Synthtopia is your source for free MP3s of electronic music. Here are the most recent posts featuring free MP3s.
Matthew Davidson is a musician, sound designer, blogger and graphic designer. He’s released a series of free albums of electronic music, including the all Monome Grids and an album of ambient piano works, A Towering Achievement of Indescribable Beauty. The Hand That Paused to Gather, below, is an ambient piece recorded yesterday morning before Davidson… Read More Free Ambient Music From Matthew Davidson
Disquiet published an interesting post about the Joy of Hexadecimal MP3 – a look at Hexawe.net. Hexawe.net features music made with Little Pig Tracker – a sequencer designed to work on old-school game platforms: A “tracker” is about as simple a sequencer there can be, locating musical tidbits along a basic time line. In Little… Read More Free Music From Little Pig Trackers
MP3 Death has released a free album of music made with the Korg DS-10, the new virtual synth for the Nintendo DS. You can preview a mix of the tracks below, or download the full set at the MP3 Death site.
Ambient/space music artist Michael Meara has a large collection of free MP3 downloads available at his site, Sonic Journey. “Most pieces are either in the vein of cold void space ambience or the warmer currents of classical ambient drift. The artists’ ultimate aim is to aid in the navigation of various sleep-states by providing the… Read More Free Ambient Music From Michael Meara
Milkcrate is an interesting site/project, maintained by Sebastian Tomczak, that explores making music with minimal source materials: Milkcrate is not a band or a particular group of people. Milkcrate adds a further set of constraints of space, time and materials to create music within. The rules… The objective of milkcrate is to write, record and… Read More Cool Site: The Milkcrate Sessions
Remember the Ukrainian electroacoustic guru Younnat – the guy behind the very cool mechanical sampler interface, the Socket Sampler? Younnat, aka Oleg Serdyuk, uses a variety of strange musical instruments and makes some pretty interesting music, too. Some of the other unusual controllers which Serdyuk uses in live performances are: Genius Speed Wheel 3MT Logitech… Read More Free Experimental Electronic Music From Younnat
Chris Randall wears a lot of hats: producer, label head, blogger, software developer and key figure in the nascent “grindhouse” style of electronic music. First and foremost, though, he’s a musician, and he wants to load up your iPod with a bunch of free music. So that pretty much everything you listen to will be… Read More Free Music From Chris Randall
Last year, we asked the question “Is Colleen Shannon The World’s Sexiest DJ?” Colleen Shannon’s website proudly proclaims that she is the world’s sexiest DJ. At the time, we noted that, while Colleen Shannon obviously has sexy down, “she’s got some stiff competition for the title of world’s sexiest DJ from women with clearly evident… Read More Free Music From Colleen Shannon, The World’s Sexiest DJ
The Free Music Archive — WFMU’s interactive library of curated, legal music downloads — is in pre-launch-blog-mode until November In the meantime, though, they’re unleashing free MP3 download teasers. Bands include: Black Math – Dark-wave buried in tape hiss, with grinding synth, electric cello, and drum machine. The three piece lists Depeche Mode and Big… Read More Free Music From The Free Music Archive
The Residents get my vote for being the strangest music group in history. There might be other bands that are extremely bizarre, but none that have been making music – a term some would debate – as long, or as consistently bizarro, as The Residents. If you’re not familiar with The Residents, they are an… Read More Free MP3s Of Some Of The Strangest Music In The World
