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  • edited April 2013
    Just for the record . . .
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    - Thanks Bad Thoughts !
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    For the record:
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    Tracklist:
    1. Eric Thielemans – Music For A While [Sub Rosa, 2012]
    2. Un Caddie Renversé Dans L’herbe – [Dekorder, 2003]
    3. Stian Westerhus – Kept On Shoulders [Rune Grammofon, 2012]
    4. Svarte Greiner – Lightning Cut [Immune Recordings, 2013] (coming record store day 2013) *
    5. Aphex Twin – Untitled, Saw2 [Warp Records, 1994]
    6. Nils Petter Molvær – Kakanita (Remix – Deathprod) [Rune Grammofon, 2006]
    7. Two Lone Swordsmen – As Wordly Pleasures Wave Goodbye… [Warp Records, 1998]
    8. Kaboom Karavan – Kartoon Kannibal [Forthcoming on Miasmah, June 2013]
    9. Nick Mott – Deep Dust (Excerpt) [Altvinyl, 2012]
    10. B/B/S/ – 29th August 2012 [Unreleased] **
    11. Joe McPhee – A Night On Rose Mountain (Intro) [Roaratorio, 2007]
    12. Erik K Skodvin – Erik K Skodvin – Blind [Sonic Pieces, 2012] ***
    13. Thomas Ankersmit – Hangar Performance, Tallin May 29th 2010 [Touch, 2010]
    14. Portraits – Gong [Important Records, 2012]
    15. SGAR (Svarte Greiner & Alexander Rishaug) – Live At Rhiz, Vienna November 2011 [Unreleased]
  • Free live album from Rhett Miller, the lead singer of The Old 97's. Just input your email and zip code.
  • edited April 2013
    With thanks to Confused:

    Released by Brainwashed in 2004 and by Howells Transmitter in 2009:
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    Charles Atlas - To the Dust: From Man You Came and to Man You Shall Return

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    - "Charles Atlas are masters of tranquil deliveries, but the contents have subtle tensions that reveal themselves over a period of years. The packages were sent to you, but without a return address. Their mysteries are always just out of reach, with messages that never demand, or ask for anything in return."

    - "To The Dust' is probably CA's most measured and powerful album to date. Sacha Galvanga, Matt Greenberg and Charles Wyatt forge profound epics of neo-classical, modern music, always with a heavy emphasis on melody. Tons of it. CA are master handlers of their instruments, evoking such powerful emotions with piano and guitar (and the occasional drum machine); even the casual listener will find something to love about this record".

    –The Big Takeover - http://www.howellstransmitter.com/ca_ttd.html
  • BN, went on link does not seem to be free? Or maybe not to UK people.
  • edited April 2013
    Ll, It should be a Free Music Archive link and afaik. free for everyone.

    I am a registered user, so I don't know if it works with no registration, but I can't imagine any reason why not.

    On top of the page you should see 4 squares, the first one saying "download this album" and on the individual tracks there should be a downward arrow.
    - It is my experience that FMA responds differently to different browsers, sometimes the player is not working in IE but works in crome.

    - The album is also on Archive.org

    - Most certainly an album well worth the effort.
  • Thanks BN, got the link form the archive, will be looking at this today.
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    Just saw this, it has been up for a while.
  • edited April 2013
    This one's from a couple of years ago, but I didn't have it yet and I don't think it's been posted (at least a search of the board by the album title shows nothing). Free at the archive

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    Four hours of ambient music that includes some good artists"
    earman100 - Various Artists - The Hundredth Mantra

    4:04:47 - 564 MB

    Disc 1 - 60:07

    01 - Phillip Wilkerson: One Prayer; One Hundred Answers (6:55, 16.2 MB)
    02 - Kit Watkins: Land, Sea, Sky (excerpt) (6:58, 16.3 MB)
    03 - Musir von Vidalia: Octopoda (7:33, 17.7 MB)
    04 - Desert Mystic: Serenity (8:10, 19.1 MB)
    05 - Petal: Calico Moon (6:20, 14.8 MB)
    06 - Tange: Psylence (9:53, 23.2 MB)
    07 - Incandescent Void: Interstellar Drift (7:30, 17.6 MB)
    08 - Altus: Rainmaker (6:48, 15.9 MB)

