WFMU are about to launch a massive archive of free music, drawn from the stuff they've recorded over the years. Right now, though, they're offering a bunch of stuff drawn from the Bay Area [San Francisco, not Cardigan] which means lots of free stuff from Negativland, Bob Ostertag, TITS and - inevitably - many, many more.

Bob Ostertag - w00t (Contra Excerpt) I know this is old but bear with me for a second here. I wasn't just like, "Oh, I never wrote about Ostertag's w00t so I should do that now." Not that that's a bad thing. But, well, whatever. Here we go. I was surfing some netlabels, found a sweet netlabel blog ( Netlabels Noises ), and somehow ended up on Bob Ostertag's website where I found [...]
Bob Ostertag isn't a name known to many people. It's not that surprising, really; he makes some of the most ferociously difficult modern music out there. I was introduced to him via his 1990 release Attention Span , a record he made with John Zorn and Fred Frith that was high on the sampling theory scale and low on the musical enjoyment. It was artistically successful without actually being anything I wanted to listen to. By all accounts his later work with the Kronos Quartet was much more satisfying in that way Fast [...]
Bob Ostertag has been an avant - garde composer and improviser for over a quarter-century, but he has just released what might be my fave piece of his yet - w00t , a 50-minute recording using only sampled sounds and music from some 20-odd video games. Non-geeks, take note - even if you don't recognize any of it, it's still an amazing bit of utterly mental madcap ' tard - tronica . Impatient? Then fast-forward to around 26 minutes in for a real fun glitchy noise-pop blowout. [...]