As you may know we distribute part of our catalog of free album releases through Bittorrent site Mininova. We have made 30 releases available through their site so far and we continue to add older releases.

Here's an overview of the most popular WM Recordings releases on Mininova so far:

1. Various Artists - Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka: Porn Music For The Masses Vol 2
2. Happy Elf - Loose your head
3. Sminky - Lizard's Tale
4. Manuele Atzeni - The Miyazaki Tour EP
5. brunk - so lo so fi
6. Happy Elf - Sexmachine
7. Noteherder & McCloud - The Tail
8. Meanwhileproject.ltd - Today is Sunday
9. Keshco - Trolley Crash
10. Panicphobia - When Eggs Burst

New free mini album by Happy Elf, available now:



Happy Elf - Sexmachine [WM096]

More grooves, more lyrics and another guest vocalist: welcome to SEXMACHINE, a mini album filled with sounds of legendary synthesizers and dirty guitars.

Willem van Dullemen, a famous blues guitarist/singer from Rotterdam joins Happy Elf's hitmachine on two tracks. This album features songs about relations, sex and dreams. But don't take it too seriously: it's Happy Elf!

New free download, available now:



Manuele Atzeni - The Miyazaki Tour EP

Manuele Atzeni a.k.a. Miyazaki is a dj/producer from the underground music scene in Florence, Italy. Born as a hard-techno dj, since 2001 he has been spinning and scratching in parties, clubs and festivals around Italy mixing hip hop, funk and drum 'n bass.

Manuele Atzeni's music is heavily hip hop/electro influenced with a strong jazz/funk taste.

Our CD release by Italian singer Barbara de Dominicis is getting some great reviews in Italy. One site writes "Geniale, impalpabile, puro e divino". Sound goods, even if you don't speak Italian, right?

Below are links to some of the reviews (all in Italian):

- Rock Impressions
- LostHighways
- Revolving Doors
- Loudvision.it

Our latest free album release:



The Hathaway Family Plot - Wal*Mart-Approved Music
http://www.wmrecordings.com/releases/wm093.htm

Inspired by the increasing practice of musicians sponsored by corporations, these 16 tunes are The Hathaway Family Plot's latest attempt to make music that is the anti-commodity: sloppy, unmarketable, and sometimes flagrantly difficult to listen to!

We promised you more news about partnerships with free music sites last week. Well, here's the good news we're dying to tell you: WM Recordings is now officialy added as a 'curator' of the recently opened Free Music Archive:



"The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is being directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.

Inspired by Creative Commons and the open source software movement, the FMA provides a legal and technological framework for curators, artists, and listeners to harness the potential of music sharing. Every artist page will have a bio and links to the artists' home page for users to learn more about the music they discover via the Free Music Archive. We also seek to compensate artists directly. Artist, album and song profiles will contain links to buy the full album from the artist and/or label's preferred vendor(s). Users can also "tip" an artist if they like what they hear, sending a donation directly to the artists' PayPal account. Artist profiles include tourdates, encouraging users to step away from the glowing computer screen and see some real live music."

You can find our contributions here. We'll add our complete catalog of free albums to the archive in the coming weeks.

Hot on the heels of our partnership with LegalTorrents comes more good news: we are now officially a "content distributor" at Mininova, the biggest torrent search engine and directory on the net.

Our complete catalog of free legal releases will be added to Mininova in the coming weeks. Six of our most recent releases are already available at www.mininova.org/user/WMRecordings.

Stay tuned for more exciting news, because we will start to distribute our releases through yet another large website soon!

We're happy to announce that WM Recordings has joined the online digital media community LegalTorrents.

LegalTorrents discovers and distributes high quality open-license (Creative Commons) digital media and art, and provides support to Content Creators. LegalTorrents hosts creative content in its entirety, ensures fast, reliable downloads, and enables users to directly sponsor Content Creators and their work.

Content is ditributed with the full permission of the rights holders and uses the peer-2-peer file-sharing technology called Bittorrent.

WM Recordings' first contribution to LegalTorrents is brunk's "insert coins to continue". You can find it here. In time our complete catalog of free downloads will be available on LegalTorrents.com.

We're proud to present another free album by Belgian artist brunk:



brunk - insert coins to continue

A DIY eighties soundtrack filled with dusty hip hop beats, grooving bluesrock and straight forward metal riffs, heroic lo-fi guitar soloing and weird synth sounds - yes, bad taste, but great fun!

brunk is Bert Vanden Berghe, insert coins to continue is his fourth free WM Recordings release. Enjoy!

There's now a WM Recordings group on Facebook!
Click here, or simply type "WM Recordings" in the search box and it will pop up.