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  • February 12, 2012 at 12:30 am #14723
    LoveLand
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    Yea bin covered a few times on ‘ere ( surprise surprise) …

    If you are a new user of emusic.com they are currently giving away £12 worth of credit once you sign up with one of their plans. You wack in your card details, download your tunage and then cancel (within 7 days I think). At £0.42 per track, you get 24/25 free tracks! And they have a HUGE collection, though size doesn’t always matter.

    I’m not sure of a one-stop shop for free giveaways though Dave, maybe that’s a business idea in the making. You tend to have to follow the particular artist like a lovestricken puppy for sometime and await giveaways through their websites/blogs. Happy for someone else to chime in with further suggestions here

    I appreciate certain individuals are bound by particular time constraints, however in my opinion, crate digging wether for free, rare and/or good music should really be practised and cultivated. The reward is hundreds of times sweeter once you find a killer track, and you stumble on the most random gems in the process (usually).

    LL.

    February 12, 2012 at 12:52 am #14725
    lockon stratos
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    Well, my first suggestion is soundcloud, but only download from actual artist pages, otherwise the quality and legality arent guaranteed.
    Second, http://rcrdlbl.com/ Has plenty of free, legal music from tons of artists, indie, electronic, and mainstream, roughly in that order. Only thing is they rarely have originals, but the remixes are generally good or better.
    Then you’re down to a song here and a song there. People who give away free tracks include (to the best of my knowledge) BBC radio, CMJ, CBC, and last.fm.
    Additionally, most places that sell music also give some free. (iTunes, amazon mp3, etc.)

    February 12, 2012 at 2:35 am #14729
    Dave Korfman
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    I agree with you about crate digging but yes, it is so time consuming, a lot of leg work for the occasional result….just think it would be cool if some clever dick had written and algorithm that picked up stuff from around the internerd. Actually, in an ideal word, something that let you play snippets like playing a chart in beatport, then you can just let your ears be the judge while you’re doing something else.

    Anyone fancy writing that?

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