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September 16, 2004

Small request

My sound card works now, and I bought some speakers yesterday, and I have a fast connection at work. I would appreciate music suggestions, when possible with a URL from which I could download interesting MP3s.

Posted at September 16, 2004 07:24 AM
Comments

I don't know what you like, but check out www.tonspion.de

Posted by: novala at September 16, 2004 11:31 AM

Check out:
http://www.huumerecordings.com/

Vladislov Delay is awesome stuff... So download all songs. I can't remember exactly how to find them, because the site is trying so hard to be arty that it never has any navigation links, just unrelated words you can click on. Dig around.

Also, there's a few MP3 blogs that link to every fre" MP3 they find out there... these are files that are made available by the artists or the labels. I'll dig up some links. But 3hive.com is good. Also, this metafilter post (http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/34264) has a roundup of a bunch I've never tried.

Also, I highly recommend you download iTunes. It's the best digital music software I've found, even on Windows, and I've tried them all. Additionally, iTunes has started giving away a free song each week!

Posted by: Scott Partee at September 16, 2004 11:39 PM

If you don't mind paying, there's two good options:
1) http://www.emusic.com Tons of small labels with lots of great jazz, electronica and metal stuff, and some really weird recordings. Cost: $15 for 90 Songs (if I remember right...)
2) http://www.allofmp3.com Russian server for legal mp3 downloads (at least legal in Russia). Really big selection with "online encoding", where you can choose the quality of the download. Cheap, at $0.01 per megabyte downloaded. You'll find mainstreamy things there. I got all the seventies stuff from allofmp3 during my recent musical dementia.

Posted by: TH at September 17, 2004 06:53 AM

I just got a fast connection myself--well, fast for this place--and I have had fun listening to some of the things here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/newmusic/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/hearandnow/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/mixingit/

But I don't think you can download and keep the music -- just listen, unless you have some fancypants pirating software or something. (And if you do, let me know.)

I also like kd lang's version of Helpless available on the Guardian for free at the moment.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1303740,00.html

Posted by: eeksypeeksy at September 17, 2004 04:06 PM

i've just discovered another russian site: http://www.mp3search.ru/
.05 - .15 a song, $1.20 for complete albums. i'm in love :)

Posted by: ratty at September 22, 2004 07:46 AM
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