Richard Terfry has been making bedroom hip-hop for well over a decade at this point, and he describes 2008's Dirtbike project as coming from his compulsion to "act creatively without any consideration for money or press or anything other than art". Dirtbike has been free as long as it's been available, and he says it always will be.
The three albums that compose the Dirtbike project run just over three hours and feature left-field hip-hop contemporaries from fellow Canadian Cadence Weapon to the Oakland-based Anticon label's Themselves.
It's low-fi, it's free, and it's got a songs about having sex with mannequins and being awesome at bowling, among other similar gems.
The Armed are giving away, for fucking FREE, 2009's These Are Lights (produced by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou) andandAND this year's Common Enemies EP, also for sale as a physical album here. The Armed is a frantic hardcore pummel from Detroit.
I've posted this here before, but I've been listening to it ever since I found it. Couch-ready ambient textures and delicate instrumentals over stuttering beats, from what The Siren Sound blog calls "a dope young producer from outer space currently living in California".
Enjoy.
