mp3 blogs - golden age?

xp Yeah, I have several burned CDs worth of stuff from soul-sides; some tracks are not available on Spotify and some not even on Youtube.

it feels like there are so many fewer spaces for editorializing around music than there were in the days of mp3 blogs. maybe i'm just not looking in the right places?

p.s. thanks for the links upthread i.e. Soul Sides - maybe there's still tons there, just harder to find maybe

Wang does the Heat Rocks podcast with Morgan Rhodes which is really good too

Yeah Oliver's good people, known him for a while now. Absolutely killer live DJ too.

o dubs is the best

Yes and Heat Rocks is a lot of fun.

Another one I just remembered is waxidermy.com

robotsinheat was Jaxon iirc!

Moka - that’s so cool! I had no idea, thanks for all the good tunes!

Another co-sign for Soul Sides too, I’ll have to check out Heat Rocks.

surprised nobody has mentioned Prog Not Frog

Blogs whose names are lost in the murk is pretty much where I'm at with most of them that I used to visit, though. For some reason ProgNotFrog sticks out in my memory, though I doubt I spent all that much time there.

― emil.y, Saturday, October 16, 2021 3:11 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Great blog, it bears repeating!

ah, sorry, missed that.

A bit of a long shot here, but does anyone know of any of these blogs that specializes, or even just occasionally posts out-of-print Rhino comps and things like that?

Some circuitous route led me back to the excellent Blogariddims series that came out in what I reckon was the late 00s. The ones I remember were Woebot's jazz one (gateway to Gil Evans iirc) and the Grievous Angel one. The blog posts have vanished from what I can make out, but the mixes are preserved on Mixcloud.

https://www.mixcloud.com/blogariddims/

I can't find it now, but one that I liked for weird/psychedelic folk was called I think Babelblogue or something like that.

I know of a couple blogs like this that are still going.

https://www.fondsound.com/ is great for 90's new age / jazz / pop stuff from Asia.

https://www.listentothis.info/ is really in that classic music blog mode where you're getting one person's favorite obscure records along whatever genres they happen to like. Not as active these days but I think most of the links still work.

ZippyShare went down in the last couple of weeks :(

tbh I'm pleased about that because you had to use a VPN to access it and it was annoying

what about… gabba.net or whatever it was? classic layout! discovered italo disco via “spacer woman” there.

Was originally gabba.amp I think? (By name if not by domain)

How I discovered my favorite Ghostface track (Gorilla Hood)

and I Luv U ofc

fond / sound is a real good 1

https://www.fondsound.com/tosha-suiho-四季の笛-die-vier-jahreszeiten-in-kyoto-1983/

Some circuitous route led me back to the excellent Blogariddims series that came out in what I reckon was the late 00s. The ones I remember were Woebot's jazz one (gateway to Gil Evans iirc) and the Grievous Angel one. The blog posts have vanished from what I can make out, but the mixes are preserved on Mixcloud.

https://www.mixcloud.com/blogariddims/

Amazing this was preserved. I did #6, which is funny given I hadn't started my Musicophilia mix yet (began in 2008). I wish I could find whoever did this archive on Mixcloud, and see if they have mix in a decent quality file--I ended up with only a 128kbps mp3, sadly.

i'm almost more curious about the lifestories of current host(esse)s of extant places like this
https://ezhevika.blogspot.com/
(particularly what's to be gained in 2024 (if ever?) by continuing to rip and post out-of-print albums?) than i am eager to hear the actual music

Flabbergasted Vibes

this is the one i remember most. i returned again and again and found so much cool shit there