Last year or the year before, there was an SXSW torrent that included more than 1,000 free songs. Actually several things I liked, but it was just ridiculous having that many songs in my library, so I eventually deleted.
I suspect as I play the 140 or so in my car I'll jump some I don't like, and those will then be quickly deleted. In many respects that is easier to do in my car when my ipod is on through the radio/Cd player and I am driving than it is at home when the music tends to come from my computer and I am doing something else
A free sampler from Strut Records available at http://www.strut-records.com/sampler/index.html Ten tracks including the title track from Ebo Taylor's Love and Death mentioned on What Are You Listening To thread here. All for an email address. Apologies to OP if this has already been mentioned here
I have d/l'd these in the past, but they do tend to be cumbersome. Whoever does it grabs all of the free tracks from the SXSW site and puts it in 2 big torrents. Unfortunately it tends to suffer from the fact that, even in 2011, bands still don't put the effort into tagging their mp3s properly.
Built around two songs from All Tiny Creatures' upcoming full-length Harbors (and supplemented by some of the most mind-bogglingly terrific cassette-exclusive compositions), the tape features the single "An Iris" -- complete with guest vocals from ATC leader Thomas Wincek's Volcano Choir bandmate and Bon Iver frontman, Justin Vernon. Side B was constructed around the track "Cargo Maps" and includes vocals from Roberto Lange, a.k.a. Helado Negro
Glass Bubbles - 2011
The Glass Bubbles Mixtape is the second of a two-cassette series leading up to the release of the new All Tiny Creatures album Harbors. Like An Iris Mixtape this release features two Harbors tracks -- "Glass Bubbles" and "Reservoirs" -- buttressed by amazing original compositions by All Tiny Creatures that are exclusive to this release.
+ Two tracks from the brand new "Harbour" album @ Hometapes
- What can I say ?. . . . . . Absolutely Brilliant !
Michael Peters came up a few times on the Bandcamp thread. He has quite a few of his Livelooping performances on his website. There are vimeo based videos of the shows so you can see as well as hear the music.
I am listening to the 2009 Experimental Guitar Evening in Cologne, nearly 22 minutes of misty drone, pretty cool stuff. The caveat emptor here is that the free tracks are 128K.
Joe Frawley was mentioned on the Bandcamp thread. He is a kind of ambient piano with "found sounds" looped with a kind of dreamy film soundtrack feel. His Last.FM page has a number of free tracks, also check out the Joe Frawley Ensemble for a few more free tracks. Sadly, like most samples on Last.FM, they are only encoded at 128K. Still worth a listen IMHO. [EDIT: check out his website, this material is also available there for free]
Long-time coming re-mastered reissue of this legendary side from Maurizio Bianchi, still one of the central Industrial/experimental records to come out of the revolutionary underground tumult of the late-70s/early-80s. Originally issued in 1981 on Sterile Records this is a harrowing wake for liberal/humanist notions of humanity in the shadow of the Holocaust, with black tunnels of martial, mechanised analog drone, wailing alarm codes, primitive drum machines and conveyor belt rhythms marching inexorably into the heart of darkness. Alongside the TG 24 Hour box, the Broken Flag set on Vinyl-On-Demand, a buncha the Italian power electronic sides, Nurse With Wound's Chance Meeting and Whitehouse's Dedicated To Peter Kurten this remains one of the truly epoch-defining recordings and it still sounds every bit as disturbing and interrogating as it did the first time you ever encountered it. "The moral of this work: The past punishment is the inevitable blindness of the present" "Master work, true Industrial."
Today's Daily Download is from a Cantaloupe records sampler,the whole album is free, save one track. A couple of tracks form Bang On A Can All-Stars, one from Asphalt Orchestra, and another from So Percussion. Worth a listen.
BN - Thanks a million for that Bianchi link. From the description it sounded like it would be right up my alley - and now that I've listened to it I can say definitively that it is! Reminiscent of early TG, CV, etc. Good stuff (assuming you like industrial noise).
Cheers.
Yeah thanks Brighternow, I'll check that out tonight. Also, Whitehouse's Dedicated to Peter Kurten (mentioned in the Bianchi review) is available at UBUweb.
Anybody have a link for the latest Classical Shop newsletter? My e-mail is garbled (text only, actually), so can't get the DL link. This month's album is Webber: Serenade for Strings
Yair Yona has a free track up on Soundcloud in honor of Passover: Pharaoh. I have posted links to him before, an acoustic solo guitar player in the tradition of John Fahey. Chag Sameach everyone.
Facedown Records - Facedown Fest 2011 Sampler
From an Amazon Reviewer: "Facedown Records released this sampler in time for their April 8 & 9 Facedown Fest in Pomona, California. According to Wikipedia 'Facedown is a Christian Record Label featuring Christian & Secular Bands'"
Cristal Records Paris Cafe & Ballroom Music Free Sampler
From an Amazon reviewer: "Bal-musette is a blending of Parisian traditions historically as interesting as American jazz born and developed in Storyville and New Orleans."
Cristal Records Free Sampler
"Jazz, International and Soundtrack. Nearly all instrumental some very good stuff" says the Amazon reviewer.
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A free sampler from Strut Records available at http://www.strut-records.com/sampler/index.html Ten tracks including the title track from Ebo Taylor's Love and Death mentioned on What Are You Listening To thread here. All for an email address. Apologies to OP if this has already been mentioned here
I have d/l'd these in the past, but they do tend to be cumbersome. Whoever does it grabs all of the free tracks from the SXSW site and puts it in 2 big torrents. Unfortunately it tends to suffer from the fact that, even in 2011, bands still don't put the effort into tagging their mp3s properly.
Tim Hecker - Live @ La Sala Rossa
(February 10. 2011 / Montreal)
Electronically treated cello, violin and viola. Nice. Will cross-post to bandcamp thread.
Free debut EP from indie R&B act. Very good.
Craig
Craig
Craig
An Iris - 2010.
Glass Bubbles - 2011 + Two tracks from the brand new "Harbour" album @ Hometapes
- What can I say ?. . . . . . Absolutely Brilliant !
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Fixed URL /Mutex
Thanks, still green at BBC
Map Map - For Friends This Winter EP
- Apparantly a Marcus Fischer moniker - Very Nice !
I am listening to the 2009 Experimental Guitar Evening in Cologne, nearly 22 minutes of misty drone, pretty cool stuff. The caveat emptor here is that the free tracks are 128K.
I bought a CD of Left Cincinnati, so he emailed me a thank you and pointed out that he has a couple of albums on Clinical Archives.
Two free, long tracks at eMusic, fans of straight-ahead jazz will like.
Maurizio Bianchi - Symphony For A Genocide - Emusic link:
Cheers.
Craig
Nacional Records Sampler 2011 | The New Sounds Of Latin Music Volume 2
20 tracks from Nacional Records, some winners, some losers.
Experience Austin: A Tunecore Music Sampler
At 29 tracks pimping the SXSW fest.
Facedown Records - Facedown Fest 2011 Sampler
From an Amazon Reviewer: "Facedown Records released this sampler in time for their April 8 & 9 Facedown Fest in Pomona, California. According to Wikipedia 'Facedown is a Christian Record Label featuring Christian & Secular Bands'"
Cristal Records Paris Cafe & Ballroom Music Free Sampler
From an Amazon reviewer: "Bal-musette is a blending of Parisian traditions historically as interesting as American jazz born and developed in Storyville and New Orleans."
Cristal Records Free Sampler
"Jazz, International and Soundtrack. Nearly all instrumental some very good stuff" says the Amazon reviewer.