Here is Jessa, taken by Austin’s own Jaime Ibarra:

El Cancion Primer: “Out of the Unknown” by El Haijn
I heard a preview of this track and it became an immediate favorite. “Out of the Unknown” is a part of the “2999″ project by Peppermill Records and is the second free song from the album. There are more each week. You can listen to this one right here:

…and then visit the Mill and get your download on!
http://www.peppermillrecords.com/out_of_the_unknown

El Cancion Secundo: “Non-finite” by San Jaya Prime
Next up is this week’s release from “IO Vapoura [Variations]“. A few handful of people have been waiting more than a year (some more, some less) to get the finalized copy of this one. It’s “Non-finite”, a chillout adventure into vocal beauty amid serene moments and clashing beats. Click play to listen, click the down arrow to download, click the weird bracket “Share”-thing to tell others (it looks like </> and I have no idea why!?).

…go to “Non-finite” Notes, Story and Album Art

Jaya’s Top Music of 2k10 List: With how quickly changes were coming up for this list, it’s actually been migrated into a Google Wave that y’all can access here on our site. There is also a survey now in case you want to make suggestions, submit your favorite genre and more. As it will be updated all year long, here is where to visit and bookmark the page:
* http://www.trochlearrex.com/best_of_2k10.html

http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Jaya-Prime/117448168278499

The other main dedication of my energy this summer is going to be with Bee Limitless, as an amazing friend who is behind the company has taken a journey that is nothing less than incredible. To help ensure his passage on this journey, I’ve buzzed into the honey shop and will not only be maintaining, but pushing it forward. Here’s where to check it out:

http://www.beelimitless.com/

IO Vapoura [updated scratch tracks] by Jaya Prime

Pepper Mill Records has invited open-core artists around the world to collaborate with them on an album themed on a painting, based in the year 2999. Yes, you read all of that correctly. For many of you, for us and for millions of others this is “right up our biomechanical alley”. You can hear an early version of the track SJP will be submitting as “Synapse Collapse” in the previews above. Ghost Face Geisha is working on a submission as well. As always, Pepper Mill comes with the cannons sparking. Here’s where to find out more (deadline is April 18th):

2999

The Glitch Mob let loose a little more than a whisper yesterday when the prerelease cut of “Drive It Like You Stole It” hit the HypeMachine, XLR8R, Twitter and anywhere else that runs on Internet-for-blood. If this is just a taste of what their new album and proceeding tour have in store for the year, they may well dominate even more strongly than they did last year. Nothing may be able to slow these beasts… and why try? Download the single for free via HypeMachine here and add it to your favorites.

David Ascott, Austin’s caterpillar, committed suicide just one week previously. I (Jaya) learned all I know about hookahs from him. He is, in fact, the reason I have my own hookah. His absence means there is one hookah less in Austin, on less person to gather a group of souls around the warmth of sheesha and much more.

On the opposite news-spectrum, Ghost Face Geisha landed in Austin more than a week ago to stay. For the first time in history, the Trochlear Recordings digital label is in one place. Once settled, look forward for a huge upgrade to the site as well as live samples from new music as it comes. As like last year, a winter EP is scheduled from Jaya Prime, currently titled “The Smell of a Storm”. As with the last EP, it will focus more on electro and glitch, except that the beats are quicker and harder hitting. More on that soon.

Just on the horizon is the beta launch of DharmaMix. Many different Trochlear artists have been featured across multiple mixes. This coming weekend the site goes live. Keep an eye on DharmaMix dot Com this coming Sunday. One of the premier mixes for the launch, called “Too Good to Be True”, features the track “Keep Movin’” by Mushuto, with more on the way.

BandCamp has changed their policy, so no more free 128kbps downloads from their site. However, we will return to hosting 128kbps quality tracks on this site and re-releasing those soon. High quality cuts can still be downloaded from them for low prices.

Finally, a bit on this year’s burn. Sending out mad gratitude and love to Camp Mystic, to Skinny Kitty Teahouse and to some of the new faces that stand out for me this year: Ronabell, Chip (Optimus Prime) and Danielle (Bumblebee). The latter two autobots picked me up as I hitched out of the playa on the day of Exodus. Ronabell is a fellow mixer/producer who hails from the PDX and was spinning at Arachnophobia. It was an incredible burn, with a huge slide the size of a building, one of the most beautiful temples ever and so many more mutant vehicles and art installations than last year. Mad gratitude to the extremely burner-friendly Reno-Tahoe airport, who joked with us burners and let us sleep just about everywhere while we waited for flights to take our dusted asses out of there.

Much love… and stay tuned.

You can download the tracks from here on the site in average quality, or purchase the album for five bones off of BandCamp in high quality (as well as in insanely high qualities).

News from the labs, above all, is that Ghost Face Geisha just left the ATX after the owners and producers gathered. Many new images, recovered images and sounds are all bubbling into the future at this very moment. This coming October, Geisha will be moving to the ATX and the previously mentioned site overhaul will set underway. Anyone who would like to see something changed on the site (or added to it) should contact us before then. We have electronic ears set up to listen.

For some previews of the images you’ll find entering the site soon, check out the two below:

There is music coming as well. Check the Free Download Page here in the next few days, as Epileptik Cerebral Reaktor’s debut album–”Fluxuati”–is due for re-release and has been re-mastered by BMFD. Tracks like “Ten Blessings” and “Lost Liver” have long been favorites. We’re bringin’ ‘em back.

Finally, the time between updates will continue to be long as we make final preparations to travel out towards the Black Rock Desert. The year has turned round the sun, and soon the last great tribe of mankind will gather around the wheel of time to celebrate all that is great in the species… and to burn a man. Much love to everyone who is planning to meet us out there. To all the rest, we will see you on the other side of the world.

In other news, the organization P5Y is currently undertaking a large task for raising funds for world peace. Is world peace something you want and would actively be a part of?

Let me put it this way. How easy is it for you to use your blender to play your music? Not easy, is it? That’s because the blender, of course, was built for blending. Now, in a world where war is “the way of things”, a machine that becomes self-aware will most likely have been engineered for war. It will have been engineered to kill… and so killing will be the function it serves once it becomes self aware. AI is coming. If our technology becomes aware in a world at war, we die; in a world at peace, we may still die… but it is no longer the probable outcome. The T.Rex DigiLab suggests placing the chips on world peace. Here’s where to become a part of it:

http://p5y.org/home

Firstly, Trochlear Rex has been in contact with different leaders from the open-source music community. Sending a shout in thanks to Boreta of The Glitch Mob, GMM of Uncanny Planet Records, PK of Pepper Mill Records, as well as Amber of DharmaMix dot Com and Ellechip. We are absorbing a lot of information and suggestions from each of them as we move towards the next stage for Trochlear.

In the news, the movie “15 Minutes” by AndersonEnvy Media being populated [here] on IMDb at this very moment. T.Rex artists Mushuto and San Jaya Prime are both featured on the soundtrack and on IMDb. Here is the link to the soundtrack listing:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403116/soundtrack

In celebration, Mushuto’s album “Flex Louder” has been re-released on the Download Page as well as on his artist profile on the main site [here]. “Flex Louder” was the very first release from Trochlear and featured on KarmaDownload within the first month of its release. Other re-releases will appear in the months to come.

In other news, the Collage Records label went open-source in July of 2008. Their most recent album, titled “Collagist“, gives an excellent review of their various artists. The music spans everything from blues, to trip-hop, to breaks and more. To add to the amazing talent that they make available for free download, the label is located primarily in Texas… and, like Trochlear, right in the ATX. Here is the link to their main site:

http://www.collagerecords.com/index.htm