Tag: music

The South by Southwest music festival or SXSW as it’s more popularly known is one of the largest in the world. And for over a decade SXSW has published thousands of DRM free tracks from it’s participating artists. This year’s release features over 1500 tracks and more than 10 gigabytes of music, FREE.

If you can’t physically make the festival all of the SXSW showcase MP3s are freely available on the festival’s website but that’s a lot of bands and music to search through. For the last few years Ben Stolt has taken the time and effort to put all the MP3s on BitTorrent to make exploring and enjoying the music available a bit easier. The 2016 torrent, split into two parts, contains 1,593 tracks.

All the tracks released since 2005 for previous SXSW festivals are still available with the 2005 – 2016 archives totalling more than 69 gigabytes. The links for the 2016 SXSW festival torrents are:
SXSW_2016_Showcasing_Artists_Part1.torrent – 1,006 files – 6.50GB
SXSW_2016_Showcasing_Artists_Part2.torrent – 587 files – 3.82GB

Each year SXSW torrents prove very popular with many thousands of music aficionados downloading gigabytes of free music across virtually every genre from both established acts and upcoming bands.

This year’s SXSW music festival has finished but the music will live on for as long as there are people sharing.