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a comprehensive 30GB archive of the noise-arch.net digitized tape collection, entirely comprised of D.I.Y tapes from the 80s and 90s. Lots of noise, strange sound art, homemade music, and some field recordings. the archive.org link on this post is the full download (which I recommend if you have an external hard drive), but there’s also a link on that page to an easy-to-explore collection of the tapes (it's unfortunately not as comprehensive as the full download, but it's good if you just want a taste). I’ll most likely make a few other posts with tapes I find that I really enjoy! super wonderful to hear pre-internet-dominance independent music. cultural time capsules, deeply emotional at times
Jan 15, 2024
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there was this new york times story on a couple buying a fire island house and discovering 200 tapes of dj sets between 1979 and 1999, and a sound engineer has been digitizing them and more are still uploading. it’s a lovely time portal and does more to set a mood for me than any ambient pop usually can, plus it tickles my crown chakra or whatever to feel some sort of connection to generations past.
Jan 31, 2023
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A crowd-sourced archive of field recordings from all over the world. You can navigate the navigate the map and listen to sounds from where it was recorded. It currently consists of 70 825 recordings from 2 741 different contributors.
5d ago
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not just for programming tho—ambient drone-y deep cuts and mysterious artists
Jan 30, 2024
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extremely comforting to have a social media platform where the prevailing emotion is love and enthusiasm, wonderful to see everything my friends love and wonderful to express the love in my heart to like-minded souls
Dec 21, 2023
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because they’re young and hip and would absolutely devour this app
Dec 22, 2023
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Especially the album Microphones in 2020. The kind of music that makes me feel like no matter what I do my art will be worth it all (which is on average true) and that it will always be a part of my life (alongside the sentiment that, just by surviving, I am creating art)
Dec 21, 2023