Poke 20 officially releases next Monday, November 2nd. But you can check it out now already and even pre-order that mother… Be quick, because it’s a very limited release (200 numbered copies).
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Title: Poke 20
Artist: Various artists
Format: MP3
Catalog#: esc.rec.25
Price of download: free!
Price of limited poster/cover: 10 euro
A project of productiehuis ON in
collaboration with esc.rec.
Download this release (189 MB zip)
Listen and download through Last.fm
Download torrent through Mininova
Download torrent through LegalTorrents
Feel free to embed the Fairtilizer player on
the right wherever you like (share button)
View the Creative Commons License
(BY/NC/SA) that applies to this work.
Ontwerpatelier designed a Poke 20 poster. This poster serves as packaging for a blank CD-r. Poster and blank CD-r are both silk-screened and together they make a nice piece of art in a limited (and numbered) edition of 200 copies. You can order your limited edition poster and blank cd here (for only 10 euro ex. postage) and burn your Poke 20 downloaded tracks on it to complete your own personal piece of art. Click here for the making of and here for more pictures of the finished product.
If for some reason you do not want to use Paypal, esc.rec. also accepts payment through bank transfer. Send an email with your order to mailorder@escrec.com.
01 Arno Peeters – Monty On Steroids (3.05) mp3
02 Bacalao – Monty On The Run (Yamaha Re-orchestration) (2.55) mp3
03 Garçon Taupe – Monty On The Run (4.05) mp3
04 Bastiaan Pecht – Space Commanders On The Run (3.03) mp3
05 Deltabeats – Monty vs. Monty (3.25) mp3
06 Taavi Tulev – Paanika (2.19) mp3
07 Transfolmer – Monty’s Metamorphosis (4.51) mp3
08 Yop – Rob Hubbard Is King Shit (2.00) mp3
09 Radion – Monty ON Acid (4.13) mp3
10 Mormo – Tenbub (3.59) mp3
11 Team Doyobi – Rob Shreds V.03 (6.33) mp3
12 huUtch – Monty huUtch RMX (4.08) mp3
13 Raoul Sinier – Whalemen On The Run (4.01) mp3
14 Daily Hero – Sound Of The Battle Revolution (3.07) mp3
15 Ebot – Monty Gameboy 64 (3.30) mp3
16 Xaf – GOSUB NOTRACE (6.27) mp3
17 Baxter Lewinscky – Monty Bro On The Runx (3.28) mp3
18 MaTH – The Hour of the Time (Vol. 1) (3.54) mp3
19 Atiq & Enk – The Run On Monty (4.06) mp3
20 Egotronic – Exportschlager Leitkultur (3.01) mp3
21 Rioteer – Monty Jumps The Gun (4.35) mp3
Produced by esc.rec. & productiehuis ON
Artwork by Ontwerpatelier
Mastered by Deltabeats
Original Commodore 64 version and C64 Orchestra version by Rob Hubbard
Photography: Ralph Schmitz / Borax and silkscreening by Lynda Schoenmakers and Susan Bijen
Poke 20 offers an extra dimension in on-line music distribution; a free download album combined with a physical art project and blank CD. Poke 20 is initiated by the Dutch Productiehuis ON in collaboration with independent record label esc.rec.
Poke 20 is the sequel of the C64 Orchestra project in which a classical orchestra played newly arranged C64 game music, such as International Karate, Monty On The Run and Myth. In Poke 20 we re-returned the C64 Orchestra version of the Monty On The Run track to contemporary electronic composers and musicians to create their own remix version.
The Download album:
Twenty-one musicians from around the globe have contributed their remix of Monty On The Run (the C64 Orchestra version) and agreed with a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licensed Poke 20 release of their remix. You are therefore free to download, copy, distribute their remix versions but it would be nice to give them a big up if you enjoy their work.
The Art project:
Ontwerpatelier designed a poster, remixing artwork supplied by the Poke 20 remixers. This poster serves as packaging for a blank CD. Poster and blank CD are both silk-screened and together they make a nice piece of art in a limited (and numbered) edition of 200 copies. You can order your limited edition poster and blank cd here (for only 10 euro ex. postage) and burn your Poke 20 downloaded tracks on it to complete your own personal piece of art.
Click here for the making of and here for more pictures of the finished product.
If you feel compelled to share your opinion after listening to this release, please feel free to leave your review in the comments below.
Edwin van der Heide wins the Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2009 (congratulations, Edwin)! For people interested in attending the award presentation in the Bergkerk in Deventer on the 12th of November, please read this invitation (pdf) and register for the presentation of the award through communicatie@witteveenbos.nl.
The Art+Technology Award will be presented by Harry Webers, general manager Witteveen+Bos on 12 November 2009 (17.00 hrs). Furthermore Andrée van de Kerckhove, chairperson of the jury, will amplify the nomination and Bas Haring, writer and philosopher, will give a short dissertation on the subject art-science-technology.
The presentation will be followed by one of Edwin van der Heide’s Laser Sound Performances.
From 13 november till 3 december a new installation, especially developed by Edwin van der Heide is shown in the Bergkerk.
Really good to see Edwin van der Heide back in Deventer! Back in 2004, only a few people showed up for his performance when I booked him for one of the J’ee-haw! Sunday Matinees in the IJsselhotel in Deventer. I suspect his work will attract a much larger audience now!
Due to good results when experimenting with torrent distribution and embeddable players, esc.rec. has now uploaded it’s entire free catalogue to torrent sites Mininova and LegalTorrents and made them available in an embeddable Fairtilizer player.
So check out these release pages for the new free download options:
Robert Witt – Midazolam (tracks 1-7)
Yop – A Ltd. Lion Pup
Toxic Chicken – Make My Day
Yoshimi! – II aka The Cheshire Rat
slo-fi – ’s loot
Have fun downloading and listening!
Esc.rec. has been experimenting with some new features and distribution methods for it’s free downloads lately. Starting with the latest release by Transfolmer, you can now embed a Fairtilizer player wherever you like, from which you can either listen or download the entire release. I’m still testing this service, but so far the results look promising. So for now, Fairtilizer is my embeddable player of choice.
Also, following in the pioneering footsteps of esteemed colleagues Beep! Beep! back up the Truck and WM Recordings, esc.rec. now uses torrent sites as a distribution channel. Mininova and LegalTorrents both offer excellent support in hosting torrents by content creators. Incorporating torrent sites as a means of music distribution is a good choice so it seems, because although I only put these torrents online yesterday, the number of downloads and seeders of the torrent on Mininova on the first day amazes me… and the torrent on LegalTorrents doesn’t get downloaded as many times but did get instant good reviews on Twitter.
In these Buma/Stemra infested times (read all about it), esc.rec. firmly embraces the new music industry. To be continued…
