CC Music from Aotearoa/ NZ
The information used to begin this page was originally gathered by Danyl Strype on Disintermedia, during NZ Music Month 2017.
Music Released Under a CreativeCommons License By Musicians From or Living in Aotearoa/ NZ
Lack of capitalization of artist or release names and other stylization found consistently across release platforms are treated as aesthetic choices by the releasing artist, and reproduced faithfully here. Release type follows the self-description by the releasing artist, and is either an album, EP, or single. Formats are taken from publication data available from the artists' pages and other records, and may include physical formats like CD, vinyl, cassette, and USB stick, and various forms of digital download such as free of charge, pay what you want, fixed price download.
Some artists have released music under a CC license on some platforms, while applying an ARR (All Rights Reserved) statement on other platforms, or no copyright statement at all. This list describes the version released under the CC license, but also lists download sources under more restrictive licenses (or no obvious license) for completeness. This list is not legal advice, and is for general information and entertainment purposes only.
Albums
An album (or "LP") is a collection of songs traditionally defined by the play length of vinyl LP ("Long Player"). The average album contains roughly 11-13 songs, but this can depend on the length of the songs. Albums have been released with 40 songs of 30 seconds each, and four songs lasting about 20 minutes each.
| Release Year | Title | Artist | Musicians | Genres | Label / Publisher | Formats | License | Available |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | I follow the moon | seht | Ambient, Drone | Epic Sweep Records | Streaming | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported)) | BandCamp | |
| 2017 | If You're Born On An Island The Ocean Heals You | Lake South | Lake South | Home Alone Music | CD, Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported)) | BandCamp | |
| 2017 | My Capriccio | Secret Knives | Download (Free of Charge) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |||
| 2017 | Our Government Is Poisoning Us To Make Money | Shadows On The Snow (Featuring MoonStar) | Sean Monaghan (NZ), Kendall Keeler (USA) | Ambient, Experimental | Petroglyph Music (Petroglyph529) | Download (Free of Charge) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | Archive.org |
| 2017 | times | dharmarat | dharmarat | Hip-hop, rap | Downtime Records & Small Fortunes | Download (Fixed Price) | CC BY-NC 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp |
| 2017 | Why/ Liar/ Gone | Bent Folk | Dick Whyte (Guitar, Bass, Vocals), Helen O'Rourke (Drums, Atmosphere), Rupert Hunter (Guitars), Alison Studens (Organ) | Ilk Ither | Cassette, Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported)) | BandCamp | |
| 2016 | By Choice or Design | Anecdata (formerly Radio Over Moscow) | Electro-clash | Kosh Records | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2016 | Patriotic Grooves | Unsanitary Napkin | Punk | Zero Style, AlwaysNeverFun, and Limbless | Vinyl, Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2016 | Sand to Glass | All Seeing Hand, the | Jonny Marks, Alphabethead, B. Michael Knight | MUZAI Records (BandCamp) | CD, Vinyl, Download (Pay What you Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 | BandCamp | |
| 2016 | Setsu | Mermaid Guitar | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |||
| 2016 | SINES | Wayvee | Wayvee | Self Published | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2015 | Beekeeper/Bastardknocker | TRIUMPHS | Mat Anderson, John Bollen | Monkey Killer Records | Vinyl, Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2015 | Buy Now | Eyeliner | Luke Rowell | Beer on the Rug (BOTR036) | Cassette, Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2015 | Iris Moon | FORESHADOWS | Sam Morgan, Jasmine Byrami | Indie, Pop | Self-Published | Download (Free of Charge) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp |
| 2015 | It's All Over | Mr Sterile Assembly | Chrissie Butler, mr sterile | Punk, Agit-prop | Skirted Records | CD, Download (Fixed Price) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp |
| 2015 | life | Shadows on the Snow | Sean Monaghan (NZ), Kendall Keeler (USA) | Ambient, Experimental | Petroglyph Music (petroglyph329) | Download (Free of Charge) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | Archive.org |
| 2015 | Noahs Stark | Krakatoa | Andre William Owen | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | ||
| 2015 | NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SEA SHANTIES Vol II | Wellington Sea Shanty Society | Lake Davineer & Vorn Dont le Père Etait Marin | Folk, Sea Shanty | CD, Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2015 | Old Men in the Forest | Rory Storm | Rory Storm | Ambient | TapeSafe | Download (Free of Charge) | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | Archive.org |
| 2015 | Wreckage | Brilliant Swords | Campbell Kneale | Self Published | Download ((Pay What you Want) | CC BY 3.0 (unported)) | BandCamp | |
| 2014 | beneath the pound of flesh | amos/anon | amos/anon | Self Published | Download (Free of Charge) | CC BY 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2014 | Liver Let Die | Muscle, the | Punk, Lo-fi | Self Published | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2014 | Opening | i.ryoko | i.ryoko | Post-rock | Sonorous Circle | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp |
| 2014 | Quartz Plumage | Alphabethead | Alphabethead | Self Published | Download (Pay What you Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2013 | Best of Barry Starr: the part I played | Mermaid Guitar | Download (Pay What you Want) | CC BY-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |||
| 2013 | BlokeBird | DSLBG | Chrissie Butler | Experimental, Art Punk | Skirted Records | CD, Download (Pay What You Want)) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 | BandCamp |
| 2013 | Contact | Radio Over Moscow | Kosh Records | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | ||
