Its not easy to find good sites where you can download free and legally mp3 and music files. On this site you will find a collection of good sites for free downloads of world music and traditional music.
Amazon.com - free music yes, heaps of world music content
Commontunes - lots of world music
Classicalarabicmusic - classical arab music of course
djouls - electronic, hip hop, jazz, pop, rock, reggae, world music mp3s
EMUSIC - 50 free mp3 downloads of any artist, after downloading you can cancel your account, a no-brainer, highly recommended
Free Music Group - quick reference page to several free, legal sites
IC-MusicMedia - hosts mp3s and videos, close to 5,000 artists
iSOUND - thousands of free mp3s each ranked and sorted by genres.
La Musique des Amikpon - african mp3s
MusicExpress - brazilian mp3 site featuring about 1,700 tracks
Morocco - african
Motagator - cajun, zydeco, folk, roots and blues
Orientaltunes - good site, oriental streaming and mp3
Pakimp - Pakistani mp3
publicdomain4u.com - like the Blues and 'olde tyme' stuff?
Salon - lots of mp3
SingingFish - another search engine for music
Smart-music - good mp3 collection
Soundclick - 40,000 new songs a month, 1 million mp3`s
Sufism - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and persian music, small site.
The Free Music Directory
The Weed Files
The Black Slavics - african
Trama Virtual - brazilian mp3 site featuring about 10,000 tracks
Ural Rock
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