Music downloading became a thing in the late 90s thanks to the advent of the MP3 file format. When this happened, another internet technology was gaining traction: peer-to-peer file sharing. This enabled anyone to download files from other computers that are connected to the same peer-to-peer file sharing network online. Napster was the first one to create a P2P network just for music files, and it became so big that it was shut down a few years later thanks in no small part to million dollar lawsuits from record companies and major label acts like Metallica.
Even if Napster was shuttered, the spread of MP3s could not be stopped: the technology that enabled music to be shared had been adopted by other P2P networks, and it became commonplace to download MP3s illegally. This, together with the rapid adoption of MP3 music players and CD burners, was how music piracy became a thing, and was the death knell of the traditional music industry. Steve Jobs and Apple saw a problem with MP3 downloads though: they were hard to get and often you got lousy quality and rips.
It made buying music easier and faster, plus you had a nice app that let you organise all the music you bought as well as let you rip all the CD music you had into it. That means you can legally download free DJ music from here and use the tracks in your sets or mixtapes. The added benefit is that you can use the music found for your online content such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram videos too.
There are eight main genres found on the Bensound page, and clicking on any of them gives you a list of the releases. Clicking on a release shows you more info about the music, a preview and download link, plus more details about any licences that may be attached to it. Pros: Lots of royalty free music downloads in different genres, no need to sign up to download tracks.
Go to site: Bensound. This means that you can legally download free DJ music from here, but with varying degrees of usage designated by the producers. Creative Commons, then, is a different licence compared to music that is absolutely royalty free. The first thing to do would be to pick your genre of choice at the top of the CCTrax homepage. This lets you visit the page for that style, and you can see the releases that are available to download along with their associated ratings.
You can also click on the tags in each release to find more music similar to it: this is useful because while there are only seven main genre categories, there are dozens of sub-genres that you can click through in the tags section of a release. Pros: Catalogue focused on electronic dance music genres, free downloads without giving away an e-mail address or signing up for an account.
Go to site: CCTrax. The Creative Commons licence is a kind of copyright that lets creators keep their rights to and ownership of the work, while at the same time allowing others to copy, distribute, and use that work for free. When applying for a Creative Commons licence, the music producer chooses whether or not the song can be used commercially, and whether or not the song can be used in a derivative manner eg a remix, or as a sample.
So while a song bearing the Creative Commons licence can be downloaded for free, you may or may not use it for commercial applications such as a mixtape that you sell or a song that you produce and upload to streaming and online stores. Creative Commons means that the creator of the music still retains ownership of it, and so there are limitations attached to how the music is used or manipulated. A royalty free licence means that you can use the music without having to pay a royalty or licence fee each time you use it, and you can make derivative works of it and use in commercial settings too.
Facebook Pages are also great places to hunt for new exclusives that DJs drop as part of their Facebook Live DJ sets — though they rarely give them away for free, sometimes they drop a link as part of the livestream. Almost all DJs have a Facebook Page, which makes looking for them easy. Go to site: Facebook. One of the newer sites on this list, Jamendo is a platform that lets you legally download free DJ music from independent artists, and it also gives the artists an opportunity to upload their music for music placement consideration in TV, film, and online content by music supervisors.
A great place to start on Jamendo is by going to the Explore section in the home page. All songs are free to download for personal use and come with a Creative Commons licence, which means you can spin with it during your DJ sets more on Creative Commons above.
Another good starting point is the Selections area in the home page. Pros: Easy search option lets you go through its large collection, music downloads are free without the need for signing up. Go to site: Jamendo. Budding beatsmiths and professionals upload their music here looking to sell or license them to MCs and vocalists looking for instrumentals to rap or sing over.
The name of that rapper is Lil Nas X and the beat turned out to be Old Town Road, which became the defining chart single of The best part is that while the beats here are cheap, there are also lots of free downloads to be had. This brings up a big list of all the tracks you can grab for free in exchange for an email address or a follow on BeatStars it has a social feature similar to SoundCloud. Another way to go about it is to just click on a playlist you like: the BeatStars interface feels like browsing through Spotify smart!
All you need to do is to click it and enter an email or follow the beatmaker on BeatStars to grab the instrumental. Pros: Hot site now for hip-hop beats and instrumentals, thriving marketplace and community. Cons: Hip-hop and bass music-focused selection may leave those looking for house, techno and EDM out in the cold. Go to site: BeatStars. One of the longest running sites on this list is ReverbNation.
A good place to spend time digging through, if only for the nostalgia of the platform. ReverbNation has a team that curates music on a regular basis, and these tunes show up in playlists on the site. You can go through the songs in the playlist and see which ones have a free download option by looking at the ReverbNation music player at the bottom of your screen. Go to site: ReverbNation. Originally launched back in as a place for bands to release music online, SoundClick has since pivoted to being a platform for streaming and selling electronic beats.
The cool thing is that for the tunes that are free, you can get them without having to create an account or signing in. Pros: Free music downloads once you sign up. One of the oldest music sites around with a large library of different types of music. Go to site: SoundClick. These come from sites that allow you to copy and paste a YouTube link in order to extract the audio as an MP3 file.
These sites even let you rip the video too! You cannot legally download free DJ music from YouTube. The reason for this is because whenever a video file is uploaded to YouTube, that file is compressed and transcoded. It was huge in the s because of its then-revolutionary song discovery and user-generated chart making features. Still, you might find some good ones in there if you do enough digging. You can also use the search box in Last. You can then click the download link beside the track you like to see if you can download the track.
Pros: Deep music discovery and charts, decent social networking features though a bit limited. Go to site: Last. Free downloads from label sites are getting rarer these days though as most have simply shifted to putting music up on music streaming sites.
There are smaller labels too like Tasty Records and Argofox that publish their own royalty free music for you to download. The reason these labels are on YouTube is because these songs have been cleared for use in YouTube as well as Twitch streams, and content creators are encouraged to download and use them in their videos.
Apart from visiting your favourite labels and checking if they have any free music samplers to download, do a Google or YouTube search to see if they have any royalty free music channels or microsites where you can grab songs from. Pros: Straight from the source of your favourite producers and DJs, a chance to get exclusive music and samplers through contests and promos. Similar to the iTunes Store, Amazon Music has a massive catalogue of tunes. And you can legally download free DJ music from here, too.
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