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Laura Sheeran Live Video

Recorded at Camden Palace Hotel 15/7/10. As you can see, Laura is absolutely magic live. If you haven’t already, you should take the time to check out here release Music for the Deep Woods, available as a free download.

Trent Reznor talking about free music

I’ve always had mixed feelings about Trent Reznor’s releases since he’s dived headlong into releasing free music, and he himself has had mixed results (see his open letter response to the ‘Niggy Tardust’ release on his blog, for example) but you cannot deny he’s serious about setting… Read More

Free gifts from ItalTek. Atom River


ItalTek, in my opinion, is not only a great producer, but also embraces the idea that free music and paid music can live side by side without great stress. In testament to that (If you don’t already know his amazing Net-Lab releases), here is the new homepage for… Read More

SteveD at Kultur-able Berlin, 06.09

Für unsere Freunde in Berlin, Check out Open Music’s SteveD playing live at Kultur-able}. Sunday June 11th, 20.00
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A whole bunch of new!

Welcome again for another exciting time at Open Music. This months releases are pretty shit hot. Hip Hop, Wonky, NoiseBass, Collage and other misc noises, plus the next instalation of the Primer series drops yummy beats from all our current releases plus some bonus extras…

++ New Releases ++

Various… Read More

The Hideous Penguin interviewed in Analogue


..and Open Music gets a shout-out! Cheers Jimmy!

“Previously you’ve released music through the Jamendo webspace but recently you joined the Open Music Net Label, do you hope to gain a little more exposure from working with them?

Net-labels are good for hearing great music you never… Read More

Lorn release drops very soon…

I approached Lorn on a blag. Blown away by Running Ink on his myspace, I had hoped to snag it for the upcoming Primer 02. Little did we realise that he was down with a full length release, and just like that, the unbelievably slick 7&13 EP drop… Read More

Farewell to Autoplate


Image by Fubuki.

After nearly 8 years and 50 releases, old man free label Autoplate, the noise / ambient / non / other sub-label of renowned open sourcers Thinner, is sadly taking a permanent snooze. Roll through the archives for some quality musics… Read More

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    Launched in November 2008, ThisIsOpenMusic is an open source music label run by musicians. We operate from Brighton, UK. Open is run by Piratio but is greatly helped by John Cohen & Leo Piggot.

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