http://www.brianjonestownmassacre.com/mp3.html

Download the entire BJM catalogue, as well as live albums and a bunch of random shit. If you only ever download one thing off the interweb, make this archive.
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http://www.negrophonic.com/goldteeththief.htm

Here, you can download DJ / ruptures first mix. It's insanity. 43 tracks, 68 minutes, mixed live on 3 turntables. We're talking Venetian Snares and Kid606 next to Paul Simon and Missy Elliott. Get it.
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http://www.mcchris.com

On this website, you can download MC Chris' first album. He produces hip-hop and some bizarre drum & bass with lyrics usually from the perspective of a high school super geek. This guy doesn't take himself seriously. Must own, and at what a price!
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http://www.timfite.com

At this website, you can download this guy's entire album for free. It's political hip-hop with some pretty dope beats. He's an Anti- artist.
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http://www.archive.org/compress/acp001

This is a direct link to download a free Ruairi Lazers album.
It's a free download, so it's on the up and up.
Ruairi is a live synth drummer, who makes all the sounds you hear with a kit and a laptop.
I saw him at Shambhala a couple years ago and left quite impressed. Got to see him play Soundwave this year, and talk to him. He's a really nice guy, with a lot of intelligent things to say, and he's just getting better at what he does.
Give it a shot.
You might like it.
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Mind Expanding Audio and Video
http://www.secondattention.org/main/media.aspx

On this page, you can get some Terence McKenna readings, as well as a little Robert Anton Wilson and Albert Hoffmann (the man who discovered LSD). Your life and the life of the planet depends on you learning what they have to say.
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Digita'lis/Phlox "The Drummondii Days"
http://gozombie.c8.com/DP_GZR005.zip

It's pretty glitchy, but I like what I've heard so far.

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Thank you very kindly Filmore.

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Mind Expanding Audio and Video
http://www.secondattention.org/main/media.aspx

On this page, you can get some Terence McKenna readings, as well as a little Robert Anton Wilson and Albert Hoffmann (the man who discovered LSD). Your life and the life of the planet depends on you learning what they have to say.
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Terrance Mckenna is brilliant, I loved Psychedelics in an Age of Intelligent Machines

^^^ No problem, guys. Glad you appreciate it. Here's another one for you:

http://panospria.com/releases/PAN008/pan008.html
This is an earlier Ruairi Lazers EP, but just as worthy as the one previously mentioned. He is Canada's best kept secret.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Filmore Mescalito Holmes,

U.S. Girls is offering her new album for free here. It's a pretty interesting album, some really intriguing parts mixed with some tracks and parts of tracks that I could do without. The tracks aren't tagged, but it's not a pain if you have a decent tagging program.. or I can just up the album with my tags.

http://www.fanumusic.com/audio/free/

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Janne Hatula is Fanu, the one man breakbeat reformation act from Helsinki, Finland.

Fanu got into jungle and drum and bass in the mid-nineties, which he considers a seminal period in terms of shaping the backbone of drum and bass as well as his own drum-and-bass-mindedness in the process. Artists such as Photek, Tek9, Source Direct, Goldie, Roni Size, and labels such as Metalheadz and Good Looking Records, to mention the most important ones, were largely responsible for making Fanu’s style what it is today.

“I’m creating today’s drum and bass with the aesthetics that come from the past,” he says. “More often than not, there has to be proper breakbeat action in the music that I write because what blew me away in old drum and bass and jungle was the mind-blowing syncopation, the breakbeat element that I didn't catch in other styles of music in the same way; I've never been the biggest fan of the drum-machine styles. For me, the breaks were what made jungle and d&b what they were back then, and I'm after the same elements today. What's also important is a good groove and proper atmospheres you can lose yourself in. ”

This guy is liquid cool. Some of the tastiest ambient drum & bass I've ever heard, for sure.

http://goldfrapp.free.fr/php/home.php?type=MP3
You can get some pretty cool live bootlegs and interviews with Goldfrapp here.

