Last Days of Free Music Archive (FMA)

peterfrederics

Sadly FMA won't be with us post December 1st, so I thought it would be interesting if we could all recommend our favourite FMA albums/tracks before it disappears.

By the way, all the albums are both Legal and Free.

Here are a couple of my favourites.

"Dragon" and "Kalahen" by Dragon - 1970s progressive rock



http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dragon/

https://www.discogs.com/artist/1692524-Dragon-15

PaulR

Advent Chamber Orchestra: 3 Albums of selected tracks, also worth looking at the few other albums from Pandora Records.

The Tudor Consort: An early choral group ( http://tudor-consort.org.nz/ ) but the downloads currently point back to FMA. Also available at archive.org

Brighternow

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sandro_Marinoni__Stefano_Roncarolo_with_Roberto_Padovan/

From Clinical Archives and probably also available at Archive.org

ETA: https://www.frames-music.com/releases.htm

- an interesting group of people, me thinks . . .

Brighternow

- And here's my fanlist:

Knyaz Mishkin, S.A.D.O. (Società Anonima Decostruzionismi Organici), un festin sagital, Janne Nummela, Songs Of Norway, Vincent Bergeron, Stefano Roncarolo & Sandro Marinoni, Jaap Blonk & Splinks, Sirius String Quartet & Nick Didkovsky, Reines d'Angleterre, Daniel Maze, Nmperign, Joan La Barbara, New Weird Australia, Elemental Noise, Ergo Phizmiz & Friends, Bob Ostertag, Plusplus, David Behrman, Ergo Phizmiz & Margita Zalite, Various Artists [Chinstrap Music], Kuupuu, Kathleen Supové, Connie Beckley, Golden Retriever, Saito Koji, Michael Byron, Thomas Buckner, Maurizio Bianchi, S.A.D.O. (Società Anonima Decostruzionismi Organici), Children for Breakfast, Annea Lockwood, Alva Noto, Legendary Pink Dots, Ilia Belorukov, Jari Pitkanen, David Borden, Plaistow, Pat Murano and Tom Carter, Squadra Omega, Claudio Nuñez, Volcano the Bear, Black Twig Pickers and Steve Gunn, Loren MazzaCane Connors, Eliane Radigue, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, dOISsEMIcIRCUITOSiNVERTIDOS, So Percussion, Advent Chamber Orchestra, Michael Chapman & The Woodpiles, Nick Didkovsky, Textile Audio, People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz, Bomis Prendin, William Basinski, Michael Pisaro, Aaron Siegel, Earth Trumpet, Dragging an Ox Through Water, Soundeyet, Vialka, James Blackshaw, Muhr, Sandro Marinoni & Stefano Roncarolo with Roberto Padovan, Uncle Neptune, Thomas Dimuzio, Vultures Quartet, John Butcher, Charles Atlas, Morton Subotnick, Loren Connors and Bill Orcutt, Daniel Menche, Tony Conrad, Edley ODowd, & Genesis Breyer P. Orridge, People Like Us, Stealing Orchestra, Dr. Phibes and The Ten Plagues of Egypt, G.G. Allin's Dick, Doyeq, Kreng, Tristan Perich, Ergo Phizmiz and his Orchestra, dUAS sEMIcOLCHEIAS iNVERTIDAS, Shoeb Ahmad, People Like Us, Matmos and Wobbly, Ergo Phizmiz Rock'N'Roll Machine, Arrington de Dionyso, Jaap Blonk, Pollen Trio, If, Bwana, Sandro Marinoni, Big City Orchestra, Koonda Holaa, Felipe Sarro, Robert Lee / Simon Mathewson / Ergo Phizmiz, Tom Hamilton, Devil Music Ensemble, Nest, Jon Gibson, Radian, Jaap Blonk's Iles Flottantes, Curlew, Ergo Phizmiz, Zeena Parkins & Jon Rose, Victoire, marta sainz, NOFP (Nova Orquestra Futurista do Porto), Summons of Shining Ruins, TIGUE, The Vainglories, Sandro Marinoni & Stefano Roncarolo, The Necks, Meanwhileproject.ltd, Phizmiz & KIllerwhale, Senyawa, Astrowind, Elliott Sharp, Tim Berne, Noveller, aboombong, The Wyrding Module, Philippe Petit, Daniel Padden, John 316 and Philippe Petit, Jorge Antunes, Jaap Blonk & Dylan Nyoukis, dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS, Plushgoolash, Makunouchi Bento

Enjoy !

Germanprof

Thanks, BN.

It's in @brighternow's list, but I'll add my appreciation for http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Doyeq/, particularly Eyelashes of Lanterns.

peterfrederics

Thanks @brighternow that's a great list for us all to work through. Very much appreciated.

Brighternow

^^ your'e welcome.

And for what it's worth:
Sir Brighternow's serious weird shit FMA summer mix
Sir Brighternow's exclusive 4 track FMA Summer Mix

And my
Does humor belong in music ? - FMA Christmas Mix
(something weird happened to the text)

Brighternow

cheyenne_h on 11/29/2018 at 07:11PM

Update: FMA's Future
Friends, something wonderful is happening here at FMA, but we can’t give you all the details just yet.
For the time being, we are still suspending new uploads and backing up our MP3 collection at archive.org/details/freemusicarchive, but we’re thrilled that service will NOT be suspended on December 1 as previously indicated.
Thanks for sticking with us during this time of transition, and we can’t wait to tell you all about what’s in store for our beloved Archive!
Expect to hear our big news by the end of December.

- So very good !

burntwoodfactors

Also very fond of the excellent semlabel compilation One Minute for the Stars...and just discovered there's a companion compilation, One Minute for the Sun! http://freemusicarchive.org/music/VA__SEM_label/

Doofy

Blockchain to the rescue again, I imagine !

Brighternow

Free Music Archive's new home: KitSplit!

After months of uncertainty about our future, the Free Music Archive is joining KitSplit, a camera gear rental platform by and for creators. With KitSplit's support, we will stay up and running for the indefinite future - something we are very relieved to report. Though KitSplit is a for-profit business, the FMA will remain true to its mission of sharing free, curated audio to all.

In the coming weeks, we will reopen artist/curator uploads and our Music Submission form and resume our regularly scheduled audio weirdness, curated playlist posts, and new releases here on our blog.

The Free Music Archive will be one of many educational resources in the KitSplit library - they have a bounty of informative materials on their blog, Viewfinder, and they offer free coaching sessions to women in film and video, which we think is sorely needed and super cool. The Free Music Archive is widely used and loved by indie video producers, and KitSplit wants to make our archive even more accessible and useful by bringing our audio collection to their community's attention.

While this milestone is bittersweet and we're sad to be saying goodbye to WFMU, we are forever in their debt for making the Free Music Archive a reality. We are excited to be able to preserve the archive and continue our essential work of curating the Commons with the support of KitSplit.

Thanks to everyone who supported us during this uncertain time, who reached out with moral support or made donations to keep the lights on, and especially to our amazing, inspiring, awesome community!! We are looking forward to the future for the Free Music Archive as its collections and communities grow, and we hope the best years of the Free Music Archive are yet to come. 

For more details on the transition as it unfolds, please check the KitSplit blog and/or subscribe to their newsletter.

peterfrederics

Great news!

Lowlife

That indeed is very good news

Doofy

Well done, KitSplit. This blog post makes clear where FMA fits into their business model: as a source of royalty-free music for video and other creative work: https://blog.kitsplit.com/kitsplit-acquires-the-free-music-archive-bringing-more-resources-to-the-creative-community/