SXSW Showcasing Music Torrents

Almost every year, the guys behind the SXSW music festival create a torrent of all the music they have in the website showcase. The torrent includes single tracks for a lot of the artists due to play the festival. This year, for whatever reason, they haven’t done that, so Greg Hewgill did instead. He writes:

So, I took matters into my own hands (after all, the songs are all available for download) and have created a torrent of the 2008 showcasing artists, which is one .mp3 file from 764 different artists. This year, it is almost 3.5 GB of new music, for free.

You can download it from here, along with the torrents for previous years.

The full listing of artists, and links to individual mp3s, is available here. And what an excellent lineup it is. Here are 5 of my personal picks from the lineup (though I haven’t listened to anywhere near everything on offer yet), that I don’t think have been mentioned on Tuneage before:

I’ve tried to stick to artists with mp3s uploaded, but a few don’t. You should be able to find something by just about all of them at Hype Machine.