Episode 7: Mystery and Spy Music

Hi, and welcome to the Open Licensed Music Podcast, the show where we highlight music from artists who let you share their music.  I'm Ralph Wacksworth, and today's episode is featuring mystery and spy music.

Sneaky Snitch (2:16)
Gloomy (1:45)
The Snow Queen (3:40)

That was Sneaky Snitch by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  After that was Gloomy by J.C.Vogt, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  Finishing up was The Snow Queen by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.

This is a long episode, so I'm going to just continue on with some more music.

Déjà tout bu (1:51)
Inspector Thenard (1:49)
Intro (0:29)
Constancy Part Two (1:04)
Conspirando (0:25)
Matar al Detective (0:27)

That was Déjà tout bu by Löhstana David, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution license.  After that was Inspector Thenard by Butterfly Tea, and Intro by Balkan Balagan, which are both available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  Following that was Constancy Part Two by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Finishing up were Conspirando and Matar al Detective, both by Pedro Amoros, which are available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.

I know a good portion of my current listeners are from my local Linux Users' Group.  I don't have a whole lot of listeners right now.  But in case you've stumbled across this podcast from outside of me telling you about it, have you looked into joining any specialized local groups?  We have quite a number of them in my town, to the point that one of our Linux group members put together a website to aggregate a bunch of the similar groups' schedules together into one nice handy little calendar.  There are almost certainly some groups in your area for things you're interested in.  We even discovered the other day that there's a regularly meeting FoxPro group in town.  So get out there and socialize - there's lots of cool stuff to learn.

And now for you spies and just generally cool detectives, here's some more music.

03-Hassan's Dream (5:41)
Peninsule (11:24)

That was 03-Hassan's Dream by Luc Bartoli and Peninsule by AdHoc, which are both available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.

Now, how about some actual real-life spy stuff?

Numbers Station--6949 kHz

That was a chunk of a track called Numbers Station--6949 kHz by SWLing.com, which is available from archive.org and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  It's a recording of something called a "numbers station", which are a type of shortwave radio station that started popping up around the world sometime in the early to mid 1900's.  At least a few of them have definitely been used by actual spies, so what you're hearing is probably an encoded message being transmitted to an undercover spy somewhere in the world.  Pretty cool if you ask me.

So, let's continue with some more music.

Umbrella Pants (1:10)
Detective entra a la casa (1:49)
Sneaky Adventure (1:13)
A Dwarf's Tale (4:31)
Our Story Begins (1:24)

That was Umbrella Pants by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Then we had Detective entra a la casa by Pedro Amoros, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  After that was Sneaky Adventure by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Then we had A Dwarf's Tale by Marc Teichert, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.  And finishing up was Our Story Begins by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.

Today's app-of-the-day is Dia, a very nice little diagram drawing and editing program.  Basically, you draw in shapes and connect them with lines or arrows.  It works great for flowcharts and wiring diagrams.  And if you want to change something, you can just drag the shape and the lines connecting it to the other shapes move right along with it.  It's available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.  Download it today at http://live.gnome.org/Dia (with a capital D).

Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our nonsponsors followed by more music.  And although I mention Librivox books on here quite a bit because of the fact that they have audio versions of books, many of the books they record come from a website called Project Gutenberg.  If you have an ebook reader, you really need to go check out their site right away.  They have thousands of books and periodicals, almost all of which are in the public domain.  And to go a bit further, a lot of the material on Project Gutenberg comes from a site called Distributed Proofreaders.  They take scanned books and convert them from image formats to text, and it's set up so you can very easily hop on there and help them out by proofreading and correcting their progress.  The whole system is pretty cool, but these audio books are the result of many hours of volunteer time, and if you get a chance, I'm sure any of the projects in the chain would be happy to have another volunteer to help out.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Inspector Thenard Returns (0:54)
Investigations (1:33)
Infiltration-Spy Edit (5:17)
A Moment Of Twilight (1:05)
A por las Armas (0:37)
Remanence Halo (4:50)
Vals de los Sonámbulos (1:45)

That was Inspector Thenard Returns by Butterfly Tea, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  Then we had Investigations by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  After that was Infiltration-Spy Edit by DJ Psyonik, which is available from ccMixter and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.  Next up was A Moment of Twilight by Marc Teichert, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.  The fifth song in the set was A por las Armas by Pedro Amoros, which is available from Jamendo under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  Next up was Remamnence Halo by Julien Boulier, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  And finishing up was Vals de los Sonámbulos by Andrés P. Estrada, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.

So, that's all for today.  Remember - piracy of commercial music only proves your dependence on that model and justifies further censorship and restriction.  So don't pirate it - replace it with something better.  Listen to open licensed music, donate to the artists behind it, go to concerts, and buy music from artists whose record labels don't see you as their enemies.  Support artists where your support actually counts.

This episode was made using Xubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, Audacity, Audacious for organizing playlists, and Leafpad for notes, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  Feel free to give it to your friends, or if you didn't like it, your enemies.  Links to the songs in this podcast are available on the website.  Listen in next time for some more electronic music!  See 'ya!

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