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MP3 Roundup: The Week’s Top Downloads

Posted Fri Aug 1, 2008 4:31pm PDT by Ken Micallef in Better Living Through MP3

Here are the week's top MP3 downloads according to IODA, the Internet Promo Alliance who, together with a million friendly record labels, provide legal MP3s to the music loving community at large. Be it alternative, country, jazz, metal or Bulgarian Voices hoo-hah, IODA keeps it real and in your iPod. So bone up on your genres and check out these tunes. They are the best sellers, after all!

Aventura's K.O.B. Live: Aventura are the first "Bachata-boy band," the first Latin boy band to fuse the essence of bachata with R&B, hip-hop and other American pop styles, and also the first bachata band to perform in "Spanglish." Latino N'Sync anyone?

K.O.B. LiveAventura
"Los infieles" (mp3)
from "K.O.B. Live"
(Premium Latin Music)

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Santogold's Santogold: One of Rolling Stone's top 10 artists to watch, NME's singer of the century, Santogold mashes Peaches with Herb, glitz with gloss for compelling sonic song sorcery. 

SantogoldSantogold
"L.E.S Artistes" (mp3)
from "Santogold"
(Lizard King)

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Tokyo Police Club's Lesson in Crime: "If you were to throw Bowie, Joy Division, The Arcade Fire, and two llamas into a blender, you would have one hell of a [this] mess."

A Lesson In CrimeTokyo Police Club
"Nature Of The Experiment" (mp3)
from "A Lesson In Crime"
(Paper Bag Records)

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Blackalicious' A2G EP: Ancient sounds from the mad duo: All the songs produced and composed for your listening pleasure by Chief Xcel. "Alphabet Aerobics" was created by Cut Chemist. Almost everything was recorded by Chief Xcel at The Hut/Oakland & mixed at the Glue Factory/Frisco & Pajama Studios/Oakland. "Alphabet Aerobics" was recorded by Cut Chemist & Chief Xcel at the Red October Chemical Storage Facility in Los Angeles and at the Chief's Hut.

A2G EPBlackalicious
"Deception" (mp3)
from "A2G EP"
(Quannum Projects)

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Buckethead's Enter the Chicken: Enter Sandman? Enter here you who have no hope? No, it's Buckethead, demented Manhattan guitarist who channels Alien, Star Wars and Jimi Hendrix into something certainly scarier than its individual ingredients.

Enter The ChickenBuckethead & Friends
"We Are One" (mp3)
from "Enter The Chicken"
(Serjical Strike Records)

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Neil Cowley's Loud Louder Stop!: Fans of Jamie Cullum, Oscar Peterson, Jason Moran, Billy Joel enter here!

Loud..Louder...Stop!Neil Cowley Trio
"His Nibs" (mp3)
from "Loud..Louder...Stop!"
(Candid Productions)

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3 Comments

1. Tj Oke -
Dear, Gent's
Could you pls to teach me with the simple thing how to joint about this player my be only to fill like 1 page of form

thankyou regards
TjOkee

2. Altonio -
Super Alright

3. Bear -
OMG!! His Nibs was the only thing with elements worth listning to, and that is stretching it.

I don't envy you the task of finding "top" downloads if this is the crap you have to choose from.

The big question here is: "Where has all the talent gone?"
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