Monday, May 12, 2008

Steal This Music

Here's a possible new source for music beds. Rifflet.com is a new site that encourages people upload and download short music clips to use for remixes. They describe it as "Like Twitter for Rock and Roll". I think it's more like Flickr for music. For now anyway, there's nothing preventing commercial use:
A rifflet is a piece of a song--a bass line, a guitar riff, a drum beat or something else entirely. Share your rifflets and combine them with others, or even upload a finished song.
Here's the catch: every rifflet must be less than 60 seconds. The idea is to only upload a part of a song, or an idea for a song, or just a couple of guitar chords you think are cool. Then, you can download parts of other people songs (like a drumbeat) that you can combine with your ideas.
If you're a dj, you can use all these great pieces of proto-songs for remixes without worrying about royalties or copyright restrictions, because these sounds are all on this site for the purpose of being remixed.

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