Free Music

Chiptune site 8BitCollective has released a new free CD, Hello World!
Download link
Track listing:
01. MM - 8BC Is Cool
02. Swampyboy - Glacial Floe
03. ChipHydra - Anything with Heart
04. Digital Cait Sith - Krazoa
05. Little-Scale - Hello
06. Raptorface - Cherryblossom
07. Sparkyboy - Gloom
08. Nintenboys - Be Alone
09. Constipation Man - Space Race
10. Failotron - Hello Világ
11. Pandotrix! [...]

What happens when you combine age-old contrapuntul style with Gameboys?
One possibility is Joey Mariano’s Gameboy Madrigals:
Early composers of the madrigal used only two to three voices to create counterpoint. Realizing the opportunity for reinterpretation through the gameboy sound chip, Joey Mariano set out to create a body of chiptune madrigals inspired by early RPG games, [...]

I’m a massive Budd & Eno fan. The Pearl & Ambient 2: The Plateax of MIrrors are two of the most gorgeous and important works of ambient music.
So I was excited to see music blogger Matthew G Davidson (Stretta) offer his take on the classic work of Budd & Eno. Here’s a little background on [...]

 

 Where Abundance Lies [4:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is the trailer of the upcoming Dreamwatchers DVD:
Dreamwatchers’ Tales is a common project managed by Darklion
The concept is simple. It’s a compilation album with electronic musicians from around the world.
In the year 2000 the members of the tadream mailing list in the yahoogroups decided to joined their musical talents to create the compilation and [...]

Remember that little record, The Slip, that we reviewed a few weeks ago?
The audiophile geeks at HydrogenAudio took a look/listen at the files with a scanning electron audioscope and noticed some mastering errors.
The story has a happy ending, though, because the NIN guys are audiophile geeks, too. They’ve released remastered versions of the free tracks [...]

To promote his new 4 track mini album of minimal techno, Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet has produced a special 30 minute DJ mix of similarly minimal grooves, Ringer:

 

 Four Tet DJ Set [30:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Four Tet - Ringer
Liquid Liquid - Bell Head (Harvey edit)
Avus - Tear
Burial - Raver
Sam Clarence - Sextant daktari
Wookie - Manchu 2
[...]

Radionomy, a Belgian startup, is a site that lets you create a free, ad-supported Web radio station
The site, now in beta testing, is designed to make creating a Web radio station trivial, letting you browse through vast music, jingle and content libraries made available by Radionomy. You can also integrate your own musical creations or [...]

Nine Inch Nails is riding high on the publicity of its heavily hyped Ghosts I-IV release and is capitalizing on that buzz with a new free album release, The Slip. It’s available exclusively as a free download, but physical releases are in the works.
There’s a 2008 Nine Inch Nails Tour coming up this fall, and [...]

 

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Nine Inch Nails has announced that it is giving away its latest album, The Slip, for free:
as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.
the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, [...]

Not only is the deluxe edition of NIN Ghosts I-IV one of the most beautiful box sets ever, they’ve thrown in some extra music.
The deluxe edition was limited to 2,500 copies ,which sold out within 36 hours at $300 each. It includes two CDs, a data DVD with multi-tracks for remixing, a 24 bit/96 kHz [...]

There’s a new free Nine Inch Nails single, Echoplex, that they are distributing via iLike.
NIN has become the band to watch, if you’re interested in the future of music:

The group recently released Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license, which means you can share it or use it in your podcast,
The group offers an [...]

 

 Echoplex: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Coldplay’s latest release, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, is due June 17th.
The album features 10 new tracks, recorded in London, Barcelona and New York with producers Brian Eno and Markus Dravs.
To build interest, they’ve released a free single, Violet Hill, that you can download via their site. (email required)
Tracks:

Life In Technicolor
Cemeteries [...]

Portishead gets the 7-minute plus remix treatment from Jay Fields, aka Exillon, a Bay Area electronica artist.
via missingtoof

 

 Portishead Remix: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Netlabel Musica Excentrica has released a new album of free MP3s from Astrowind, Fresh Wind in the Valley of Dreams:

Astrowind might be a slightly ridiculous band name, especially if you consider the fact these two Latvian guys play lush ambient music on Soviet synthesizers. But nevertheless, it’s a good name. An accurate name, at least. [...]

 

 Lost and Found on the Moon [7:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Clash Music has an interesting interview with synth music pioneer Jean Michel Jarre.
It touches on some very timely subjects, including the role of the Internet in music:
The Internet isn’t the only answer
I think that the Internet might become the ultimate marketing machine, but I also think that in maybe five years’ time, what will be [...]