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[axisofweevils]

I thought this was pretty cool. Apparently, this is a yearly thing, but it is the first I've heard of it. I haven't actually listened to the music yet so YMMV.

There's a lot of music on this page — 100 songs, to be exact, each from an artist worth discovering at this year's SXSW Music Festival. It's more than six genre-defying hours of music.

Still, we started out with far more to choose from. It took an enormous amount of effort to get here: Thousands of acts play SXSW each year, enough that winnowing them down to 100 required months of seeking, listening, culling and decision-making. What remains are some of SXSW 2015's most thrilling discoveries and highlights — and you can download them all from right here, either individually or in one 795 MB .zip file, until April 2, 2015.

But this page is the bare-bones way to listen. We've also got a full, interactive multimedia experience — not to mention a way to stream these songs all the way through SXSW 2016. And, as always, come back to NPR.org/SXSW for live concerts, photos, videos and dispatches from this year's festival.

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/03/390053158/the-austin-100-a-sxsw-2015-mix

 

[Extra Sauce]

The lack of Soronprfbs is disappointing.

 

[Hop]

There's also been annual SXSW torrents, of everything put up as downloadable previews. Usually runs 6-7GB total. Not sure if linking is questionable but it's super-easy to find.