Showing posts with label free music archive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free music archive. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Halloween Music 2017

“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.” ~Unknown

Deep in the vaults of ccMixter lurk hundreds of Halloween songs that will add a certain, shall we say, rotting addition to your scary playlists.  Like grave diggers on a full moon night, you will find what you are looking for, all you have to do is dig.  Dig until you hit the sound that is hollow and cold.  Dig until your bones are creaking.  There is Ghostly music down there.  And all of this haunting music is free to share and download.

Some of the ghouls working for the dark lord have brought us back a few tasty tracks already.   These servants have sacrificed themselves so that you may stream them for free online at TuneTrack.net.  But be careful, the dark lord of ccMixter is cunning, and soon you'll find yourself enslaved to the tunes created here.

There are also mad scientists, musical genius gone awry, making new nightmare songs, Ghost Notes that will rattle the cages of your mind.  This new music pleases our master, though no mercy will ever be shown.

Like Frankenstein was created from pieces and parts, all this haunting music is created from source material uploaded under Creative Commons licenses, scary music is brought to life, stomping around the internet like the monster Mary Shelly created.  Join us and we will rule the world.  Happy Halloween!

Relevant links:
To Dig in the Vaults:
dig.ccmixter.org
(use search words like "halloween", "scary" or "nightmare")
To stream the Tunetrack playlist from the ccMixter vaults:
http://tunetrack.net/jason-brock/blog/posts/758/halloween-curation/
To hear/create new Halloween music go to Ghost Notes remix event:
http://ccmixter.org/thread/4013


Thursday, June 29, 2017

Remix Net Neutrality-The FMA Sample Pack


If you don't pay attention, and make some noise, Telcom companies will restrict your internet access even more by creating a tier-based connection systems.  That would give big money players legal right to limit what you have access to.  How? By giving priority to those who pay more, ISP's will effectively shut down the Unicorns, the Cats, Willy Wonka, and even Morpheus by slowing down the access to them.  Why?  Because innovation isn't as cool as regulation.  It's called Net Neutrality folks, and the rabbit hole goes deep. 

Luckily, we've got friends who stand up to these ISP agents.  Friends like Kickstarter, Netflix, Reddit, Greenpeace, Amazon, and our friends at the Free Music Archive.  Free Music keeps the beat of the free internet.

So we contacted Cheyenne, one of the Free Music Archive (FMA) overlords, and asked her if the FMA would be willing to create a playlist of samples to use in Creative Commons remixes for Net Neutrality, and she said yes!  It's available now as a .zip file at the FMA's ccmixter page.  The FMA's sample pack features excerpts from a podcast they recorded with Michael Weinberg, formerly of Public Knowledge.  It's tasty stuff for remixing, so jack in and help us protect our network!

We'll be posting mixes from out twitter account @ccmixtermusic and we're using the hashtags #battleforthenet and #netneutrality.  Please do the same and share the music.  Slowing down the tempo is cool, but slowing down our internet connections is not.  


Relevant Links:
Free Music Archive Sample Pack
Free Music Archive Blog
Michael Weinberg
Battle For The Net