Aggregators:
The Hype Machine ||
Music Blogs:
Music for Robots - everything indie |
Bigstereo - electro, indie, electronic, house |
Fluxblog - Perpetua motion |
20 Jazz-funk Greats - punk disco, psychadelic noise, electro bleep |
Fat Planet - music from around the world |
Palms Out Sounds - hip-hop & club remixes |
Discobelle - who knew Swedes had good taste in hip-hop? |
DJ Benzi - ...much less
Midwesterners? |
Gorilla vs. Bear - Austin-centric indie |
Fluo Kids - French hip-hop & house group blog |
Scattermish bloooog - Aussie dj & remixer |
The Rich Girls are Weeping - indie pop |
Mad Decent blog - teh hotness from Diplo's record label ||
Mixes:
Blentwell - Brit with a reggae/world focus |
Masalacism - French-Canadian with same ||
Unapolagetic Filesharing:
The Smoking Section - when hip-hop leaks, this is the bucket |
Regnyouth - far-reaching rock-and-roll based interests |
e-junkie - hip-hop, rock, videos, movies |
torrentazos.com - hip-hop, latin ||
Communities:
Hollertronix Forum - the master djs hold court |
Mix-tapes.de - germans and everything they're interested in, with a focus on DJ mixes |
Ragga-Jungle.com - as it sounds |
Micromusic.net - game music, glitch, nerdtronica ||
Artists:
Frank Black official fansite - keeping track of the troubador and all-star pop songster |
Mad Professor - dub innovator ||
Labels:
Ariwa Sounds - Home of Mad Professor. Also
on myspace. |
Jahtari - an awesome german netlabel which emulates the classic dub soundz on computers. many downloads. ||
Filesharing Sites:
Yousendit - 25 download or 1 wk limit |
Rapidshare - unlimited downloads, 30 day exp after no dl |
Zshare - preview, unlimited downloads, 1 wk exp after no dl |
Sendspace ||
Older-Gen P2P Networking:
Kazaa Lite - this is an adware-free version of kazaa. I don't know a good host, but you'll find it if you look |
Limewire - supposedly the fastest, I haven't tried |
Soulseek - my fave, works good on my computer ||
Bittorrent Lists:
Mininova - I'm pretty new to bittorrenting, but this site is pretty good. focus on new releases |
Pirate Bay - also good. more completist ||
Utilities (freeware):
OldVersion.com - an all-around great site featuring the old versions of program, which were often better! |
Winamp - good standalone player |
Audiograbber - nice tool for ripping audio (will rip only to wave format unless you plug in a program like bladeenc, bladedll, or LAME) |
WinRAR - file compression/extraction tool (for Windows) |
Stuffit - file compression/extraction tool (for Mac) |
BladeEnc - simple, powerful tool to convert Wave -> MP3 |
Bladedll - ha ha. find the story, get the file! |
LAME - another encoder, which I haven't worked with, apparently best for variable bit rate... |&imdone;
