Netlabels.

i don't know how i missed this. i spent a ton of time at archive.org in the past downloading about 900 different clips from the Perlinger Archives. and i know i went to the audio section of the site at that time.

but anyhow... archive.org has a "Netlabel" section devoted to absolutely free music downloads. sort of like mp3.com was in the past... except organized as 'labels' ... meaning in theory there is still a presumption of having to be good enough to get on a label even if the actual final distribution is free. unlike mp3.com where any random yahoo could post a shitty heavy metal track recorded on an answering machine to the site.

i had in the past got a ton of free stuff from the Observatory Online site... and i got there through their 'real label' parent of Skylab Operations... of which i got there from looking for more Satellite Grooves albums and info. and also i have always been an Acceleradeck fan... just never bothered to look up any info i suppose thus never saw the site before... or something.

ANYHOW... the material that Observatory has on archive.org is actually much better quality than the stuff i originally got from Observatory directly! so i was very pleased... that and they added like a dozen releases since i had last looked. very nice. still looking through the site for more labels and artists i may be interested in. free is good. and good free is even better.

z.