This CD is a gift for fans of the music of Philip Glass. The music captures the lyricism of his best work, and showcases the full range of his style within a collection of short piano pieces. The Etudes are an interesting collection. As etudes, they explore a range of piano technique. They also explore… Read More Philip Glass – Etudes for Piano
The music of Stephen Halpern has lived outside of the electronica mainstream for 30 years, yet it’s been very influential, especially in the world of New Age music. Most of Halpern’s music is peaceful and calm, and is free of the rhythmic pulse of most music. Instead, it uses a longer pulse, based on the… Read More Stephen Halpern
ATB is best known for his memorable dance track 9pm (Til I Come). ATB mixes trance tunes with straight-ahead dance electronica. ATB is the nom-de-dance of Andre Tanneberger, a German DJ/producer. His first album, Movin’ Melodies, set the pattern for his later work. ATB’s albums tend to have two or three great cuts, and the… Read More ATB – Dedicated
Open Music Registry – This site has a database of audio files that are published using open content licenses. This allows users to download and freely user the files. Downloads from the Open Music Registry are free, not just in price, but also in the way you can use them. You’re free to share the… Read More Open Music Registry
MP3.com.au – MP3.com may be dead, but don’t tell the Aussies! This site hosts thousands of free MP3 files that are legal and freely downloadable. You can stream the songs at low or high bit rates, or just download them. If you see something you like, you can send a music e-card. The site provides… Read More MP3.com.au
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
