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Thursday, February 19, 2009

It's Easy to Get Dance Music Downloads

By Graham McKenzie

From Astoria to Zanzibar, dance music is incredibly popular in almost every corner of the world. There's no way you can begin to count the different kinds of dance music or the places dance music is played. Trance music from Ibiza, or hip hop from Detroit, dance music is a universal language with a very special track you can find almost anywhere you look on the Internet.

How easy dance music is to find depends on which tunes you want to groove to. For example, recordings by top artists are available in relatively few locations. The easiest place to look for top artists is the commercial download sites like Rhapsody or iTunes. They will charge you a fee for your downloads, but it is possible to find dance music for free, too. Even the most popular songs sometimes appear on Last.fm and on MySpace pages.

Lesser known artists and remixes are easier to find for free. You can find remixes in a slew of different websites allowing users to log on, upload their own mixes, develop new tracks, or change music.

There are a few reliable but cost-free ways you can get free downloads of the most popular dance music. Sometimes artists upload their newest tracks to promote upcoming releases. You might be able to find free downloads from their websites from those upcoming releases, or sometimes you can get a track they couldn't fit in the album. You can also find free tracks on MySpace pages and at online radio websites, like Last.fm., and music-sharing websites, too.

Once in a while amateur dance music performers collaborate to create new tracks from scratch. They mix their music over the net, sharing it for free on wikis, collaborative sites, and file sharing services. More and more amateurs create and remix tracks online in this way. Often they offer the results for free, or at least for a major discount.

In the end, if you really want to find dance music downloads on the net, there are more resources than you will ever need to do so. Just one search on Google can get you going down the path to a totally new repertoire of music to groove to. Whether your thing is techno, hip hop, or grooves, dance music is here forever, and downloads are to be found just about everywhere on the net.

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