Other Organizations Affiliated with Magnatune

Audio School - The world's largest Distance Learning Audio Recording School for Sound Engineering & Music Production. Creators of the Second LIfe "Magnatune Radio Cube", an easy-to-use player for streaming Magnatune music in Second Life. Thank you to Chris Hambly for creating the cube and for permission for us to give it for free to visitors to our Second Life space. You can also visit Audiocourses.com in Second Life here.

CD Baby - our digital download distributor, sending all our music to many online music stores, such as iTunes, MSN Music and 40+ more sites.

Creative Commons - a legal framework enabling reuse of artists' works. The Creative Commons is creating a middle ground between "public domain" (no rights for the artist) and copyright (all rights to the artist, no rights to anyone else). All of Magnatune's music is released under a Creative Commons license. See "What is open music" for more information.

Fair Trade Music Network - the worldwide federation of fair record labels (an effort to reform the music industry). Magnatune is the founding American member of this worthwhile association.

iRate Radio - an open source radio program which plays random legal mp3 files from the Internet, picking appropriate "next song" choices based on your 1 to 5 ranking of the songs you've previously listened to. All of Magnatune's catalog is mixed in iRate's database.

Our Musician's Sites

• Elizabeth Wolff: Magnatune classical pianist
• Processor: Magnatune electronic music artist
• Paul Avgerinos: Magnatune new age artist
• MRDC: Magnatune artist
• Tilopa: Japanese zen-flute artist.
• Ulf Ivarsson's home page: home of Beat Under Control.
• The Kokoon: art pop band.
• Phantasm: viola da gamba classical music ensemble.
• The West Exit: pop band.
• c layne: rock musician.
• Tim Rayborn: world music recording artist
• Jacob Heringman renaissance lute
• Kenji Williams: ambient/IDM with a dash of dub
• DJ Markitos: Trance production from central Europe
• Kourosh Zolani: santour
• James Edwards: guitarist
• Cargo Cult: electronic rock
• Beth Quist: world rock
• Eventide Music Productions: home of Solace

Other Interesting sites

• Musipedia: the open music encyclopedia.
• A Luna Blue: Stock Footage and Image Library.
• Buyer's guide to portable MP3 players
• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
• Musician's Land: information and news on musical instruments and DJ equipment.
• Robin Petrie dulcimer player, member of Panacea.
• IC Design - home of graphics genius Tim Fowler, who designs many of Magnatune's album covers.
• OEbase - great online music store that only sells music they personally know and recommend. Just like the perfect corner indie record store that used to exist everywhere, but on the web!
• Kusha Deep Unlimited - UK label/radio station featuring amazing Indian/Arabic influenced electro-chill music.
• e-gold - an alternative to Paypal, e-gold is a worldwide e-currency based on gold.
• Songfight - people write new songs on a weekly concept and battle it out. Great idea, and no evil.
• SoulPrint - Magnatune hard rock artist
• Kunst der Fuge - free classical MIDI files & fugue theory
• Koala Bear Records - a CD record label that's artist friendly!
• Curlbreaker.com - demonstrates the power of the Curl programming language, and a great supporter of Magnatune.
• Bad Robot streaming unsigned and independently signed music
• IndyDisc sells independent artist's CDs
• Eat Nails heavy metal music site
• Open Studios - a community-based public-domain-oriented recording studio project.
• The Free Music Philosophy
• Domased Electronica
• Entropy Music: guide to electronic music.
• Boing Boing: a directory of wonderful things.
• Ask Bjorn Hansen: articles and links.
• LinuxTag OpenMusic: german project to establish licenses and music following the "open source" guide.
• ishq: electronic music
• Deviant Didg: home of electronic music artist Indidginus
• Lyre Music: source for the printed lute tablature for Art of the Lute in Renaissance France .