December, 2003 archive

DJ Magazine has announced its list of the Top DJs of 2003.
1 Tiësto
2 Paul Van Dyk
3 Armin Van Buuren
4 Sasha
5 John Digweed
6 Ferry Corsten
7 Carl Cox
8 Paul Oakenfold
9 Judge Jules
10 Deep Dish
11 James Zabiela
12 Danny Howells
13 Sander Kleinenberg
14 Steve Lawler
15 Marco V
16 Erick Morillo
17 Mauro Picotto
18 Danny Tenaglia
19 Tall Paul
20 Eddie Halliwell
21 Roger Sanchez
22 Hernan [...]

This is a great idea - a free music site devoted to a specific style of music.
Trance Addict doesn’t have a huge amount of music, but what it has it good. It provides singles for download, and DJ sets. There are also videos to download.
It’s more than just free trance music downloads, though. The best [...]

MP3it calls itself a future information distribution system, and a free music experiment. It is a high-concept free music site! Does the world need a high-concept free music site?
The site is part of the Experiment Network, and takes a philosophical attitude to free music sharing. “We have very few tools to perpetuate human interaction. We, [...]

Besonic has the digital music thing down. Browse music by category, listen to a stream of top songs, rate the music and more. Find music according to attitude, sound, tempo, vocals, genre or language.
Besonic currently has about 80,000 songs, which is a fraction of what MP3.com had. Nevertheless, it is currently one of the best [...]

The Internet Archive features a large collection of live concerts. The music in the collection is from trade-friendly artists, and is non-commercial. There are also public domain archives of a variety of older music.
The site has a large collection, but unfortunately, it isn’t categorized. This makes it difficult to sample new bands. If you dig [...]

Miss MP3.com? Then check out Soundclick. It offers streaming audio and free music downloads from well-known artists and unsigned bands.
The site currently is adding more than 40,000 songs each month, and over 5,000 bands. For music fans, the biggest draw is probably the tons of free mp3 downloads.
The site has streaming radio stations for many [...]

Garageband lets you listen to streaming audio of emerging artists, rate them, and download free mp3’s. User feedback is used to create charts, based on the user ratings. The charts are a good way to find some of the better new artists.
The site has over 100,000 songs in their database. These songs have been reviewed [...]

Artist Direct features electronica downloads in MP3 and WM format from popular electronica artists.

Ampcast is an online music community that provides opportunities for musicians to distribute their music, and for music lovers to find out about new artists.
Ampcast delivers streaming audio and video. You can also download free mp3 files from a selection of their artists.
Their selection of electronic music covers, abstract, ambient, dance, electronic classical, house, industrial, [...]

International Documentation of Electroacoustic Music - This site is the home of several databases of information about the production, research and teaching of electroacoustic music.
Their are two databases. The first covers electronic music studios. The second covers the works that have been produced in these studios. You can search the databases online, or browse an [...]