The Den

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This site started as AudioScrobbler and has grown to so much more. Sign up for free, install a little background app on your computer, and all the stuff you listen to in iTunes is logged, statistics are generated, and social links & discussion ensues. It also has a little internet-radio app that will stream music to you based on what you like, or on "music like the music of artist X".

Aubie's website, of course.

A local 'net label'  featuring electronic music from independent East Bay artists. Run by my friends Jeremiah and BJ, their first full-length album 'Grounded' is available from their site for free (and the download files are hosted here at The Den).

Check it.

Another local net and disc label for great electronica, run by the same folks who bring us en:peg.  Some of my favorite artists on n5md: Proem, Bitcrush, Run Return, Funckarma, SubtractiveLAD,.....

This is the website of my friend and sometime roommate Chris Ross.

Great site for buying a wide variety of great music from a good-sized list of independent labels. All tracks are high-quality mp3's with no DRM. *yay*

 
Ever hear about a concert, show, or performance that you'd be psyched to see only to find out it happened last night?  Then Sonic Living may be for you!  A very cool website started up by my friend and co-worker Gabe, Sonic Living invites you to tell it about all the bands, groups, and artists you might be interested in, and will tell you whenever they have shows in your chosen city(s).

But that simple description doesn't begin to do it justice.  Don't feel like typing in the hundreds of artists you might like to hear?  Just upload them from your extensive iTunes Library, or your last.fm account! Don't want to go to a show alone? Easily find others who might be interested in the same show.

Browse upcoming events for your chosen artists, add them to you calendar, get email reminders. Also get email notifications when a show appears t that you might be into.

 And hey, buy your tickets too! 

 Sonic Living is Social Zen.

Another excellent East Bay-based netlabel with a great selection of hard-to-find works from indie electronic artists, including our own Root Elements!  All tracks are non-DRM'd mp3's, only $2 per album .

I spend way too much time hitting this link.  But its great when you have a few minutes and want to read something interesting. I have a book mark for it that I just hit over and over until I find something interesting. Never takes many hits!

It takes you to a random article out of the more than 1.5 million articles in the English version of Wikipedia, the online, user-edited encyclopedia.  

BJ's solo electronic music project focusing on experimental IDM, hip hop, and trip hop beats.

One of BJ's solo electronic music projects. Wormfood creates techno with darker, more direct sound.

 
Geocaching is about the only thing I've every done with my old-style GPS receiver.

Enter your location at this website (zip code, city/state, coordinates...) and it will show you all of the "caches" you might be able to find nearby.

A cache is (usually) a small waterproof container, camoflaged and/or hidden somewhere interesting. You are given the coordinates of the cache, and perhaps a clue or two, and off you go on a treasure hunt. Often there are little toys and trinkets inside (if you take one, leave one) or other odd things like 'Travel Bugs'.  Its not always as easy as it sounds. Check out the website to learn more.  

Allen and Britas web site and adventure log - also build with Drupal

...from the mouths of babes... uh,  oh wait, that's Ben....