DECONOMICS RECORDS

One of the best things about the wide acceptance of downloadable digital audio files, such as mp3s, coupled with the proliferation of cheap, fast internet connections, is that free music - the best sort of economic contagion - seems to have insinuated itself into almost every capital-based musical interaction.

This forced concession that the insurgent mp3 regime seems to have garnered from even the most staunchly capitalist peddler of popular music is that you pretty much can’t offer to sell somebody music without giving away a few samples.

The bad news is that progress is sometimes slow, or else half-assed: Many organizations still think they can fulfill their end of these new economic terms and conditions with either a 30-second song sample or with a DRM’ed file. I like to think we are already in the process of watching them learn that it does not.

Despite the best efforts of these glue-footed capitalist rabble-rousers, the more civically-minded among us are already on-board with the program of “free music.”

This all by way of introduction to the first post in my recurring column where I provide you with the best of the free mp3s that I find in my incessant music trawling of the internet.

So, hi. Here’s some free music.

Specifically, I’d like to whet your appetite with a song from a recording session of French electro-pop sensation Yelle, distributed by the gracious patronage of Public Radio International’s “Fair Game”. These recordings rock my humming, bearded face, and my heartiest suggestion is that you allow them to do the same to you.

Get down, pardner: Yelle - on Fair Game (2008-02-19) - performs Les Femmes.

Also, word to Fluxblog and you can download one other song at Fair Game.