needs more cowbell

sample pack of 31 electric cowbell samples!
courtesy of Bassadelic via the glitch hop forum

click me for cowbells

hip hop drum samples on reddit

The origins of Rock and Roll

The origins of Rock and Roll is a super mellow podcast showcasing the earliest rock and roll recordings.  listen to it, it's seriously good.

getup stomp - boomstix

last year i went on an adventure.  i wanted to learn about growing food and sustainable living.  i practiced permaculture, got covered in mud, collected manure, learned about bush tucker, built a cellar, built a goat house, planted many gardens and had a wonderfully relaxing time.

i also wrote this EP.

inspiration

50 most used reggae riddims. beautiful music and inspiration

50 most used reggae riddims

midi files of classic computer games.
SUPER MARIO BROS theme!

http://www.midishrine.com/

big list of .wav samples from tv shows

http://www.eventsounds.com/wav/

Dragon time

This is a mix of the tracks i made this past year. I've been listening to a lot of dancehall and future garage. Glitch hop and future beats as well.

Dragon time

sweet clickable spreadsheet of TED talks, ranked by engagement

a list of TED talks ranked by how often people watch them and tell their friends about them. HAWT

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgsdFQlATsyYdEtnVHQ3alRsU1M5cVdsSFpEbVdlbFE&hl=en#gid=0

pointblank studios loops and one shots

check out this tutorial for making tb303 sounds on ableton. then download the rack and make acid music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NYkQGGBmuU&feature=channel_video_title

there's also loads of one shots and sample. requires a quick registration process.

http://www.pointblanklondon.com/free-content/loops.php

club orlov

club orlov is a blog about what to do after the collapse of petro-chemical based society.

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/

loads of chiptunes

http://keygenjukebox.com/

samplelicious!

How to have a number one hit

this is the manual by the KLF

>>how to have a number one hit

it is a how to guide and a critique of the music industry. it's beautiful and if you haven't read it you should.

who cork the dance?

archive of reggae sound system mixtapes

FIYAA!!

http://www.whocorkthedance.com/

too much hip hop

do you like hip hop?

"The Rub have completed their Hip Hop History series, creating a mix for every year between 1979 and 2009. Most mixes are average two hours in length."

that's a spicy meatball

http://www.itstherub.com/?cat=15

paulstretch

paulstretch is sweet

this software allows you to mega stretch sounds

it is optimised so that they sound really beautiful

don't just take my word for it, check out some of the results

http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower

http://soundcloud.com/maddefherb-1/miley-cyrus-when-i-look-at-you-post-pussy-pop-remix-8x-slower

how to take a good profile pic

how to take a good profile pic

thanks hivemind

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/

microphones on sale

links to microphones on sale
sounds good to me

http://recordinghacks.com/microphones-on-sale/

pledge music

this site is a platform to raise money for musical projects

http://www.pledgemusic.com/

free samples on soundcloud

Here's a link to a blog post on SoundCloud about free samples there

you can use it to find loads of free samples and also to share your own samples

soundcloud is also my preferred way of sharing audio at the moment, two thumbs up from me

free samples ahoy

open source for mac

this page has loads of free open source software for mac (most have linux and pc versions too)

http://www.opensourcemac.org/

there's all sorts of useful stuff like word processing and torrents and whatnot

for music heads there's Audacity which is a simple audio recording and editing tool

pure data which i already raved about here

and some more good things if you dig through the many links :)