Sarah is a New Zealander living in Japan. In addition to her teaching job, she started producing an online English lesson entitled The Daily English Show in April 2006. “The Daily English Show is an internet show for English students, English teachers and those interested in the English language and language study”, she explains. Running a non profit operation, she obviously didn’t have much of a budget for music, which is why she was thrilled to find in Jamendo an ideal source for background music, intros, etc. “It’s usually very easy to find good stuff. We really love using music from Jamendo.”
True to the spirit of Creative Commons licenses, every use of music on The Daily English Show is duly credited, and all the necessary links are posted. “We’ve had a lot of feedback from viewers thanking us for introducing them to the music and to Jamendo. We’ve also had great feedback from artists thanking us for using their music on the show. Our aim is to eventually generate income to make the show sustainable. When we do that, I hope to be able to make donations to the artists whose music we use.”
As promised, we’re back with another taste of some of the excellent music available here on Jamendo. Rock and electro are the genres we have focused on this week.
Check out our lovingly hand-picked 10-track selections below.
More and more independent labels choose to post their productions on Jamendo. Fading Ways was one of the first. Founded in Toronto in 1998, its aim is to « treat artists fairly and keep them in control of their own careers », explains founder Neil Leyton. From Canada, Fading Ways’ activities expanded over the years to the UK, then Finland. It is in fact a network of labels that « choose their artists locally and then feed them into the international network and our UK-based music store ». Musically, Fading Ways’ roster « ranges from singer/songwriters to punk rock. The defining element is that all our artists are totally committed to what they do - it’s genuine music. Not pop, but underground art », with artists such as The Singles, Turku Romantic Movement, Red Orkestra and Neil Leyton himself.
And all this music happens to be Creative Commons-licensed. Fading Ways’ first CC release was Red Orkestra’s debut album in 2004. « I believe we were the first label to place a CC logo and license on the back cover of our international, commercially distributed releases. » Publishing music on Jamendo was the obvious next step… Check out Fading Ways’ newly published rock’n'roll compilation here.
The Fading Ways team, from left to right: Chris McDougall (UK), Tina Siegel (Canada), Mikko Jokela (Finland), Lilli Kinnunen (Finland), Neil Leyton (international).
We were thrilled to receive positive coverage from around the world following the announcement of our 10.000th published album.
If you are interested in reading what people had to say about Jamendo, simply click on the screenshots below (content in english, french, german, polish, portuguese, spanish…) :
People rejoice! Jamendo has decided to unveil some of its hidden treasures. Every week from now on, discover some of the best music available in our ever-growing catalog.
Let’s start with some sweet melodies and fat beats, namely a selection of ten pop and hip hop tracks. As usual, this is for your listening, downloading and sharing pleasure.
The whole team would like to thank all those who chose Jamendo: artists, members and music lovers who have been making this site alive since the beginning, and of course all those who joined us along the way.
10 000 albums, that’s 10 000 reasons to pursue this adventure, in the name of what we all believe in: free music, thanks to Creative Commons licenses.
Thanks to all!
Here’s a little sample of the great music you can find on Jamendo. A fine selection of rock, hip hop, reggae, electro and jazz. Enjoy!
Jamendo’s very own embedded music players are now available for albums as well as playlists.
Easily share your favorite music by posting it directly onto your blog or website.
Simply copy/paste the html code shown on every album or playlist page on Jamendo.
You will find more detailed instructions on our widget page.
Here is the press release from Archos about our partnership
New music partner: JAMENDO in the ARCHOS Content Portal
More than 140 000 mp3 music tracks for download - 100% free and 100% legal
Jamendo, the largest internet platform for free music distribution and ARCHOS, the leading player on the market of portable digital entertainment announce their partnership allowing Archos Users to freely and legally download in excess of 140,000 music tracks. Archos Content Portal Users now have direct access to Jamendo’s catalogue through a specially developed interface.
Jamendo, the leading platform of free and totally legal downloads of music under Creative Commons licenses, is a way for a great number of artists to promote their music. The artists authorise the free sharing of their albums and tracks. Jamendo is today the destination for the discovery of new talents and the statistics show that over 500 000 music tracks are downloaded daily from the platform.
“It is a privilege to work with Archos and be able to offer thousands of hours of free music for discovery, download and free sharing. A new generation of artists meets a new generation of users! It is perfect for those that want unlimited access to music and the freedom to share it.”, says Dorota Smaggia, Jamendo Head of Business Development.
