Over the last two weeks of the year, the Free Music Archive blog will feature mixes highlighting the best free music of 2011.
Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) is a set of four violin concerti by Antonio Vivaldi. Some of the most beautiful music ever written, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's most famous work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music. | Psi Corps: Shadow Creatures Creepy Russian ambient EP based on the book CREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS by Roger Zelazny. Gloomy atmospheric soundscapes. |
 | Halloween 2011 Exclusive from Superchunk Superchunk likes to give seasonal treats. Get their Misfits cover for free! |
 | Chinstrap Music - Sounds to Come "Sounds to Come" is the second installment of a series on Chinstrap of music and sound-design cut from public-domain horror and science-fiction films from c.1930-1970... |
 | Parade of the Damned - WFMU's Beware of the Blog Goofy ghouly greats! Spooky Movies-Roy Clark, Lookout Mountain-Chuck Miller ,Screemin' Meemies-Merv Griffin, Soul Dracula-Hot Blood, Count Yorga Dark Shadows Midnight Monsters Hop-Jack and Jim, Beware-Bill Buchana,n Monster Man-Screaming Lord Sutch, Dinner With Drac-John Zacherle, Rockin' Zombie-Crewnecks, Bo Meets The Monster-B... |
 | DJ Rozz - Spooky Halloween 2011 Mix DJ Rozz presents a DUBSTEP Halloween-themed mixtape. "Stabs you in the guts and leaves you bleeding for the zombies. Good luck!" |
 | Tales of the Frightened Spooky! Two Boris Karlof albums shared for Halloween at Kiddie Records Weekly! |
 | This Plague Of Dreaming This Plague of Dreaming is perhaps the only free netlabel focused on HORROR. Give yourself the willies for free! "... a perfect agony to contend with the intellectual discipline of the awkward and alien sound. This Plague of Dreaming is the flicker of a hand-wound projector replaying last century's October winds backwards in the..." |
 | Haunted Arcade Mix by PP Roy new spooky Halloween mix by PP Roy at Upitup Records, "Expect a bit of electronics, vintage video games, ghouly synths, disco and even a bit of rave action!" |
 | Creative Commons Halloween Mix 2011 Irene Rible returns this year with more legal downloads for Halloween culled from the Free Music Archive. "This time around we've got some sinister classical favorites, 8bit Dario Argento film scores, Peter Lorre interpreted via twisted circuit benders, and some frighteningly bad tunes from America's premier mass murdering..." |
 | Stealing Orchestra - Bu! TAGGED AS: experimental, sampling, spoken word, hip-hop, electronica, sound collage, portugal, fun, horror, stealing orchestra, obscure, ... |
 | Halloween Mix | GORILLA VS. BEAR Three years of Halloween mixes by Gorilla vs Bear |
 | Sonic Safari Halloween 2011 Podcast of Oddities Buck Owens & His Buckaroos - (It's A) Monster's Holiday, Rusty Diamond - Skellykins, Ray Sanders - Graveyard Dance, Billy C. Cole - Put The Hearse In Reverse, The Tarantulas - Tarantula, ... |
 | Dr. Frankenstein - The Cursed Tapes Horror surf! TAGGED AS: surf, rock, horror, dr frankenstein, portugal, rockabilly, ... |
 | Glass Candy - "Halloween" and more creepy mp3s "Glass Candy's sinister homage [VIDEO] to the John Carpenter classic. A Candy coated gift for all the Ghouls & Goblins in Candyland. Trick Or Treat.... Disorienting walls of synthesizers grasping for their last breath accompanied by Rossini's most disturbing work to date...." |
 | Lee Rosevere - "Trick Or Treat" "A stormy night pushes you to toward a huge and dark house belonging to the reclusive Dr. Slocum, a mysterious genius who converted a closed asylum into an evil labratory, where he hides from the world with his menage of monsters of science. But the ghosts that haunted the asylum are still there..." |
 | Martinibomb and the Coconut Monkeyrocket - Munster Beat! Martinibomb and The Coconut Monkeyrocket join forces this scary season to bring you their spin on the theme of the Munsters television show! Yay! |
 | Zacherle Singles! - WFMU's Beware of the Blog "Zacherle (aka Zacherley) had been a TV horror-film host in ghoul makeup for most of the 1950s and early 60s, and in the early days of FM's popularity he was an innovator of free-form radio...." |
 | Chiptune Horror compilation from True Chip Till Death True Chip Till Death is a blog showcasing hardware, software, and artists utilizing obsolete console and computer hardware. This compilation features creepy horror tracks from some of those artists. |
 | Various Artists - Calling All Fiends Oddio Overplay put the challenge to musical artists the world over to create Halloween music that is "frightening, damaging and disturbing." No "Monster Mash," instead creepy soundtracks to a fiendish Halloween. They succeeded with CALLING ALL FIENDS! Some of these pieces will creep you right out of your skin. [creepy soundscapes, rock and dance tunes, fiendish songs] |
 | Let Me Buy U, Anne Drank Vol. 2 (Halloween Edition) "Screwed, chopped, and mixed by Babe Rainbow Dayton Family - Blood Bath Tommy Wright III ..." |
 | Endless Hell - yk mix "The seventh installment of my annual Halloween mix is here. Going back to the first entry, Pure Terror, it's obvious that the mixes used to contain a lot more levity than they currently do. Next year I will strive to bring the `fun` back to the Halloween mix but, this year, I've compiled a batch of songs that look to create an atmosphere of doom, gloom, spookiness, terror and just downright crazed...." |
 | Deadboy Halloween mix 2011 "Our good mate Deadboy put a smile (or was it an evil grin?) on our faces when he sent this over this morning his brand new 2011 Halloween mixtape. If you caught the 2010 edition you'll know what to expect - pure ghoulish vibes to serve as the perfect soundtrack to your Halloween weekend." |
 | Clinical Archives For Halloween creepout, definitely check out the Clinical Archives. That highly respected label has many releases of dark, ambient works that can give you the shivers! "Clinical Archives is independent netlabel from Moscow (Russia) for eclectic and illogical music..." |
 | An Aural Halloween Trinity: Scar Stuff, Arch Oboler, Reverend Frost WMFU's Beware of the Blog shares classic kid Halloween records, old time radio horror stories, and Halloween mixes |
