Best of 2006.

I listen to a lot of music. But I listen to a lot of music made ALL over the place, timewise. I'm usually not real sure when a record is released cause I grab lots of stuff from the library, or eMusic (and none of the eMusic has the sweet herion high providing liner notes). So I'm not real sure which records got released this year. So here's my list of the top 5 records released this year (i think), which i heard, that I like, in order.

1) Ghostface's Fishscale.

2) Portastatic's Be Still Please

3) M. Ward's Post War

4) Yo La Tengo's I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

5) Constantine's Tournament of Hearts


Sorta weak though - cause if I look at that list that is 5 of only 8 records that I've listened to that I know came out this year. Ok 9, if you count the 4 Wolfmother songs I heard riding in a friends car. That was pretty awesome.

{edit: the one's i didn't include were: Neko's Fox confessor, Ani's new one, and Rassmussen's Condemnation EP}

And in terms of masterpieces only the top 2 will be forever. The other's, i'm sad to say have some skipable tracks for me. but you can't win them all - and look at all the goodness around.

I hope Myku pops in right here and gives us his thoughts.

Oatmeal is good for you

Sup!

just found a new synth from that list of goodies that was the previous post that is the bees knees.

it's called Oatmeal and you can get it free here.

use the large skin. trust me. and then get this skin when the guy is done with it. It is way awesome. you just hit the random button and get a great new sound. woooo!

These folks make a bunch of presets for Oatmeal. Onliest thing is, i can't seem to get them to load. I think the patches are for an older version but i'm not sure.

This synth is very powerful and low cpu usage. and so far i've gotten loads of sounds out of it. Now the top contenders for never spending money on a synth ever are Oatmeal, Crystal, Auger, and Synth1. man! that' some good synthing!

Round up of free music tools

Why re-invent the wheel? I want to have more aggregation of free music tools here at effect return so to get started - here's some new hotttttness.

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