Soft Phase is a netlabel that distributes freely downloadable, Creative Commons licensed music on the internet. There’s a wide range of music styles, electronic or acoustic, but the amount of releases is limited.
One of the albums we like most is from Mosaik called “Leandi”. It’s melodic and ambient electronic music with an surprising high quality (to be free). Like the people behind Soft Phase told us, these artists are passionate about their music and it shows.
Mosaik is Swedish. The music has slightly retro styled mood to it, where melodies are the heart of it all, truly faithful to his unique style. And while the surrounding sounds carries a modern edge, all this together makes you wish the atmosphere and the warmth from the songs would remain in the room long time after it has finished playing.
preview: “Melo”
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preview: “Leandi”
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Click here to download the complete album
softphase.org
Remember our yesterday post about the free creative commons techo netlabel Offaudio? Well, today we present another netlabel that releases techno music into the CC community.
Meet thinner. thinner is a German label offering electronic music since 1998 and has accumulated over two million mp3 downloads.
The techno genre, found at thinner, can be described as “dub-inspired” i.e. some permutation of a fusion of dub with house, techno, or even ambient music. Some is defined as “dubby techhouse” or “ntelligent dub”. You’ll find “minimalism” as well, although dub-influences are clearly the predominant inspiration behind the general flavor of the thinner sound.
www.thinner.cc
If you are into techno music, you might find this interesting. Offaudio is a Techno netlabel that covers the extensive spectrum of this music style, from “minimal” to “Hardtechno” and publishes releases under Creative Commons License!
Founded in Spain, the netlabel features a lot of Spanish artists. But they are accompanied by artists from Canada, Russia, Japan, Sweden, Germany and even the Netherlands.
www.offaudio.com
RCRD LBL is a network of online record labels and blogs serving up fresh new music downloads!
You can choose between Artists, Labels and Latest menu’s. In Artist there is an alphabetical search, a most recent and a most popular list of artists. Once you choose a release, it can be streamed (listened to), downloaded or shared (via e-mail). Songs can also be embedded on you’re own blog by clicking on the “Embed this track on your site”-link. To do that, you’ll first have to click on a particular song first. Clicking on “blog” lets you see what bloggers write about the song.
Looking for a specific genre? Click on the “genre” button in the menu near the middel of the page. The genres are organized in a tag-cloud like manner.
example of an embedded track: (Royksopp – The girl and the robot (Ocelot remix) )
You can download the music for free provided it is being used for personal, non-commercial use. All music on RCRD LBL is free and legally available for downloading when offered. Some of the music is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.
Musikethos.org offers free classical music by a group of professional musicians. The music sits in the public domain and makes use of the Creative Commons licences (podsafe). The quality of the recordings are great! The site features music of many of the great composers:
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Beethoven, Ludwig Van
- Brahms, Johannes
- Chopin, Frederic
- da Firenze, Lorenzo
- Feliciani, Luciano
- Haydn, Franz Joseph
- Joplin, Scott
- Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Rossini, Gioacchino
- Schumann, Robert
- Shostakovich, Dmitri
- Strauss, Johann
Listen to some examples:
- Felix Mendelssohn – Allegro vivace, from the Symphony no.4 “Italian”
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- Johann Sebastian Bach – Allegro from the Sonata n. 2 for violin (guitar)
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- Ludwig Spohr – Adagio-Allegro from the Concerto No.1 for clarinet and orchestra
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Go to www.musikethos.org
This is a list of great Creative Commons licensed MP3 sites. That means you can use the music for all your projects and uses: radio, TV, internet, film, background music… Take care: some songs might have certain restrictions, depending on their specific licenses. Always look at the precise license conditions that applies to each MP3. (Most of the time it’s clearly indicated).
Jamendo offers a diversified catalog, updated drawing from over 200,000 tracks! And you save collective rights society fees. On Jamendo artists allow anyone to download and share their music. It’s free, legal and unlimited.
Dance-Industries is a dance and trance music copyleft community. The mp3’s are free and 100% legal for download and use.
ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
The Netlabels collection at the Internet Archive hosts complete, freely downloadable or streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of virtual record labels. These netlabels are non-profit, community-built entities dedicated to providing high quality, non-commercial, freely distributable MP3 or OGG-format music for online download in a multitude of genres.
Opsound is a gift economy in action, an experiment in applying the model of free software to music. Musicians and sound artists are invited to add their work to the Opsound pool using a copyleft license developed by Creative Commons. Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine.
Simuze is a Dutch website that features 1853 songs, ordered by license restrictions, from totally free to more restricted.
Audiofarm helps finding and sharing free music.
