Friday, 5 September 2008

I love Creative Commons

So I finally finished All Roads to Feltwell, and I used some interesting music.

The 13 seconds of lovely guitar from the opening are from Small Victories by a Mark Fawcett, from his album Confusion Rides. Since I invented MySpace, I hooked him up a while back and now you can listen to his music by launching his MySpace player.

The soundtrack also featured kARhu. I used his track Yellow from the album Sinfonia for the Blunt Sword. The whole album is generously available for download from his website, and he's already working on some new tracks.

I also used the track 26 - Ghosts III from Nine Inch Nail's tragically-tagged album Ghosts. Trent practically begged me to put his music in one of my shorts, and since we're such good friends I did him a favour. The album is a amazing, self-indulgent collection of two-minute experiments, which was available in a super mega collector's package, or a free download.

What's available now is a $5 full download or only the first 8 tracks. I definitely encourage paying so little for good music, but it looks like Trent had a change of heart after he sold out of the deluxe editions. Still, all 36 tracks are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license, and that means it is legal to download and share them as much as you want. This is one of those lovely ocassions where you can use your torrent client without breaking the law.

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