Harvey Danger

Harvey Danger is a bigger deal than most of what I link to here, one of them serious mid-scale indie band type deals. More to the point, they decided to do an intentional experiment in releasing their most recent full length as a free download along side the conventional release, to see what it did for the sales. No word from their website as yet as to the results. But if you download it and dig it, please buy the album or make a contribution to them (see info on the download page on their site), as they are working musicians and taking a chance with this sort of distribution.

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Little By Little by Harvey Danger

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Who knows? Fleep.com

This is one of those where my central question is, is this legal? I mean, this thing has obviously been around forever, so if its egregiously breaking the law you'd think somebody would have done something about it by now. What the hell, sure, I'll download a 69.8 MB, hour and a quarter of "Deep House for lost souls" mix track. I'm on a gaping cable broadband pipe, it'll take me about 4 minutes, and I still have more than a dozen gigs left on the ol hard drive (man, my computer is almost obsolete). Fleep.

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7am Sessions

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The Mysterious Allure of Nintendo (continued)

Something about Nintendo above all other video gaming system seems to elicit a particular kind of musical attention. Behold, all the music from Super Mario World, done up with real instruments, weird vocals, and orchestration. Who is
XOC? While the cited page contains links to answer this question, I don't feel like following them at the moment so it must remain, within the confines of this posting, a mystery.

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Super Mario World Title Screen

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Comatonse Recordings

Sporting one of the weirder interfaces out there (which is saying something), notable for a preponderance of kittens, Hello Kittyesque cartoons, and (most inexplicably) Holly Hobby, Comatonse Recordings describes iteself as "dedicated to the production and dissemination of non-categorical contemporary electronic music." Tons of free audio for the diggin'. Did I mention it was Japanese?

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Rain by Screech

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nanosounds.com, the tiniest corner of the phree musique web

What happens when you harness "cells and atom clusters to change the way digital music is manipulated" by applying "biotechnology... optics, information science and music composition and theory"? Well, if you take nanosounds.com to be your guide, you alternately get something like a beatnik throwing up in a goth's ambient lunchbox, or the soundtrack to to what sounds like a pretty good video game circa about 1986, or you get a 404. The latter is a bit of a cardinal sin in my book, but beggars can't be choosers.

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Bicycle to Finland

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Hungarian Music Defies Clever Headlines

When I think of Hungary... yeah, that's it, I draw a complete blank. The very vaguest of visual ephemera, probably utterly generic Eastern European/Former Soviet Bloc scenery and costumery drecked out of the great common semiconsciousness of teevee, slip through my mind. I can say this though: Hungarian Music sounds precisely like I would expect it to sound. Bunches of music, of utterly questionable legal provenance, for some reason because it's Hungarian it just doesn't seem that relevant.

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Felment az en rozsam Pestre

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NRK Urørt - Forsida

Where is it from? Is it legal? What exactly does "urørt" mean? Who cares. All you really need to know is that "Last ned" means "download." I suppose that menu section labled "FINN MUSIKK" probably means that NRK Urørt - Forsida is Finnish [NOTE, 2-27-08 - stupid American doesn't know what he's talking about, surprise. Please read the second comment below for an explanation of the site. Short version, it's Norwegian, and legal. Rock on, Kongeriket Norge!] But honestly: I don't even really know what that means. The last time I heard someone say "Finland" in any meaningful political context they were talking about World War II. But apparently they got some music, or rather musikk, going on.

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Touch the Sky by Fling... at least that's probably the title and artist, who knows, really. Because you need more tekno, I just know it.

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Alexander the Poet. Violating the Corpse of Irony

Some things seem to belong to another age. Some things seem to belong to an age that perhaps never really existed, when simplicity and nobility walked hand in hand in the childhood of humankind. Alexander the Poet, by contrast, exists in a more specific other age: 1983. From what I'm reading here, Alexander shaves his chest hair in the shape of a heart, dons leather trousers and doffs his shirt, and recites his original, suggestive poetry to a soundtrack of whale song, at "open mic nights... in the NJ/NYC area." I'm in a mean post-New Year mood, so this is what you get.

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The Day I Spanked My Monkey

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