Episode 24: Halloween

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 Halloween music.

big_lightning_with_dc_spike_reverse
Spooky Door Creak B

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (9:02)
Toccata & Fugue (3:03)
Haunting Sequence in G# or Ab (0:42)
Moonlight Hall (3:18)
Loop - House In a Forest (0:25)
Darkest Child (3:58)

11 o'clock
Clock Chime - Strike 12
creeeeek-GAIN_01
ChainsRattling
catHowls1

That was big_lightning_with_dc_spike_reverse by Ionizing and Spooky Door Creak B by Imbubec, which are both available from FreeSound and are licensed under the CC0 license.  The first song was Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Bach and performed by Paul Pitman, which is available from Musopen and is licensed as Public Domain. Next up was another version of it, Toccata & Fugue by Lezath, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  Then we had Haunting Sequence in G# or Ab by afleetingspeck, which is available from FreeSound and is licensed under an Attribution license.  After that was Moonlight Hall by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Then we had Loop - House In a Forest by HorrorPen, which is available from OpenGameArt and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Next up, and finishing up for the songs, was Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  The sound effects after that were made from a few different samples from FreeSound, all five of which are licensed under the CC0 license: 11 o'clock by UncleSigmund, Clock Chime - Strike 12 by sl130594, creeeeek-GAIN_01 by XxBirdoxX, ChainsRattling by klakmart, and catHowls1 by Zabuhailo.

FreeSound is awesome.  I've mentioned it before, and if you haven't checked it out yet, you really should.  There are all kinds of awesome sound effects on there that you can use to set the mood for a Halloween party or pretty much anything else.  Check it out today at freesound.org

As a heads-up, this first song and the first song of the next set have lyrics, but they're rather awesome, fitting, and humorous.  So with that, let's get back to music.

Dj Death (robomix) (3:46)
Skraptopolis (4:32)
GHOSTRACK (5:53)
I swear I saw it - background track (3:27)

door hinge squeak creak o,c
Bong
Haunting violin FX
reverse_clang2

That was Dj Death (robomix) by robomusic with lyrics by Kara Square, which is available from ccMixter and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.  After that was Skraptopolis by FoxSynergy, which is available from OpenGameArt and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Then we had GHOSTRACK by BORDERLIVE, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Finishing up for music was I swear I saw it - background track by yd, which is available from OpenGameArt and is licensed under the CC0 license.  For sound effects, we had a bunch of them from FreeSound: door hinge squeak creak o,c by kyles and Bong by SuperDaveOsbourne, which are both licensed under the CC0 license, and Haunting violin FX by bosone and reverse_clang2 by BristolStories, which are both licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.

To give you an idea of what some of those were, door hinge squeak creak o,c was a door hinge, Bong was a Gregoian gong, Haunting violin FX is a recording of someone who had never played a violin before, and reverse_clang2 is a backward recording of someone hitting a metal plate.  All fairly ordinary things, but processed in a way that they sound really cool.

Today's app-of-the-day is Maelstrom, a space shooter game that's been around for years and years and years.  I used to play it in the early 90's on a Mac running System 7 and recently rediscovered it.  Apparently it's now open source, which is thoroughly awesome.  Really simple game - you're in a spaceship and you go around shooting asteroids.  It's been ported to SDL, which means it'll pretty well run on just about any platform you can think of if you want to compile it, but you can download versions from the website for Linux, BeOS, Mac OS classic, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.  Download it today at libsdl.org/projects/Maelstrom

Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our nonsponsors followed by more music.

The FuMP
I hEaRt yOuR bRaiN (ft. Kara Square) (3:49)
WhiteOut for Halloween! (ft. SackJo22) (2:43)
First Fugue (4:09)
Unheimlich (2:21)
Pipe Organ Intro (0:39)
Final Count (3:23)

That was a slightly edited version of Podcast Promo by The FuMP, which is available from thefump.com and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  After that was I hEaRt yOuR bRaiN (ft. Kara Square) by Zep Hurme, which is available from ccMixter and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.  Next up was WhiteOut for Halloween! (ft. SackJo22) by FFGreen, which is available from ccMixter and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Following that was First Fugue by Hacker Blinks, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Next up was Unheimlich by bm_128, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.  After that was Pipe Organ Intro by Djsedj, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.  Finishing up was Final Count by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution 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 abrasive electronic music.  See 'ya!

