Excellent free music
Excellent free music I've collected over the semester:
- Soundtrack of a video that was produced simply to show the richness of the available free music: The Urban Tale (compilation), try tracks 3 and 9 especially
- Dark chocolate laced w/ adrenaline: L'Onomatopeur: Always Beating track 1
- Trip-hop/experimental jazz/electronic: Manuzik
- Lazy-listening smooth synth (sort of): reClock
- drum/base/tribal-like: dambo
- Heavy-beat electronic: Saelynh
- Classical-ish and related: Ehma
- Chill/fusion/electro/ambient: Greg Baumont
- Electro/techno: Isotope Lab (try Clean Room, Freeze v2, Infection, and Repentance)
- Meditation/oriental/ambient/nature: Phoebus (the Feng Shui Project album)
- Spoken word/story/surrealist: 2NU (This is Ponderous, Crossroads (Chaos), Then Again (4 Adlemi), A Father's Day, The Legend, She 04)
Edit 2006-3-4: I've added a few more excellent artists to my collection since this post. Following are some more album recommendations.
- Tribal/trip-hop/energetic: Amalfi: aucun
- Industrial/electronic/ambient: Binary Mind: CD2
- Electronic/trip-hop/synth: Bleacher: third
- Smooth, beautiful trip-hop: LEGO: indélédébile
- French female vocals over crisp synth/pop/rock: Lonah: Pièces (if you listen to nothing else by Lonah, listen to "Fractale" or "Smoking")
- Highly melodic layered electronic trip-hop: Realaze: L'acte Sombre
- Instrumental and synthetic electronica: Silence
- Electrojazz groove: solcarlus: primarius
- Indie mixture, electrofolk: t r y ^ d: Public Domain (this is from an entirely online collaboration of artists, sharing and mixing sound)