Links
Online Communities for Musicians:
- AMPFEA - A Meeting Place For Electronic Artists - the nicest bunch of people you could hope to meet, really!
- Versionist Riddim Community - Massive community dedicated to the development of progressive Reggae music. Tons and tons of wicked MP3 downloads for reggae and dub, as well as samples for use in your own tracks.
Music Writing Resources:
- AnalogX - Awesome free useful audio tools and DirectX plugins!
- AudioNerdz - Home of the "Delay Lama" - a fantastic singing monk VST instrument!
- Bitmap Player - Interesting program that makes sounds from pictures
- Deepsound - Useful calculators for samplists
Artist Links:
- Ampfea.org MP3 Files - The freshest MP3s from the Ampfea.org community
- Craque - Some really awesome electronic music - loads of MP3s!
- Fake Project - Dan Reetz making some gorgeously dirty lo-fi downtempo stuff with mangled cheap electronic devices.
- Jammer - My mate James - awesome music and he's a really nice guy to boot!
- Jeremah - Jonny Stutters making beautiful IDM and vocal electronica, plenty of MP3 downloads.
- Laced Milk - Bad website design, but don't be put off! This site has around 2Gb (yes, two gigabytes) of great electronic music for download!
- Lamb - One of my favourite groups - chilled out but funky too!
- Loca Records - Yes, yes and YES!! An "open source" record label, also happens to be releasing some really cool music! Lots of downloads too - definitely recommended!
- Lum Electronica - An experimental electronic music project by Miles Davies - plenty of abstract ambient MP3s to download, all good stuff!
- Magnatune - "Try before you buy MP3 music", with some top quality music free to listen to, and pay for if you like it.
- Moonbuggy - Infectious reggae music from Nottingham UK (and also the band I play bass in... hehe!)
- Mux - Live-PA techno stuff that absolutely rocks my socks! Plenty of MP3s to download!
- Navisto - Glasgow based electronic artist. Interested in collaborations, offers mixing and mastering advice or service.
- Nerve Agent Audio Systems - Fantastic electronic music from Nerve Agent - over two hours of MP3s avaialable for download!
- One Louder - aka "Ron's Mobile Disco" - awesome techno and tech-house with loads of MP3s to download!
- Pema and his Computers - Lots of online electronica, very nice stuff!
- Role Model - Such fat funky tunes, all made with a Gameboy!
- T Spigot - Chilled out breakbeat electronic stuff, with two and a bit albums worth of high quality MP3 downloads! Seriously good music!
- The Bays - Words cannot describe how incredible they are live - see them!!
- Ugress - Supercool funky breakbeats and electronic music from Bergen, Norway
General Links:
- Highness Sound System - Best night out in Nottingham by far, heavyweight roots sounds to rock your body. Wicked!
- Major Labels - This article describes EXACTLY how musicians get screwed by the music industry
- MP3s are good for music biz - Survey carried out which proves exactly the opposite of what the RIAA are telling us
- Pedestrian - Pedestrian is a non-profit voluntary organisation that provides workshops, information, support and performance opportunities for young people in the emerging artform of Turntablism.
- Pitchfork Media - More album reviews and muso news than you can shake a pitchfork at!
- Rent-A-Monkey - My freelance website development business
- Resonance FM - Experimental radio station in London - nothing quite like it!
- RIAA Safety Guide To The Beach - Now this is hillarious!
- Soma FM - Awesome ecclectic Internet radio station that was sadly and pointlessly killed by the RIAA on June 20th 2002, but is now back in full swing!
- The Boiler Room recording studios - Funky little studio in Nottingham
- The Delicious Lo-Fi Lounge - I'm on this guy's Internet radio station playlist... he got 38595 total listening hours in the last 30 days... damn!
- The Internet Music Debacle - This article completely hits the nail on the head regarding the ridiculous way in which the music industry is handling music on the Internet
- The Problem With The Music Industry - Everyone seems to have realised except the music industry themselves!
- Trusted Computing Platform Alliance / Palladium FAQ - A long article, but well worth a read - outlines EXACTLY what the new Micro$oft-led TCPA scheme will mean for the end user
- Twisk - The Dream Database - very interesting stuff!
- ZeroPointFive - Many thanks to Karl@ZPF for doing the graphics for this site
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