Lately there has been like an explosion of music that is free and legal to download over the internet, lots of good stuff often impossible to tell apart from big studio productions. Such sites and pages are where I find most of my new running music these days, almost daily I download some and then I run it through mixmeister for an early app aided sorting process while I myself make coffee or something. Anyway, I have no intention of keeping those sites and pages a personal secret so here below are links to the best of them.

Free psytrance, goatrance, ambient techno and more. Everything on this site is high quality stuff with superb production. Quite niched though, the lion's share of what I find here for running falls into the warm-up category 140-150 BPM.

Every genre you can think of and then some, every quality you can think of and then some, more quantity than anyone can handle. This is kind of a lottery site with lotsa crap but also the occasional golden nugget, I've made some of my best non-english music finds here.

Known as Rhymetorrentz up until just recently this is a site with albums made mostly by white middle class guys rapping about movies, computers, school, society and how badass they are (i.e wanna be). From a running point of view most finds here tend to be like normal rap, in the 170-200 BPM range. (Additional April 2011: The nerdcore genre is apparently becoming more mainstream and this site no longer only links to free albums, approx one outta five or so recommended is now one you have to pay for).

Kind of like Nerdcore Now, but with a mix of original content and parody songs. High quality productions from experienced artists on the front page are free for the first couple of weeks. There's also the Fump SIDESHOW where anyone can submit parody recordings and/or originals.

Technically this is an all genres site but most of the stuff here is comedy music. About two rounds a month they run recording/song contests based on a given title, anything goes beyond that and some of the funniest stuff I've found over the last year comes from here.

Updated almost daily with three new free songs from some indie band I never heard of before, but it's quality stuff and I have made some good running music finds here.

A collective music review mp3 blog about Swedish music, in Swedish, it covers all genres but it's leaning heavily towards indie rock.

Some guy in the USA who has such a big thing for Swedish indie music that he's actually the Swedish contributor to the monthly MAP (Music Alliance Pact) where some 35 bloggers from as many contries post a collective best of list on all of their blogs. Between that he updates at least weekly.

Updated daily with a new song, free and legal and with a comment from the band, most often it's an indie rock track but rather big names like Weezer and The Donnas have been on here too since I started to follow it.

A Danish music and mp3 blog in English that posts and/or links to original content from indie band that has given their permission. Updated almost daily and pretty good.

The only German blog and the only old school synth and electronic music blog on the list. It's kinda hard to follow because I don't read any German but when needed there's of course always Google Translate, that's how I found out that kostenlose means free and that linked stuff is legal.

A blog from an argus-eyed English music journalist who seems to know all the who's who of the British indie and underground scene. Updated almost daily, sometimes more than once, but almost everything is from bands that are so new that it's from their first demo or close to that. (Additional May 2011: Lately this has more and more turned into a video blog, not my running cup of tea, but I'll keep checking it for now).

Every monday this site/blog posts five or six songs, I've downloaded some of them for a couple of months and about once a month so far there has been one useful for running.

This blog only lists three free and legal indie songs a week, but with rather lenghty reviews, I've found two songs useful for running here so far so I'll keep it on my list for a while to see what happens.

More Nerdcore Rap albums but from a company who among other ways are releasing some of them thrugh Nerdcore Now mentioned above. This is where I found that Kabuto The Python actually has five albums out and not only the one I first found on NN.