 | LibriVox - Horror Story Collection 001 "We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusion that shields you from the horrible realities of life. Here are the walking dead, the fetid pools of slime, the howls in the night that you thought you had confined to your more unpleasant dreams." |
 | Memory Tapes - Walk Me Home (Halloween Mix) The Fader writes, "...darkwave and brooding quarter-goth. On 'Walk Me Home,' a Halloween mix made for Arawa, the art of the creepy toy piano melds faces with the darkest synths, and eerily teases out the creepiness of Italo disco." (Host Arawa shares other Halloween mixes, too.) |
 | The Horror Compilation from WFMU's Beware of the Blog "As a special Halloween treat, here's a seventy minute long horror music mix I put together for the 2001 WFMU marathon, culled from years of Halloween specials on my Wednesday morning show...." |
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Despite the rush of exciting fear from folktales, there is NOT ONE single case of wolves ever attacking and killing man on the North American continent. They may kill livestock man has introduced to the wolves native home, but has never killed man. (LISTEN or download mp3)
Robert Redford has long championed the cause of the wolf. Hear him [zip file] on the first side of this record narrating "The Wolf You Never Knew" for the American Museum of Natural History in 1971 [320 kb/s, 32 Mb].
America’s unique public broadcasting system, PBS, is a collaboration of 1,300 local non-commercial radio and television stations across the nation. These stations meet the standards of and are supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
PBS is broadcasting BY the people FOR the people without commercial backing, so Americans have their own voice.
Public broadcasting is local. Stations are locally licensed and governed, locally programmed, and locally staffed. In many rural areas, public broadcasting is the only source of free local, national and international news, public affairs, and cultural programming.As a token of gratitude for participating in the 2011 campaign, 170 Million Americans for Public Broadcasting and Anti- Records have released RAISE YOUR VOICE!, 16 free tracks from great musicians – available only to advocates for public broadcasting for a limited time.Public broadcasting supports lifelong learning for all Americans. Investments in children’s educational, cultural, public affairs and news programming, digital classroom resources, teacher training, and distance learning have made public broadcasting a leader in lifelong learning.
Public broadcasting engages more than half of all Americans every month. 170 million Americans connect through 368 public television stations, 934 public radio stations, hundreds of online services, and in-person events and activities(1).Public broadcasting is a great investment. Unlike public broadcasting systems throughout the world, America’s public broadcasters do not rely upon the government as their primary source of funding(2). On average, federal funding amounts to less than 14 percent of a station’s budget, with the remaining 86 percent coming from local sources(3).
Public broadcasting is one of the most effective public/private partnerships in America. Annual federal funding amounts to only $1.35 per American and is leveraged by local stations to raise six times that amount from other sources.Public broadcasting reflects the values of viewers and listeners, not advertisers. America has tremendous diversity of broadcasting outlets, but only public broadcasting is commercial free. This is one reason why public broadcasting is so highly trusted by the American people.
Public broadcasting is more important than ever: The rapidly changing media environment is making public broadcasting more and more vital as a source of unbiased news, local cultural programming, and non-commercial educational programs designed to enhance the quality of life of our local communities. Public broadcasting is a source of children’s programming, public affairs, music, and culture information that is often not provided by other sources.Public broadcasting strengthens our democratic republic. The free flow of ideas and debate helps us participate in the political process as informed citizens.
Public broadcasting provides vital programming for parents and children. While certainly there are other media options for parents and children, only public broadcasting offers children’s programming free from commercial considerations. Public broadcasting has the best interests of children as its sole objective. This is one reason why parents and teachers trust public broadcasting, and why maintaining our public broadcasting system is so important.Public Media Embraces the Digital Future. Public broadcasting content is now available through broadcast, cable, satellite, satellite radio, the Internet, and wireless devices. Public broadcasting is committed to a multi-platform presence, to be available anywhere at anytime to the public it serves. Local stations partner with museums, libraries and other community organizations to make great content available to the public for free on mobile devices and online. They are teaming up with start-ups and innovators to break new ground in educational and informational materials.
(1) SOURCE: http://170millionamericans.org/numbers
(2) However, this federal support is critical seed money for local stations which leverage each federal dollar to raise over six more dollars from local sources in order to provide the American public with the highest quality programming and services.
(3) SOURCE: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Public Broadcasting Revenue, September 2009
RAISE YOUR VOICE! features artists who love public broadcasting and want to give back, including: Tom Waits, Wilco, Neko Case, Booker T. Jones, Man Man, Frank Turner, Mavis Staples, Jolie Holland, William Elliott Whitmore, Tinariwen, Lost in the Trees, Sean Rowe, Dr. Dog, Joe Henry, Marketa Irglova and Devotchka.
Papua New Guinea in Indonesia is one of the most heterogeneous nations in the world. In a population of less than seven million, there are more than 850 indigenous languages and at least as many traditional societies. The majority are from the group known as Papuans, whose ancestors arrived in the New Guinea region from the African continent tens of thousands of years ago. Many remote Papuan tribes still have only marginal contact with the outside world.
