With takes on the Vince Guaraldi Trio and Tchaikovsky, the sound-slicing members of the monome community have turned their button-encrusted devices to spreading holiday cheer to you, for free. A new, CC-licensed album is available for download. (One caution: CC licenses don’t cover sample clearance for works sampled on these albums, so beware.)
They wouldn’t be geeks if it didn’t have an acronym:
http://mcrpmusic.bandcamp.com/
There’s some really creative stuff in there. I’d love to hear this live.
Found other favorite holiday downloads? Let us know in comments and we’ll do a round-up later this week.
Love it! Santa on a kiteboard? Classic. Great stuff and something to make christmas music less boring.
In 2008 Byte-Smasher hosted a Renoise Comminity compo which resulted in a holiday themed album. The theme? Pornography, Breakcore, and Xmas.
The thread describing the saga.
The resulting MP3 album.
A classic IMHO.
Ah, this was a fun time. Such a good crew of folk, so much diversity, so many crazy samples mashed up and rejiggered.
We're doing a theatre-samples themed release over the holidays, that should be the next bit of weird coming out i believe ;]
I have some arrangements of Christmas Music here:
http://soundcloud.com/nickdemopoulos/welcome-chri…
and here:
http://soundcloud.com/nickdemopoulos/coventry-car…
Virtual Hercules RMX, DJ 5 DJC Edition software is included further enables computer DJs to access and interlace MP3 files on their Windows or Mac OSX computers.
I have some arrangements of Christmas Music here: