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It’s Free Music Friday at Synthtopia – so I ask you this:
How much free music do you want to download today?
- 10 tracks?
- 50 tracks?
- 500 tracks?
It’s time to make sure you’ve got some empty hard drive space, because Synthtopia readers have uploaded over 500 electronic music tracks that you can listen to online and, in most cases, download for free.
We’re talking ambient, techno, symphonic electronica, IDM, not-so IDM, abstronica, DJ mixes, remixes, downtempo electronica and more from some the most talented electronic musicians in the world.
Click the “Listen to Music” link at the top of the page to open the Synthtopia player in a new window, or check out the most recent tracks below. If a track has a “Download” button, you can download it for free.
And don’t forget to make sure you’ve got some free space on your hard drive when you’re done! Read more…
DJ Deedle has unleashed his latest Deedlecast podcast, the Halloween-inspired Horrify:
Tomorrow is Halloween, and DJDeedle has produced a Deedlecast to frighten and delight.
The horror movie genre has brought us so many deliciously terrifying moments, Deedle just couldn’t pass up exploring the music of horror film.
You can preview the Horrify Deedlecast below. You can listen to two previous editions of DJ Deedle’s Halloween podcast at his site.
Free Music Friday: Experimental ambient artist Gel-Sol (Andrew Reichel) sends word of a new release, gel-sol’s adventures beyond the plunderworld, that’s available as a free download.
The track is a plunderphonic sound mashup.
If you’re not familiar with plunderphonics, it leaves behinds the limitations of legal sampling to create works that aren’t defined by our current copyright law.
“This is a sample-based collage,” explains Gel-Sol, “made with over 7 years of collected samples.”
You can preview gel-sol’s adventures beyond the plunderworld below:
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Here’s an update on the Synthtopia SoundCloud group.
We put the group together to make it easy for Synthtopia readers to share their original music with other readers. Synthtopia readers have now shared well over 200 original tracks in the group. The tracks range from DJ mixes, to remixes, to Berlin-school electronics, to synth pop to ambient.
You can listen to all the tracks online. Better yet – most are available as free downloads.
Check out the music below, or see our original post for more information. Read more…
We’ve added a new feature to the site that should make it easy for you to listen to and download some great electronic music from Synthtopia readers.
Just click the Listen To Music link at the top of the page:
This should open up a new music player window that looks something like this:
Here’s some of the things you can do with the player:
- Click the play button if you just want to listen to the latest tracks.
- Select any track from the list and play it.
- Jump to any point in a track by clicking on the sound wave.
- Get info on the track
- Download over 100 free tracks! If the artist has enabled the free music downloads option, the player will show the Download options.
- Share the track to social networks like Facebook & Twitter, get an embed code or email it.
If you want to add your own electronic music tracks to the mix, check out this post: sharing music with Synthtopia readers.
Let me know how the new feature works for you and if you have any feedback on it!
