An 8bit cover album of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. Looking forward to mixing this in with the Flaming Lips' recent version.

From the monkey who brought us Yoshimi vs The Hip Hop Robots and A Night At The Hip Hopera. Another masterpiece of bastard pop free to download. Do it now.

yesterday me and @probablydrunk recorded a commentary for the big wheel in town - it has its moments

Audio of the talk from the author of the Digital Britain report. Worth a listen, in my view

A few years ago the SXSW music festival put mp3s from all the bands playing in a big torrent. It was a big success but for some reason they discontinued it despite still having the files on the website to download one by one. Thankfully a precedent was set and every year kind souls do the work for them. The torrents went live a couple of days ago and are now seeding nicely so you should be able to download this 5GB of tunes fairly quickly.

An album of Xmas songs done 8-bit style by Doctor Octoroc. via <a href="http://cleanskies.tumblr.com/post/66925556">Cleanskies</a>, currently my premier source for all things 8-bit.

Really nice mashup album of nerdcore classics which I was drawn to for the Evolution Control Committee's mixing of <i>Code Monkey</i> with 30 other songs, all chosen for their perfect pitch. Incredible stuff.

"is the first single from Deerhoof’s upcoming record, Offend Maggie. Download the sheet music, make your own version, upload it to your webpage or blog, then post the link here." Fantastic way to promote a new album!

Microsoft are "switching off" DRM-ed music bought from them. Diveinto Mark explains it in a letter to his father.

Andrew Dubber introduces Liquid Crunch, his new online music shop where you can "return" the mp3 if you don't like it for a full refund.

Red Route have five mp3s in a handy zip file for your listening pleasure.

Stuart Estell has a song you can download off his blog.

need to check what I don't have

This past Saturday, Pete Tong set up a special two-hour tribute to Tony Wilson on his BBC Radio 1 program, The Essential Mix. It's a fantastic selection of music with Tong focusing on the Factory label and former Hacienda DJ Mike Pickering playing a selec