To techno, to house music, to disco, to dancehall-and to hip-hop.
American popular music today owes everything not to The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, but to the sparks of the late 1970s that took full flight in the '80s. And we grew up being told one thing, but knowing something else was true. White people were listening to white people performing older black music at Woodstock (not to slight Jimi). So here we are, in 2017, still feeling the cultural and artistic reverberations from events that happened long after the '60s became American culture's supposed pivotal moment.īut the fact is that it wasn't the late '60s when everything changed-at least not in popular music. And of course the white male baby boomers had the loudest voices. History got all fucked up when everyone thought that the Baby Boomers had the most important story to tell. Get on those remixes!Įdit2: MagnetLink for Torrent provided by /u/trentula - thanks bud! These guys have done fantastic work it's about 27Gb combined and quite comprehensive. !Elg1TA7T!MXEZPzq9s9YObiUcMCoNQJmCbawZqzAkHzY4Ym6Gs_QĮdit: Looking for some Song Stems to accompany your MIDI :)?
Enjoy and make lots of music!ġ30,000 Midi File Collection 3.65Gb Uncompressed / 1.02 Gb Compressed ZIP || Also I discovered that many sites with impressive looking file counts don't even come close to their listed size not all but most are running 1/10th of their posted file counts. This is a reference tool kit and like all things, is not flawless but does the job well.
You get to download the collection and taste de jour. I didn't go through it by hand due to not having 15 lifetimes of spare time. Some will be spot on and miraculous others will sound like total garbage. This is a large collection, with a large amount of content creators, too many to reference here and their identities are generally impossible to know. I feel like all producers could benefit from having a profoundly large swath of midi files at their fingertips for inspiration, reference or remix purposes. I made this collection with the intent of ensuring that a large amount of well created music wasn't lost due to the sands of time or the frustration of 5 file downloads per hour restrictions.
Genres include: Pop, Classical (Piano/Violin/Guitar), E D M, VideoGame, Movie/TV Theme I've done a lot of work to crawl hundreds of sites, download their entire publicly available midi (I didn't crawl paywall content but I've peaked behind and it's not much better than what's available in public), keep the best named uniques and organize them into a folder. That being said, this is the largest midi collection on the internet spanning numerous repositories past and present.
While a humungous amount of these are clearly obvious, some may not be, just a warning! However there's a large amount of files that aren't as descriptive as others due to the way they were hosted and the way the page displayed the track data.
I made sure to crawl a large variety of websites and eliminate any duplicate files (I did this via checksum not filename and kept the longest file name). I'm going to post this around in various places because I believe that this should be shared with as many individuals as possible. Reddit, I've taken some time to crawl the internet and combine my findings into a single collection to share with you all.