Eight Percussive Albums

Drum Ecstasy - H. D. M.
© All Rights Reserve

Blake Fleming - Time's Up
© CC BY-NC-SA

Drum Ecstasy - Drums Only
© All Rights Reserved

Cathedral Of Chemical Equilibrium - Sonic Action [Lloyd Rodgers, composer]
US Public Domain

Frank Long - The Pedro Tapes
© All Rights Reserved

Harlan - The Beat Maker
© CC BY-NC

Freestyle Percussion Magik - Freestyle Percussion Magik
© CC BY-SA

Dudeldrum - Dudeldrum
© CC BY-NC-SA

Beats and Traditional Rhythms

Four albums of traditional peoples' music forms and/ or instrumentation given modern treatments and powerful beats

Beats Antique - Collide

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Various Artists of Sojus Records - Progressive Folk

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Dudeldrum - Dudeldrum

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Beats Antique - Tribal Derivations

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Slavic Girls in Dissonant Harmony

Women and girls singing in traditional Eastern and Southeastern European dissonant harmonies are featured in this free compilation of Free Music Archive tunes.

licenses: see individual track info

painting:  A Northern Idyll, by Konstantin Korovin, 1886, oil on canvas, housed at The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Weekend Sweet Sixteen

Advent Chamber Orchestra - 05-06 classical, baroque, chamber	US Army Brass Quintet - Encore! brass, classical, baroque, chamber	Anitek - Calm and Collect Volume 3 (among many others) hip hop, downtempo	Bubamara Brass Band - Bubamarija Kashtanizma Balkan brass
Umoja - Palago afro-pop, funk, highlife, African	Blake Fleming - Time's Up drum, percussion	MadMustangMix - mashups varied, remix, sampling	VA - Late '70s to Mid '80s Heroes '80s, varied
Advent Chamber Orchestra - Dec classical, baroque, chamber	Advent Chamber Orchestra - Nov classical, baroque, chamber	Ain Dreux Troyes Chartres (106 tracks of French music) varied, French	Cantonese Opera (help with the title?) opera, stage music, Chinese
Andrew Bisset - three compositions modern composition, modern classical	Netherland Dwarf - May the Piper (like the bunny!) toy music	Songs from a Random House - The 1986 Demo new wave	Soundeyet - On A Steady Diet of Hash, Bread, and Salt Greek rembetico

Alan Lomax Archive Online

Alan Lomax was an international ethnomusicologist. The nonprofit organization Lomax founded in New York, Association for Cultural Equity, is now providing thousands of the recordings from his exciting career online!

Morning Edition has a radio feature today about the new public archive:

"Folklorist Alan Lomax spent his career documenting folk music traditions from around the world. Now thousands of the songs and interviews he recorded are available for free online, many for the first time. It's part of what Lomax envisioned for the collection — long before the age of the Internet.

"Lomax recorded a staggering amount of folk music. He worked from the 1930s to the '90s, and traveled from the Deep South to the mountains of West Virginia, all the way to Europe, the Caribbean and Asia. When it came time to bring all of those hours of sound into the digital era, the people in charge of the Lomax archive weren't quite sure how to tackle the problem."

photo: Folk musicians at a wedding in Multan, Pakistan, by Hameed Chughatta.
license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic