MarkRushton.com

Hi, you’ve found the page where I try to keep links to all of my free MP3s.

If you want to follow along, there are a couple of ways to go about it.

I like to make available sketches, works in progress, or even finished tracks at my Soundcloud page. Everything there can be downloaded.  I’m not one of those people who restricts things to streaming-only.  If you have a blog or a web page then you can grab a widget of a track there and rebroadcast it.  There’s no guarantee that a track will be there forever.

If you don’t already know, I’ve been hosting a semi-regular podcast of my original music since 2004.  I’ve had over 500,000 downloads of all the programs I’ve released through the years.  Go to podcast.markrushton.com to find past shows.  If you use iTunes, here’s a link to subscribe to my podcast there.  If you use some other kind of RSS reader, here’s a link to subscribe that way.  If you’d rather just be emailed every time I put out a new show, you can sign up here and get notified that way.

I also have a separate feed for just free MP3s that I host through my web site.  It’s mostly older stuff, and I really don’t update that much anymore because of my activity on Soundcloud.  I might in the future, though, so you never know.  If you use iTunes, here’s a link to subscribe that way.  RSS readers can use this link.  There’s also an email notification service, too.

Below here are just individual free MP3s that you can stream or download.

• Mark Rushton – Creighton And Westminster
  5/4/2011 (4:44) 5MB MP3 – 5 Buddha Machines recorded live, later multiplied and mixed, big fade in and out.

 

• Mark Rushton – Rochester And Scott
  5/3/2011 (5:56) 6MB MP3 – 3 Buddha Machines and a Funkbox rhythm: That fine blend of repetition and randomization.

 

• Mark Rushton – Downtown Sounds And Pianos
  5/2/2011 (7:41) 7MB MP3 – Field recording of downtown Iowa City on 5/2/11, mostly pianos in the Ped Mall.

 

• Mark Rushton – Garden Center
  5/2/2011 (4:48) 11MB MP3 – Field recording of a large plant sprinkler on 4/30/11.

 

• Mark Rushton – Downtown Iowa City, April 22, 2011
  5/2/2011 (5:55) 5MB MP3 – Field recording collage made in downtown Iowa City on 4/22/2011.

 

• Mark Rushton – 3×8-10-12
  4/16/2011 (19:47) 19MB MP3 – A 20 minute long messed-with electronic tanpura drone.

 

• Mark Rushton – Onward
  3/13/2011 (3:29) 4MB MP3 – Onward is beat-driven with processed OMGuitar for iPad throughout.

 

• Mark Rushton – Held Sway
  3/12/2011 (4:56) 6MB MP3 – Held Sway is electro fog with strict drums that are loud.

 

• Mark Rushton – Spoonfed
  3/12/2011 (6:30) 2MB MP3 – Spoonfed is drone-hop, a kind of trip-hop with drones

 

• Mark Rushton – Nomad
  3/12/2011 (2:25) 2MB MP3 – Nomad is ambient 'slow music'.

 

• Mark Rushton – Psychometrics
  (5:26) 5MB MP3 – Psychometrics is a beat-driven electronic rock tune MP3 from my 2004 album The Driver's Companion

 

• Mark Rushton – Theme From Lincoln Highway
  (4:05) 4MB MP3 – Theme From Lincoln Highway is a beat-driven electronic chillout tune MP3 from my 2004 album The Driver's Companion

 

• Mark Rushton – Halloween, October 31, 2009
  (13:50) 13MB MP3 – The neighborhood as recorded off my back deck during Beggar's Night, October 31, 2009

 

• Mark Rushton – Storm Approaching Iowa City, June 21, 2009
  (3:47) 3.5MB MP3 – Recorded when the rain started in Iowa City on Sunday, June 21, 2009. The birds seem to be sending out a call.

