Mastodawn

Here's a collection of free-to-use short music for any kind of project imaginable. I've been working on this project for over 10 years on and off, and it's a labour of love.

Whether you're doing work for TV, Radio, Film, your next podcast, show reel, powerpoint presentation, youtube video or university assignment that requires something to intro or outro it, there should be something for you, and if not you directly, maybe someone you know.

This is not the final form. I add to it whenever I find inspiration to do so. Check back every so often as you may find more content was added when you weren't looking 🔇

Currently:
1210 items
766 MB download in mp3
over 9 hours of music.

Absolutely no AI was used (or harmed) in the making of this collection.

If you feel so inclined, please do boost for reach. Many thanks.
https://onj.me/shorts

Andre Louis - FreakyFwoof Shorts - AudioPlayer

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Monte Freeman Dec 10

@Onj Nice work! The variety of styles and sounds is incredible.
Can’t immediately think of a use for it personally, but I will download the zip file……just in case. :)

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Onj 🎶Dec 10

@montef Thanks so much for checking it out at least. Maybe one day you'll think of someone, or if not yourself, maybe someone else you know who has trouble finding something that doesn't make you jump through 300 AI pop-ups, a mailing list and wants you to enter your credit card info for a free download. Not me. Never my way.

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Monte Freeman Dec 10

@Onj I’ve noticed a trend of more and more podcasters and YouTubers that I follow, slowly dropping the music they once used as intros and outros for their content; and that makes me sad.
I get it. Feeding “the algorithm” is a constant battle and you have only so much time.

But the world seems diminished just a little bit more, every time a bit of music and creativity gets dropped.

I was in radio in a past life, and would definitely have used this music had I had it then.

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Onj 🎶Dec 10

@montef I do a podcast with my wife and we have bespoke intro music, so that if you were to hear it come up in rotation, you'd immediately know it was us. As a musician, no music in things like that makes me sad also.

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Monte Freeman

@Onj Yep. It’s definitely a way that my brain associates an artist/presenter with their work.
When the music plays, my brain gets itself ready for their content.
When I suddenly hear their voices, without “their music”; it’s jarring.

A good friend of mine used to do a podcast ( @KingShawn and “Your Mac Life”).
Even today, when I see an email or social media post from Shawn, I *still* hear his theme music in my head.
Brains are so weird, and how they catalogue things.