Free Music Mondays: Dipping into the Electronica

Alright, so there's not gonna be any special day in which I give away free music. It'll just be whenever I feel like it. So there!

For those that know me personally, you're probably aware of my love for electronica, the simplest and yet, the most complex form of music. It all depends on what kind of techno you're listening to. I, for one, can't stand the common "remix" that is usually just adding a generic beat over a pre-existing song. Granted, there have been some genius remixes in the past. (Just look at the Verve Remixed series.) Anyway, for anyone wondering how on earth I got interested in such a bizarre and obscure (at least in America) form of music. Well, here's one of the tunes that got me hooked:

"Where Edges Meet" by Noel Zancanella

Naturally, mainstream acts like Fatboy Slim, Moby, and the Chemical Brothers were my first encounter with the electronic genre. But, soon I was exploring more daring, diverse artists like Aphex Twin, Röyksopp, and Dntel. As a matter of fact, the man behind Dntel, Jimmy Tamborello, eventually teamed up with Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and formed the highly successful Postal Service. Here's a remix of "(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan," the original collaboration between Gibbard and Tamborello that inspired them to craft an album's worth of tunes together:

"(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Lali Puna Mix)" by Dntel featuring Ben Gibbard

You can download another remix of the song as well as the title track of Dntel's excellent LP Life is Full of Possibilites here.

Oh, and if you thought I was gonna leave you guys without a free Postal Service download, you're sadly mistaken.

"Such Great Heights (John Tejada Remix)" by the Postal Service

You can download more free Postal Service MP3s as well as music videos from their artist page on the Sub Pop Records label.

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