Okay, so here's a thread that references the classic "Free electronic music!" thread:
http://www.darktrain.org/dirty/forum...ght=free+music
Seems to have been ~2004, old edition of dirty...
Maybe it's cached somewhere, but i can't see it.
Anyway, Caprice - i don't remember who you're referring to, but there have been a lot of interesting artists that posted a few times here, then vanished. I was particularly keen on music by folks called Esem, Emmet, and Milieu. Milieu's a super-prolific chap, and a nice guy i still keep up with. There are certainly others who have debuted their "frrrreeeware" but not stuck around. As i'm now pumping a netlabel and searching them for most of the music i listen to these days, i can see how folks like to advertise and RSS feed-galore in the hopes of generating a li'l buzz, but they might not be suited to a particular site/blog.