wyneken
01-29-2005, 10:05 PM
There is a cool little underground of strange and unusual music: from 50s 'exotica' and 60s Space Age bachelor pad music, through contemporary spins on the outsider theme.
http://www.oddiooverplay.com/ : Oddio Overplay is a good place to start. Besides hosting a few original albums to download for free, it also provides a wealth of links to other sites.
http://www.comfortstand.com : Comfort Stand Records is a net label with a growing (around 50+) catalog of totally free music. I recommend starting with CSR 001: "Two Zombies Later," a compilation of ... well, it's a compilation, and it's got tiki heads all over the cover, nuff said?
http://www.basichip.com/ : Basic Hip Digital Oddio is almost self-explanatory. Or not.
http://www.sabadabada.com/music.htm : Brasiliana - a treasure trove from the bossa nova craze of the 1960s, worth a visit just to browse the covers
http://www.projekt.com/projekt/audio.asp : All right, well, this is a change of subject, but Projekt is a terrific goth/darkwave label with lots of free mp3 samples on its site, plus some bargain-priced samplers to order. Check out the band called Unto Ashes.
http://www.kittyspit.net/erik/mp3/linkpage.html : This is the MOTHER OF ALL MP3 LINKS SITES. Mr Brown maintains an active list of free and legal music sites of every imaginable genre -- House/Groove to Eastern Orthodox/Byzantium, No Wave to Medieval/Renaissance Revivalist. Must be seen to be believed.
http://www.oddiooverplay.com/ : Oddio Overplay is a good place to start. Besides hosting a few original albums to download for free, it also provides a wealth of links to other sites.
http://www.comfortstand.com : Comfort Stand Records is a net label with a growing (around 50+) catalog of totally free music. I recommend starting with CSR 001: "Two Zombies Later," a compilation of ... well, it's a compilation, and it's got tiki heads all over the cover, nuff said?
http://www.basichip.com/ : Basic Hip Digital Oddio is almost self-explanatory. Or not.
http://www.sabadabada.com/music.htm : Brasiliana - a treasure trove from the bossa nova craze of the 1960s, worth a visit just to browse the covers
http://www.projekt.com/projekt/audio.asp : All right, well, this is a change of subject, but Projekt is a terrific goth/darkwave label with lots of free mp3 samples on its site, plus some bargain-priced samplers to order. Check out the band called Unto Ashes.
http://www.kittyspit.net/erik/mp3/linkpage.html : This is the MOTHER OF ALL MP3 LINKS SITES. Mr Brown maintains an active list of free and legal music sites of every imaginable genre -- House/Groove to Eastern Orthodox/Byzantium, No Wave to Medieval/Renaissance Revivalist. Must be seen to be believed.