After a lot of thinking, I’ve decided to make all my albums available
as free downloads. This is in addition to keeping them as pay
downloads on commercial services like iTunes or Amazon, as well as on
subscription services like Napster, Rhapsody, and Spotify. I’ll
continue to try to get more titles on services like Pandora Radio
where, at least according to my last Soundexchange royalty check and
statement, I’ve got a bunch of people listening and liking.
Bandcamp will be hosting all the free downloads. You can get
everything either as 320 MP3s, FLAC, AAC, OGG, or ALAC. If you don’t
know what all those formats are, just get the MP3 version.
The way I figure it, if everything is free then more people will
download and listen. If they like it, then maybe they’ll pay
eventually, or buy some merchandise like a t-shirt or an art piece, or
listen to my stuff on a royalty-paying service like Pandora Radio. If
they don’t pay ever, that’s OK. If there’s something they don’t like,
it can be deleted.
So, here are some links below to the particular albums on Bandcamp
that are available now.
The Driver’s Companion (2004 – electronic rock, chillout, ambient,
dance)
http://markrushton.bandcamp.com/album/the-drivers-companion
Hum and Drift (2006 – ambient, chillout, world, electronica)
http://markrushton.bandcamp.com/album/hum-and-drift
Regeneration X (2007 – downtempo, chillout, electronica, ambient)
http://markrushton.bandcamp.com/album/regeneration-x
Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish (2008 – ambient, soundscaping)
http://ambientmatyk.bandcamp.com/album/mark-rushton-and-jon-harnish
Flow (2008 – ambient techno)
http://markrushton.bandcamp.com/album/flow
Ornate Culmination (2008 – live, improvisation, electronic,
soundscaping)
http://ambientmatyk.bandcamp.com/album/ornate-culmination
Ambient Matyk (2009 – live, improvisation, ambient, avant-garde, field
recording)
http://ambientmatyk.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-matyk
Three Sketches EP (2010 – soundscaping, ambient, minimal)
http://music.audiogourmet.co.uk/album/three-sketches
Themes For Boundoff.com (2010 – compilation + 3 new tracks)
http://markrushton.bandcamp.com/album/themes-for-boundoff-com
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