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This is an ongoing list of free stuff I've found on last.fm. Thanks to the artists for the free tracks! If anybody has any suggestions, hit reply! Cheers!
31knots - Compass Commands
Adebisi Shank
Alan Cohen Experience
Ambient Anarchist
Basczax
The Bastard Fairies
Brilliants - tion
Black Gold 360
Built by snow
Feel It Robot
German Cars Vs American Homes
Indian Jewelry - Hello Africa
Late of the Pier - Space and the Woods
Messer Chups
the Missing Teens
DJ Morgoth
Pneumershonic (Paul Bourre)
Poingly
The Primidonnatives
Ruder Than You
Sphincter Wraith
The Weird Weeds
Zu - Carbon

Each week I list the top 15 Chez Musinum connected artists who appear on our group charts, extending the list to include any ties. The bottom tier is given one point for the week, and each additional listener counts as an additional point.

Let's say there is a six-way tie for 13th place one week, at four listeners. Since the next tier would start at 19th place, those 6 artists are the bottom tier and get one point apiece. Those with five listeners would get 2 points, and those with ten listeners would get 7 points. If the bottom tier is at three listeners the following week, that tier would get 1 point and ten listeners would be worth 8 points.

The monthly score is just the sum of the weekly scores. (Note that even though an artist who gets points one week may have one or more listeners in another week, those won't count unless the rank is 15 or higher.)

Two more lists are produced, one for albums and one for tracks, following similar rules, with one difference:

Instead of including the entire last tier when it would extend past 15 items, I omit that tier. In other words, rather than at least 15, I use at most 15. In the example above, with a 6-way tie for 13th place among albums or tracks, I would include only the top 12. The reason for this is that with albums and tracks, the list flattens out very quickly, so you can have something like a thirty-way tie for 11th place... compounding that is the fact that there's not as much consistency from week to week in album and especially track plays, so that each week tends to add a lot of new items. Thus with the rules the same, we end up with perhaps 30 artists, 50 albums, and 100 tracks. This change keeps the lists manageable and meaningful.

Artists

58 points
Pixieguts

37 points
Deepspace

25 points
Northcape

23 points
Felixdroid

22 points
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts

17 points
Phillip Wilkerson

15 points
Corrientes

7 points
Krackatoa, Metricks, M. Persson: Sounds, Remergence, The Mighty Acts Of God, VFSix

6 points
HealeyIsland, Tim Doyle

5 points
Dj Sid-the Apocalypze,Streams of Europe

3 points
ifal, Metricks & GaiaBeat

2 points,
Herrera, Koobakoop, 8m2stereo

1 point
Ambient Anarchist, Ana Gori, Friends of redhalo, inn3rflow, Jazztobakk, Max Waves, Richard Sydney, Serkan Süleymaniye, Solid Electro


Albums

21 points
Pixieguts - Walking on Mercury

13 points
Deepspace - The Barometric Sea;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixiegraf

12 points
Pixieguts - Pixieguts!

7 points
Pixieguts - evolution;
VFSix - vfsecret

6 points
Deepspace - The Barometric Sun

5 points
HealeyIsland - West Of Here Is West Of Here

4 points
Streams of Europe - Meanders

3 points
Felixdroid - Odd Dots and Squiggles;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixiegraf Reworked;
VFSix - VF's World;
ifal - preview tracks

2 points
Deepspace - Subantarctic Sessions (EP);
Phillip Wilkerson - Collection I;
Metricks - Roots 98;
Metricks & GaiaBeat - Illusory Origin

1 point
Northcape - Detach EP;
Jazztobakk - Jazztobakk;
Serkan Süleymaniye - aşk


Tracks

7 points
Pixieguts - Lullaby (with Dj Sid-the Apocalypze)

6 points
VFSix - Tears

5 points
VFSix - Princess Of Nothing

4 points
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Last Time V2, Clearview V2, and Green Red Blue Yellow;
ifal - Uncle Dubious

3 points
Deepspace - The First Glimpse of The...;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixieswim V2;
Dj Sid-the Apocalypze - Liquid Mix;

2 points
Pixieguts - End This Day (w Dj SID-the Apocalypze-Trip Into Funk RMX), Phantom Brain (w Electromagnetic Impulses), nda (with Phase Speed);
Felixdroid - Pulse;
Corrientes - Romantic Dream - Corrientes & Titee;
Koobakoop - Beginnings & Ends

1 point
Pixieguts - Currawong Rise (with Dementio13 - Pickfords Mix), Pacific Highway (with Dementio13), and In The Night (Mix Hieronymus);
Deepspace - The Barometric Sea, Sol, and Euphandemonium;
Northcape - Rainfall;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Clearview, Currawong Rise V2, Pixieswim V2, and Shot At Midnight V2;
Phillip Wilkerson - On the French Riviera;
VFSix - Moscow(Reinvented RMX w DJ Sid-the Apocalypze);
HealeyIsland - Saint Anthony's Dream;
ifal - Something from you;
Solid Electro - Lost in a Star;
C.P. McDill - Spread a Little Happiness "new mix" (Saluki Regicide);
Streams of Europe - From the Top of the Mountain to the Bottom of the Sea;
The Golden Dawn - MOONLIGHT


Congrats everybody! Don't touch that dial!

