Free Music Friday 16!

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Like any other person in my age bracket, I'm a huge Legend of Zelda fan. I even just ordered Ocarina of Time for my new/old Nintendo 64.

Recently I've also become a huge fan of the screamo genre. So when I stumbled across a band simply labelled as "Legend of Zelda themed screamo" it was night on impossible for me to say no.

The band is The Sky Above and the Earth Below, and as you've probably already guessed, they have free music that you can listen to!

I can't pick out too many Zelda references, but then again, being screamo, you're lucky if you can understand one word of it. Which you can.

Give it a go, it's free on their Bandcamp.

The Ocarina of Rhyme

I'm generally not a fan of mash ups, that genre of music were different songs are mixed together. Artists like Girl Talk are one of the few exceptions, his amazing ability to form a new song out of so many pieces of other songs is mind boggling. Another one of the few I really like is Illionoize, where producer Tor has mashed up hip-hop songs with Sufjan Stevens. The indie and the hip-hop reallly mixes well together and you can get that album for free at this website.

But now there's a new one I like. And it mixes hip-hop with the music from one of my all time favourite video games: The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time.


It's put together by Team Teamwork, a group of guys that do mash ups, some video game related. I've been trying to buy a Nintendo-64 lately purely so I could play this game again and it was just blind luck that someone linked me to this mash up based off of the game. It features Spank Rock, Jay Z, Dr Dre/Snoop Dogg, Clipse, Aesop Rock, Busta Rhymes and Common amongst others. All set to my favourite songs and sounds from the game.

They put all of their mash ups out for free, so download the whole album here.