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B Michael Payne: Just Free Stuff
B Michael Payne: Just Free Stuff
On the tons of excellent free music coming out via rappers and their mixtapes. Rappers are very much analogous to bloggers in that both groups sort of do what they do because they want to do it, but they also know there’s not really any worth to what they’re doing - except sometimes one of their cohort gets scooped up by some faceless place with money, so there’s always a little halo of maybe-money attached to what they do. Maybe that halo’s worth more than actually making a piddly amount of money.
·bmichael.me·
B Michael Payne: Just Free Stuff
Pitchfork: Odd Future Mixtapes
Pitchfork: Odd Future Mixtapes
“A year ago, when nobody knew who they were, the demonic L.A. skate-rat rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All cranked out music at an alarming rate. And now that nobody will shut up about them, they’re still doing the same thing. Since 2008, Odd Future have released no fewer than 12 full-length albums, as well as assorted between-releases singles — all available free on their Tumblr. Some of those releases are brilliant, paradigm-shifting works of violent vision. Others are entirely forgettable. Almost all of them are worth your hard-drive real estate, and almost all of them will confound you in one way or another. Below, you'll find a guide to every single one of those albums, from their introductory 2008 ‘The Odd Future Tape’ to Frank Ocean’s ‘Nostalgia, Ultra.’, the experimental R&B tape that the crew released just a few weeks ago.”
·pitchfork.com·
Pitchfork: Odd Future Mixtapes
Marc Weidenbaum — Lowlands: A Sigh Collective
Marc Weidenbaum — Lowlands: A Sigh Collective
Another ‘response album’ from Marc Weidenaum's blog minions, this a collection of recordings that use a human sigh as their source material. The response is to the grumpy, narrow-minded art critic Richard Dorment, who questioned the integrity and quality of artist Susan Philipsz’ Turner Prize-winning ‘Lowlands‘, as well as a number of other artistic endeavors that he considers unworthy of anything more than a ‘long low collective sigh’.
·archive.org·
Marc Weidenbaum — Lowlands: A Sigh Collective
Marc Weidenbaum — Despite the Downturn: An Answer Album
Marc Weidenbaum — Despite the Downturn: An Answer Album
I may never get around to listening to this, but the idea is fantastic. "An article in the May 2010 issue of the magazine The Atlantic critiqued the current generation of young music fans for rampant copyright violation. In a small irony, the illustration used to decorate the article interpolated a detail of a preexisting work that appears to not yet be in the public domain. This notice isn’t intended as a criticism of the illustrator — quite the contrary; the illustration is excellent — but instead of the theoretical foundation of the article, which suggests a clear line between right and wrong where there is, in fact, significant ambiguity. I forwarded Traum’s image, and article it accompanied, to various musicians and asked them if they would record a piece of music that took Traum’s picture literally: use it as a score.”
·archive.org·
Marc Weidenbaum — Despite the Downturn: An Answer Album
Disquiet: Odd Nosdam & Jel Found-Sound MP3 (& Video)
Disquiet: Odd Nosdam & Jel Found-Sound MP3 (& Video)
Anticon beatmakers Jel and Odd Nosdam have forty dollars to spend on records at a thrift store and an afternoon to make a song from them. Links here to a short video of them finding the records, taking samples, and piecing them together. The track isn't half bad, even though this is slightly akward and gimmicky. In fact, yeah, just skip the video and download the exclusive so that you have it forever.
·disquiet.com·
Disquiet: Odd Nosdam & Jel Found-Sound MP3 (& Video)
Musicophilia
Musicophilia
A fantastic music blog, with expertly crafted thematic mixes, often centered around certain periods in music. A great source for inspiration and knowledge for the music-obsessive.
·musicophilia.wordpress.com·
Musicophilia
Zenpho: One hundred ambient tones
Zenpho: One hundred ambient tones
"One hundred ambient tones is a collection of short ≈40sec ambient audio snippets designed to be listened to in 'random' or 'shuffle' ordering. The transitions between tracks, chosen randomly by your machine on playback, become the focus."
·archive.org·
Zenpho: One hundred ambient tones
toneshared.com
toneshared.com
"Toneshared is the world's most interesting collection of mobile phone tones made by well known musicians and artists working in the electronic and alternative music scenes." Free, short, sweet. Inclues Caribou, Faux Pas, Califone...
·toneshared.com·
toneshared.com
Freesound
Freesound
"The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focuses only on sound, not songs."
·freesound.iua.upf.edu·
Freesound
stereogum: MySplice.06 - The Year In Mash-Ups
stereogum: MySplice.06 - The Year In Mash-Ups
"...we got together with our favorite mash-up artist, team9, and concocted a Year In Review bastard pop mix featuring 2006's most notable ear candy. You'll hear blog faves mashed for the first time, and a bit of classic rock thrown in for good measure."
·stereogum.com·
stereogum: MySplice.06 - The Year In Mash-Ups
Rain Music
Rain Music
French netlabel, free albums. "Electronic soundscapes" and 'Cake on Cake' is great.
·rainmusic.free.fr·
Rain Music