weekly mp3s

So, back in April 2008 I started doing these Weekly MP3 posts, with a write-up of Dntel's 'The Distance'.  I've had occasional comments and a few friends in real life said they found lots of interesting music through this, but I'm done.  Got plenty of other stuff I'm doing, and will continue to link to lots of free stuff through my radio show playlists.

Appropriately blissed out Swedish rejig of  Lil Wayne's 'Lollipop', free from Betterpropaganda.

One of my listening highlights this year was this 1964 electronic radio broadcast, archived in its entirety on the art website UbuWeb as a free download.  Here's a Youtube clip to listen to as well.

I'm suspecting Asian movie soundtrack samples on this hip-hop instrumental, from a free EP on Bandcamp.

Aqueous soundscape-maker Balam Acab gave this and another tune away via Twitter earlier in the year, but you can grab them from Pitchfork.

Slightly gloomy synthpop from Dublab's MP3 blog.

Lovely countrified ambience, on a February 2011 EP up at The Internet Archive.

A great little beat that was onXLR8R 4 years back now...  It definitely still stands up now, which is my sole criterion for selection, really.

'Nuff said.

Some kinda expert ambient lounge action up on their Soundcloud.

A sappy harp-led R&B ballad, which you can get from Gorilla vs Bear or below (although you'll need to sign up to RCRDLBL if you want to do that).