 

• Mark Rushton – Waking Up (A Field Recording)
  (30:00) 43MB MP3 – Like the previous week's field recording, I recorded outdoors behind my house on the morning of Sunday, May 10, 2009 for several hours to capture the birds before sunrise. This …

 

• Mark Rushton – Field Recording, May 3, 2009
  (14:39) 21MB MP3 – I left my Zoom H2 out on the deck overnight on May 3, 2009. This section of bird song was recorded just before sunrise, about 5:30am, when the birds were really active. In the backg …

 

• Mark Rushton – Field Recording, March 17, 2009
  (4:17) 6MB MP3 – A recording off my back deck on St Patrick's Day. It was unusually warm for Iowa City, around 75 degrees, sunny and breezy.

 

• Mark Rushton – May Thunderstorm Soundscape
  (4:57) 7MB MP3 – May Thunderstorm Soundscape features multi-layered thunderstorm field recordings from my backyard in May 2008, along with an intentionally out-of-phase rhythmic backing. I wouldn …

 

• Mark Rushton – Under Treetops
  (4:40) 7MB MP3 – Under Treetops is a free ambient/field recording track released on December 19, 2008. It features low pulses, fog, rain sweep, wind chimes, bird song, and air.

 

• Mark Rushton – Chuck Bird
  (6:17) 6MB MP3 – Remembering our friend B. Charles "Chuck" Bird (November 11, 1957 – November 12, 2006) who died after a 30 year battle with diabetes in Nashville.

 

• Mark Rushton – Field Recording (September 7, 2008)
  (3:30) 5MB MP3 – A recording off my back deck on September 7, 2008, after dark, around 9pm.

 

• Mark Rushton – Katydid and Fireworks
  (2:45) 4MB MP3 – A recording of katydids and crickets in my backyard, punctuated with the sounds of distant fireworks exploding 13 miles away in North Liberty for the RAGBRAI bicyclers

 

• Mark Rushton – June 8, 2008 – Field Recording Of A Rain Storm
  (14:00) 20MB MP3 – More heavy rain storms passing through Iowa City on Sunday, June 8, 2008.

 

• Mark Rushton – Field Recording Of Thunder, May 29, 2008
  (3:50) 5.5MB MP3 – A thunderstorm passed through Iowa City on Thursday, May 29, 2008.

 

• Mark Rushton – Can I Have Your Attention Please?
  (2:47) 4MB MP3 – This is a field recording made on May 23, 2008 at the elementary school near my house.

 

• Mark Rushton – April 20, 2008 Field Recording
  (5:00) 7MB MP3 – This was recorded in my backyard the night of Sunday, April 20, 2008. I think that sounds like frogs. And note my neighbor's sump pump hose draining just after the beginning. …

 

• Mark Rushton – Lengthy Stay
  (20:37) 20MB MP3 – Originally sourced from a Buddha Machine, Lengthy Stay has a lovely and hypnotic ambient dub nature to it, along with a considerable amount of underlying background tension.

 

• Mark Rushton – Pulse Detector
  (5:11) 5MB MP3 – Originally sourced from a Buddha Machine, Pulse Detector has a lovely and hypnotic ambient dub nature to it.

 

• Mark Rushton – The Ice Storm
  (10:00) 10MB MP3 – The Ice Storm features recordings done on my Zoom H2 on December 11, 2007 during the ice storm in Iowa City, Iowa.

 

• Mark Rushton – July 31, 2007 Buzz
  (13:53) 13MB MP3 – Katydids, crickets, and other outdoor sounds recorded on July 31, 2007 in Iowa City.

 

• Mark Rushton – Memory Trigger
  (3:25) 4MB MP3 – Laidback rhythms and keyboard sustains. Nice flow and very subtle. Groovy electronica.

 

• Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish – Winter Wind Chimes
  (4:20) 5MB MP3 – Ambient-based atmospheric piece.

 

• Mark Rushton – Sunday's Drift
  (4:34) 5.5MB MP3 – Slow and drifty thing with rhythmic acoustic guitars, floating keyboards, orchestra, and deep bass.