Download: Kollektiv Turmstraße - Verrückte Welt

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Good and evil. Beauty and madness. That´s our world and we are in the center of it. We celebrate this with the new release from
Kollektiv Turmstrasse "Verrückte Welt". 10 tracks which can´t be more different than this. Standing for everyday life and doing of the two artists of no-response. Kollektiv Turmstrasse takes you on a free ride without return, turbulences inclusive. From vents to ramplings, everything is in and on it. Accompany the two on their crazy trip ... Have fun and thank you for listening.

I'm not big into house, but this was pretty good.

I came across THIS blog and have had a chance to check out many of the sites. For free and legal tracks, I haven't found a better resource. Not many artists that are signed release free and legal album downloads, but many discussed on these boards do offer up a free track or two. If you don't mind listening to music not in the context of a complete album, these are the sites listed in the blog that I feel are worth the time (NOTE: I'm really only looking at the Compiled Lists/Blogs part of the linked article):

1. Download.com Music - I'm not sure why the author buried this one on his list, as it is my number one daily stop. Well organized with tons of choices across a wide variety of genres, no other site listed churns out as many tracks daily. Almost all tracks are at a respectable 192 kbps as well.

2. insound - Great back catalog and they offer up many free tracks that I don't see anywhere else. They like to add tracks on new music Tuesdays. Watch the MP3's though. I've seen everything from 320 kbps to 32 kbps.

3. SXSW - Talk about a lot of stuff! I only downloaded the individual tracks that I wanted, as I am in the process of reorganizing everything I have and didn't feel I had the time to sort through everything if I downloaded the whole lot in a torrent. Some good tracks for all years by some artists that I haven't seen offer free tracks elsewhere (Genghis Tron and Circle Takes the Square are the first to come to mind). Tracks for 2005 and 2006 all seem to be at 128 kbps, but 2007 tracks vary a bit.

3. betterPropaganda - Many of the free tracks here are available at the first two sites listed (I think this site actually links to the MP3's on insound). There are some tracks here that are exclusive though, like The Magnetic Field's California Girls and the Neon Neon track. Worth checking out.

4. 3hive - Great back catalog and probably the best search system of any of the sites listed, but activity seems to have slowed on this site and many of the free track links are dead. After I got what I wanted from the back catalog, I don't go to this site very often.

5. Fingertips - Nice blog where the author picks 3 of his/her favorite free downloads for the week. Really digs for these as well - in the last month or so, I haven't seen anyone else with the Fleet Foxes track.

6. Epitonic.com and Salon.com - Neither are adding new tracks, but they have their back catalogs still available. Both are well worth that one time visit to grab what you want. Salon.com has some dead links, but most everything on Epitonic was still active.

Other quick notes, Free Albums Galore looks promising but I haven't had the time to fully explore it. Largehearted Boy has a lot of free live track links. CMJ has some decent stuff, but not very much apart from the Kevin Drew track that I haven't seen elsewhere. I grabbed some free Mastodon tracks from stereokiller, but I know almost nothing about most of the bands listed so can't comment much on this site besides it seems to focus on metal, emo, and hardcore punk. MTV.com has some New Pornos, a Vampire Weekend, and an Aesop Rock track; and Amazon's selection is pretty pathetic compared to what they used to offer.

Here are some sites not listed that I find worthwhile:

Stereogum - Usually my second daily stop. They have some fantastic free downloads. They seem to get the newer stuff first and have a lot of exclusives that I haven't found elsewhere. Even the articles are worth a read if you have the time.

RCRD LBL - Well organized with some exclusive tracks by Born Ruffians and Quinn Walker, among others. Not worth a daily visit, but definitely worth checking out every now and then.

Spinner, Filter, Popmatters, Pitchfork all have media links where you can download free MP3's, and all of the sites make it a pain in the ass to find something in the archives. I didn't bother going back too far, but just started checking these sites a couple of times per week and downloading anything that looks interesting. Many of the links at Popmatters and Pitchfork go dead relatively quickly.

John Vanderslice has a couple albums on his website posted as free MP3s (not his best work, imo, but still, its free...)

Also just found that his old band MK Ultra has all of their albums posted as free MP3s here. I'll definitely be checking them out when I get home.