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While I’ve already revealed my favorite album of 2009 (which includes Pollination’s free IO EP), I thought I might share some of the better albums released by artists and labels free of charge.

This is the Year in Free Albums.

1. Surface by RENMINBI
Listen: Portland (mp3)

2. Mixtape by The Years
Listen: Dewjuice (mp3)

3. Fear! by Shark?
Listen: I’ve Got Friends (mp3)

4. New Raytheonport by Gary War
Listen: Clouds Went That Way (mp3)
NOTE: This album came out in 2008, but the FMA started giving it away in 2009.

5. Texas Compilation from Exponential Records
Listen: Upon the 49th Day (mp3) by Ernest Gonzales

6. Thanks But No Thanks by Phaseone
Listen: Temp Tags / Starfox (mp3)
NOTE: Phaseone and Frank Heat put out a free remix album entitled White Collar Crime. It is available at The Forkcast or Banter Media.

7. West Coast by Junk Culture
Listen: Carmel Valley Girls (mp3)
NOTE: This album is actually pay-what-you-want which includes the price of free.

8. Mixtape Volume Four by The Hood Internet
Listen: The Hood Internet – Good Ol’ Fashion Rump Shaker (Beastie Boys x Matt & Kim) (soundcloud)

9. Lefse Records Compilation
Listen: Open Water (mp3) by A Grave With No Name

10. WRAP BOOTY by PROFESSOR CALCULUS
Listen: STAB ALLEY (mp3)
props to FMLY

11. See Mystery Lights Instrumentals by Y△CHT
Listen: Summer Song (Instrumental) (mp3)

12. ATL RMX from Adult Swim & Rockstar Games
Listen: Sideways (SALEM Drag Chop remix) (mp3) by Playboy Tre

13. Cybersex Digital Sampler from Sub Pop
Listen: Son of a Gun (mp3) by The Vaselines

If you want to download all the individual tracks in this post, you should think about installing the DownThemAll! Firefox extension.


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As you may already know, Adult Swim has a long history of releasing rad mixtapes. It all started with the Occult Hymn EP by Danger Doom. Then came: Definitive Swim (Def Jux themed), Warm And Scratchy (indie rock themed), Ghostly Swim (Ghostly Int’l themed), and most recently African Swim (African hip hop themed). Now Adult Swim has a new mixtape entitled ATL RMX, which teams up Atlanta rappers with a wide variety of remixers. And now a couple of tracks from said free mixtape.

Downloadables:
Take Off (Michna Remix) (mp3) by Young Dro
Good Night (HEALTH Remix) (mp3) by OJ Da Juiceman featuring Gucci Mane

Download the whole ATL RMX album… here.

Some of the other remixers on the album include: SALEM, Flying Lotus, Memory Tapes, Dam-Funk, Phaseone, Hudson Mohawke, and Prefuse 73.

The album is a cross-promotion for Rockstar’s app named Beaterator, which is a Timbaland-inspired remix app.

I have been meaning to post this for a while, but I never got around to it. It’s Thanks But No Thanks, the free album from STLremixer Phaseone brought to you by the swell folks over at Lefse Records. While you may know Phaseone from his remixes, definitely check this out.

Downloadable: Thanks But No Thanks (lefse zip)

Listen: Fist Fulla Dollas (mp3)

Phaseone is on Facebook.
Phaseone is on Twitter.
Lefse Records page is here.

BONUS: I’m Not (Phaseone Remix) by Panda Bear

And now the debut of a new feature here at GIMME TINNITUS. Welcome to Inbox Shuffle where I bring you a smattering of interesting items from my, um, inbox.

Downloadables:

Meet And Greet (team clermont mp3) by Slaraffenland
(buy physical // buy digital)

We’re Not Going (terrorbird mp3) by Darlings
(buy physical // buy digital)

Bone Jam (infinity cat mp3) by JEFF: the brotherhood
(buy physical)

Open Water (mp3) by A Grave With No Name
(from the Lefse Records Compilation (zip) featuring Neon Indian, Phaseone, and Sunnybrook among others. More info… here)