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The Free Music Archive — WFMU’s interactive library of curated, legal music downloads — is in pre-launch-blog-mode until November
In the meantime, though, they’re unleashing free MP3 download teasers. Bands include:

Black Math - Dark-wave buried in tape hiss, with grinding synth, electric cello, and drum machine. The three piece lists Depeche Mode and Big Black as [...]

 

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The Residents get my vote for being the strangest music group in history.
There might be other bands that are extremely bizarre, but none that have been making music - a term some would debate - as long, or as consistently bizarro, as The Residents.
If you’re not familiar with The Residents, they are an American conceptual [...]

 

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Musica Excentrica - an avant garde post-music netlabel - has released a free album of electroacoustic glitch music, Digital Snow.
Here are the details:

Nikita Golyshev, known as CD-R, and Bogdan Dullsky (Quest.Room.Project) met virtually and have recorded an album. First, they share music file sources in the net, and then processed with real-time sound recordings through [...]

 

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Trent Reznor today announced another free music download, the line up for his touring band and took the opportunity to trash Windows along the way:
I am proud to announce the final personnel lineup of nine inch nails for the foreseeable future. We’ve added, we’ve subtracted and we’ve wound up with unquestionably the strongest lineup I’ve [...]

Taiga is a solo project of Denis Taiga from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Bitter Tragic Joke is a collection of previously unreleased tracks, recorded in a period of six years, from 2002-2008.
Description:
Sampladelic experience and ethnic eclectic jazz are the basic lines of Taiga: we can hear a lot of samples from Soviet movie pictures and cassette tapes, [...]

 

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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

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
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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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