Thursday 13 August 2015

Wednesday 29 July 2015

Our FMA collection is expanding

On our last session, I challenged myself to make a new upload to White Market's music collection Free Music Archive every week. It would have been amazing if it wasn't for the fact that I just moved houses and I am out of internet until August 5th, which makes things just slightly tougher. However, I will try to make up for it and upload some sweet sweet things in a near-ish future.

Now, a few things that you need to know about this Free Music Archive thing. I started curating/uploading content for it a few years ago, when White Market was still "Programa Marca Branca"- basically the same show, but in Portuguese, airing in 5 different radio stations in Portugal and Spain. When PMB transformed into White Market, I adjusted the descriptions, links and whatnot, while keeping the previously uploaded records online.

The music I upload is not a White Market exclusive. You will be able to find it available for download in other places of the Internet and that is basically why I can upload it: because everything is published under a Creative Commons licence. While the usage permissions change according to the licence chosen by the artist, they all allow sharing. With this in mind, my role here is strictly the curator's one: I search, select and upload songs that are not yet available on FMA, making your search for good free music just a tiny bit easier.

Enough of the chit-chat now. Today, there's a new record there: DarkSunn's MELANGE can now be freely streamed and downloaded on FMA. I hope you like it; I sure do.

 

Sunday 19 July 2015

Session 2.04 - Keeping the engine running

With some blasts from the past and a few treats, we kept the free music engine running, and delivered another hour of great Creative Commons-licenced tracks. And, on top of all the fun, I've set myself quite the challenge: every week White Market will be uploading a new record on Free Music Archive. In case you missed it, here's our collection soon to be expanded on a weekly basis.

Walter Benjamin - The person #3 [Merzbau]
Featherfin - If You Were Coming To The Fall (feat. Allison Eales) [Eardrums Pop]
Pokett - Yours [Sundays in Spring]
The Boy With The Broken Leg - Know You Better [Bump Foot]
Radius System- Impulsion Pt.1 [Lost Children]
Winter - Alligator [aaahh records]
cultureculture - Use Me [FMA / Bandcamp]
Roots Manuva - Let the spirit (Hot Chip remix) [Jamendo]
Bufi - Homeless Hero [Poni Republic]
Weigl & Hoffmann - The Grass is Greener (Gate-Zero remix) [iD.Eology]
Red Trees - Woman [La bèl netlabel]
Kris Roche - Be Love [FMA]
Basement Skylights - Technicolor Idols [Jamendo]

Sunday 12 July 2015

Session 2.03 - Celebrating Netlabel Day 2015




We celebrated Netlabel Day 2015 with an exclusive playlist that only included participating netlabels. The challenge was picking up the best ones!

Nowhere Fast - &i [Sostanze Records]
Break the Bans - People (I need a bomb inside my heart) [Southern City's Lab]
Walrus - I Just Wanna Be Me [Yes No Wave Music]
Light Up The Sky! - Sophie's Lullaby [56kbps]
Boblebad - Boblebad [Mars Melons]
Captive Portal -  T-Shirts Silly Bus [mahorka]
Nyquist - The Last Summer [FutureDraht]
Lord Breu - Dendê [Latino Resiste]
Van Delay - El éxito [Amalgamated Futureless Artists]
Ping-Fonk - Broken Machine Blues [Disfish]
FUTURESOUNDER - Take Me To The Sun [Subbass]
SanthiAgo - Door to Door [bleepsequence]
Herr Doktor - Miami Call [Enough Records]




Sunday 5 July 2015

Session 2.02 - Celebrating Summer, Enjoying the Rain

.: Photo by Darren Flinders :. CC-NC-ND
Following this week's amazing weather, we decided to celebrate summer with some warm songs. Ironically, it started to pour just before the show started. Either way, I decided to go with the flow and the heat was definitely on during this session.

AZUpubschool - Good Night Girl (feat. KOSMO KAT) [Maltine Records]
The Grammar Club - Plastic Submarine [Bandcamp]
Nine Inch Nails - Echoplex [FMA]
Plastic Flowers - Lucy [Bad Panda Records / FMA]
Arcade Island - Refugee [Clinical Archives / Archive.org]
Stereoshape - That's the spirit [iD.Eology]
cultureculture - Baby Blue [FMA / Bandcamp]
Taseh - Love of a Neon Girl [Monster Jinx]
The Warhorse - Grimme-Rib (feat. Eric Wysocki) [Bandcamp]
Just Plain Ant - The Day has begun [blocSonic]
The Incognito Traveller - Chaleur [Discos Konfort / Archive.org]
T Bird and The Breaks - Is There Any Love? (Out of the Rain) [Bandcamp]
Multi-Panel - August [Test Tube]
kujyaku - aquarium in the sky [otoginomori]

Sunday 28 June 2015

Session 2.01 - Rebooting live

.: Photo by Acid Pix :. CC-BY

Our first session at Spark couldn't have had a better playlist. From rockn'roll to smooth tropical beats, there was a bit of everything there. There were a few hickups here and there, but not bad for a restart.

My Morning Jacket / One Big Holiday [FMA]
Winter - Alligator [aaahh records]
Talk Less Say More - When The Storm Came [Records on Ribs]
Norton - Sailing Across a Distant Sea (Stereoboy remix) [aerotone/Archive.org]
Roulet - Atilua [FMA]
Dany F - Bonita (feat. BTP) [Bandcamp]
Sunsplash - Delfines [Bandcamp]
Caballo - Not Feeling' da Vibe [LibreCommeLair]
Chroma-kei - Turn out, tune up, drop in [Maltine Records]
Darksunn - Fremen [Monster Jinx]
M-PeX - Ignis [Enough Records]
Terrible Terrible - Technicolor Idols [Jamendo]
Basement Skylights - Technicolor Idols [Jamendo]

Friday 26 June 2015

We're starting again and we're bringing treats

After months of silence, White Market is back on this glorious web adress. While our old website sadly died, our old podcasts remain available on Internet Archive and Mixcloud. On Sunday, I'll be live on Spark Sunderland from 8pm bringing you some more Creative Commons-licenced songs and other free tunes.

As a celebration, I took this opportunity to upload one of my favourite netaudio records into Free Music Archive: Kersche Remixed by Norton. Published in 2008 by now extinct aerotone, the album is a collection of remixes from their second record, Kersche. With a CC BY-NC-SA tag on it, you're free to do loads of things with this, so long as you do it for non-commercial purposes and you share your work under the same licence. For now, you can start by listening to it and download it legally and for free.