Free and Legal! The Best Film, TV and Game Music Online

Christmas approaches. You can't afford to spend a dime on yourself. You've been listening to the 300, Braveheart and Last of the Mohicans soundtracks long enough!

Tracksounds brings you some relief in our new feature: FREE AND LEGAL! Here we list some of the webs best sites for free and legal music. Download full tracks! Download clips! Stream until you can't stream no more!

Here's a bit of an introduction:

Downloading music on the internet is almost as common as breathing these days. If you have a computer that has a broadband connection to the internet, then you've likely downloaded, at the very least, a sound clip or two. More likely, you've downloaded full tracks or entire albums already. Services such as eMusic, iTunes, Yahoo Music, and more recently Amazon.com, have all made it easy to get the music you want and at more affordable prices. As we know, downloading music has cast the industry into a new era where the lines of ownership, fair-use, and profitability have been put into question...

Here you will find a list of sites that offer music in a variety of ways: sound clips to streaming tracks to fully downloadable and free tracks! You will likely find some great music out there that you could not buy, even if you wanted to. You may discover a new talent that might lead you to buying other music from the composer. You will inevitably find some new treasure to bring hours of entertainment to your ears. . . and all for free!

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Download free tracks from the Bioshock Soundtrack

Free Download of Music from BIOSHOCK!

2K Games releases 12 tracks from Garry Schyman's original score to one of the most popular and well-reviewed video games of 2007, BIOSHOCK. You can download them FOR FREE at The Cult of Rapture site. Below is the official press release regarding Garry Schyman's score.

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BIOSHOCK FEATURES ORIGINAL SCORE BY GARRY SCHYMAN

AWARD WINNING HOLLYWOOD COMPOSER PROVIDES CLASSICAL MUSIC PALETTE FOR INNOVATIVE FIRST PERSON SHOOTER VIDEO GAME

Los Angeles, CA – Film, television and video game composer Garry Schyman (www.garryschyman.com) has created the original score for the highly anticipated and innovative first person shooter BioShock developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games. Composed in various styles of early twentieth century writing, the music is at times chillingly ominous and at other times deeply beautiful and poignant. BioShock is developed for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PC and will be released in North America on August 21, 2007 and internationally on August 24, 2007.
“Garry Schyman’s work for us was incredible from the start in every possible aspect,” said Emily Ridgway, Audio Director at Irrational Games. “From his ability to produce and compose amazingly unique orchestral recordings, all the meanwhile perfectly accommodating the peaks and troughs of game development, Garry really deserves all the praise he gets for the BioShock soundtrack and then some.”

Ken Levine, Creative Director at Irrational Games, attested, “It’s kind of hard to imagine BioShock without Garry’s music. It just wouldn’t be the same game.”

BioShock is the "genetically enhanced" first person shooter that lets you do things never before possible in the genre: turn everything into a weapon, biologically mod your body with plasmids, hack devices and systems, upgrade your weapons and craft new ammo variants, and experiment with different battle techniques.

You are a cast-away in Rapture, an underwater Utopia torn apart by civil war. Caught between powerful forces, and hunted down by genetically modified “splicers” and deadly security systems, you have to come to grips with a deadly, mysterious world filled with powerful technology and fascinating characters. No encounter ever plays out the same, and no two gamers will play the game the same way.

To immerse players in this captivating and haunting world Schyman crafted a complex combination of aleatoric elements, early 20th century writing, musique concrete, traditional tonal and late romantic styles. The score, recorded with a live orchestra at historic Capitol Studios in Hollywood, features solo violin, cello, and piano performances.
“BioShock is a composer’s dream project; I have never been offered such a unique palette to write for,” said Garry Schyman. “I really pushed myself to create a score that truly complements the extraordinary experience of BioShock and Irrational Games supported me all the way. I even had the opportunity to write a solo piano work in the style of late Rachmaninoff!”

For more information on the composer visit www.garryschyman.com.
For more information on BioShock visit www.bioshockgame.com.