Workbench Recordings
About Workbench Recordings
jason on 07/20/2010 at 04:30PM
Spotlight on Workbench Recordings
NYC's Workbench Recordings offer a steady stream of high-quality Creative Commons tracks on a monthly basis, each accompanied by unique text and visuals. Workbench specializes in "unusual and experimental music," which ranges from cinematic soundscapes and fingerstyle guitar, to abstract pop and psychedelic folk. There is an organic element that defines what I might call "the Workbench sound," favoring acoustic guitars and sparse airy percussion. The consistency of that sound is further enhanced by the label's relationship with a worldclass mastering facility (Masterdisk), which is a rarity in the netaudio world.
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James Beadreau is the curator, musician, producer, and graphic artist behind Workbench, and he has compiled a mix to showcases the 'songier' side of the Workbench sound, with some more experimental sounds mixed in. The mix begins with two covers -- a psychedelic take on the public domain lullaby "All the Pretty Little Horses" into a Fahian twist on Deerhoof's Creative Commons composition "Fresh Born" (part of a very cool
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These Workbench Recordings are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license
