Free Music

LAJ has published this a free meditative mix of fairly recent ambient and drone tracks, ranging from minimal and delicate to mildly dark and melancholy to cinematic and spacious.

Download the mix or the individual tracks from the Internet Archive.

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Earjuice Records has released Avoid the Computer’s Woven Suite, a free album of music created with the Jomox T-Resonator.

Description:

16 dynamic tracks utilize the Jomox T-resonator. With the ability to bend spacetime itself, the time woven filtermatrix easily generates cerebral feedback solos and dischordant ambient wank.

It may be dischordant ambient wank – but the tracks showcase the wide range of effects possible with the T-Resonator.

Download here.

The T-Resonator is a synth module that transforms timely events into an analog feedbacked filter network. You can select 8 different delay algorithms, each with different delays and different feedbacks and modulate them even with an LFO. Delays reach from less than a millisecond to 1 second, range and structure is depending on the algorithm.

Apocalypse Meow is the second release of sound designer/idm artist Luca Capozzi, features eight tracks of exciting electronic music.

It’s available as a free download from Jamendo, and has the best cover of the year.

Details on the release below. Read more…

Heath Finnie has released a free album, Bartosho, that celebrates the sound of the Yamaha CS80.

The CS80 is considered by many to be the greatest analog synthesizer ever created. It’s a heavy, unwieldy beast – but it also offers fantastic sounds and incredible expressive control of the sound.

The Yamaha CS80 is also familiar to many as the signature synth of Vangelis.

Here’s what Finnie has to say about Bartesho:

Here is an album called ‘Bartesho’. I’m currently offering it for free here on my site for a limited time.

It was improvised using nothing but a Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer and some reverb to add some “space” to the recording. I hope you enjoy it. The mp3’s are encoded at 360kbs for better quality.

Finnie says that his influences include Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Cluster, Neu!, Can, Ashra, Harmonia, Boredoms, Acid Mothers Temple. To my ears, though, Bartosho brings to mind Vangelis’ love it or hate it albums Beabourg and Invisible Connections. The album alternates very mellow ambient sections with sections that feature edgier sounds.

Check out Finnie’s music page for more of his work.

via Tara at AnalogSuicide

Moby wants you to get Shot In The Back Of The Head.

If that doesn’t creep you out – here’s a nice photo of Moby looking like a deranged naked gunman. —>>

Fortunately – he’s a provocateur and Shot In The Back Of The Head is the name of his latest track.

Better still – Moby’s pulling a Trent Reznor and releasing his new song as a free MP3 download.

Get it here (MP3).  Unfortunately, Moby doesn’t say how the track is licensed – so it’s not clear if you can share the track or use it in a podcast.

Download it and let me know what you think of it!

And if you see Moby, don’t look at him in the eyes too long.

Image: Julio Enriquez