Garage EP by Ambient Anarchist is now free for download!
Cheerz!
:Z

The artists in the following list all have at least some free downloads available from their page here at last.fm (some also have higher-quality downloads available from their own website). Note that "dark electronic" spans a rather broad spectrum- including dark ambient, industrial, electro, rhythmic/power noise, EBM, trip-hop, drum & bass, IDM, etc. (and not every track from every artist may fit the description). This list was copied from the one at the Independent Dark Electronics group forum. You can also hear music from these artists & more by checking out the ide radio tag radio station.

CyberLotion
Beatslaughter
a broken moment
Ad·ver·sary
Cholostase
R6.3zist
Verstaerker
amorphix
Defrost
MKDELTA
Escape from the Head Cube
Saluki Regicide
Exoxen
Tree Helicopter
Infetu
Mind Necrosis Factor
Sonic Area
Five Step Path
Arzt+Pfusch
Cogitate
skin contact
Coreline
Djinnestan
3am
[dK]
CRUZH
Fleischwald
1nfraBu5e
Dyad
Thoekk
Kyn3ticXR
Cymotec
anarchstate
Störsender
Nebel
Nightech
Laud23
Kraft-Gen
Noiz + Zilenth
sigma-results may vary
glassy glaze
Spin Provider
Nanohex
Atropine
Switchface
Groteske
Negative Trip
Tim Doyle
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts
Tumor Necrosis Factor
Streams of Europe
Gird_09
Sweet Sixty Nine
sami_brain
RI:SA
Black Hole Bird
Spiral Never Before
Leichenfeld
Ambient Anarchist
NO Fate Net
Muzik 4 Machines
repriseless
Candle Nine
Nezumi
digitalTRAFFIC
Canoply Games
Pixieguts
Jects
L.U.D.
das Ende von Tagen
Merankorii
Lo.max
Pogrom Synod
_voice
Downliners Sekt
Delectable Mosquito and the radioactive dreams
Jukeen
Terra Forms Project
Syntax_Sntx
Matvey
Mezzanine Stairs
Stiath
Marcel Paulus
Front Sonore
Mank
Toapsec
Truart
Richard Sydney
Accidental Revolution
Phase Speed
Spectrum of God
Friends of redhalo
Tzex
Post Apocalyptic Zombie
Cixxx J
Psy'Aviah
Nicken
Electrypnose
Patient
Deadskin

That oughta keep you busy for a little while. :)

The weekly journal entries were getting too time-consuming, so I decided to do a monthly summary instead, not omitting anyone who would have been in the weekly summaries.

Each week I list the top 15 Chez Musinum connected artists who appear on our group charts, extending the list to include any ties. The bottom tier is given one point for the week, and each additional listener counts as an additional point.

Let's say there is a six-way tie for 13th place one week, at four listeners. Since the next tier would start at 19th place, those 6 artists are the bottom tier and get one point apiece. Those with five listeners would get 2 points, and those with ten listeners would get 7 points. If the bottom tier is at three listeners the following week, that tier would get 1 point and ten listeners would be worth 8 points.

The monthly score is just the sum of the weekly scores. (Note that even though an artist who gets points one week may have one or more listeners in another week, those won't count unless the rank is 15 or higher.)

Two more lists are produced, one for albums and one for tracks, following the same rules. Nothing which would have appeared on a weekly report is left out.

Artists

41 points
Deepspace

37 points
Northcape

29 points
Felixdroid

26 points
Phillip Wilkerson

25 points
Tim Doyle

22 points
Metricks

20 points
HealeyIsland, Pixieguts

19 points
Remergence

18 points
Krackatoa

10 points
8m2stereo

9 points
Aaron Marshall

8 points
Renato Ventura

7 points
Ben Barden, Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts

6 points
M. Persson: Sounds, Gilles Mathieu

5 points
Aleksandr Shubin

4 points
Max Waves,

3 points
The Mighty Acts Of God, CyberLotion, Citadel of Mo, 4c3, Akashic Crow's Nest

2 points
Solar-Wind, paan, Hyperborea, Corrado Rossi

1 point
Lungbutter, Bruce Brubaker, inn3rflow, Milo Moesche, skin contact, Ambient Anarchist, Justin Robert, Koobakoop


Albums

19 points
Deepspace - The Barometric Sea

16 points
HealeyIsland - West Of Here Is West Of Here

11 points
Pixieguts - Pixieguts!;
Krackatoa - Monkies In the Temple

10 points
Felixdroid - Odd Dots and Squiggles;

9 points
Phillip Wilkerson - Collection I;
Metricks - Roots 98;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Pixiegraf

8 points
Northcape - Detach and Some Bright Valley;

6 points]
Pixieguts - Walking on Mercury;
Aaron Marshall - Retrospective Compilation 1997-2005

5 points
Metricks - Unminimal;

