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katya-oddio on 10/18/2016 at 04:00AM
Caligari: An Exquisite Corpse
The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 silent horror film considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema. It tells the story of an insane hypnotist who uses a somnambulist to commit murders. The film style is creepy and features bizarre leaning, twisted, angular landscapes and sets.
To accompany the classic film, eleven composers from the Chain Tape Collective collaborated via exquisite corpse method to produce two entirely new soundtracks.
Those soundtracks are now housed at the Free Music Archive in time for Halloween. Artwork, liner notes, and more information are available from the Chain Tape Collective. The complete film with the new soundtracks is available for free download from the Internet Achive under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license.
Some of these Creative Commons licensed tracks may sync beautifully with the soundtrack for your Halloween festivities. Just try not to get creeped out of your skin.
netwaves on 10/17/2016 at 02:01PM
10 years netwaves!
Hello, on oct. 2nd 2006 netwaves did its first broadcast on Belgium's longest existing free independent Radio Scorpio. After ten years we're still skimming the internet for the most enthralling netlabel releases.
This resulted in following list:
- 376 podcasts + compilations
- 29 mixes
- 670.915 downloads
- episode 142: 28.845 downloads
- kopiefeest-album: 17.050 downloads
- The whole list is here
We do celebrate our tenth anniversary with this compilation of oldies from about ten years ago: episode 376 Relisten to our first episode, a special about legendary 8bit netlabel Monotonik: https://archive.org/download/nws001/nws001.mp3
And now, up to the next ten years!
greetings netwaves team: Michel, Jan, Erwin, Jasper, Yannick
cheyenne_h on 10/13/2016 at 02:40PM
FINAL DAY!!
THIS IS IT!! Your final chance to show your love & support for FMA during our fundraiser!
Until 11:59 pm TONIGHT (Eastern U.S. Time Zone), you can contribute to our fundraiser! Help us push towards our goal and keep the FMA free and accessible. There's only one website that contains curated, Creative Commons licensed music for free download, streaming, and in some cases, remixing and reuse. If you haven't seized the opportunity to show us some love, there's no time like the present!
cheyenne_h on 10/13/2016 at 12:54PM
2 DAYS LEFT! 2 FREE APPS!
Our fundraiser ends tomorrow at 11:59 PM! By supporting FMA, you support things like: FREE APPS! We offer free FMA apps for iOS and Android platforms which allow users to browse and listen to our entire collection of music - which is, at the time of this blog entry, almost 103,000 songs deep!
1. Our iOS App! Get it here, for free!
2. Our Android App! Get it here, for free!
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Music Licenses: A Handy Guide!
Go ahead and take a peek at our License Guide, assembled as a quick reference sheet for the variety of music licenses we carry on our site. From the array of Creative Commons options to the FMA-Limited to Public Domain dedications, this guide tells you what you can - and can't! - do with the music you find here.
