if you make beats and looking for some shit to sample (or hell, just looking for some good music to listen to) here's some sites with a ton of oldie but goodie obscure records to download.

(go through the dates in the blogs for more albums)

http://brnuggets.blogspot.com - brazilian records
http://dustisback.blogspot.com/ - all kinds (funk, soul, video games, etc) ... click the first word of the album name to download
http://milkcratebreaks.blogspot.com/ - various kinds (thanks kamikazi1)

i'll post more here if i find some

when you're standing over there, and you're standing over there, and i don't know which way is up!

because i'll drop that motherfucker

I can't get over how great this is...

I have another idea for the portals. There should be a page where it shows the newest updates from artists on your favorites, kind of how youtube has their subscriptions page setup. So ya just click and see all the new updates you haven't seen, instead of having to check all their pages individually.

Edit: Thanks tingtonger. You can do it by signing up to Google Reader and subscribing to the feeds by clicking the orange button in their profile. If you have Firefox, you can just click the orange button to make it go in your bookmarks. It will update atomatically every time.

Found this guy yesterday, Samon Kawamura, and been listening to his album "Translations" all day. He's a Japanese hip-hop producer thats new in the scene. His shit is magical, ultra chill and smooth. Real talented guy. Listen to some of his songs "How Long", "Tokyo Love", hell the whole album...check out some of his music...

I'm thinking there should be a link to your 'Favorites' page beside the other options above (inbox, my account, log out). I dunno, seems like it'd be nifty, just a click away. I suppose I could bookmark the page but still, it'd be a nice feature (> '')>

Also a play list would be really killer in the AP. Add whatever tracks, even an artists whole song list, to a play list. Not really sure how it'd work out, maybe have it on the side of screen and have it pop out when the mouse goes over to it if you want to enable it in options. Then have the songs play while ya goof around and think about what ur going to have for dinner that day