I’m really into Metal. Death Metal, Black Metal, Sludge, Doom, Blackened Death Metal, Viking Metal… on and on. It’s the best shit in the world. But, I will admit I’ve become addicted to the polar opposite. As of late, I’m all about hippy, nature sound recordings.

You know, those CDs that sit in the bargain bin of your local record store’s New Age section. The albums where some geriatric and well-bearded hippy trudges a recording setup out into the middle of some remote and uninhabited area and records whatever natural, ambient noise is going on, slaps it onto a CD and sells it out of the back of his VW bus to keep himself in yogurt and granola.

I’ve always been a fan of ambient noise and these nature sound disks deliver well, but due to their being just a recording of background noise, I can crank it up without being distracted.

Here’s a link to a collection I’ve been downloading off of eMusic. Out of the bunch, the forest one is my favorite so far.

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