Coming from the Indonesian Hujan Records netlabel The Safari offer up an eclectic mix of Punk, Garage (and Surf) Rock, Pop and general toe-tapping goodness on their short album ‘By Existence’ (or ‘Demi Eksistensi’, to give it it’s proper name), all with an easy sense of coolness which makes for […]
I like Dub. I like the archetypal deep beats, the wandering, ponderous path the music follows, the immersive rhythyms which drag you in – I like all of it and from the innovators of the genre onwards to the sea of bedroom producers we have today I can pretty much […]
A bit of a mongrel offering today with ‘Accountants By Day’ from Kescho, released on the Swedish net label 23 Seconds – from which on the first listen alone you can pick up hints of everyone from Donovan to The Libertines, via The Coral, The Fugs and any number of […]
It’s rare, these days, for me to pay real attention to Jamendo. Way back when I first tripped over free music I treated the place as a hub, the first check-in point whenever I felt like finding something new and for the most part it worked.
Free music, free culture in general in fact, is a thing of obvious benefits. To the creator it’s an outlet which allows for honest enthusiasm, for the passion which was invested into the work to be appreciated by as many people as possible without having to adhere to a communal, […]
When I’m writing for this site, or just rambling incoherently about free music, I habitually refer to ‘us’, the movement that is, the free music scene which provides a common thread to bind together a vast number of completely different individuals into some sense of collective belief. Or at least […]
One of the biggest tricks the free music movement is missing at the moment is one which is all too often barred to us by the very mediums we chose to use. I’ve noted before, fairly bitterly in fact, the near absurd preference the scene seems to show for electronic […]
It’s probably an act of perfect timing on my part, observing the slow and arduous decay of the print medias, the proliferation of digital downloading (legal and otherwise), the advent of Spotify and Last.fm; and then deciding that my new favourite past-time would be reviewing some of the most readily […]
It’s just about the first thing you’ll notice on first arriving on the free music ‘scene’, that vast, all consuming ocean of Experimental music which regardless of the counter-trend still manages to make up the bulk of content released.