princess kady: this is a girl i met at an open mic. she is one of my three friends and i think she does very nice music. you should really check out her alter ego, $t0rekeepr where she does electronic stuff in strudel code. i think friends are awesome, but she may be a clone of me. i haven't had the time to look around for any underground laboratories under my house yet.
am3nac3: my friend am3nac3 makes some really cool break-type stuff in schism tracker. i've known him for a couple years. he's one cool bunny. i absolutely recommend his new record, especially the backhalf which has some very cute songs like "left someplace" and "vexes".
...i don't have that many friends...
panicstepper - agro jazz: you are doing yourself a HUGE fucking disservice if you don't check out panic stepper right the fuck now. agro jazz is my favorite record of all time, a truly inventive and unique entry into the whole blamecore genre, and is one of the most awesomest fucking things ever made. it absolutely has changed some of my ways of thinking about music, and has made me try to seek out a bit more jazz than my white ass usually listens to. also check out "hyperurban hardcore erotics", which from my discerning eyes was maybe the first breakcore record to absolutely bowl over its listeners. the flo upload adds the tracks from "i may be phat" and some spelling errors, though. still fucking wicked. choice cuts from agro jazz: "something for rahsaan", "iblis/for sonny", "blood" with its absolutely silly xylophone breakdown, and "story of the eye".
kkrusty - a change could do us some good. i've listened to the songs on this record during some very crappy times in my life and it is a very cathartic record. mixing hard fuckheaded amen cuts with chiptuney synths and some damn good songwriting, i'm amazed this was put out as a free download on a netlabel back in '08. if this had been on even the right indie label this could've been super huge. choice cuts include "a quick death", "red sheets white lies", and the flash animation-esque epic "stupor" that ends the album. but really all of it is good.
samoyed - her honey dripping behind. i found this because i was doing some searching of a pisstank track that had the same name as cut 4, "a small good thing", and i went to listen to this out of boredom, and it was neat. this is a very solid kinda lo-fi house EP with some very mellow little tones. i don't have much to say since it's an ep, and i can't point out any choice cuts because the whole thing is quite nice. samoyed dog!
dj paedofile - the kids are alright. okay, before you get all uppity at the name, hear me out. this guy isn't like a creep or anything, he's just a californian. i gave this album a chance despite the moniker years ago, and it quickly became one of my favorite records to ever exist, like holy shit, for what is effectively a sample cd demo, this is an amazing piece of sound collage, constantly twisting and turning, offering you some absolutely amazing hooks before taking it away as soon as they had came. the whole thing is a choice cut, since it's only 28 minutes, but definitely check out "i was raise in louds" and "m is not very rhindstones". if i wanted to embarrass myself by acting academic, i'd argue that this actually does represnt a traumatic childhood in sound form, in a way. but i didn't have one so i don't think i should.
the firm - star trekkin'. i fucking hate this song. i've listened to it like 100 times in the past month. i fucking despise it and how i keep listening to it. they have a bunch of blatant errors in the music video. it's awful. i'm gonna do karaoke cover versions of this at my shows once i figure out how to do tempo changes.
ursula k. le guin: the ones who walk away from omelas. my best friend sent me this one day when i was in high school, about 8 in the morning, and i read it, and it made me somewhat depressed. the morning is a good time to be depressed. there's a good chance you already know it, but if you haven't you should certainly check out this philosophically distressing little 5 pager. written by a woman, too!
harlan ellison: i have no mouth and i must scream. i really don't need to say that much about this one, do i? you might gather that i like short stories. you might also gather that i like sci-fi. "a boy and his dog" was a very fun movie.
george orwell: animal farm. another self-explanatory one that i shouldn't explain much. some pigs get into economics. they go about things the same way centrists go about drinking their own piss. i haven't read 1984 but i don't know if i'd like it as much as this one, i've heard most of it is just the main character tryna smash some lady.
arthur schopenhauer: on noise. i put this one on the site because the link of the place i found it was a biiit long for my liking. i hunted this down because lesser did a concept record based on this one. apparently it's taken from a much longer "studies of pessimism" series. basically schopenhauer just rants about random noises and sounds with a very distinct way of writing about them. short read, but a pretty good laugh. he's so persnickety!
i don't read as much as i should, but some books i've enjoyed include "just mercy" by bryan stevenson, and i remember reading "the schwa was here" by neil shusterman and liking that one. "the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian" was also pretty good from what i remember, but that guy is kind of a sex pest.
the web design museum. i remember being on this site as early as 13 or so. very very cool archival, not necessarily the most independent thing ever made, but it's a darling page. you should absolutely check out the 2000s web design trends with the really cool shapes, designer's republic ripoff styles, and 2advanced is fucking ace. if god actually liked us, websites would still look and function like the crazy techno hypermetal shit you can find on here.
textfiles. remnants of a long forgotten time, things taken from old bulletin board systems, maybe some websites and stuff, but mostly the BBS. there's loads of categories, from anarchy to school reports. i mostly tend to check out the sex and sexuality part of the site, you can find a lot of hacky erotica and some LGBT related content, but there's also some really fucked up animal lover/necro/nonce shit! i don't think you can get arrested for it but some of it is absolutely fucked in the head. maybe don't read it on a full stomach...
tubi. yeah, it's really not obscure, but with an adblocker on, tubi is a pretty solid streaming service. sometimes they have some popular big name movies, sometimes they don't. you can find a LOOOT of old 70s exploitation or straight to video flicks on here though, and that's what i think makes it so awesome, plus they added some of the cartoon network reperetoire to their site. they make "black dynamite" available to the masses and i think that movie should be made a legal must watch.
dsp archive. neat little neocities site that archives a lot of old os9-era applications for weird sound things. a lot of hobbyists just made random bizarre applications to treat sound for a while, back when laptop music was a new and interesting concept instead of what most people do nowadays. you should probably nab a powerbook if you can, but some of the apps might work in sheepshaver.
homestar runner. this is the greatest thing to ever be on the internet ever.
feel free to email me with sites you think are cool.