Sounds of Mutation!
It's time for an oldskool Spacing Guild Guide to Good Music shout-out--to one of my alltime favorite music blogs: Mutant Sounds!
Do you like weird music? I mean: strange improvisational jazz, proto-industrial, early electronic space music, bizarre ambient experimentalism, avant-garde sound collages, Muzik konkret, and the like?
Do you like incredibly obscure stuff from the late 1960s to the early 1990s--most of which has been out-of-print for decades? And most of which was only ever released on vinyl LPs?
Do you like MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MUSIC? On the order of sometimes sixteen new albums/EPs offered in one day?
Then, man...Mutant Sounds is your Mecca. The sheer amount of incredibly rare--and, in some cases, revolutionary--music made available by contributors Electric Voodoo, mutantsounds, and vdoandsound is simply amazing: these folks must spend all day, every day, recording and cleaning up their vast vinyl collections, mp3ing the results, and offering them for download--for free. These guys clearly do this for the love of the music, and I have learned so much from their extensive descriptions of many of the albums they offer. Thanks to them, I've discovered such amazing gems as Automat (soon to be featured on my forthcoming essay on futuristic music from the '70s/'80s), Confluence, Electro Static Cat, and Attrition's incredibly creepy 1984 LP, This Death House (Incidental Musics, Volume 1).
Truly an amazing site. But beware! You will find yourself downloading damnear everything in sight...which means you'd better have plenty of time on your hands to listen to the incredible amount of great music coming your way.
