Free downloads set 1

Every now and then artists / bands / labels publish music on creative commons license or on "name your price" basis meaning this is legal and offered for free or as "pay as much as you want to donate us".  Such offers may be only temporal, some not. 

To spare your time I'll be hunting down the most interesting ones from my point of view and put them here for you.

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Various Artists - Sensitive Data 4 - name your price Zoharum compilation

This is the fourth instalment in the series presenting Zoharum releases. This time it covers 2014 releases, 27 tracks plus two exclusive cuts from Strom Noir and Micromelancolié. Enjoy it and don't forget to support the projects you like.

Various Artists - Sensitive Data 3 - name your price Zoharum compilation

This is the third instalment in the series presenting past and future Zoharum releases. Enjoy it and don't forget to support the projects you like.   

Various Artists - Sensitive Data 2 - name your price Zoharum compilation

Please note that physical release is now sold out.
This is the second instalment in the series presenting past and future Zoharum releases. It includes rarities, remixes (taken from bonus discs) and a few track from Regular Zoharum albums. Enjoy it and don't forget to support the projects you like. 

Various Artists - Sensitive Data 1 - name your price Zoharum compilation

 

This is not a proper Zoharum release. It's intended to give you, our dear listener, a sample of Zoharum's releases. Enjoy it and don't forget to support the projects you like.

Fresh from the show playlist - grap it while you still can

Hybryds "The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive" 2015 version remastered and expanded CD

Zoharum 02.02.2015

If you're looking for one of the greatest ritual sounds ever recorded look no further. Here you have a second chance to get it after nearly 25 years.

"The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive, Part 1" was performed and recorded live on Dat, April 28, 1991 at Etiquette Studio by Nico De Haan, Zandvliet, Belgium. "The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive, Part 2 & 3" and "Wailing for the Fallen Angels" were recorded on 4-track cassette porta studio, 1991. 

Zoharum continues reissuing past works of one of the most interesting projects coming from the 1980s underground - Hybryds. This album is the fourth instalment in the reissue series of Hybryds classic releases. It is an expanded reissue of ”The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive (1)” EP released back in 1991. That release featured only the first part of the title composition. The Zoharum edition was extended to a 70-minute full album with the other two parts of ”The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive” included plus one more bonus song.
Contrary to the previous releases (”Mythical Music from the 21st Century” and ”Music for Rituals” - both reissued on Zoharum – with lots of short pieces), ”The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive” contains slowly-evolving, long pieces which will hypnotise the listener with their sonic magic. Four songs on this album come from the same period, so it sounds very cohesive. And because three of them were not published before, ”The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive” v.2014 might be treated as a new album.
The album has been digitally remastered from the original stereo cassette master by none else but Sandy Nys, who also provided the cover based on the previous editions. This is the ritual music at its best. Now you can enjoy it in the best digital quality. The CD is housed in a digipak sleeve and the album is strictly limited to 500 copies (Zoharum info).

Schneider Kacirek "Shadows Documents (LP+CD)

Bureau B 16.01.2015

Kenya meets Krautronics: Stefan Schneider and Sven Kacirek bring African rhythms into dark electronica. Great album, one of the best so far in a field of experimental electronic this year.

Schneider Kacirek photo by Peter Stumpf