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Tuneback 3: Overclocked — Free Download
February 19, 2007 | Author: Joel Falconer | Filed under: Tunebacks, Free Music!, Music, Completed Songs
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Update: Overclocked is now the first song in our free remix package series. Get it now.
Download Overclocked here.
This week’s Tuneback is Overclocked and based on the book of the same name by Cory Doctorow. I’ve been reading Cory’s work for about a year at Boing Boing and found his fiction about six months ago. I’m glad I discovered it, and obviously I’ve found it inspiring enough to write this week’s Tuneback based on Cory’s latest book, a collection of short stories.
Last week, we started working on a song called World Ending which was initially this week’s Tuneback and was going to be based on the first few pages–some particularly poignant scenes–of When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth, one of the stories in Overclocked. We might release that for you in the future, but for now we’re releasing a song that encompasses what we feel the theme of this story collection is. Update: we released it anyway.
In the spirit of Cory Doctorow’s work, we’re releasing this work not only free but under a Creative Commons license that will allow you to share, remix, screw with and jump on the song so long as you retain attribution in your distribution. The license is the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license (what a mouthful!). Cory likes to preface his work like this:
As Woody Guthrie said:
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.
So there you go! If there’s enough demand we may even release an instrumental version for your remixing use. You can find the lyrics by heading to the “Free songs” link in the top right hand corner of this site.
By the way, Cory, we’re with you on DRM–you won’t find any DRMed tunes coming out of Midnight.Haulkerton!
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Hey there, I made a remix of your song about Cory’s book, for a vlog kind of thing and made it available here:
http://jayson.monjayaki.org/?p=6
I mention what you did for this and what Cory does. Check out the mix, hope you don’t hate what I did. Just needed something different for the video (which is over my bike commute in Downtown San Francisco).
Thanks for posting that stuff, I had not used Garageband before, though it comes with the mac, and had been looking for an excuse. Having all your tracks to play with was great.
Keep it up.
j
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