    Disc 2 - 62:12

    01 - Lucette Bourdin: Earth Psalm (9:31, 22.3 MB)
    02 - Tone Ghost Ether: Cinema Dawn Scope (6:01, 14.1 MB)
    03 - Copal River: Extinguishing the Stars (6:08, 14.4 MB)
    04 - Sylvie Walder and Phillip Wilkerson: Compte
  • EMI Classics is giving out a free sampler at the moment:

    http://www.emiclassics.com/welcome/77
  • edited April 2013
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    Free on Noisetrade
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    Mellow collection of downtempo instrumentals, free at Jamendo. Quite nice. Apparently composed as a soundtrack, and does have that kind of sound.
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    Fragments of an absent summer (remixes)

    Dark-ish ambient reworkings of various artists by Leonardo Rosado. Free for an email @ bandcamp.
  • edited April 2013
    Markus Popp (Oval) is certainly in the generous mood these days.
    Two Japanese versions of these older albums is free @ Soundcloud ATM:
    (Brilliant stuff)

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    Oval - Dok (Japan)

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    Oval - Szenario (Japan)
  • edited May 2013
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    Master Choro mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda. Free. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

    The free download may be only for limited time.
  • edited May 2013
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    Albert Ayler sampler @ Emusic
  • edited May 2013
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    Pleasant free (for an email address) EP at bandcamp of downtempo/idm electronic soundscapes by Biotron Shelf, a duo made up of Murray Fisher and Wil Bolton (the latter of whom is brilliant in his more ambient solo stuff. I don't find this quite on the same level, but it's nice enough).

    There's also a free 52 minute mix of tracks from other artists on the label:
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    Kinsendael by Flavien Gilli
  • edited May 2013
    Soundcloud in 160 kbps:
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    - Paul Moravec: Northern Lights Electric features four compositions conjured up by the composer’s own personal, visceral experiences. While walking in New Hampshire, Paul Moravec witnessed an astonishing display of the northern lights which inspired him to compose Northern Lights Electric. Clarinet Concerto was written during Moravec’s artist residency in Princeton, NJ, one of his childhood hometowns. The idea for Sempre Diritto! was born while getting lost in the convolutions of Venice, Italy. And, in the Catalonian region just north of Barcelona, the legendary mountain monastery dedicated to Pablo Casals moved him to create Montserrat."
    CD booklet @ the Boston Modern Orchestra Project website
  • edited May 2013
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    Free compilation of mostly pretty, tinkly music with ambient/shoegaze leanings. Some nice things here. Free download @ bandcamp.
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    Markus Popp (Oval), again in his generous mood:
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    Released by: Tokuma Japan Communications Co.
    Release/catalogue number: TKCB-71463
    Release date: Oct 6, 1998
  • Two samplers @ €music:

    - With thanks to the fixed RSS Feed:
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    - And with thanks to Greg:
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  • A few tracks on that Smithsonian album won't DL, unfortunately
  • Intetresting, Doofy. All downloaded for me succesfully a couple of days ago
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    Latest 40-track free collection of ambient/experimental music from Future Sequence, free at Bandcamp. Past collections have been known to become pay-for after an initial free phase, so I'd get it while it's free.
  • 3 short "name your price" / free live recordings from:
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  • edited June 2013
    Anthony Braxton's website - http://tricentricfoundation.org/label/bootlegs/ has some free concerts available - "Bootlegs". I'll let them explain:
    We offer many bootlegs for free. 13 bootleg albums are added at a time and the newest batch is always available to the public. The previous batch of bootlegs are offered only to members and will be visible on this page if you are a member. They are Vol.1-13: Solo (France) 1971, Quartet (Paris) 1969, Quartet (Avignon) 1974, Quartet (Bremen) 1975, Quartet (Graz) 1976, Orchestra (Paris) 1978, Solo (Austin) 1978, Orchestra (PIsa) 1980, Solo (Brussels) 1985, Duo (Verona) 1989, Orchestra (Los Angeles) 1992, Quartet (New York) Set 1& 2 1993.
    The current set of concerts are from 1975 through 1989.
  • edited June 2013
    David Byrne and St. Vincent have an EP available called Brass Tactics that is available for free (email address for one or both of their newsletters - I get both).

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