)

Scott,

There are three sampler albums published by the Chicago-based 
Modsquare netlabel: "Ctrl-F2", "Ctrl-Space", and "Ctrl-N".  All three 
predominantly feature music done on laptop (with the occasional 
oddball cut -- like Bitshifter or Johnny Square, who both do music on 
Gameboy's).

The best part is, they're all free (albeit it's a ~70 meg download 
for each full album).

You can get them either via Modsquare's front page, or directly at: 
http://www.modsquare.com/music.php

Relatedly, while you're there, you might want to surf around to the 
audio and video sections for the Laptop Cage Matches.  These were a 
series of events here combining Laptronica with pro-wrestling-style 
cage matches.  Makes a nice change from most of the performance 
criticisms levelled at "tablecore".  ;)

        --m.

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