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I'll just mention two links:
An annotated list of my recent emusic purchases and my favorite 10 free albums from the Jamendo pile of music.
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Patty Waters sings is a well-received album by a free form jazz singer who released one or two albums and then faded into obscurity. She wrote the songs herself.
Emusic has 3 different versions, with all 3 at different prices. <… -
For Plong2, I just wanted to point out that there are 3 separate recordings (all priced differently) of Xenakis La Legende D'Er on emusic. Different performers perhaps, but the same piece. (Really, it is a shame that emusic doesn't have more record…
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Here's an amazing set of free downloads if you like contemporary music.
BIRP.FM stores a different playlist every month consisting of about 75-100 songs. Get this though. It lets … -
Here's a treat. This amazing Ukrainian electronic group performed live on this year's Eurovision -- purely as a timefiller, but I think it was the best performance of the evening. (here's the in Bargains on the new eMusic Comment by idiotprogrammer July 2017
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That Bolton Inscriptions album is pretty terrific. Stands out from a lot of lot of other sonic experiences. I guess I should mention that I bought Nirvana Haze from Alonefold (mentioned on previous page of this thread). Really great stuff. I'll pick…
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Continuing the ambient/avante-garde theme, I wanted to note two albums by William Basinski that are really cheap. Basinski does drone/experimental stuff with found tapes.
Basinski is best known for his Disintegration Loops -- which consi… -
by the way, it is very strange that for many albums, the per track cost for all individual tracks is less than the cost of the album itself. Very nutty!I was able to download purchases from earlier this week no problem. I just can't give them my money for booster credits! I kept hitting the submit button, and nothing seemed to change.Booster credits purchasing still doesn't work. Wah!BigD-Bluez , "you really got me"!(Brighternow -- I thought that it might be interesting for trying to correlate it with other things). For the record, I will never EVER sing karaokeDamn, after all these recommendations, they better deploy the booster pack feature pronto! I missed the great price on the Omnibus last time and don't want to miss out again).Magnetic Fields 69 songs for $6.99 69 tracks, 2…Luc Ferrari -- L' oeuvre electronique Box set
9 hours for $3.99?! (Avante-garde French composer who died 10 years ago. Field recordings mixed with J…I had the same thought. By the way, a lot of the $5.99 albums are now $6.49 and $6.99 which is not good.
in Bargains on the new eMusic Comment by idiotprogrammer May 2017Thanks. That's kind of what I thought.The music torrent is here http://www.sxswtorrent.com/2017 1,201 files totaling 7.86GB.Doofy, I downloaded this different Prokoviev set from emusic a few years ago and did not love it. http://www.emusic.com/album/zdenek-kosler/pro…NPR has a free download of 100 mp3s from SXSW 2017 (to expire at the end of March). http://www.npr.org/2017/03/01/517751061/the-austin-100 I just noticed that the …Also, I wanted to do a shoutout for Daytrotter , this music service which lets you download live concerts of many leading indie bands from 2006-2016. I think the service is mainly intended to b…No gems to list, just an explanation. I let my membership be dormant for 3 months (the maximum allowed), and it resumes November 19, which is about when emusic starts doing the 2 for 1 credits.
I have some boffo things to recommend after…Recently, the best strategy seems to be to start the lowest priced tier of membership and then take advantage of the 2 for 1 booster sales (which happen every other month).
If you're into classical, you might want to investigate the low-…I have about 190,000 music files (mp3, m4a or ogg). During the last year or two my collection has increased exponentially. I usually store the new stuff in the TO BE FILED folder (with subfolders for each 2 or 3 months of acquired music). The To be…Cafreema, I cannot tell you how grateful I am for telling me this. I was absolutely sick of dealing with that Amazon downloader/player. I even didn't bother to download several (cheap) samplers I had purchased. Now that I know I can download them ea…I just wanted to respond to Germanprof's point about randomness. I try to listen to albums whenever possible, although I recognize sometimes that some albums are intended to be listened to for only specific tracks.
I try several techniq…First, I'm not too angry that shows are dropped from Netflix. That means that more streamers are competing with Netflix and content owners are able to make more money. (I'm sure Netflix locked in some amazing deals in 2010-3 which eventually expired…I'm sorry. I couldn't resist. All of Monk Turner's albums are free and downloadable (and all are brilliant and interesting).
A few years ago I reviewed his concept album called in emusers' standard lecture on good free stuff Comment by idiotprogrammer March 2016