The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the largest and most popular in the United States. For more than a decade SXSW has been sharing DRM-free songs of the performing artists, over 69 GB worth so far. This year's release breaks a new record with 1,593 tracks totaling more than 10 gigabytes.
Since 2005 the SXSW music festival has published thousands of free tracks from participating artists. For some of the first releases the festival organizers created the torrents for the artist showcases themselves, but since 2008 this task has been taken over by the public. Luckily all of the SXSW showcase MP3s are still freely available on the festival’s site for sampling purposes, so it only takes one person to get a torrent up and running.
For the past several years Ben Stolt has taken the time and effort to put all the MP3s on BitTorrent, and the latest 2016 release consists of two torrents containing 1,593 tracks. That’s a record-breaking 10.39 gigabytes of free music in total, almost four times the file size of the first torrent in 2005. All the tracks released for the previous editions are also still available for those people who want to fill up their hard drives without having to invest thousands of dollars. The 2005 – 2016 archives now total more than 69 gigabytes.
Torrent Link: SXSW Music Archives
