Mixtape: Free Music Archive Mix I

If, like me, you're an ardent listener of WFMU in New Jersey then you may be familiar with the Free Music Archive, which the freeform station launched in 2009. It's a repository of original music artists have provided to be freely distributed and licensed for folks like you and me to use as we see fit. I assume there are certain limits, so ask your lawyer or pastor what they might be. The FMA is also a fascinating place to spend time. You can pick a genre to sample, and then go even further into lots of subgenres nobody else thinks of. For example, you can choose "electronic," and then you're swept away into child categories like dubstep, glitch, "skweee," or as I did the other night, chiptune. So, in the spirit of the Ubuweb mix I made last autumn (except more accessible by harmonic standards), here's a 80-plus-minute tour of some of the tunes I funneled through a couple of days ago, and it shan't be the last. I should probably stop saying "shan't" however. Enjoy.

Tracklist:

Free Matter for the Blind - Attilas c 1995

Puh - Gammelvals

RoccoW - Ace of Clubs

Artofescapism - Forward the Feeling

CLDSCP - Seres Extranos

DarkSunn - Duke

Sandro Marinoni & Stefano Roncarolo - Daily Damage

Chenard Walcker - Wizzz Pop

Ari de Niro - Failed Moments

Alpha Brutal - EPIC SONG

Cooper-Moore - Black Strap Sweet

The Soft Pink Truth - Party Pills

Lucky Dragons - What Am I So Mad About?

Blunderphonics - Shortwave Heartbreak Rides in 1972

Jan Morgenstern - No History of Mental Illness

Marcel Pequel - April (excerpt)

Logosamphia w/Dr Almeja - 9 Project

Jared C. Balogh - Went to a Fight and a Hockey Game Broke Out

Hall of Fame - Rival

People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - Social Dance Song

Zinaida Trokai - The Spirit of Russian Love

QQQ - Unpacking the Trailer

Raez - Hologram Jinn

JFrank - Symphonic Dispenser

Poor Alexei - Interiors

E.R. Goodman - The Wandering

Dexter Britain - Sleepless Nights