zeruch (zè-rook)

Every once in a while I find a particular place to mine for mixes, beats, and other sonic epiphanies. Here are some of those places:

• Beyondjazz.net – Regularly updated with great mixes that centers on broken beat and the places that feed it.
• Free Albums – full albums that are legitimately being put up as Creative Commons or free otherwise.
• Ubuweb – modern symphonic/classical works and discussions about such.
• Matsuli – an audioblig and occasional mix release here and there focusing on vinyl-only, and otherwise very, very rare African jazz/fusion/funk/folk/highlife/juju madness. Excellent stuff.
• Theta States – a pretty odd collection of mixes
• Insubordinations – a netlabel for improvised music.
• Blentwell – an veritable tower of babel for mixes, Blentwell has its own occasional mixes, but otherwise provides a constant stream of links to great listening, and is setup by a boggling list of sub-genres (i.e. dubstep, broken beat, mash-ups, hyphy, acid jazz, glitch, detroit house, breakbeat, et al.)
• FPPO – For Promotional Purposes Only. I would guess ofr listening enjoyment purposes also.
• Frank McGahon – just a guy with an audioblog who knows how to cultivate a groove.
• Players.fm – A recent find, it is a well designed site, and openly partcipatory. While you can’t download mixes, and the intro on the embedded player gets a tad old, the quality of the mixes is often exceptional. I look for the broken beat, afrobeat and nu-jazz material.
• Dial M For Musicology – More of a random commentary on music and musioc education, it often has some good insights.
• Earskills – a boutique label out of Switzerland focusing on mostly jungle-esque stuff, and that has a decent selection of both its own and guest mixes for listening.
• Canopy.tv – by its own description, its an episodic music show, and covers a decent range of stuff.
• 20 Jazz Funk Greats – besides being named after an odd album by an odd band (Throbbing Gristle) they have great little nuggets of sound sandwiched between heaping portions of laugh-happy obtuse commentary. And the title (like the original album) is misleading, as this place houses everything from European avant-garde jazz to bizarre theme tracks from pop-culture long gone by (in some cases, even before it really came).
• Comfort Radio – It’s comfortable. Mostly.
• B-Side Premier. Well, I don’t really see where the b-sides are, but the mixes are generally offering something interesting, and their link list is quite extensive.
• Trackwerk – A longtime favorite (and thankfully finally moved from a flash based mess of a site that had you clumsily grab four .zip files a month, to a real Wordpresspowered audioblog on its own schedule). Rarely a bum track, let a lone a bum DJ session.
• Licorice Pizza – n audioblog of really random snippets.
• VULives collection of Broken beat items.