Users can, without limitation, download any of the catalogue on offer from Jamendo. There are over 9000 full albums and an average of 100 new albums are published on a daily basis. All the music is DRM free and can be downloaded in one-single-click. Users can discover new artists by searching within the music genres, these include: ROCK, HIPHOP, JAZZ, REGGAE, METAL, INDIE, ELECTRO, POP…
Over 5 000 artists and bands from 60 countries rely on Jamendo for the release and promotion of their works. From mature artists, acclaimed for their music riffs, such as Carlos Saura, whose tracks are downloaded hundreds of thousand times, to teenage and prodigious talents such as Raphaël Badawi who produces delicious classical works… or other authors and interpreters who use jamendo as a way to be discovered by major players and labels and join the mainstream artists.
Jamendo’s launch into the UK market started with an on-street marketing campaign at Brighton’s Great Escape Music Festival. The industry-focused event attracts more the 10,000 attendees every year. 50 Jamendo branded Punters (the ‘Purple Army’) were sent out on to the streets of Brighton, attending numerous gigs throughout the town during the three days of the festival. The high visibility campaign was to highlight attention for Jamendo and its platform by offering Free Punter Passes to Free Music advocates and lovers of the live gig circuit…. namely students! Under instruction to infiltrate the gig going masses, the Jamendo Punters handed out ‘winning’ scratch cards inviting festival attendees to visit www.jamendo.co.uk for FREE and LEGAL MUSIC DOWNLOADS.
Over the course of the three days, the Jamendo Punters partied in the spirit of the event, customising their Punter T-shirts and attracting much attention from not just festival delegates and regular punters but also from the general public at large.
Jamendo highlights the best of its British artists that audiences can discover and enjoy on www.jamendo.co.uk
Flykkiller
“Razorsharp machete beats, these electro terrorists have been exploding NME’s head all week” NME “- a spaced-out, menacing melange of super-freak surrealism that’s deadlier than a fly-swatter. Buzzin’.” The Fly www.jamendo.com/en/artist/flykkiller
Ruth Theodore
“Ruth’s ability to paint vivid pictures in your imagination is unparalleled in contemporary mainstream music.” - God Is In The TV “What we have here is an outrageously talented singer-songwriter” - Louder Than War www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Ruth_Theodore
The Modern Fighting Vehicles
“Stylistically, The MFV go big on guitars and straddle both dance/electronica and rock, and are working on developing a sound that no-one else has.” Phil Jackson – BBC South Live
www.jamendo.com/en/artist/The_Modern_Fighting_Vehicles
The Kazoo Funk Orchestra
An alternative indie pop collective from Glasgow, Scotland. Formed in 2005 during a finger painting session attended by chief songwriters Little Beard and Big Beard. They take inspiration from various artists and genres, creating a unique mesh of indie, pop, rock and hip-hop. www.jamendo.com/en/artist/kfunk
Beatsix
It’s 2008, and the location is Staines, West London. A small outpost in this low-rise wasteland of industrial units, reservoirs and aircraft hangars has finally been noticed by meejahland through the patronage of its most famous resident Ali G and the post-clash soul sensation that is known as Hard-Fi. Richard Archer and the boys constantly reference the town they grew up in as it’s all they have. Pimped up Peugeots, drum n’ bass rude boys and the incessant whistling of dump valves and jet engines from beyond the reservoir at Terminal 4. www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Beatsix
The Heavens
A blend of British & American psychedelia, rock & roll and 90’s britrock. Their main influences include The Beatles, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bob Dylan, The Byrds and Syd Barrett. www.jamendo.com/en/artist/The_Heavens
Whitestar
Inspired by the counter-culture of the late 80’s Tory Britain, from smoke-filled grimy pubs with run down toilets through the blissed out drug-fueled 90’s, into the clubs, ears bleeding, broken relationships, from rundown bedsits, rented properties to impromptu weekend parties, Whitestar finally opened its mouth, screaming from the rooftops in late 2003. www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Whitestar
Xihilisk
Starting in 2000 with an improvised black-metal album, which was created in 6 days on a dilapidated cassette-tape fourtrack. Since way back then, technology has infiltrated Xihilisk and gradually it has transformed from hyper-experimental hostility, to a more uniformed and focused sound. www.jamendo.com/en/artist/xihilisk
Jamendo will be present at the Great Escape festival based in Brighton UK. More than 200 local and international Bands will perform live in more than 25 venues during 3 days. And guess what - JAMENDO will be right in the middle!
50 Jamendo punters will be in Brighton during the 3 days of the festival, participating in concerts and highlighting the ‘ONLY FREE MUSIC DOWNLOADS’ message with t-shirts and scratch cards.
A special landing page has been created for this occasion with the best of our British artists that you can discover and enjoy on www.jamendo.co.uk or click on the picture.
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