Citizen DJ / Free Music Archive

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Free Music Archive

How can it be used?

This work has been dedicated to the public domain by its creator, thus is free to use and reuse without restriction. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Attribution is recommended but not required.

Also see this detailed guide covering the copyright and ethical considerations of digital sampling of audio and video materials.

Why is this free to use?

Most music and recordings in the Free Music Archive are not in the public domain. However, Citizen DJ provides a subset of recordings from the Free Music Archive that were published under a Public domain dedication license by their creators, thus are in the public domain.

Drum machine sounds

All drum machine sounds were generated from drumkits provided by Slackermedia Multimedia Sprint v2 and were made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. The audio files that I derived from the drumkits can be downloaded from Github and is available under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, which means you can (1) copy and redistribute the files in any medium or format, and (2) remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially as long as you give appropriate credit and distribute under the same license.

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