Episode 50: Steampunk

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 steampunk music, some of which has lyrics.

(They Don't Make) Airships (Like They Used To Anymore) (4:15)
Pay McGroin and the Teleporting Sheep (2:46)
Alchemists Tower (0:57)
Graveyard Shenanigans (3:40)
the beginning (1:47)
The legend of terror (1:34)
High Noon Soundtrack (0:47)
Rush to the End! (1:08)

That was (They Don't Make) Airships (Like They Used To Anymore) by Confabulation of Gentry featuring Capt. John Sprocket from The Cog Is Dead, which is available from The Funny Music Project and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  After that was Pat McGroin and the Teleporting Sheep by mrgeeza, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Then we had Alchemists Tower by Kevin MacLeod, which is available from incompetech.com and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Next up was Graveyard Shenanigans by Steampianist, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.  After that was the beginning by IstaMusic, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Then we had The legend of terror by Aledjones_music, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  Next up was High Noon Soundtrack by Gemma Horbury and finishing up was Rush to the End! (Music by: Steven O'Brien), which are both available from SoundCloud and are licensed under an Attribution license.

Mechanical Hearts (2:52)
The Woven Dream - Epic Orchestral (1:26)
Zadok the Priest (1:46)
Smile - Sung by Chad Doeden (0:20)
The Laboratory (3:15)

That was Mechanical Hearts by Aldaron Del'Aenrysch, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.  After that was The Woven Dream - Epic Orchestral by Walid Feghali, which is available from SoundCloud and was licensed under an Attribution license as of February 24, 2013.  Then we had Zadok the Priest by Blindingham, Smile - Sung by Chad Doeden by Aaron's Records(Aaron A.), and finishing up was The Laboratory by Steampianist, all three of which are available from SoundCloud and are licensed under an Attribution license.

Today's app-of-the-day is MuseScore, a music notation and scoring program that makes it very easy to typeset sheet music.  You pretty much just click the staves to add notes to them in whatever lengths you want and it takes care of drawing all the stems and such and generally expressing the music you draw in using normal music notation rules.  It's really cool and, due to the number of automatic organization and cleanup features, makes it quite easy to typeset sheet music.  Even if you don't know much about musical theory, I'm confident you could still compose playable songs with relative ease with it.  It's available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.  Download it today at musescore.org

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

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Ethereal(nop mix) (3:44)
Ludus Mobilis V: Toccata & Fugue (10:38)
CsO237(taeb) - music058 (1:45)
Time for Hope (ft. SackJo22, Ehma) (1:36)
Dill Pickle Rag (1:43)
Breaking the siege (2:01)
Sound Off (2:52)
Mad (5:23)

That was Ethereal(nop mix) by @nop, which is available from ccMixter and is licensed under an Attribution license.  After that was the very long song Ludus Mobilis V: Toccata & Fugue by the Society for the Development of New Music, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  Next up was CsO237(taeb) - music058 by cso237, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Following that was Time for Hope (ft. SackJo22, Ehma) by Syenta, which is available from ccMixter and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial license.  After that was Dill Pickle Rag by The Joy Drops, which is available from SoundCloud and is licensed under an Attribution license.  Then we had Breaking the siege by Celestial Aeon Project, which is available from Jamendo and is licensed under an Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike license.  Next up was Sound Off by John Phillip Sousa and performed by the United States Marine Band, which is available from Musopen and is licensed as Public Domain. Which is totally awesome.  Finishing up was an edited version of Mad by Mikey Mason, which is available from The Funny Music Project 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 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 electronic music.  See 'ya!

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