[cc-community] 10k great Free songs (was Re: Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music)
Gavin Baker
gavin at gavinbaker.com
Mon Nov 19 13:09:27 EST 2007
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Elizabeth Stark wrote:
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> On Nov 18, 2007 8:43 PM, Christopher Budnick <cbudnick at gmail.com
> <mailto:cbudnick at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> This is one of the big problems that we've had with talking to artists
> about licensing their existing and new material liberally: so much of
> the free stuff right now is bad electronica. I don't know the history
> of that project you linked to, but this is a problem with a lot of the
> material on ccMixter, and it's the same problem with most music, most
> of it's bad, most of it's electronica (on the internet, at least). I
> agree with you that organization and discovery are fungible, as are
> the tasks of convincing the best local and non-local bands you know to
> release their existing and new music to the commons.
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> Yup, hopefully the FMA and OLPC Free Music project and Rrcd Lbl will
> change this, but I find it extremely difficult to find *any* CC music
> that I actually really like. I'm also a big fan of electronic music, so
> that says something. What I did find that was effective was getting
> artists who I knew to release music that I liked under CC for the OLPC
> project (some of which is BY-SA), but it took a lot of
> convincing...(Seems like it's the easiest way to find CC music that I
> like though.)
>
> I may be missing some of the CC music scene, but whenever I go to try to
> find CC music, I may find something that is halfway decent, but my bar
> should be if I'd actually like it if it weren't CC. And I am admittedly
> picky, so that's a pretty high bar to pass.
I have to admit I'm in the same boat! I'm sure there's good stuff out
there, but the search costs are just too high to sift the wheat from the
chaff (at least to my tastes). I've been just as successful finding
music I like on obscure netlabels as through the big CC music channels
like Jamendo, Magnatune, or ccMixter. Unfortunately, I think we're still
lacking when it comes to promotion, tastemakers and recommendation
engines for CC music.
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Gavin Baker
http://www.gavinbaker.com/
gavin at gavinbaker.com
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