WFMU presents Selected Sounds from the Free Music Archive vol. 1.
This compilation previews 21 of the thousands of tracks that’ll be
freely available under Creative Commons licenses when the fully
interactive Free Music Archive
website launches later this year. We’re working with a group of fellow
curators to fill the library with great music, and this sampler
represents a piece of what WFMU brings to the table.
We’ll be handing out free copies of the CD at the July 4th Sonic Youth/Feelies show (we’re lending special support as part of our Free Music Series). And you can download the comp, along with accompanying artwork by Greg Harrison, right here!
Selected Sounds from the Free Music Archive vol. 1
>> DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE ALBUM w/ ARTWORK as a .zip (.zip) <<
Tracklist:
1. Lucky Dragons - Mercy (mp3) - from the 555 Recordings release Dark Falcon
2. Mahjongg - Tell The Police the Truth (mp3) - from the K Records release Kontpab
3. Psychedelic Horseshit - Country Punk (mp3) - live at WFMU 12/18/07 on Brian Turner’s show
4. Pierced Arrows - Guns of Thunder (mp3) - from the Tombstone Records release Straight to the Heart / Dead Moon Music
5. New Bomb Turks - So Long, Silver Lining (mp3) - live at WFMU 11/10/2002 on Mike Lupica’s show
6. Kinski - Shelley Winters Overdrive (mp3) - live at WFMU 4/22/2003 on Brian Turner’s show
7. Jason Willett and Jad Fair - Or So I’ve Been Told (mp3) -from the MT6 Records release The Sounds of Megaphone Unlimited
8. Dan Deacon - Piggled (mp3) - live at WFMU 7/23/03 on OCDJ’s show
9. Food For Animals w/ Faust - Planet Say (mp3) release tba 2008
10. Brian Joseph Davis - The Ambient Honky (mp3) from the Blocks Recording Club release The Definitive Host
11. Big Blood & The Bleeding Hearts - Oh Country (mp3)
12. M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con - Nam Nhi-tu (mp3) from the Dust-to-Digital release Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics (1915-1955) curated by Ian Nagoski
13. Fursaxa - Song of the Spindle Berry (mp3) from the Sylph release Kobold Moon
14. Nautical Almanac - Rolling in the Green (mp3) from the Heresee release Cover the Earth
15. Strapping Fieldhands - In the Pineys (mp3) from the Siltbreeze release In The Pineys
16. Tommy Jay - I Was There (mp3) from the Columbus Discount Records release Tommy Jay’s Tall Tales of Trauma
17. Citay - On the Wings (mp3) Live at WFMU on Liz B’s show 3/24/08
18. Sounds of Taraab - Mahaba Wa Taka Nini (mp3) from the album Zanzibar, New York
19. People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - A Chase Posthaste (mp3) from the digital single Music to Run Fast By
20. Clockcleaner - Caliente Queen (mp3) from the Load Records release Babylon Rules
21. Alan Vega with Oneida - Rocket USA (mp3) live at Southpaw 10/13/2007 for WFMU’s Free Music Series
Artwork by Greg Harrison (download it in the album .zip)
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The mp3s in this post are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license
Thank-you for making it in a .zip file.
Posted by: TenshiKurai9 | July 02, 2008 at 11:42 PM
What is the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States license ?
Posted by: Andy Peters | July 03, 2008 at 03:37 PM
Great stuff!
Posted by: John Fink | July 03, 2008 at 03:38 PM
Andy -- It's the default agreement we're using for the Free Music Archive. The rights-holders retain copyright ownership and right to sell, while making it clear that they are ok with people using their music non-commercially in ways that can benefit artists/labels but would otherwise be restricted by copyright law. More info here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us
Posted by: Jason | July 03, 2008 at 03:49 PM
AWESOME
thanks
Posted by: henrique amud | July 04, 2008 at 11:42 AM
My Cd burning software informs me that this compilation is 3 seconds too long, which I guess means it clocks in at 80:03. You guys kill me. Anyhow, I solved this by lopping off the last few seconds of the Alan Vega song and fading out, but if you'd posted this thing before mp3 editing software was invented, I'd be up shit's creek now.
Posted by: Jeff Gee | July 07, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Jeff, I'm sorry about that. We crammed as much music on here as we could, but it should be clocking in at 79:47 and we did manage to fit them onto CDs without any further editing. Maybe there's a setting to eliminate the gaps between songs in your CD burning software?
Posted by: Jason | July 07, 2008 at 11:17 AM
My software says it does eliminate the gaps, but then it also says the check is in the mail and there's no MSG in my take out Chinese, so I have my doubts. As I said, I trimmed a little bit of crowd noise and everything is now fine. Hey. Thanks, and also thanks for this incredibly cool CD, however the hell long it is.
Posted by: Jeff Gee | July 07, 2008 at 05:45 PM
A caballo regalado no se le miran los dientes...
Un dicho de la zona...
Gracias, muy bueno. Espero que comienze pronto FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE
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Posted by: Peter | July 07, 2009 at 06:40 AM