“The piece is by Mathias Delplanque. Titled ‘Call Center,’ it’s recent a stereo reduction of a sound installation of his from several years back. It was part of an exhibition titled ‘Bombay Maximum City.’ The sounds, he reports, were ‘recorded during the summer of 2006 in a call center in Gurgaon (suburbs of New Delhi).’ The result is a half hour of sound that flirts with narrative, but also manages to transform the everyday into something sonically complex. That the source of the audio is itself such a quintessential emblem of technology, of globalism, of communication services, and of interpersonal mis-communication only adds to its impact.”

Great free releases. Post-pop, lo-fi, experimental, etc. etc.

Fantastic collage/ambient label whose releases are mostly free.

A great selection of VST and AU audio effects plugins for free download.

"One hundred ambient tones is a collection of short ≈40sec ambient audio snippets designed to be listened to in 'random' or 'shuffle' ordering. The transitions between tracks, chosen randomly by your machine on playback, become the focus."

"Toneshared is the world's most interesting collection of mobile phone tones made by well known musicians and artists working in the electronic and alternative music scenes." Free, short, sweet. Inclues Caribou, Faux Pas, Califone...

Nice recordings of several different sorts of insects. Lots of crickets and bees.

"The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focuses only on sound, not songs."

The Japanese a capella artist featured on the last Björk album. Dozens of songs.

An hour-long mix, showcasing "the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups."

Video game sounds from yesteryear.

"One MP3 a day... for one year." Full of old and interesting found-sounds.

"The George W Bush Public Domain Audio Archive is a public domain database of the speeches of George W. Bush."

"One of the most unique electronic instruments ever made and a trademark sound of '70s prog-rock bands."

"One-minute vacations are unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else."