Legal Torrents – This is a collection of legally downloadable, freely distributable ‘net.label’ electronica MP3 files which can be downloaded using BitTorrent. The site lets you download huge archives of free music from various online record labels. The Legal Torrent server provides the initial seed, and they supply ‘BitTorrent irrigation’ for all the files by… Read More Legal Torrents
Digitally Imported brings the latest european techno and trance music to the net. DI has several free streaming stations, including techno, trance, vocal trance, hard trance, chillout, and hardcore. The site doesn’t provide downloads, but just high-quality streaming electronica. Streams are available at 28k, up to 128k. There’s community forums and chat room for each… Read More Digitally Imported
This is a great idea – a free music site devoted to a specific style of music. Trance Addict doesn’t have a huge amount of music, but what it has it good. It provides singles for download, and DJ sets. There are also videos to download. It’s more than just free trance music downloads, though.… Read More Trance Addict
MP3it calls itself a future information distribution system, and a free music experiment. It is a high-concept free music site! Does the world need a high-concept free music site? The site is part of the Experiment Network, and takes a philosophical attitude to free music sharing. “We have very few tools to perpetuate human interaction.… Read More MP3it
Besonic has the digital music thing down. Browse music by category, listen to a stream of top songs, rate the music and more. Find music according to attitude, sound, tempo, vocals, genre or language. Besonic currently has about 80,000 songs, which is a fraction of what MP3.com had. Nevertheless, it is currently one of the… Read More Besonic
The Internet Archive features a large collection of live concerts. The music in the collection is from trade-friendly artists, and is non-commercial. There are also public domain archives of a variety of older music. The site has a large collection, but unfortunately, it isn’t categorized. This makes it difficult to sample new bands. If you… Read More Internet Archive
Miss MP3.com? Then check out Soundclick. It offers streaming audio and free music downloads from well-known artists and unsigned bands. The site currently is adding more than 40,000 songs each month, and over 5,000 bands. For music fans, the biggest draw is probably the tons of free mp3 downloads. The site has streaming radio stations… Read More Soundclick
Garageband lets you listen to streaming audio of emerging artists, rate them, and download free mp3’s. User feedback is used to create charts, based on the user ratings. The charts are a good way to find some of the better new artists. The site has over 100,000 songs in their database. These songs have been… Read More Garageband
Artist Direct features electronica downloads in MP3 and WM format from popular electronica artists.
Ampcast is an online music community that provides opportunities for musicians to distribute their music, and for music lovers to find out about new artists. Ampcast delivers streaming audio and video. You can also download free mp3 files from a selection of their artists. Their selection of electronic music covers, abstract, ambient, dance, electronic classical,… Read More Ampcast
