This week's free C&C download

This week's free C&C download is a Modest Mouse cover from Blackbird Blackbird, a chillwave, noise gaze, glo-fi artist that frequently mixes tweaked nature-sound samples and electronic textures with traditional instruments. Grab his dreamy chilled-out cover of "Float On" here, from last.fm. If you don't have an account with last.fm, and don't want to make one, snag the song via music search engine beemp3.com. Just follow the instructions to get the download link, then right-click and select "save link as".

Last week's free download is from the Smithsonian Folkways website. Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution. Our selection is the Mexican folksong "El Son de Sánchez", from ¡Tierra Caliente! Music from the Hotlands of Michoacán by Conjunto de Arpa Grande Arpex. Conjunto de arpa grande or "big harp ensemble" is the rural relative of mariachi, and considered the signature musical tradition of the Michoacán region of Mexico. Scroll down through the Smithsonian Folkways free downloads page to find the track, then right click either the MP3 of FLAC link and select "save link as" to download.



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Finally, today's bonus download has been floating around the internet for a couple of years now. Released in 2010 on April Fools, "Twin Peaks" is rapper mc chris's tribute to the cult television series Twin Peaks. The track samples pieces of the instantly recognizable soundtrack over a beat, and only reveals one significant spoiler through the course of its three minutes and twenty-two seconds. Check out this post at You Sound Like a Robot and scroll down to the BOB/Cooper GIF to download "Twin Peaks".