Class of Academy ’08 n6el and London 2010 participant Cohoba have a new EP, 5683, on net label Stereoptico. Download here and get a taste of Cohoba’s Dominican dope at Plan B on February 12.

Here is an interesting one from the Harmonic 313 Laboratories. Long-time Academy teamster Mark Pritchard took one bar of his track Word Problems and sequenced several loops consisting of the original master and MP3s at different encoding rates. The purpose is a demonstration of the differences in quality when encoding a file using loss data compression. Grab a .wav document of this experiment here, and check what happens when you take sound seriously here.

The one like Infestus just released his new Tigre EP for free download on the Circus Maximus blog. Infestus will also play the Red Bull Music Academy stage at A Taste Of Sónar on March 6.

And there’s more fresh Academy music flooding the world wide one these days. Nah Right have three tracks off class of ’06 Oddisee’s new instrumental project Travelling Man that’s inspired by 24 cities Odd performed in last year. RCRD LBL upped some new Poirier, off of his Low Ceilings EP out now on Ninja Tune – get low! And finally, Tomá Ivanov has a new experimental hip hop project with fellow Toronto ’07 participant Ben Lamar, as well as another lovely Soundcloud affair with Spanish singer/songwriter Laura Lek Mun.

BONUS: Pilooski (D.I.R.T.Y. Soundsystem, RBMA ’04, Paris) - Fireside Chat