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Free MP3 From Mudville
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 soundscapes to spotlight the chops of songwriter/vocalist Marilyn Carino.
Mudville is using free music as a way to let you sample their music and find out more about the band.
You can download the free track Eternity below, or learn more about Mudville at their site.
It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia – we’re looking outside the mainstream music industry and highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
IndieFeed is an example of how people are using podcasting to share new indie electronica music. Each IndieFeed podcast episode features one song from an indie musician. There are podcast feeds for several different categories, like Electronica, Hip-Hop and Indie-Pop, so that you can subscribe and just get the types of music that you’re interested in.While it’s not a traditional radio-style “show”, it’s a great way to find about new music.
You can preview an example of an IndieFeed “episode” below, or subscribe to the podcast using one of the feeds at the IndieFeed site.
Free Ambient Music From Kernel32
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 a Creative Commons license, which means you can legally download and share it.
Description: “There are some things that my friends have done for me in the past.. not huge favours or anything, just said somethin or done something nice for me and i always look back and remember it. that’s where the title comes from. This album might be dedicated to my friends… there are tracks on it that mean different things to me. The period i wrote the album in was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster, some days i’d be a bit depressed and fragile, some days i’d be happy. So thats where the general mood of the album comes from. My music start off as mind and develop a little into instinct i think.”
You can preview Little Things Count below.
Free Ambient Music
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 means you can download the music legally, copy it and even share it as you like.
There most recent release is a free EP called Distancing, by a New Zealand band called Sora Shima.
“It’s full of lush reverb drones and textures made purely with broken guitars, a $50 MP3 player with built-in microphone and software,” explains Sora Shima guitarist Jae Lurman.
The four song EP’s title, Distancing, alludes to a beautiful naturalistic setting free from any disrupting inhabitants. Yet all of the songs are given an edgy quality with the occasional hollow or sharp tones increasing tension. These agitated sounds are eventually subdued by their softly moving counterparts composed of minimal textural drones.
You can sample Distancing with the track Monsoon, below, or download the full EP at their page at the Archaic Horizons site.
You can learn more about Shora Shima at their MySpace page.
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, and new shows will be automatically downloaded when they become available. More info is available in the Podcasting News article What is Podcasting.
The podcast feed URL for the Music is Art podcast is: http://www.spottedpeccary.com/podcasts/sppodcastfeed.xml.
In iTunes, select Advanced – Subscribe to Podcast and paste in the podcast URL.
