Music. You've read about it, all your friends are into it, but you're not quite sure if it's right for you. Now's your chance to try it out, absolutely free, in the privacy of your home or cubicle.

First up, we have a holiday special! Twelve years of annual Christmas foolery, including a medley of our greatest hit, collected in one place for the first time. We call it Let Nothing You Dismay.

Doubtful Palace Artists

Four improvising composers embedded in an acoustic/electronic audio ecosystem. Each simultaneously consumes and is consumed by the others via a real-time sampling and processing network in which each individual's output is available to all others as input. The landscape is littered with discarded objects, outmoded machinery, and the looted carcasses of prior inhabitants.

Morbid British folk music, featuring Rani Arbo of Salamander Crossing and Daisy Mayhem.

Beautiful acoustic tracks from this wonderful Washington, D.C. singer-songwriter's long-out-of-print 1990 solo CD.

Subtly detailed electronic music, created primarily through the use of inexpensive and outmoded technologies.

Their 1987 album, produced by Mitch Easter, is a lost indie-rock classic.

Regressive music from way back in the early Nineties, featuring Brian Bulkowski of Rosin Coven.

Pungent techno-pop to wrinkle your nostrils.

Music for the inside of your eyelids.

With one foot planted in the Appalachian and British Isles folk tradition, another ankle-deep in quirky, angular pop, and yet a third dabbling its toes in punk snarl, this tripedal beast is ready to take on all comers. "Fairport Convention for the new millenium!" --David Bash

Allison Duke, Dee Kesler, Audra Kunkle and Tadas Kisielius had each been trying to reach the pole on their own for many years, studying and following the great explorers, planning their course and straying from it. "The aural equivalent of an impressionist painting, or a punch in the face with a Styrofoam boxing glove." --San Francisco Bay Guardian

Shalmaneser is a Micryogenic(R) computer bathed in liquid helium and it's cold in his vault.

Lush a cappella. Mmmm, rich creamy goodness.

Experimental popular electronic children's music for adults.

Horn-driven progressive rock reminiscent of Henry Cow and The Muffins.

Musique concréte created by digital manipulation of acoustic sound sources. "Ever wonder what it sounds like inside that trash can icon on your desktop? Tim Walters knows." --Keyboard