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Episode 23: Action/Adventure 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 action/adventure music.

Film Score: Shame/Dark (1:57)
Soundtrack Of Life (18 4 12) (5:14)
Decisions (1:28)
Half (1:27)
The wind of oblivion (6:24)
'Film piece' (2:16)
WHAT IF - Soundtrack Theme (0:47)

That was Film Score: Shame/Dark by Omar Sicinac and Soundtrack Of Life (18 4 12) by DoctorYerva, which are both available from SoundCloud.  After that was Decisions by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com.  Then we had Half by Skyscape Paradise, which is available from SoundCloud.  Next up was The wind of oblivion by zero-project, which is available from zero-project.gr.  After that we had 'Film piece' by Stephen Parker, which is available from SoundCloud.  And finishing up was WHAT IF - Soundtrack Theme by Jace Hall, which is available from Jamendo.  All seven of them in this set are licensed under an Attribution license.

In fact, all of the songs in this week's episode are licensed under an Attribution license, so there's all kinds of stuff you can do with them.  Go out there and make some cool stuff!

On that note, one other resource I'd like to mention that I don't think I have before is FreeSound.  They have a whole library of community-provided sound effects under various open licenses.  The range of sounds on there is diverse enough that, basically, if you can think of a sound you want it's probably on there.  Check it out today at freesound.org

The Coaster (13:27)
Knights of the darkness (2:02)
Our Obdurate Past (3:32)

That was The Coaster by Remix Music, which is available from SoundCloud.  After that was Knights of darkness by zero-project, which is available from zero-project.gr.  And finishing up was Our Obdurate Past by Christiaan Bakker, which is available from Jamendo.  All three of them in this set are licensed under an Attribution license.

Today's app-of-the-day is Neverball, a game where you tilt a 3D obstacle course to roll a ball to the finish.  It's a little like the old wooden tilting-table ball game where you roll a ball down a path and try to avoid having it fall through holes in the course.  Neverball also has another variation called Neverputt, which is a miniature golf game using the same engine.  Anyway, Neverball's available for Linux, BSD, AmigaOS, Android, Maemo, Sega Dreamcast, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.  Download it today at neverball.org

Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our nonsponsors followed by more music.

The Lost World
Venganza (3:13)
Futur orchetral (4:36)
Goliath Test #1 (1:41)
Tribal Afterglitch (1:05)
Scattershot (2:02)
Firebrand (5:58)

That was Venganza by MIGUEL ANGEL FABRE and Futur orchetral by Peyoooo, which are both available from Jamendo.  After that was Goliath Test #1 and Tribal Afterglitch by Christiaan Bakker, which are both available from Jamendo.  Finishing up were Scattershot and Firebrand by Kevin MacLeod, which are both available from incompetech.com.  All six of them in this set are licensed under an Attribution 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 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 Halloween music.  See 'ya!

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Episode 22: Asian-influenced 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 Asian-influenced music.

Haratanaya Sree (4:32)
Solyuga (4:05)

That was Haratanya Sree by Veena Kinhal, which is available from Free Music Archive and is licensed as Public Domain.  Finishing up was Solyuga by KraftiM, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution license.

Track 3-Yogi (Rag Bhairavi alap dhumali) 7,25mn (7:17)
Track 7-Rag Kalawati (Alap,Rupak,& tintal)17,00mn (17:02)

That was Track 3-Yogi (Rag Bhairavi alap dhumali) and finishing up was Track 7-Rag Kalawati (Alap,Rupak,& tintal)17,00mn.  Both of them in this set are by Karim Amari, are available from Jamendo, and are licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.

Today's app-of-the-day is OpenBVE, a train driving simulator.  And I say "driving" since it's not a switching simulator or operations simulator - you take the role of engineer and have to get your train from one station to the next on time while still obeying speed limits and signals.  It can be quite challenging.  It's available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.  Download it today at openbve.org

Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our nonsponsors followed by more music.  And, yeah, the story's full of heavy cultural stereotypes, but among others, boy do I wish some of the stereotypes of "those crazy adventurous Americans" were still true.

