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Recently, I introduced you to all2gethernow’s Creative Commons’ compilation. I told you, we soon would change the main host for the files - due to GEMA (Germany’s collecting society). Hosting the files myself would make my blog a shop - even if the download’s for free. Plus I would have to report the hosting to GEMA, despite the fact it’s all Creative Commons music. It’s crazy but it’s a fact.

And here we are! At the a2n event, I met Jason Sigal. He’s the man behind Free Music Archive. FMA is based on a brilliant idea: archiving free music under making it accessible at a kind of one-stop service. He opened the archive for our compilation of Creative Commons music and invited us to being hosted at Free Music Archive. More than that - he blogged an article featuring all2gethernow. Thank you Jason.

I changed the link to all2gethernow’s Creative Commons music compilation in my post, but here it is once more for direct access at FMA.

Just have a look yourself at the whole thing - currently, there are about 25.000 (!) songs available at FMA. It’s legal, and it’s free. All curated by different people like netlabels of course, Creative Commons, and a whole bunch of others. So you will only find selected content. Music that is worth listening to. There’s charts, information on the artists etc. - it’s beautifully done by people like Jason. Guys who love what they’re doing.

Take your time and enjoy FMA.

Just a quick note out to everyone interested in good music for free private use, licensed under Creative Commons.

For all2gethernow 2010 (a2n), I contacted a few guys from the German netlabel community plus some artists and teamed up compiling this sampler. It includes various styles of music, from electronics to singer/songwriter stuff. But, you should take a listen for yourself. It’s a treat.

Download from Finetunes by filling in the code a2ncc2010 - and there you go. Available at Finetunes until 30th September only.

In case you encounter any problems, download the zip file here for free! (zip file, 144,3 MB, all tracks 320 kbit/s, incl. cover picture) - temporary host… no code, direct link.



Right now, it’s only available at Free Music Archive - and what a great host THAT is. (Thanks to Jason!)

Here’s the tracklist:

1. Shlohmo - Socks [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0]
   
2. Bitbasic - The Lack Of Anything Good [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0]
   
3. Entertainment For The Braindead - Relapse [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0]
   
4. Pixelord - Cybernator [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0]
   
5. Small Radio - Excellenti [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0]
   
6. Raziel Jamaerah - Flow 4 Ever / 1Time2TheBeat [CC BY-SA 3.0]
   
7. Giraffe - 4am [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0]
   
8. The Inventors Of Aircraft - The Tower [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0]
   
9. Emilie Lund - Sad Blue Mountain [CC BY-NC 3.0]
   
10. Damian Valles - A Wake Pattern [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0]
    
11. Derrick Hart - You’re Winning So I Quit [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0]
    
12. /’angstalt/ - wie weich [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0]
    
13. Zoe.LeelA - U.G.L.Y. [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0]

Involved (net)labels: 12rec., aaahh records, Error Broadcast, Resting Bell, P-Pack Records, rec72, Weisser Herbst.

Many thanks to the label owners, artists and people who supported the project - in alphabetical order: Danny Bruder (P-Pack Records), Christian Giering (Finetunes), Oke Göttlich (Finetunes), Christian Grasse (aaahh records), Zoe.LeelA, Marco Medkour (rec72), meik michalke (/’angstalt/, Open Music Contest), Matthias Quellmann (Finetunes), Roland (Machtdose Podcast), Christian Roth (Resting Bell), Moritz “mo.” Sauer (Phlow.net), Sim Sullen (12rec.), Sven Swift (12rec./Error Broadcast), Thomas Ternes (tompigs.com).

Today’s act I’m going to introduce to you is no band. Neither it’s a solo artist. You might call it a project. And it sure has developed in a way not expected.

Ambient Circle is a collective of various participants located in Germany’s North-Rhine area. Every now and then, they get together to play electronic music sessions. They are entirely focused on electronic ambient music, and it’s just twelve sessions they did so far. This includes public and private sessions.
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