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 [...]

Amber Nixon is a San Francisco-based techno and tech-house DJ and producer with a taste for driving beats and aggressively risky mixing.
Aggressive and risky is good.
Her unique approach to mixing is featured on her three CD releases, Live with Friends and Family (2004), Gold (2002), and CityDweller (2001), and her latest track, Your Love, is [...]

 

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Yeow! What’s not to like about DJ Diamond?
She’s an international DJ, she’s Hawaiian and she’s been featured in Playboy, Maxim, and FHM. She’s even got a degree in sports medicine, in case you get whiplash turning your neck when she catches your eye.
She’s DJ’d from South Africa to China to Russia to South America, delivering [...]

 

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In preparation for the upcoming release Zen Conspiracy? by electronica/drum n bass artist Mashed Buddha, MusicDish has made his 4 track EP, Four Keys to Zen? available as a free download.
The EP represents a new direction for Mashed Buddha, who’s orchestrated grooves have thus far lacked one thing - improvisation. Whereas debut album Subdue Your [...]

 

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We’ve got another helping of great free electronic music for you today, courtesy of Part2, an independent record label based in Cambridge, UK.
part2 is a new label, launched in March 2007. The label features ambient, abstract and hard to define electronic music. While currently a net-label, part2 plans to offer cds and other media soon.
Current [...]

 

 Ian Stewart - Driftwood [7:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Diatonis, an LA-based ambient artist, is offering a collection of tracks as free MP3 downloads. Diatonis describes his music as “an eclectic mix of ambient, electronic, and world styles.”
Diatonis is also heavily into surround sound and video. An example is embedded below, and there are many more examples available at his site.
Diatonis’ latest release, perception, [...]

 

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 Diatonis Waiting For Eternity: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia.
All month, we’re going to help you kick the RIAA habit by highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
Binary Mind is a French electronica group that has released several CDs of free music. Their tracks range from ambient to techno to industrial.
You can preview one [...]

 

 Naia [4:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. All month, we’re looking outside the mainstream music industry and highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
Cinema Du Lyon is podcast project that features experimental ambient soundscapes in podcast and video podcast form.
Here’s their description:
Cinema du Lyon are not from Lyon … they are [...]

 

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It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. All month, we’re featuring great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
Today we’ve got a free MP3 from Mudville. Their music is described as future-soul, and combines electronic and acoustic instruments along with electronic processing.
On their new release, Iris Nova, producer/bassist Benny Cha Cha uses lush [...]

 

 Eternity [4:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

March 17: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. All month, we’re going to help you kick the RIAA habit by highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.Previously, we’ve looked at free trance music, free electroacoustic music, Berlin-school bootlegs and some 8-bit madness.
If you haven’t discovered it yet, check out DJ [...]

 

 Groundpounder: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

March 15: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. All month, we’re going to help you kick the RIAA habit by highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
Previously, we’ve looked at free trance music, free electroacoustic music, Berlin-school bootlegs and some 8-bit madness.
Hopefully, you’ve got some hard disk space left, because [...]

 

 Deep Impact [5:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

March 12: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. Every day this month, we’re looking outside the mainstream music industry and highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
Little Things Count is a free CD of minimal ambient electronica by Kernel32. It’s released on OpenLab Records, a label that releases music under [...]

 

 The Bad Outweights The Good: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

March 11: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. All month long, we’re going to help you kick the RIAA habit by highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
Archaic Horizon Records is a cool label focused on the experimental and eclectic. It releases music under the Creative Commons license, which [...]

 

 Sora Shima - Monsoon [3:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Fans of ambient, atmospheric and progressive electronic instrumentals should check out the Spotted Peccary podcast, Music is Art.
The podcast features music, interviews and more. A recent podcast features a conversation with ambient artist Steve Roach.
Audio podcasts are shows that you can subscribe to like a magazine. Add the podcast URL to an application like iTunes, [...]