Free Music C/D?

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File sharing is a wonderful thing, but it has obscured another interesting feature of the web. In many fields, the web is enabling *amateurs* to communicate more effectively and interestingly than the professionals. Amateur writing from weblogs to discussions like I Love Music are often proving more compelling than professional media.

In music, we haven't seen the explosion in amateurism because the file sharing networks make it as easy to copy and distribute music which was intended to be released professionally. So MP3.com etc. which are phenomenally succesful in getting people to give away music are eclipsed, and still seen as a lesser option, for failures who can't get a publishing deal.

The one good thing that might come out of the clampdown and destruction of *illegal* file sharing, is a resurgence of interest in music from amateurs, shared legally.

So, just to kick off. Where is the good amateur music? What are your recommendations from MP3.com and equivalents? I'm looking here for genuinely free music, in the sense of amateurs who give the majority of their music away, even if they hope, one day, to be signed-up by a label. But NOT bands who use MP3.com to give away a taster of their already commercially released albums.

― phil, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

IUMA (Independent Underground Music Archive) is OK. Similar to mp3.com, it's basically a refuge for anyone that wants to post their stuff in the hopes of garnering attention and a record deal. You can buy CDs there, if the artists choose to sell something, though I'm not sure if there are people who have already released something with a label.

IUMA is free, and that's a major advantage for struggling musicians.

― dleone, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

>Where is the good amateur music?

Well, I could always be so immodest to recommend my own music here... It's late '60s soft pop/psychedelic Beach Boys-inspired stuff. But nah, I wouldn't ever do that. :-)

Also, there's some artists on my links page who happen to fall into the category you're describing.

― popmusic, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You should check out my brother's group, Poem-Cees.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A couple days ago, completely by accident, I Audiogalaxied an mp3 of someone with a heavy European accent (Spanish? Greek?) and a mangled voice doing the Strokes' "Hard to Explain" on acoustic guitar. It was terrible, but fascinating.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Here are a couple of people I like. Hopefully the links will work

Ovo

― earlnash, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Try again.

Ovo

― stereo99_99@yahoo.com, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this, yeah? : http://www.total.net/~synaptic/

― phil, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I AM the good amateur music(but im too lazy to do a site)

― Chupa-Cabras, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Hello! I am looking to retrieve free music c.d.'s from new musicians. My roommate is in a Detroit, Michigan band; and I directly will be giving them to the band Broadzilla. Any c.d.'s will be greatly appreciated.

Sarah Vinnay
15870 West Parkway
Detroit, MI. 48223

― Sarah Vinnay, Sunday, 30 May 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Threads like this (and other discussions, like email lists and things) give me plenty to seek out and find. As I have a painfully slow and not very reliable internet connection at home, it's easier for me to buy CDs, so if I download something it's usually something I don't know.

Y'can hear some of one of my bands here: stylaga.rocks.it

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 31 May 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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