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Obsolete The Free Music Thread!

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Holy cow, have I got a trove.
わたしのココ - Tokyo-based, LaLaVoice-driven J-Pop/experimental hybrid, influenced by everything from minimalism and IDM to digital noise. Absolute jawdroppers. (Kinda nsfw, if you speak Japanese.)
Pairs - Shanghai punk rock duo given to branching out stylistically. Loud and proud, best of the best of the worst. (Nsfw; 小中 is an absolute foulmouth, and he speaks English fluently.)
Captain Ahab - LA dance/absolutely-everything-else duo led by a member of clipping., with a penchant for goofiness, ridiculousness, and outright poignancy. (NSFW, especially After The Rain...)
Greg Garbage - SF Experimental musician who does a variety of styles, under a variety of names. Operates the Turmeric Magnitudes and Cascading Fragments labels, which release both his works and those of like-minded projects all over the world.
Alistair Crosbie - Glasgow-based musician, known for everything from folk and chamber music to ambient and experimental. Striking and evocative.
Mesmerize Records - Chilean record label, dealing in experimental, rock, and other styles. Home to the Savant Series, which is where the especially odd stuff tends to go. (I cannot guarantee all of it will be worksafe.)
Primary Colors - Hard-driving Oakland industrial act with vintage synthesizers and a live drummer.
Scissor Shock - Small-town Indiana Avant-rocker whose style incorporated anything that wasn't nailed down. The foremost of the many projects of the late, great Adam Cooley. (not all worksafe, though...)
Tia-Licot - Japanese breakcore/IDM label. Tends to put out releases once in a blue moon, but more often than not, the result is absolutely golden.
8-Bit Peoples - US chiptune label. Active since the early '00s, they've got hundreds of releases, from chiptune musicians of all origins and disciplines.

Also, the collected netlabel appearances of one Connor Kirby-Long, (explicit lyrics on this one) Vermont's unsung diety of bedroom electronica. His style is at once so many things in so many respects, and yet nothing appears out of place or cancels itself out.

DualPlover, a record company from Australia known for outsider music of all stripes (and not all of it's worksafe) has for at least the past three years been putting a growing number of albums from its back catalogue up for free download via FreeMusicArchive. You'll find the links on the pages for each album. Not all of the albums are up for free download, but the pages for almost all of the albums have at least a few tracks from said album up for free.
 
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Harmony of Heroes | A Super Smash Bros. Fan Album by Shinesparkers

I just found out about this yesterday, and I still can't get over how awesome it is (and it's free!)

For those who haven't heard of it, it's an album of fan-arrangements of over 100 songs from Super Smash Bros Brawl (i.e. an amalgamation of music from Nintendo and other games). Almost all of them are arranged by a different artist, and no song is arranged twice, so there's a huge variety in content and genre, and all of them are fantastic and very creative! There's jazz, orchestral, electronic, metal, folk, and everything in between (including one rather infamous rap...), and the wide variety of franchises that appear means that there's probably at least one song on the album for anybody who's played video games (probably everyone on this forum).

Just for kicks, here's one of my favourites: "A K.Rool Pub Crawl" (King K.Rool / Ship Deck 2) - Sebastian MÃ¥rtensson ft. Christopher Woo - YouTube
 
Ooh! While I'm still thinking of it:
Fällt - Irish firm dealing in computer-generated art of all sorts, including experimental electronica from all over the globe. Not all of it's free (anything labeled MP3 is a safe bet, however). Of note is the invalidObject series, in which 24 artists were asked to make an EP of 15 1-minute tracks.
 
Adult Swim has been putting free music up on their Web site for years now. It ranges from electronica to indie rock to face-melting heavy metal. I just downloaded the latter, which is called Metal Swim, last night. There are so many names that I recognize but aren't up in lights like they deserve: Black Cobra, Torche, Isis, Boris, Pelican... It's a really good thing that a big-name network like Adult Swim is willing to give some of these bands more exposure. No doubt some of the guys at Adult Swim's headquarters in Atlanta are pretty big metal-heads.
 
Kesson Shoujo - The name under which わたしのココ originally worked. At this point the project was mostly throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck, but boy, did it ever.
 
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