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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.
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A website of forest recordings sent in from people all over the world ✨🌎🎧 My friend texted me a link to this last night and I fell asleep listening to it.
The photographs that accompany the recordings are stunning 🥹 Highly rec for anyone feeling the eco-doom 🫂
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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 beautiful book, specifically designed to be read while walking.
As it says in the introduction, “Read me while you walk. Hold me while you stand. Put me down while you take a pause”.
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