| 2013 | Soft Opening | Blue Onesies, the | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp] | |||
| 2013 | Rarities (2007-2011) | i.ryoko | i.ryoko | Post-rock | Sonorous Circle | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp |
| 2013 | Urine (A Container) | Seth Frightening | Sean Kelly | Sonorous Circle | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2012 | Carols for Convicts | Minnelli | Minnelli | Post-rock | Sonorous Circle | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp |
| 2012 | Don't You Worry (Heat Death) | Seth Frightening | Sean Kelly | Sonorous Circle | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2012 | Internet Freedom is Love | Urbantramper | Lake, Phill Jones, Andy Hoy | Synth Pop | Home Alone Music | CD, Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported)) | BandCamp |
| 2012 | Obsidian Codex | Vassafor | VK, BP | Black Metal | Debemur Morti Productions | Vinyl, Download (Fixed Price) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported)) | BandCamp |
| 2011 | Deus Ex Robotica | Radio Over Moscow | Kosh Records | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported)) | BandCamp | ||
| 2011 | Merry COSMStep | Tom Cosm | Tom Cosm | Self Published | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA | BandCamp | |
| 2010 | Charisma | Disasteradio | Luke Rowell, Christina Hroch | Electro-clash | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2010 | Affection | Secret Knives | Download (Free of Charge) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |||
| 2010 | Hide the Decline | Radio Over Moscow | Kosh Records | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported)) | BandCamp | ||
| 2010 | Minnelli | Minnelli 2 | Minnelli | Post-rock | Sonorous Circle | Download (Free of Charge) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp |
| 2010 | The Prince and His Madness | Seth Frightening | Sean Kelly | Sonorous Circle | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2009 | Instrumentals | Dub Terminator | Dub Terminator | Self Published | Download (Free of Charge) | CC BY | Jamendo, BandCamp(this version has ARR copyright statement) | |
| 2009 | Minnelli | Minnelli | Minnelli | Post-rock | Sonorous Circle | Download (Free of Charge) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp |
| 2008 | Pattern Dot Life | Module | Jeramiah Ross | Self Published | Download (Free of Charge)) | CC BY 3.0 (unported) | Archive.org] | |
| 2002 | we have a responsibility to our shareholders | epsilon-blue | epsilon-blue | Kog Transmissions | Download (Fixed Price) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2001 | Pregnant Boy | Mr Sterile Assembly | Mr Sterile | Lo-fi | Skirted Records | CD (reissued 2004), Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp |
| 1998 | waterland | epsilon-blue | epsilon-blue | Kog Transmissions | CD, Download (Fixed Price) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 1993 | Opus One | Sinistrous Diabolus | Sinistrous Diabolus | Death Metal, Doom | Self Published, re-released by Dark Descent and Goat Gear | Cassette, Download (Free of Charge) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp |
EPs
An EP is a shorter collection of songs, usually 4-7, although they can have more. 'Spanish Goat Dancer' by Head Like a Hole was released as an EP[1], despite having 20 songs, although most of these were not album quality recordings. A record with less than 4 songs is usually released as a single.
| Year | Title | Artist | Musicians | Genres | Label / Publisher | Formats | License | Available |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | CHINATAPE | Alpha Beta Gamma | Download (Name Your Price)) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |||
| 2017 | Human Resource | Human Resource | Tali, Liam, Witchy and Stephen | Punk, Hardcore | 12" Vinyl, Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported)) | BandCamp | |
| 2015 | Wake up the Fallen | Broken Season | Tony Charles (Guitars & backing vocals), James Sachin (Drums) and Esteban Garcia (Lead vocals & Bass) | Metal | CD, Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp, SoundCloud | |
| 2011 | B. Hoo | Seth Frightening | Sean Kelly | Sonorous Circle | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2011 | B. Hoo / High School | Seth Frightening | Sean Kelly | Sonorous Circle | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2010 | Now is the future dubstep | Dub Terminator | Dub Terminator | Dubstep | Download (Free of Charge) | CC BY-SA | Jamendo, BandCamp (this version has ARR copyright statement) | |
| 2009 | DotEyes | DotEyes | Shane Dudfield | Self Published | Download (Free of Charge) | CC BY-NC 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp |
Singles
This record type focuses on one song, usually a song being used to promote an album or EP that it appears on. The main component of a single is the radio version of a song, but they usually also contain other tracks known as B-sides, such as; album version, remixes (by the releasing artist or others), live recordings, demo versions (experimental recordings not up to album quality), unreleased tracks (usually also demo versions), or occasionally other tracks from the same album/ EP.
| Year | Title | Artist | Musicians | Genre | Label / Publisher | Formats | License | Available |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Rain in April | Seth Frightening | Sean Kelly | Sonorous Circle | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2016 | plenty of arms..live at San Fran Bath House | captain sergeant major | Matthew Jeyes (drums), Caleb McKenzie (vocals, guitar), Tim Shackleton (bass, backing vocals) (Music.net.nz) | Post-rock | Download (Free of Charge)) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2015 | Doom | Popolice | Popolice | Self Published | Download (Fixed Price) | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2013 | Buzz | Alphabethead | Alphabethead | Self Published | Download (Free of Charge)) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp | |
| 2013 | Sacred Space | i.ryoko | i.ryoko | Post-rock | Sonorous Circle | Download (Pay What You Want) | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (unported) | BandCamp |