Legitimate MP3 downloads!

June 28, 2005 9:54 AM

Legitimate MP3 downloads! If you like the big beat duo The Chemical Brothers, I'm sure you'll be impressed by these two excellent remixes: Flip The Switch & Believe EP. Primal Scream's deep house masterpiece is given similarly impressive treatment in Screamixadelica. Maybe you prefer the punkier electronica of The Prodigy; check out Always Outsiders, Never Outdone. BTW don't forget to donate to the nominated charities on each site if you decide to keep the tracks.

On slightly more dodgy ground, copyright-wise, are the remixes and mashups from tone396, lionel vinyl, fakeID & Go Home Productions (these are clearly only a handful of artists, but in my opinion are some of the best) - I wonder how, or even if you can, apply copyright laws to some of these kinds of hybrid productions.
posted by smiffy (19 comments total)

Always a fun thread. Also:
anticon freebies (right hand column)
the wonderful Skingraft records
and SPREE: An Escape From Reality.
posted by Peter H at 10:08 AM on June 28, 2005

Spree? Wait, no, that's not what you meant.
posted by nervousfritz at 10:28 AM on June 28, 2005

awesome. now I just need the torrents to complete.
posted by liquid54 at 10:45 AM on June 28, 2005

Cheers Peter H, those are great links!
posted by smiffy at 10:51 AM on June 28, 2005

What, no love for Get Your Bootleg On?
posted by Remy at 10:58 AM on June 28, 2005

Wrapped Detective. Pretty good.
posted by jsavimbi at 11:00 AM on June 28, 2005

If you like this try www.ilovetheoutlaws.com , which I mentioned here while back - in fact I think most of these have been mentioned before. But they are still pretty fun.
posted by sam and rufus at 11:03 AM on June 28, 2005

sam and rufus, it was your original FPP that got me hooked on this stuff - respect is due!
posted by smiffy at 11:15 AM on June 28, 2005

Seconding sam and rufus...The Outlaws rip it up...definitely give their XFM Superchunk mix [mp3] a listen (tracklisting here)
posted by tpl1212 at 11:24 AM on June 28, 2005

Also, sort of in the same vein (and because I was listening to it just this morning)...check out DJ /rupture's Gold Teeth Thief mix...
posted by tpl1212 at 11:26 AM on June 28, 2005

Osymyso. Intro-Inspection.

Best Mash-up Ever.

More...
posted by meehawl at 11:51 AM on June 28, 2005

Don't forget SixxMixx and Party Ben.
posted by bashos_frog at 1:04 PM on June 28, 2005

So, how do we know these are "Legitimate MP3 Downloads"? I'm wondering because I don't see anything on http://www.chemicalbrothersremixed.com/ to indicate that the remixers got permission from the copyright holders; am I missing something somewhere?
posted by mistersix at 3:49 PM on June 28, 2005

Good stuff. Kid Kameleon, DJ/Rupture (previously) and DJ Shitmat are some other artists with free mixes. Strictly Kev's Raiding the 21st Century: A History of the Cut-up is phenomenal.
posted by nTeleKy at 8:32 AM on June 29, 2005

All great links.
I'd like to add my personal favorites Loo & Placido to the mix. Though I can't seem to find their free downloads at the moment...

I've been waiting to make my first MeFi post for a while now, but I suppose it would have been somewhat along these lines anyway. But then again I'm a bit biased.
posted by Lenlow at 9:30 AM on June 29, 2005

Lenlow rules a lot. As does DJ Zebra and Alex H.
posted by zusty at 9:55 AM on June 29, 2005

let us not forget steve mannion of boomselector/base58 fame
posted by klangklangston at 12:32 PM on June 29, 2005

Good question Mistersix.
I forgot to mention this... but there's nothing "legitimate" about 99% of these downloads.

The Chemical Brothers did not sanction the remix album, but we heard through the grapevine that they liked it. (And aren't taking action.) We're not profiting from these remixes, mashups and bootlegs. Most of us do it for fun, and the better ones do it for fun and to showcase their production talent, in hopes of doing official ("legitimate") remixes for artists.

I'm still at the "just fun" stage.
posted by Lenlow at 12:41 AM on June 30, 2005

You know, all these remixes and mashups encourage people to check out the originals! I've discovered a whole range of artists through these bootlegs!
posted by smiffy at 4:01 PM on June 30, 2005