Around the World in 80 Days
Finding Movement (1:56)
Entering the Temple (0:46)
Ishikari Lore (2:47)
Penta Improv Changes (4:38)
Ripples (3:25)
Himalayan Atmosphere (3:53)
Kind of Hirajoshi (5:42)

That was Finding Movement by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  After that was Entering the Temple by Zach Denzer, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Then we had Ishikari Lore by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Next up was Penta Improv Changes by Dan.Gutwein, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  The next two songs were Ripples and Himilayan Atmosphere, both by Kevin MacLeod, available from incompetech.com, and licensed under an Attribution license.  Finishing up was Kind of Hirajoshi by Dan.Gutwein, which is available from SoundCloud 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 action/adventure music.  See 'ya!

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Episode 21: Chiptunes

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 chiptunes.

Strolling Cats (3:07)
My_favorite_8bit (chiptune original) (edited) (4:50)
Too 8-Bit to Quit (3:58)
Hoffipolka Chiptune (1:09)
Alien Blues 8 bit Melody (0:45)
97 (2:10)
April (0:35)
8-Bit Ninja (2:29)
CHIPTUNE 2020 (2:26)

That was Strolling Cats by Shiru and a slightly edited version of My_favorite_8bit (chiptune original) by gotrio, which are both available from SoundCloud and are licensed under an Attribution license.  After that was Too 8-Bit to Quit by FASTERCHILD, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution license. Then we had Hoffipolka Chiptune by mpyui, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Next up was Alien Blues 8 bit Melody by Clemens H. a.k.a. "sauer2", which is available from OpenGameArt and is licensed under the CC0 license.  Following that we had 97 by lightsoda and April by quazo, which are both available from SoundCloud and are licensed under an Attribution license.  After that was 8-Bit Ninja by FoxSynergy, which is available from OpenGameArt and is licensed under an Attribution license.  And finishing up was CHIPTUNE 2020 by seece, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.

This week is going to be a lot of very small songs.  And again this week I made sure that everything in this episode was either licensed as Attribution or something compatible with it.  We could use a few more good cross-platform games - why not use some of this music and make one?

Anyway, back to music.

CPU Showdown (4:16)
A Little Chiptune Can't Hurt Anyone (1:36)
12 05 13 Golias (0:31)
Solving a problem (remake) (2:15)
Drunkfest (1:26)
Hold the Line LOSPEC MIX (0:24)
Chiptune Sample (0:51)
grooves.fm (0:46)
blubber_rampage (0:49)
oh no (0:27)
Dunce Dance (2:33)
8-bit DUB CREAM (2:24)
Chipstep [mastered] (4:06)
12 04 05 Ashes (0:45)
12 06 06 Globe (0:41)

That was CPU Showdown by MegaPixel Music, which is available from OpenGameArt.  After that was A Little Chiptune Can't Hurt Anyone by Silent Mason, 12 05 13 Golias by LestatV3, and Solving a problem (remake) by sznurek_pl, which are available from SoundCloud.  Then we had Drunkfest by Andrey Avkhimovich, which is available from Jamendo.  Next up was Hold the Line LOSPEC MIX by bart, which is available from OpenGameArt.  And after that was Chiptune Sample by Raedon, grooves.fm by kahwi triebkraft, blubber_rampage by psy_wombats, oh no by Sosowski, Dunce Dance by Tommy, 8-bit DUB CREAM by Poindextar, Chipstep [mastered] by Hacker Blinks, 12 04 05 Ashes by LestatV3, and finishing up was 12 06 06 Globe by LestatV3.  Those last nine were available from SoundCloud, and all 15 songs in this set are licensed under an Attribution license.

