SXSW preview: Dillon, Trails & Ways, You Won’t, + many more.

Thank you Reddit thread. SXSW (music) is happening this week, 12th-17th of March, Austin TX. And the SXSW website has been showcasing a lot of artists beforehand.

In response, a third party torrent link is posted on TorrentFreak. It enables readers to download all 1210 songs that were streamable on the SXSW website, all at once. In a blogpost, TF claims it’s a 7.39GB package of ‘DRM-free, RIAA-safe songs of performing artists‘. Even though the SXSW-crew used to create the torrent themselves in the past, the package holds some pretty big names. (Aeroplane, Bonobo, Flume, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Wolfgang Gartner, just to name a few.) With tracks in it that are also for sale in the online stores. RIAA will probably not be singing praises about it.

But it reaches people, and if those people have time on their hands to dig through 78 hours of audio material, this is a nice way for the artists involved to score a few extra listeners. Here’s some stuff we found while listening to the package. But instead of torrent links, here are some confirmed and official download links.

Dillon’s ‘Thirteen Thirtyfive’ is a bit older, and has received countless remixes. (One we featured in this mixtape) Turns out the original is a free download on Official FM, through a link hosted by Dillon herself. Find her here on SXSW.

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Trails and ways became a giant red dot on our radar when ‘Mt. Tune’ came out, a free track we posted earlier. Although all of their music ends up on iTunes, some tracks can be downloaded for free once you’ve liked their Facebook page. Catch them in Austin.

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You Won’t is a duo from Cambridge, MA. They have their debut album ‘Sceptic Goodbye’ out on Old Flame Records. And that label is sharing their SXSW track ‘Television’ for free. You Won’t will be performing here.

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Then there are quite a few familiar names and tracks on the SXSW website/torrent package. These are confirmed to be free as well and we posted them earlier:

And of course the usual Honorable Mentions, also from SXSW and also confirmed to be downloadable. Record label Kompakt is sharing ‘Hoooooray‘ by Coma, SXSW link.
Bestfriends is a duo from Chicago, their track ‘Just Goodbye‘ is featured in the SXSW package. It is also one of six tracks on their Soundcloud page, and seems to be the only free track. They will go here on SXSW.
Speak is a band who will be performing close to home on SXSW. They are an Austin band of four and they have a free track up on their website titled ‘Carrie‘, from their album ‘I Believe In Everything’. Even comes with a great RAC remix. Their SXSW times.
You will also be able to see Goldroom live. Twice even. Goldroom’s ‘Fifteen’ features Melbourne vocalist Chela and it’s part of the package. It is also free, even though you’ll need to hand over a Facebook like first. Even better, the acapella is also still available for free.

As a little bonus, there’s a long list of awesome SXSW tracks we couldn’t find official download links for, but they are for sale on iTunes. Just to be complete, here’s a list of awesome tracks from SXSW this year, together with the official buy links. Just because it’s good to know them.

Enjoy these tracks. If you find yourself going to SXSW this year, be sure to see them live. And have good times.