If you are releasing your album on floppy, directory listing website is the only true retro-l33t style web design you should consider.

Danish band Batch Totem is out with their newest album, it's a whopping full 74 minutes - on a single floppy. To make this fit in 1.44 MB, naturally the music is super-encoded at a bitrate close to absolute zero. Yes atoms almost stand still at this rate.

But fear not, quality-draculas, the brilliant Totems utilize the exciting fact that the slower the bitrate/lower the frequency, the more prominent the encoding artifacts - so prominent and obvious that you can control them musically and synthesize new sounds of it. Mad lofi props!

In some ways this border closer to sound design than music but there is a wonderful idea behind the concept, that it is possible to control and exploit the encoding of sound, utilizing the artifacts for designated purposes.

I love things like this, taking side-effects of limits and turn them into enhancements. People should stop worrying about technical limits and start appreciating the possible beauty within them.

(Via Music Thing.)