Today's app-of-the-day is Eclipse, a very nice open source IDE for creating and editing programs, particularly Java programs, though other languages are also supported.  It has a very powerful plugin architecture and there are many plugins you can download for it, for example to integrate with version control systems. It's available for Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris and OpenIndiana, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.  It also appears to be possible to run it on OS/2, BeOS, Haiku, and just about any other platform that will run Java by using the version from the Eclipse on Swing project, though I have not tried it.  However if you're on one of the more common platforms that are officially supported, download Eclipse today at eclipse.org

Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our nonsponsors followed by more music.

Librivox
gainer (3:26)
Reckless (5:17)
PT-5100 (0:48)
Chippy 04 (2:09)
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" (2:32)
20 GOTO 10 (2:45)
Ibiza (0:30)
Star Bars (1:10)
Chiptune - 2010-06-04 (1:29)

That was gainer by lwpss, Reckless by Jakeamon, PT-5100 by Travis Briggs, and Chippy 04 by lightsoda, which are available from SoundCloud.  After that was 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" and 20 GOTO 10, both by Andrey Avkhimovich and available from Jamendo.  Then we had Ibiza by lahiniz, which is available from SoundCloud, and Star Bars by Andrey Avkhimovich, which is available from Jamendo.  Finishing up was Chiptune - 2010-06-04 by MenTaLguY, which is available from SoundCloud.  All nine of the songs in this set are licensed under an Attribution 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 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 Asian-influenced music.  See 'ya!

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Episode 20: Electronic

(Sorry this was so late this week!  Should be back to the normal schedule next week.)

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 electronic music.

A-Lin-Unitrospection (6:43)
Aquascape - Vacuum Fields (6:45)
Severed Triangles (3:44)
Ovum phoenicis (4:00)

That was A-Lin-Unitrospection by A-Lin, Aquascape - Vacuum Fields by Tunguska Electronic Music Society, Severed Triangles by Andrey Avkhimovich, and finishing up was Ovum phoenicis by A. S. Hereb.  All four of them are available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution license.

This week's episode is another one where I tried very hard to find only songs which are licensed under an Attribution license.  So there's all kinds of stuff you can do with the music this week.  Go out there and make some cool stuff!

The Blender Foundation Open Movie team released another open licensed short film this week.  It's called Tears of Steel, and it's quite cool.  It's made with all open-source software and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Check it out today and mango.blender.org

Adibudi - I don't know the title (2:49)
The eighth sin (edited) (5:07)
Redshift (3:17)
Emerge In Love (ft. SackJo22 & Magic Moon) (3:52)

That was Adibudi - I don't know the title by Adibudi, which is available from Jamendo.  After that was an instrumental edit of The eighth sin by Zero-project, which is available from zero-project.gr.  Then we had Redshift by Sonic Radiation, which is available from Jamendo.  And finishing up was Emerge in Love (ft. SackJo22 & Magic Moon) by Alex, which is available from ccMixter.  All four of them are licensed under an Attribution license.

Today's app-of-the-day is OpenVPN.  To distill it down to its basic form, OpenVPN lets you set up a virtual network cable between two computers over the internet on an encrypted channel.  It allows you to do many of the same kinds of things as an SSH tunnel, but it's slightly different in that it doesn't just tunnel specific ports, which makes tunnelling things with randomized ports much easier.  It's available for Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris and OpenIndiana, BeOS and Haiku, Android, Apple iOS, HP webOS, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.  Download it today at openvpn.net

Now for a short noncommercial break from one of our nonsponsors followed by more music.  And as a heads-up, one of the following songs sorta has vocals, but they're more of a musical texture than anything.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
TV (TechVision) (Short Mix) (edited) (8:26)
Fresa y Berenjena (0:58)
Trackin Around (4:58)
Argonika - Rainbow Hunter (3:29)
Til We Meet Again [Instrumental Edit] (5:29)

That was a shortened edit of TV (TechVision) (Short Mix) by Data Collaborate, a shortened edit of Fresa y Berenjena by Sikior, Trackin Around by Data Collaborate, Argonika - Rainbow Hunter by Tunguska Electronic Music Society, and finishing up was Til We Meet Again [Instrumental Edit] by Rataxes.  All five of them are available from Jamendo and are licensed under an Attribution 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 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 chiptunes.  See 'ya!

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