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Say hello to The Formative Beers ’91 – ’97, a compilation of 38 remastered Buddard demos from the good old days! The songs were all transferred from cassette tape, carefully restored and then digitally remastered.

You’ll find the album over at www.buddard.com. There you can stream it and buy it in a number of different formats (MP3 320, WAV, FLAC, OGG, …) — Pay what you want, from 0 EUR and up! The album should also appear on Spotify within a couple of weeks. Or you can just grab the torrent (MP3 320, about 295 MB) if you’re so inclined.

The album is of course released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0, some rights reserved.

Also, be sure to find us on Facebook, Twitter and SoundCloud.

We’ve just opened a donations account for immaterialmusic, primarily to cover the costs for running this website. Whatever’s left over will finance future productions. If you’d like to support free music, feel free to leave us a tip in the box to the right!

We’ve opened an account for immaterial at last.fm, the mother of all web radio. The idea is to poison people’s radio channels with our music and hopefully gain some new fans in the process.

If you already have a last.fm account, please support us by listening to our music. If you don’t have an account, get one today!

I just discovered that our contact email account has been full for the last two months or so. No wonder we haven’t received any mail lately… Fixed it now. Apologies to those who tried to contact us during this time, please write again.

I finally put up a proper page for the remixes and cover versions made by immaterial music & friends. Enjoy!

Buddard has opened an account on MySpace, primarily to promote his music, but also to separate his own rants from immaterial music. You’ll find his page at http://www.myspace.com/buddard, and his blog at http://blog.myspace.com/buddard.

In light of an article by Erik Möller entitled Creative Commons -NC Licenses Considered Harmful and the discussions surrounding it, we have decided to relicense all our music under the less restrictive Attribution-ShareAlike license. This means that our music may now be used commercially without our permission.

The ShareAlike condition should provide enough protection against commercial exploitation, since any added value (such as CD cover art for example) counts as a derivative work, and as such has to be released to the public under an identical license. The Attribution condition makes sure that we are attributed as specified in our license notice (i e the artists’ name and immaterialmusic.com should be clearly visible).

As always, if you would like to do something with our music but feel that the license is too restrictive or incompatible with your own license, just contact us and we can probably work something out.