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Rebel Music Volume 01

11/23/2009 | By Fernando Fonseca
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Music Monday (or #MusicMonday) is a weekly celebration that happens on Twitter. It celebrates music, artists and, above all, it allows Twitter’s users to discover new music and old music. At Bit Rebels we are starting a weekly compilation of music that we will be collecting from the Internet. Usually collecting music from the Internet means you are doing something illegal but this is not the case: we want to introduce you, if you don’t know it already, to something called Creative Commons Music (or #ccmusic on Twitter). Creative Commons Music is music you can download, share, redistribute for free with anyone you want and its perfectly legal to do it. “Download music for free? No legal hassles? What’s the catch?” you ask. No catch and more: Just because its free it doesn’t mean it isn’t  good. Did you know that RadioHead and Nine Inch Nails gave their latest works for free? As you will see by our first compilation there is great music out there just waiting to be discovered.

Rebel Music Volume 01 by Bit Rebels

Track List

01. Torsion  – Sundrops on the Ocean (original piano mix) | [PS003 REdrops]

02. Emile Lund – Getting Late | [aaahh.007 Emile Lund EP]

03. Azeda Booth – First Little Britches (morgan greenwood rmx) | [sec.031 Tubtrek]

04. Emily in Love – Everything’s OK | [corpidex029 Let's Pretend We're In Love]

05. Nic Bommarito – Better then Way Post-Rock |  [12rec.058  Harp Fragments]

06. dusmotes – annica | [PS012 Beats for the Subverted]

07. Clark|KENT – Sundrops (Fabrice’s dream rmx) | [PS003 REdrops]

08. The Black Atlantic – Madagascar | [Beep007 Reverence for Fallen Trees]

09. The Underscore Orkestra – Blue Draggish | [ No Money No Honey All We Got Is Us]

10. Pandoras.Box – Arrows and Bows | [ca270 Barriers]

Cover Art: Andrea La Valleur

Zip file with all tracks + Cover art: [BRM0001]

Please feel free to explore the full EPs from all of these wonderful and talented artists that share with us their amazing music. Since music is not a one day thing, and if you are interested in exploring more, I recommend a visit to noumenon :: and :: phenomenon a website maintained by Thomas L. Raukamp, editor of Beat magazine, that has 2  #ccmusic proposals every day. I also would like to thank Thomas for all the help he gave me to put this first compilation together.

Do you have tracks you want us to feature? Do you know that really cool music project you think is a shame no one heard about yet? Let us know on the comments!

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Author: Fernando Fonseca

Co-head of PublicSpaces, a company and netlabel based in Barcelona, Spain, Fernando is a serious Douglas Adams fan, cook, tech and gadget geek, strategist and experimental musician. Lover of red wine , gin tonic, sushi, Monty Python and Karaoke, Fernando is involved in many new-media art related projects, (h)activism, GoogleWave. Send him a tweet in klingon at @fjfonseca: you will make his day.


13 Comments

Diana Adams

November 23rd, 2009

Fernando,

I love this post and this idea. Awesome!

And, wow, Andrea did a fantastic job on the cover art.

I can’t get enough of this!

Diana

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Fernando Fonseca Reply:

Thank you Diana! I think that all of these artists, and lots more to come, deserve to be out there because their music is wonderful.

(How cool are these threaded comments as well? WOOOT)

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Andrea La Valleur Reply:

Thanks girl : )

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Michael Gregoire

November 23rd, 2009

Congrats on a fantastic premiere collection!

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myniffie

November 23rd, 2009

Wow great! Can I make a request? (:

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Fernando Fonseca

November 23rd, 2009

@Michael: Coming from you that is doing so much for the netlabel scene I feel honored by your comment! Thank you so much!

@Myniffie: Sure! :-)

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Kieron James

November 24th, 2009

Great post. The points you make are so pertinent. I’ve been astounded by the depth and breadth of work available under cc licenses, not least the outstanding recommendations of @thomasraukamp on Twitter (editor of Germany’s “Beat” magazine.

If you’re new to free and legal music, you should follow Thomas or run a search on Twitter / Google for “netlabels”. Some netlabels are beginning to charge for music, but you won’t be low on choice.

It’s a point I’ve made on Twitter many times and I’ll make it again here. Thomas Raukamp has overhauled my iTunes library and I’m ever grateful for his daily recommendations.

Labels like PublicSpacesLab are changing the landscape. They, and their artists are providing the true musical innovation. Support them by promoting them whenever you download a track. Tweet, retweet, @reply and if the label / artist is following you on Twitter, send them a DM too showing your appreciation. As a netlabel artist, the direct contact with listeners is HUGELY important for me.

Especially, do this on a Monday! Make a note of tracks you want to tell the world about, give the artist and label a namecheck and include a link to the download. Spread the word, enjoy the free music and support the labels / artists who share their work. #MusicMonday

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Fernando Mateus

November 24th, 2009

Thank you so much for the grea great selection.

Looking forward to hear the next #MusicMonday

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Jonathan

November 24th, 2009

Sweet sounds, esp. the Pandoras.Box. Thanks for all the pointers!

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Rick G

November 24th, 2009

Hey Fernando.
Awesome idea of showcasing music that is licensed under CC…we truly believe that this is the future of music licensing and would love to share our work with you:
http://music.winksound.com
Looking forward to your feedback.
Rick

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