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In the future-- when new music is released predominantly in ringtone format-- what songs will we refer to as the classics? "My Humps"? "Hollaback Girl"? Any Lil Jon-produced track ever?

Well, no matter who ends up as the ringtone equivalent of the Beatles, I think we might have a contender for the "genre"'s version of punk rock: a simple and unassuming little site called toneshared.

Run by the folks behind the Polish Unsound Festival, toneshared is "an expanding collection of mobile ringtones available for free, made by artists especially for the site," according one of the Unsound curators. Like the festival, the site's current library features tones from mainly electronic and avant-garde artists, including Keith Fullerton Whitman, Jason Forrest, Vert, Benoit Pioulard, Turk Dietrich of Belong, Felix Kubin, Richard Chartier, Loscil, KK NULL, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, and Atom Heart. New tones are added regularly, and there are plans to create a section "devoted to anyone who wants to upload tones."

Let the ringtone revolution begin... er, continue.