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jason on 06/09/2010 at 09:30AM
Pod-safe Instrumental Themes
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My friend Paul asked if I had any pod-safe instrumental music suggestions for his public radio show pilot. He'd already found the YACHT instrumental album, and these Woodgrain Session tracks by NJ's hip-hop producer Pre, and was looking for more in that vein. So I compiled this mix of Creative Commons-licensed instrumental jams. A few of these tracks have vocals ("Mirror Friends" at the beginning, spinningmerkaba has the refrain "Inspire Me Forever" and Thick Business has some subtle vocoder) but I think they'd all make great, unobtrusive music to listen to at the begging of an online radio show. If you click on the name of the track (or press the "i") you'll see the Creative Commons license with the terms by which the music can be used. All CC licenses require attribution, and these tracks also include the NonCommercial clause. Some have have the ShareAlike clause, meaning that if the work is modified for inclusion in the podcast, the podcast itself would also need to be distributed under a Creative Commons license. A few have a NoDerivatives clause, which means the song cannot be remixed, modified, or included in a new work like a video (a podcast is ok though because it is a "collective work"). As with all CC licenses, any of these conditions can be waived with permission from the rights-holder. Creative Commons' Podcasting Legal Guide goes into these issues more in-depth if you'd like to research further. |
The track page also lists other people who've liked the song, or included them on their own mixes (some of them I've mixed before too!), so it may lead to other FMA finds. If you're on the prowl for CC instrumentals in particular, you can always filter your search results for pod-safe instrumentals. I'd also check out Bennett4Senate's Tracks to Sync series, and this mix of CC-BY and CC-BY-NC music as heard on CBC Radio's tech/culture show Spark.
One browsing method currently in development is a recommendation system where you can enter the name of an artist whose music you're looking for, some criteria about how you're looking to use it (i.e. in a video? is it a 'commercial' use?), and the FMA will offer some suggestions from our library. So in other words, what I just did for Paul could be replaced by an algorithm...but of course we'll still have curators and people like you to joining in on all the music sharing here on the Free Music Archive, it'll just be another way to discover exactly what you're looking for, whether you know it or not.
