Favorite free (and legal) music available online

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 8:39 am

My favorite thing about off topic sections is that they let people get to know each other better. Because we're.... <cheese> a community. </cheese>

Anyways, I'm always looking for cool new music. You guys know of anything good that I can download free and legal on the Internet?

I'll start it off.

I've downloaded most of the freely available tracks from this guy http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/30/funky_tunes.html at mp3.com. He puts his music under the name 'Symphonic Chronicles'. It's mostly synthesized, but he's got some fairly convincing samples of real instruments. He's got stuff in several different styles... but I would definately describe his music as being in the tradition of quality computer game soundtracks.

My favorite tracks are:
The Flight of the Dragon Riders
The Dark Relic
March of the Seraphim
Lords of the Eternal Realm
Classic Cats Car Audio Demo

So! What's some cool music?

Anax · Post by **Anax** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 3:22 pm

LOL!

That was great. You were listing off these very dark and meaning ful track names, then you come up with "Classic Cats Car Audio Demo"

What's with that???

lol

Duality · Post by **Duality** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 3:38 pm

favorite artists:
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/41/bitstream_dream.html
favorite tracks:
with or without you (blackwatch)

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/430/y-r-project.html
favorite tracks:
Nightshift
Electricity
Stimulator
Africa

Http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/15/bassid.html
favorite tracks:
Recursive dreamin'
Three Stage Rocket
Eclipsylo

The Symphonic Chronicles track I used to like... Harlequin Waltz and Twilight.

enlightenment · Post by **enlightenment** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 4:08 am

Mike Andrews -- Symphonica electronica
http://www.mikeandrews.tk/

Abysis Projects -- World Music
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/102/dev ... _riel.html

Harida-Nazca -- World Fusion
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/129/harida.html

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 7:05 pm

HAve set up a Wiki-link page for this topic:
http://www.joeredcloud.com/kandarwiki/i ... sFreeMusic

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 7:54 pm

Most of these are free as in beer, but not free as in open source. So we couldn't distribute them with VS or anything.

But for a guy who can't access his music collection and wants to play Vega Strike with some neat new tunes, this is absolutely perfect.

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 8:08 pm

The links section was meant exactly for this

Duality · Post by **Duality** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:12 pm

umm.. mabie if you get the author's permission or so..

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:14 pm

Duality wrote:umm.. mabie if you get the author's permission or so..

With the permission of the author/copyright-owner you can use the music whereever he allows you to (correct me if i'm wrong here)

Pontiac

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 10:22 pm

pontiac wrote:
Duality wrote:umm.. mabie if you get the author's permission or so..
With the permission of the author/copyright-owner you can use the music whereever he allows you to (correct me if i'm wrong here)

Pontiac

Right, but their free distribution of it can't be construed as permission to use it as we see fit. There's gotta be some specific permission associated with the thingie (like a license or written permission).

Just want to be sure we're all on the same page here.

Actually, I've been doing a bit of digging for open source music to bolster Vega Strike's collection. I've found one piece so far that will fit in with the style. I found it at a site which I added to the wiki page.

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 9:54 pm

"Open Source" by the Magic Mushrooms. Hehe, I like it.

http://download.linuxtag.org/music/ogg/opensource.ogg

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 11:44 pm

Quite good music, check out the other files in the directory too:
http://download.linuxtag.org/music/ogg/

Pontiac

PS: i think they are on the knoppix-cd as well.

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 4:20 pm

It's not really free music (demo-music), but it's really worth the download.

Menu-Theme.mp2
... and the rest of the music files from the Haegemonia-Demo.
Unfortunately it is only for windows (proprietary exe-archiv).

If we had something like this for vegastrike i would even pay for the music

.

Pontiac

PS: Don't know if one can give this music to other people without the rest of the game

EDIT: Just found some of them on the haegemonia homepage:
http://www.haegemonia.com/gallery_music.htm
But they are not as good as the menu-theme.

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 11:14 pm

I've updated the wiki music links page. I've collected some new places to snag neat music over the past few months, and I put them up.

http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/phpwi ... sFreeMusic

martin · Post by **martin** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 4:23 pm

some friends of mine are making electronic drum&bass style music. some of their tunes have a nice spacey feeling, so I recommend to check them out:

http://www.klangterroristen.de

The page is in German, but is easy to navigate. My favourite tunes (downloads section) are:
* Quizat Haderach (I think this one contains 3rd party material)
* Canadian Whiskey Maneuver
* Commercial Dream (this one sounds pretty alien)
* Basstard

It would be nice if you leave a note in the guestbook or send them an email if you like the music. If there are plans to include some tunes in VS, somebody should ask for permission - I think they would be pleased to contribute.

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 9:50 pm

Just wanted to post this one here too:
http://magnatune.com

I'm currently listening to the Rock channel there and it's quite cool.

Straight from their website:
" We're a record label. But we're not evil.... Listen to hundreds of MP3'd albums from our artists. Or try our genre-based radio stations. ...."
The rest of the statement is on their frontpage

Pontiac

Ari Rahikkala · Post by **Ari Rahikkala** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 9:17 pm

I find it funny that nobody ever mentioned Ken Suguro's site here... http://www.iface.ne.jp/~ken/

Robert Eldridge does incredible things with an acoustic guitar.

KurtZ makes music you won't understand. Mostly a dark, heavy sort of electronica. He's rather imaginative and eccentric.

Everyone knows http://www.vgmusic.com .

A couple of nice songs by Tapani Siirtola.

The HVSC - more Commodore 64 music than you'll ever find the time to listen to.

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:44 pm

Free Remake of the "Duke Nukem 3d" music:
http://www.markmcwane.com/music-dukenukem.html

quote from the website:

Lee Jackson and Robert C. Prince III (Bobby Prince) wrote the now-beloved music to the Duke Nukem 3D game in 1994 and 1995. The main theme song, "Grabbag", is a "I can name that tune in three notes" kind of song, and gamers still love it. With the advent of high quality musical scores via MP3 or OGG, or some proprietary format, modern gamers are now accustomed to hearing music that is big, robust and CD quality. The original Duke Nukem 3D music was in MIDI format only, and it unfortunately did not age well. As a result, and with the permission of Lee and Bobby, I made the decision to create new and improved arrangements of all the Duke Nukem 3D music, and with new ports of the now open-source code to Duke Nukem 3D, my music can now be used in the game itself!

Pontiac