New Musical Order: indie tunes, free and legal
p2pnet news view P2P | Music:- For the first time, thanks to the Net, music lovers can easily find genuine, affordable and, frequently, free alternatives to Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s cookie-cutter, formulaic ‘product’.
Independent artists who are all about the music, not ripping off music lovers and anyone in any way associated with them, are creating exciting new sounds people can enjoy —- without the threat of court cases hanging over their heads.
NewMusicalOrder.org (NMO for short) was launched this August to promote some of the great music legally available online.
It was founded by Dan Nash, a music-loving coder who runs Musoswire, an online store for indie bands and musicians, and Gareth Griffiths, a freelance web designer with a love of open source.
“With the advent of MP3s, illegal downloading and piracy, and the proliferation of ‘do it yourself’ record labels, many musicians (and labels) have decided the best way to reach fans in the digital age is to release some, or all, of their music for free,” says Nash.
NewMusicalOrder.org was created as a one-stop-blog with, in most cases, direct links to downloads.
And it’s not a commercial venture, says Griffiths. He lives 400 miles away from Nash and has never actually met him face to face. “It’s just two guys giving something back for all the free music,” he told p2pnet.
“We do have banners and are accepting advertising, but that’s just to cover our hosting/domain costs. We both work on the site in our own time because we enjoy working on the site and finding new music.”
And, “There are no plans to ever charge for any part of NewMusicalOrder.org,” states Nash. “That would be at odds with our free and legal music philosophy, and I can’t see that changing.”
One of the indie outfits currently featured is Fading Ways Share Vol 6, released under Neil Leyton’s Fading Ways Canadian label.
Or there’s the Super Tennis – EP from Super Tennis, an indie / emotronic (whatever that is 
) outfit from North London in the UK.
Check out NMO at http://www.newmusicalorder.org.
You can also subscribe to their RSS feed or follow them on Twitter.
Not only but also, Nash and Griffiths have teamed up with p2pnet’s Jon Newton in a new site with a new way of sharing music online.
What’s it all about? Details later. For now, the name of the site is Global Midi Jam dot com, which should give you a clue.
So stay tuned
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August 28th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I did check it out.
Most of the music sucks big time!
Not that I did not expect it…
Musicians who have any kiond of a self respect will only thrown in a couple of tunes for free. The rest they will try to sell.
If all music is free, that says a lot about who really good it is.
Back to commercial releases….No need to waste my time on freebies like that.