Uncle Roddus Music Site Recommendation

Hi Music Lovers.

So far this month I haven't been listening to very many albums as such but have been exploring plenty of music from some very cool Blogs and web sites and so I though I would just give a quick nod to these sources of excellent music.
The first one I have been  playing the most music from so far this month is the enormous ALL ABOUT JAZZ.
This massive site is a sort of Magazine type site which highlights contemporary Jazz from all over the world, with articles, interviews and reviews of  all sorts of jazz bands and musicians. Also Musicians can upload MP3 tracks as samples of their work for us to download and check out. The site posts one track per day on their daily MP3 page and at present have over 2000 free and Legal songs for your listening pleasure. I have downloaded the last 12 months of free tracks and have been giving them plenty of airtime on the stereo. Most of the songs come from the artists CD releases and overall the quality of the recording and quality of the music is excellent. Most areas of Jazz seem to be covered from jazz ballads to BeBop to fusion to avant-garde and free jazz to swing and even some electronica. As I said most of this music is of very recent vintage and I am unfamiliar with most of the names of the musicians but they mostly appear to be professional and some quite successful in the current jazz scene. I have explored other sites in the past that have free legal songs from unknown and unsigned artists trying to get a little attention and mostly the music quality isn't that great, with the occasional exception. All About Jazz free downloads are far far superior in quality to any other similar site I have explored. Highly Recommended.

The next site I want to rave about is the Massive Mutant Sounds music Blog. I discovered this wonderful Blog whilst searching out various albums and they came up several times over many searches. I decided to look a little deeper at their site and discovered a huge collection of very rare and obscure weird music, most of which I had never heard of at all. With almost 3000 posts, dating back to 2007, musical styles ranging from post punk indie to krautrock to euro prog to avant-garde electronica to jazz to sound collarges and other strange and unclassifiable sounds, there is a lifetimes worth of  wonderfully obscure discoveries waiting exploration. The site appears to have been originally started by a fellow called Jim but most of the music posted now is by Eric Lumblea From the excellent Vas Deferens Organization. So if you like your music well outside the box do check out this blog and you will be well rewarded.

I think I have mentioned the one and only Voodoo Funk Blog before. Frank has just recently got back from another digging trip from Africa and found another great brace of rare Afro-funk and Afro-beat records and has posted another MP3 Mix of his discoveries. It is an awesome mix  and one of his beat so far. This great blog is a great source for an intro to this wonderful African music from the late 60s to the late 70s and Frank has about 30 mixes for your listening pleasure on his blog, as well as some very interesting stories about his digging trips.

Last but not least, those who actually read anything I write here will already know about Rare MP3 Music blog. Run by the hard working Chuntao, Rare MP3 specialises in mostly posting  rare and out of print LPs  of 60/70s rock and psychedelic music as well as forays into prog. country, bluegrass and other genres. Chuntao puts in a lot of effort tracking down these rarities that are not available elsewhere on the net at the time of posting and mostly not commercially available to purchase easily. She also post many obscurities from the blogs loyal followers, many of the records coming from Canada. I have assembled a vast archive of wonderful rare rock music from this blog over the last 18 months and have found many many obscure treasures I would not have found otherwise.