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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