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The folks behind New Jersey freeform radio station WFMU, home of Tom Scharpling's quite excellent "The Best Show on WFMU", are assembling a library of legal MP3 downloads they're calling the Free Music Archive. The FMA will serve as a Creative Commons-protected resource for "music fans, webcasters, and podcasters to listen, download, and stream for free, with no restrictions, registration, or fees," according to the description on its website.

The Free Music Archive launches on November 1 later this year, and to give people a taste of its contents, WFMU is offering a free compilation of 21 tracks from the FMA. Titled Selected Sounds From the Free Music Archive Vol. 1 and featuring artwork by Greg Harrison, the sampler includes tunes by Suicide's Alan Vega with Oneida, Faust with Food for Animals, Dan Deacon, Lucky Dragons, Mahjongg, Clockcleaner, Citay, Fursaxa, Kinski, and Psychedelic Horseshit.

To download Selected Sounds From the Free Music Archive Vol. 1, head here.

Selected Sounds From the Free Music Archive Vol. 1:

01 Lucky Dragons: "Mercy"
02 Mahjongg: "Tell the Police the Truth"
03 Psychedelic Horseshit: "Country Punk (Live at WFMU 12/18/07 on Brian Turner's show)"
04 Pierced Arrows: "Guns of Thunder"
05 New Bomb Turks: "So Long, Silver Lining (Live at WFMU 11/10/02 on Mike Lupica's show)"
06 Kinski: "Shelley Winters Overdrive (Live at WFMU 04/22/03 on Brian Turner's show)"
07 Jason Willett and Jad Fair: "Or So I've Been Told"
08 Dan Deacon: "Piggled (Live at WFMU 07/23/03 on OCDJ's show)"
09 Food for Animals with Faust: "Planet Say"
10 Brian Joseph Davis: "The Ambient Honky"
11 Big Blood & the Bleeding Hearts: "Oh Country"
12 M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con: "Nam Nhi-tu"
13 Fursaxa: "Song of the Spindle Berry"
14 Nautical Almanac: "Rolling in the Green"
15 Strapping Fieldhands: "In the Pineys"
16 Tommy Jay: "I Was There"
17 Citay: "On the Wings (Live at WFMU on Liz B's show 03/24/08)"
18 Sounds of Taraab: "Mahaba Wa Taka Nini"
19 People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz: "A Chase Posthaste"
20 Clockcleaner: "Caliente Queen"
21 Alan Vega with Oneida: "Rocket USA (Live at Southpaw 10/13/07 for WFMU's Free Music Series)"