fLAtDiSk has given away free music files since the early 1990s. Absolutely Free Music! offers only free MP3s and they're legal. Collect 'em all! No sign-ins, pop-ups, spam, email scams, memberships, bids, credit cards, or bad links! Just lots of weird music you can download for free!
Peace began as an eXoNews poll site in 2003 to measure visitors' response to the Iraq war. The site has since become a depository for blatantly anti-war clip-art, posters, music and links - all absolutely free, of course. fLAtDiSk respects our military and those who choose to serve but we do not think war is a rational political option in the 21st Century. Most of our visitors prefer Peace to the alternative but all are welcome.
fLAtfiLMs is where you find videos you'll never see on American television. Like the new hit "Killer on the Train" or cult favs "Life Is A Book" or "Herman Gleib and the Paradigm of Evil". We also have some unusual FlashToons and odds and many ends we've collected over the years. It's harmless stuff and no porn or violence (unless you count actual atom bombs or Robin Williams.) Mostly good clean fun and Absolutely Free!
MODSpeak Live! debuted on the web in 1994. It was a free digital music library, featuring fLAtDiSk mod files and a collection of other artists updated with 30-40 new releases a month. Eventually the monthly updates grew to over 5500 files and fLAtDiSk Mod Archives was born on a separate server in 1999. MODSpeak also continues today with a more limited collection of .MODs, .MP3s, .WMAs, .S3Ms, .XMs, .ITs, and other free music files for you to download. Cool mod links there too. (If you exactly aren't sure what a mod is, think free music! MODSpeak Terms might help too.)
eXoNews (2000-2007) is a library of real news stories you won't find on sponsor-controlled news networks or hear from your local lacquered news team. After seven years online, the eXoNews site became an Archive of aliens, animals, archeology, astronomy, clones, crop circles, genre entertainment news and government misdeeds. While eXoNews was an active weekly publication, we prided ourselves on covering all the whacked and politically incorrect subjects the big news sites fear and eXoNews remains a great online research resource for News Outside The News!
TV_Vote (2001-2008) was an ongoing poll for television viewers aimed at finding the 5 Best TV Shows of All Time. Over 10,000,000 votes were cast by the time the poll ended in August 2008. Also billed as chance for fans to get even with Evil Network Executives for canceling their favorite TV shows, TV_Vote was the most popular continuing television poll on the web for over 5 years.
The fLAtDiSk Store is now open! Yes, it's true. Despite all of our freebies and good intentions, fLAtDiSk has given in to greed and put up an Official fLAtDiSk Store site. Thanks to the miraculous avarice of 21st century web culture, vendors like Amazon and Zazzle now make it possible to sell you actual fLAtDiSk BuyProducts - stuff you can't get anywhere else! Hey! If there was a way to offer free downloads of fLAtDiSk hats and t-shirts, coffee mugs and mouse pads, paperbacks and CDs, we'd do that instead. But we can't, so check out our stuff and see what we've got. Doesn't hurt to look :o)>
There is a lot more to the fLAtDiSk NeTWoRk than all this serious stuff, of course. Drop by and have some fun!
In the late 1960s, he worked for NYC documentary and industrial filmmaker Ted Steeg, beginning as a production assistant and eventually as a sound editor and film editor. During that time he met director Mark Rappaport and appeared as an actor in two of Rappaport's films, Casual Relations (1973) and the title role in his award-winning feature Mozart in Love (1975).
In the early 1970s, La Bonté also played bass and sang in the original cast off-Broadway New York and Los Angeles productions of the musical Godspell. He appears as a player and performer on the Grammy Award-winning Godspell Original Cast Album
and
the
Godspell Motion Picture Soundtrack Album.
He is currently involved with the
2011 Broadway revival of Godspell.In late 20th Century Los Angeles, Rich created fLAtDiSk SoftWorks as a freeware company. At that time fLAtDiSk was the home of fLAtDiSk Fanzine (a Xeroxed music rag from 1976-1983) and fLAtDiSk Records (a vinyl subsidiary of Dave Gibson's Moxie Record Company.) fLAtDiSk Records had several obscure 20th Century releases, the most notable being the Kim Fowley Jr.: Son of Frankenstein LP, which La Bonté co-wrote and co-produced with legendary record producer Kim Fowley for Moxie. The record spawned the frequently rediscovered college radio hit Invasion of the Polaroid People and was re-released in Europe by Lolita Records on vinyl and later on the Marilyn Records CD label as Kim Fowley’s Bad News from the Underworld
,
still available through
Bomp Records.La Bonté released the classic R. Stevie Moore red vinyl single New Wave 1979 for Moore on a Moxie offshoot (CMI Records with La Bonté's then-partner Shari Famous.) La Bonté and Moore met again on the Internet decades later and collaborated on several album covers for discs in
Rich has five published novels: Susan and The Wolf , Useful Humans , Simple Deities , The Greater Future , Many Teeth and the short story collection Yellowflower.
Working for a computer systems integrator in Los Angeles from 1985-2001, La Bonté experimented with virtual reality for the PC, creating fLAtDiSk VR Dreams in the early 90s - a series of virtual reality worlds for IBM PC compatibles. All of the fLAtDiSk VR Dreams were later published in Virtual Reality Madness and More!, a Book/CD software package from SAMS Publishing. fLAtDiSk SoftWorks offers free downloads of the VR series at the VRContinuum web site.
Rich continues to compose and release free music and video to the web via fLAtDiSk NeTWoRk sites, ReverbNation, Facebook, YouTube, etc.. As FLAtRich he also hosts a music page on Blip.fm, playing an eclectic mix of artists daily. He currently lists 24 albums on his Absolutely Free Music site, with over 100 tracks available as free MP3 downloads.
Rich's 2010 CD, This Is Rock and Roll, features recent material with an accent on vocals and his latest CD release, Closet Frequencies and other electronic stuff that sounds good to me (2011) is a collection of 22 electronic instrumental pieces.
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