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This is one of the first background type production music MP3 that I created way back in the day. I’ve always liked it and when I found the MP3 while digging around in all my old files I decided to post it so that maybe someone else could get some use out of it.

Feel free to use it as background music in your videos or any project that you have, or use it in your podcast, or, well anyway that you want - but if you do use it honor the creative commons license and give me some credit ( and a link to imjtk would be appriciated as well ).

Download SlowHip MP3 1:50 . 1.67 MB (1,753,908 bytes)

In the best news I’ve gotten today “The Search” - the new album from Son Volt, is set for release on March 6. By all accounts The Search is the band’s most daring and diverse album yet. The follow-up to 2005’s acclaimed ‘Okemah and the Melody of Riot,’ ‘The Search’ is a departure from the band’s alt-country laden records, employing an exceptional variety of sounds, melodies, and arrangements.

“Instrumentally, the electric guitar was the focus of the last record ‘Okemah’, but for ‘The Search‘ we wanted to try something new, ” says songwriter Jay Farrar. “This time, we utilized different instrumentation to fit each song — from guitar pedal loops to various keyboard sounds to horns.”

Listen to The Search Here

Listen to Circadian Rhythm Here

Listen to The Picture Here

So I find myself working on a podcasting solution for an old client that now wants to share a weekly 30 minute talk with the world and it got me thinking.

Podcasting is something that is so simple, but so often misunderstood. I remember only a little more then a year ago talking to otherwise intelligent, tech savy, people who asked me how a podcast was different then a mp3. I tried to explain to them about the metadata and subscription aspects of podcasts but I rarely convied the true power of podcasting.

Wikipedia says:

A podcast is a media file that is distributed by subscription (paid or unpaid) over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.

Okay, fine - but what podcasting really does is allow the masses to simlplify the distribution of content they’ve created. The xml file that describes the media file allows everyone - itunes, thisblog, technorati - to learn about the latest mashup that you created in GarageBand, why you did it, when you did it, and where one might subscribe to the other media files that you are going to publish in the future.

Get a decent rss aggregator or podcast specific app ( even itunes ) and subscribe to a few active podcasts.

That being said, here’s a list of my favorite ( mostly ) talk radio type podcasts - try one or two, almost all of them are better then the standard mainstream media swill.

1. Free Talk Live - while not a pure-play podcast, this is easily the most important podcast on the net today imho.
2. The Onion Radio News - The Onion Radio News is a daily newscast from The Onion’s award-winning news team.
3. DiggNation - Diggnation is a weekly tech/web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories.
4. Coverville - A Podcsts about cover songs. How can that be good? Tune in, find out.
5. Movies You Should See - Brtish movie reviews - an amazing amount of detail about the movies discussed even though they stray off topic so often.
6. The RU Sirius Show - A MondoGlobo Production…
7. Common Sense with Dan Carlin - Sometimes topical, sometimes historical, always worth listening to.
8. Rubyfruit Radio - Where it’s all girls, all the time.
9. MacNation - One Nation Under Pod.
10. Red Bar Radio - Listen to MIke D. harshly judge pop culture .

This is a compilation CD, showcasing 20 of Club Bootie’s favorite mashups from 2006. Compile in order with no gaps between the songs – perfect for parties! They are calling this the biggest bootleg mashup party in the world with the zip file containing all 21 mp3 tracks, plus artwork.

Ever find yourself needing a MP3 that sounds like the soundtrack of a seventies porno movie? Well if so, then you are in luck! I made this MP3 a few years ago and just came across it again.

Seventies Porno Soundtrack MP3 . 55 seconds . 550kb

Of course, if you do decide to use this for anything, please respect the creative commons license and give ole’ JTk credit.

Here is another quirky mp3 that I created years ago that I am setting free:

quasiclassical.mp3 . 1:30 . 1.3 MB

The first part of it is mainly like long ooohs and then my virtual orchestra kicks in. Feel Free to do what you will with it as long as you follow the Creative Commons Attribution License.

Okay, so when the namesake of a piece of music asks you to post that piece of music you post that piece of music:

Ninja’s Favorite MP3

16 seconds long . 245kb

Back in the day, when I had time on my side, I used to dabble in creating original production music that I would let folks download. Lately I have not had much time for such trival pursuits but I do still have the MP3’s.

So, without any more self serving ramblings, I am happy to provide another of these older MP3’s - this one is called CruiseChase ‘cauze I always thought that this MP3 sounded like it should be the soundtrack for a car scene, crusing or chasing as it were. Okay so there was some more rambling…

So download this free production music type MP3, and do with it what you will but please respect the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License.

Okay, here is an MP3 that we made a long time ago called Big Bad Bosstones (775 kb :45 ). JP requested that we post it again. It is some cool digital bossanova, no really, click it…

We are transitioning a number of our websites and will eventually post all of this kind of stuff here at This Damn Blog as we try and reduce the sheer number of websites. Feel free to use this MP3 as you see fit as long as you respect the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License.

So we posted this post about The Jonas Brothers mainly because my neice likes them very much. Then a very strange thing happened - we started to get lots of comments - and these were not your standard spamming comments, they all loved The Jonas Brothers…

But they are all so similar I started to wonder if it might not be a concerted effort by some nefarious orginization that was trying to help It’s About Time take over the world.

Check out the comments ( many more of the same ilk were deleted ) and let me know what you think.