“Germany” (Used 15 times)

In our interview with headphonica you'll hear their reasoning on using the -NC license and the extra freedoms they provide live DJs.  Make sure you check out their curator page too.

In our interview with Bad Panda Records hear Claudio's plans for world domination and check out the tunes with which he plans to do it.  You can check out more of the "bad" music on their FMA curator page.

You'll also hear some discussion of German football favorites St. Pauli as well as Italian giants Juventus and AS Roma.

If you're a curator that releases music under a remixable CC license and would like to set up an interview, drop us a line here, on facebook or leave us a voicemail at (512) 686-6329.

Please welcome Breitband, a weekly radio show about media and digital culture from German public broadcaster Deutschlandradio Kultur, to the Free Music Archive!

Kicking off what will become a monthly series, Best of Breitband Vol. 1 presents twelve tracks of Creative Commons (and some Public Domain) music that have all been featured on the Breitband radio program, which airs every Saturday from 2pm-3pm.

Breitband (engl Broadband) launched in October 2007 with a "web first strategy," meaning all content is published online before it airs over the radio. Breitband's forward-thinking approach to broadcast is more than just made possible by podsafe audio; Creative Commons music and netaudio (or netzmusik) are part of the focus, along with interviews and "behind the scenes" features on net music and web culture in general. "Breitband covers everything that is part of the digital culture and it's cultural environment," says team-member Christian Grasse.

This Saturday's Breitband program included a feature on the Free Music Archive, with FMA selections by The Jay Vons, Damscray, Spinnaface, The Rope River Blues Band, Sharitah Manush, AMANDA, Muhal Richard Abrams and Rat City Brass. There's also an interview with me, translated into German, stream it below and here's a link.

Best of Breitband Vol. 1 is a fantastic introductory mix that really reflects the bredth of the FMA library, ranging from Catalunyan space-hop by DjCode (aka Bitcode), to public domain classical recordings by the US Air Force Band and Felipe Sarro (already an FMA favorite). Quint Baker really bent my ear with what sounds like a lofi acoustic New Zealand version of Broadcast.

This mix was curated by Breitband host Martin Risel,   Vivian Perkovic, Christine Watty, and Christian Grasse. These four are at the heart of an incredibly vibrant German netaudio community. For example, Christian Grasse also does the FreeQuency podcast on ByteFM, and founded the netlabel Aaahh Records. Selections from Aaahh's catalog of "free and charming music" were recently featured on all2gethernow's 2010 Berlin Music Week compilation and we hope to hear more in the near future. In the meantime, enjoy this mix -- the first of a monthly Best of Breitband series:

SKÅPMAT is a happy EP of instrumentals from Swedish producer Christian Björklund. It slips from dub beats into delicate minimal electronica effortlessly. Some of the tracks Björklund composed for a video game. All tracks are podsafe and are excellent radio beds.

FOC MUZIKLoucy Louder & MXZEHN 25 Masterpieces per SecondOn the furthest European outpost, the Bosporus, a city lies of ancient dimensions. A choir of muezzins is chanting into the haze between Asia and Europe. Bahadir Hamdemir, Stefan Kraus, Thomas Prestin, and Tilman Porschuetz traveled to Istanbul and met the Turkish drum virtuoso Cem Tan. A spirit who immediately possessed the group of visitors. He brought with him the wisdom of shaman, supersonic speed, and a wonderful distrust in rationality.

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From WFMU's Transpacific Sound Paradise 11/28/2009 (playlist):