Category: Free Music Archive

  • This week on the FMA: Mr. Spastic

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  • Free Music Archive: Goto80 and Netlabels

    Starting to delve into the world of Netlabels with a spotlight on one of my favorite Goto80 releases, Updown.

    It can be rare when a constantly good label hooks up with a consistently excellent artist. So when young label Dwd Records announced the Release of Goto80’s Updown, it was an announcement to the chip music community that this label was wasn’t another chip upload site and that they would deliver quality releases. To this day, Updown is one of my very favorites.

    via Free Music Archive.

  • On the FMA: Bud Melvins 657,644 + New Release Popular Music

    657644_frontThis weeks FMA article is about the wonderful worldly Bud Melvin. An excerpt:

    I once read an interview with a sci-fi writer who said that you can only take so many liberties with your audience. You could have a story with dragons, one with telepathy, or a story with time travel, but combining the three takes an enhanced level of skill than does merely using the one alone. Perhaps the most skillful, time traveling, telepathic dragon in the modern chip music scene is one Bud Melvin.

    Read the article, and then download his early release 657,644, in its highest quality web release ever. Also Bud Melvin has a new release “Popular Music”, available on vinyl and free download.

  • TCTD now on the Free Music Archive!

    fma-legal-music-5We are very proud to announce that TCTD is now a featured curator on the Free Music Archive.   The goal of the FMA is to:

    The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.  The Free Music Archive is being directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.  Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.

    Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by outdated copyright law.  Are you a podcaster looking for pod-safe audio? A radio or video producer searching for instrumental bed music that won’t put your audience to sleep?  A remix artist looking for pre-cleared samples? Or are you simply looking for some new sounds to add to your next playlist?  The Free Music Archive is a resource for all that and more, and unlike other websites, all of the audio has been hand-picked by established audio curators.

    Our goal is to showcase some of the best chip artists and releases in the hopes of getting more high profile exposure for the acts that truly deserve it. Our first featured artist is minusbaby, who may not be new to regular readers of the site, certainly deserves a look from interested outsiders. Every Tuesday we will be posting a new artist, until then you can read this weeks installment here.

    Please show your support by reading and commenting, thanks!