4 points
Phillip Wilkerson - Blue Falling Light
Aaron Marshall - Noir Ambiance

3 points
Deepspace - The Barometric Sun;
Northcape - Detach EP;
Phillip Wilkerson - Collection II;
Remergence - Probably and The Remixes;
Krackatoa - Sun Dripping Down the Stainglass;
Gilles Mathieu - Irish Mass (version1)

2 points
Deepspace - Subantarctic Sessions (EP)
Northcape - Letter To Nowhere
Krackatoa - Dining on Backs of the Brave;
8m2stereo - aut idem;
4c3 - 4c3;
paan - Early Works

1 point
Deepspace - Slow Moving Lifeforms Volume 1;
HealeyIsland - Temporary Demonstration One;
Remergence - Wide Open Space (remastered);
8m2stereo - ca102 - 8m2stereo - tacet;
Renato Ventura - Joy - Single.;
Ben Barden - Forgotten Past;
The Mighty Acts Of God - we could fail under the stars and joy of the mountain;
4c3 - Forced to Fly;
Solar-Wind - Mind Traveller;
Lungbutter -What Have They Done This Time? (1999);
Bruce Brubaker - Glass Cage;
inn3rflow - still tryin to find that sound;
Dual Echelon - Experimental Music Therapy I;
The Chez Musinum Cabinet - The Ghost Elephants Mix Project;
Friends of redhalo - Friends of redhalo
Herrera - Greenice


Tracks

5 points
Northcape - A Part of The Forestand Detach;
Metricks - Memoire des Temps Perdu;
HealeyIsland - Why So Miserable

4 points
Metricks - Waterfoam;
HealeyIsland - West Of Here Is West Of Here;
Krackatoa - Monkies In the Temple

3 points
Deepspace - The Barometric Sea and Energy Failure on the Sibelius;
HealeyIsland - Saint Anthony's Dream;
Pixieguts - Aberrant - The Frequency Shift (Crimson Death vs FELN ft Pixieguts);
Krackatoa - Going ever so slowly Blind and Sun Dripping down the Stainglass;
8m2stereo - reD;
Renato Ventura - Don't Forget Africa and Joy

2 points
Deepspace - The Astrology, Subantarctic Phenomena, and Euphandemonium;
Northcape - Don't Let It Slip Away;
Felixdroid - The Space between...;
Phillip Wilkerson - fantasia;
Metricks - Pearl and Postcard to Outerspace;
HealeyIsland - The Desert Silence;
Remergence - Probably (Styler Remix);
Krackatoa - 2nd Class Suit, I am a Drone, and Hikikimori;
Ben Barden - The Sounds of Time;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Clearview;
M. Persson: Sounds - Strange skies;
Friends of redhalo - It's Getting Thick

1 point
Deepspace - Sol, The Endless Repeat of Waves on, Chrome Passageways, and Silent Revolving World;
Northcape - Rainfall, Red Panda, Low Lying Mist, Doesn't Feel Like A Long Way, Landscape Electricity, and Sun Clears The Mind;
Felixdroid - Ambient2 and dREaM State;
Phillip Wilkerson - Composition No 002 24 April 07, february, fragile, feint, fuji, forgiveness, The Road to You (Is Never Long), and The Adagio for Dreamers;
Metricks - Kop Indo and Photoaster;
HealeyIsland - Like Flies Round;
Pixieguts - Confuse Me (with The Peach Tree), One Moment (w Dementio13 + TRavvy), and In the Night (mix Hieronymous);
Remergence - Probably (Extended Mix);
Krackatoa - Sexy Hot Bitch, Fundamental, Nothing to her now, Look up to the Sky, Humvee, One Shot at Life, The Passing of Time, The Pox is Coming, I Created You, Hot Humid Days, Shitzui, Blood Moon Rising, Green Lady, Crawling down Walls, Sleeping my life away, We think we know it all, Trapezium, Speedracer, Galaga Island, and Shark on the Lot;
8m2stereo - srL and mes.;
Aaron Marshall - Devour the Wolves, Prelude, and The War of the Nine Kings;
Renato Ventura - ¡Sì, se puede!;
Ben Barden - Forgotten Past, Sunwatching, Moonsurfing, Deviance, and The Spiral Staircase;
Dementio13 Feat Pixieguts - Spheric;
M. Persson: Sounds - Before the end;
Gilles Mathieu - Tales from the Moon Forest - Réverbère (tribute to Jacques Prévert);
Aleksandr Shubin - ONE DAY;
Solar-Wind - Dancing nebula;
paan - Spacetraveler, Schichtarbeit, and Feuersalamander;
Hyperborea - Breathing;
Bruce Brubaker - Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis Three;
Dual Echelon - Fallen Sun;
The Chez Musinum Cabinet - The Great Ghost Elephant Hunt (Shaman's Dance);
Jukeen - Surface Investigation;
Friends of redhalo - kcihT gnitteG s'tI;
Metricks & GaiaBeat - The Other Side;

Congrats everybody! Don't touch that dial!

Ambient Anarchist did an experimental video - the weird Broiler Lake
The Video was shot for six hours only,for a Friday-13th celebration.

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