Free legal Japanese music : 8tracks
So if you are anything like me you love Japanese music and music in general but don’t really have enough money to pay for all the music you listen to and feel a bit bad when you just download it. Because of this I’ll be starting a new mini series called “Free legal Japanese music” where you can find out where to listen to Japanese music free and legally. If it goes well I may extend it to other areas such as Movies and Anime.
First in the mini Series is 8tracks.
8tracks is a simple way for people to share and discover music through an online mix.
8tracks is a web based music radio where you can create and listen to other users mixes.
Each mix is a short play-list of music lasting for at least 30 minutes or roughly 8 tracks. On 8tracks people can create or just listen to mixes without having to pay anything. Styled largely on the theme of 70’s & 80’s style 8 track cassette mixtapes this site offers a great digital version of what arguably was the best way to find new music. The great thing about 8tracks is that it has a lot of great Japanese music of all genres broken down into small bite size chunks.
How is 8tracks legal.
I guess you guys are pretty skeptical of this as was I when I first stumbled on it, it is completely above the board and legal in every aspect so chillax bro. This is why they are legal;
8tracks has elected to operate under the compulsory license for webcasting, this license covers 8track’s transmissions and recordings(server side copy of the songs). 8tracks pays royalties to SoundExchannge who then distribute the royalties fairly among the copyright owners.
However with this there are certain rules that 8tracks must follow:
- Following a set of programming rules that limits the number of songs that may be transmitted from any one album or any recording artist on a given channel or play-list during a three-hour period;
- Pays a royalty rate either negotiated with representatives of copyright owners or established pursuant to a proceeding conducted by the three judges on the Copyright Royalty Board;
- Reports to copyright owners the songs that have been transmitted on the service, pursuant to negotiated reporting requirements or requirements adopted by the Copyright Royalty Board, so that SoundExchange may allocate and distribute such royalties to individual copyright owners and recording artists.
So I heard you like music
I’ll give you some of my favourite mixes to get you started. Hope you like the music as much as I do!
Japanese mid showa era (1960s-1970s)
Japanese hip hop -Mokkei’s mix vol.02
Hoolan 
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