Unlocked Recordings

Revisiting the fun Unlocked Recordings collection at the Internet Archive. The current Music Modernization Act was passed into US law on October 11, 2018. This law helps to preserve and increase public access to early sound recordings.

For more information on this change, see these posts by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Internet Archive, two leading champions of the Internet and information availability for all.

At this time, there are 750 albums from before 1972 in the Unlocked Recordings collection, including artists like Mrs. Miller and Orson Welles, and covering classic pop, old time radio, traditional folk music, and classical performances.

Enjoy spinning some of these classic records you might never have otherwise heard! Cheers to the Internet Archive for bringing these recordings to new ears!

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You can click this collage to see a full-size image of covers of all 750 current albums in Unlocked Recordings collection.

Celebrate with Your Heroes

UPDATE 2019-01-31: Event documentation now available online.
Photo Album, Video of Afternoon Program (Program in HD), Early Audio of Quantopia by DJ Spooky, Quantopia Video Trailer, Quantopia Performance Program, Quantopia Student Engagement Materials

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