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A live version of the Returning Jesus highlight taken from Love And Endings.

Starting out as a sedate love song, the piece becomes increasingly complex and powerful before reaching its blissful conclusion.

This eight and half minute rendition features a vocal middle eight dropped from the album.

Boots And Ballgowns (7:29) - The Michael Giles MAD Band

Free download track from The Michael Giles MAD Band second album In The Moment.

A random example of the songs written by Tim Bowness and Alistair Murphy/The Curator between 2006 and 2010, Everything You're Not is scheduled to appear on Postcards From Space's debut album.

A Bowness song put through The Curator's demented 'arrangement mangle', the piece features some flamboyant piano (the ghost of Liberace), atypical backing vocals, and evokes aspects of early 1970s David Bowie (Space Oddity / Aladdin Sane) and the more acoustic Tim Bowness solo work.

Darkroom's 2010 single, available for free download as mp3 or flac.

Like Oxygene IV re-imagined by Bill Laswell, 'Ahead Finitely' sees the trademark Darkroom mix of atmospheric loops and abrasive guitars placed alongside vintage analogue synthesiser pulses.

A self-contained preview of the new Darkroom album 'Gravity's Dirty Work' which will follow in early 2011.

'Ahead Finitely', the accompanying short film by Richard Smith (director of No Man's 'Mixtaped' and 'Returning'), can be seen at http://www.vimeo.com/album/1472815

King Crimson - Epitaph live (free mp3 download)

To celebrate our online collaboration with Panegyric, we're offering a free download of a live version of the song Epitaph taken from King Crimson's legendary Hyde Park performance (with The Rolling Stones) in July 1969.

This version was previously available on the limited edition boxed set version of the band's iconic debut album, 'In the Court of the Crimson King' by King Crimson.

Remixed edit of a track from 'White House, Black Ash', the follow up to uxb's 'urban mutant', released on Burning Shed. Ambient washes, phrippery and 808 beats.

Blue Beard - Losing You

A half-forgotten gem from another time, Losing You, by obscure cult act Blue Beard, is taken from Looking Towards The Sky, a compilation of the Progressive, Psychedelic and Folk-Rock material released on the independent label Ember in the 1960s and 1970s.

Signed to Ember in 1971, Blue Beard recorded its first (and last) album in Milan. Losing You is taken from this legendary 'lost' album (which only saw release in Italy).

Borrowed Light is an alternative mix of the tracks 'My Sunsets Are All One-Sided', taken from Darkroom's latest album, Some Of These Numbers Mean Something.

Many view Nemeton's "Remix 2", the last track on The DAC Mixes, as amongst the highlights of the album. "Remix 2" was picked as being the best of the four remixes submitted by Nemeton, but it was a close call as the band considered all of them excellent.

Rather than have these tracks languishing, unheard, on the Darkroom hard drive, the band decided to put these out as a free download and a subtle advertisement for the original 'The DAC Mixes' album itself (which featured mixes and contributions from Bass Communion, Tim Bowness, Theo Travis, Peter Chilvers and Centrozoon, amongst others).

Free track taken from nosound's second album Lightdark.

'Empty Spaces', the musically spare and poignant closing track from Piano (a 2006 collection of solo piano improvisations by Chilvers), has been sensitively re-mixed by UXB, and given a beautiful Jazz-tinged makeover.

Evoking the atmosphere of Harold Budd and Brian Eno's acclaimed collaborative albums and the instrumental work of David Sylvian, 'Empty Spaces' is available as an exclusive free download.

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The missing track from the live Warszawa album, recorded by Polish Radio III, and later remixed at No Man's Land by SW. The track was left off the CD in order to keep it to a single disc.

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A uniquely atmospheric fusion of Theo Travis's looped flute and Robert Fripp's trademark Soundscapes, this free download is one of a series of improvisations recorded by the duo at DGM SoundWorld in January 2007. An ideal taster for Theo Travis's forthcoming album, Double Talk.

This track appears under the new title 'Land Beyond The Forest' on duo's album 'Thread' (available from Burning Shed).

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FREE digital download from david hurn