Hello Everyone! I make chiptunes on trackers which are quite famous for "keygen music" associated with software piracy. My philosophy with the music I make is that all my tracks can be downloaded for free, are copyright free, and most importantly: its source files can be accessed.

The last bit is something I dont see too much of in the music communities (correct me if I am wrong). I would definitely like to see this more popularised perhaps making something akin to "FOSS Music". Under all of my tracks I put a mediafire link to .xm file. I think this would be incredibly useful to creators as there many times where I hear a song and just love a specific instrument or sample they used and would like to use it in my own music.

Thoughts?

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[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I disagree. Remixing stuff is especially well known in music. Taking parts like a drum beat / break and incorporating it into sth new. Also vocals. True, this isn't 'open source' as of now and needs some skills and technical tools to extract only the voice track for example. But I think art would benefit further if this was easier and available to everyone.

It's also not niche. Take for example Sigala with the well known take on the Jackson 5's ABC (or half of modern music) or all the thousands of songs with the Amen break. (But that's easy to extract)