iBeat's cool and handy links

On this page You can find more than 340 selected links to bands, record companies, sound- and MIDI-servers and to the field of computer-generated music. The small blue arrow will help You to navigate this page, as it brings You hierarchically back to the next-highest topic.

The Consumer Links suit everyone who's mad about peakin' music and records. Here You could find links to bands, record companies, online-shops and to A/V-servers.
The Producer Links could be from interest if You want to make elektronic music yourself, if You recently did so or if You want to publish Your ready production. Here You'll have also access to background knowledge and material.
The Computer Links deliver instant access to many manufacturers of hard- and software, to FREE downloads, to tons of FREE gimmicks for Your own homepage and to helpful sites with background knowledge.

Consumer Links	Producer Links	Computer Links
Record Companies Bands/Projects/MP3 News/Mags/Search Misc.	Information/Buy stuff Instruments manufacturers/audio software/soundboards Background Knowledge/Material	Hardware: Info, tips and manufacturers Software: Info, tips and manufacturers Online, Web-Design, Security

© Jan/18/2002 Ian Hemp - You know more cool links? Send them to us!
Disclaimer: No warranty is given at any time for validity/availability and/or content of the links on this site.

Consumer Links

Record Companies - Bands/Projects/MP3 - Message Boards/News/Clubs/Search - Misc

Record Labels on the web - astonishing list with thousands of labels, very useful
Aver Productions - young Swedish House-/Techno-Label
BMG - Bertelsmann's coolest records
Grand Royal - Beastie Boys' Label
Harthouse - unofficial "Sound of Frankfurt" history, 50% English/German
JBO - Underword's new label
Juno Records - UK House Vynil with phat back catalogue
!K7 - Home of the DJ Kicks records!
MOONSHINE - The Future of Electronic Dance Music
Mo'Wax - neat little site
Motor Music - Hamburg's grooviest label
SONY - SONY Music! Mucho Musico!
SuB Pop - Seattle's hard side
VIRGIN - The Raft on Virgin - Virgin's coolest records
Wall Of Sound - Give 'em enough Dope...
Warp Records - reasonable people

Directories

Midwest Underground - New sounds from the center of the New World
Indiesound (Hi Evik!) - More new sounds from the USA...
Sonar - Spanish Music- & Multimedia-Festival; Good Vibez!!
Ultimate Band List - Nowhere else faster access to Your favorite acts!!
Bands/Artists/Projects Electronic/Dub/Hip Hop
apollo440 - Ain't talkin' 'bout Krupa...
Beastie Boys - BBoys freak at home
Chemical Brothers - Everything about Tom and Ed
Chemical Brothers II - Good, too!
Clinical Implants - rockin' Alternative Big Beat from Poland
Coldcut - The pIpE
The Crystal Method - US-Big Beats bigger than Jesus
Daft Punk - On The Raft
Dreadzone on The Raft
Dust Brothers - Masters of the mix
Everything but the Girl - Nice Raft-Feature!
Fluke on The Raft
Future Sound of London on The Raft
Massive Attack on The Raft
Orbital - Official Site: When time becomes a loopz...
The Prodigy - Discover the fat of the land!
The Prodigy - On iMusic
Portishead - Portishead site
Portishead Nu Portishead site
Jan Rejcha - Ambient from Canada
DJ Seven Of Nine - An unknown peakin' artist; audio on site!
DJ Shadow - He could teach DJ Seven....
Smudo in privacy
Jimi Tenor - Funky Jazz from Finnland
Towa Tei - Former Deee Lite, now peakin' solo
Underworld - Ingenious new album "Beaucoup Fish"
Urban Dance Squad on The Raft
Whale - On The Raft
Josh Wink - On Ovum
Guitar Bands
Alice in Chains - Facts, Videos and RealAudio
KoRn - KoRn's best site
Polock Productions - Chester makes all kinds of music and he is looking for a beer sponsor
Presidents of the USA - Facts, Videos and RealAudio
Smashing Pumpkins - On The Raft
Smashing Pumpkins - On iMusic
Soundgarden - Facts, Videos and RealAudio
TooL - TooL's best site
TooL II - TooL's official site
Heywood's TOOL Page - everything else about TOOL
Paul Weller - His Little Splinters Page
Avant Garde
Leningrad Cowboys - Suomi cult-bunk
Paradigm Lost - Avant Garde Industrial
23rdPeter - presents 23rdPeter; Music, Vinyl, etc......

Search & Find MP3s

NEW: Der Tonspion - German Catalog with a vast download section and cool design
Lycos FAST FTP Search - Finds EVERY file FAST
mpex - Wer Mp3 sucht wird es hier finden
Kermit - specialized MP3 search engine
Scour - Search for file types (MP3, too!)
AudioFind - finds Audiofiles (!)
Music Files - music files (!)
OmniSource - directory of hundreds of MP3 sites und thousands of files
GoodNoise - Commercial MP3 files
VibrationNation - more commercial MP3 files
Player/Encoder/MP3 Tools
MP3 Fiend - Freeware Player, features 11 integrated MP3 Search engines
MP3 to EXE - Converts MP3 into an EXE (Player incl.); forget about copyright control!!!
WinAmp - MP3 Player
XS4All - Freeware MP3 De-/Encoder, handy online tools
MP3 - Freeware Encoder
Info/Links
mp3.de - Info, links and MP3 software
MP3 Place - MP3 news and a lotta cool Links
MP3 Hot 100 - The Top-100 MP3 Sites

Shock Value Webzine - Virtual music journal, good promotional tips
Underground Music Mailing Lists - Mailing-Lists about Underground-Bands and -Labels
Love Parade - official Site of the Love Parade
Helsinki 'Funky' people - Going to Helsinki? Site with Helsinki house club- and shop-guide
Mushroom Magazine - Info about Goa, Trance, Parties, Drugs etc.
The Mojo Club - Hamburg's groovin' soul
techno.de - Take it literally...
iMusic Broadcasting Archieve - lots of footage!
Internet Underground Music Archieve - the standard
lyrics.ch - More than 45.000 lyrics... Add Your own!
Chill with Big Beats - Flash page w/ cool loops to chill out
The Dub-Page - Dub, Dub, Dub and even more Dub
The Acid Jazz Page - very nice, good links
Keyboards Magazin - Recording & Computer
MTV Online - Original 100% mtv.com!
Soulboy Collective Music Links - Freaky und handy Links & Hints
Tomato - Underworld's own media agency
Crawler.de - BIG Index of German Sites
Hotbot - The most comfortable search engine
AltaVista - BIG Spider
New Rider's Internet Yellow Pages - Your Yellow pages to the net
YAHOO! - Search in categories

Forces Of Light - Meet a bunch of Online-Gamers
Hampsterdance - The COOLEST hampsters on the web
Rotten Dot - crude, funny, slimy, unbeleivable photos
Cindy.Com - Cindy Crawford's OWN Brand homepage
BcBoy - This guy has designed a strange "ergonomic" PC-Keyboard
The Shaft Page - Who's the Man? Shaft samples on site!
Hi 5 Arm - The most idiotic e-commerce-offer of all times!
Graceland - Visit Graceland virtually
Olia Lialina - Russian-Brand WebArt
The White House - Write to George "W. stands for Winner" Bush!
Der Kreml - Write to Vladimir Putin!
FBI - Find the "ten most wanted" and browse the X-Files!

Producer Links

Information/Buy Stuff - Instruments Manufacturers/Audio Software/Sound Boards - Background Knowledge/Material

NEW: Sonario - Mailorder Rare Records
Amptown - Hamburg's biggest Music-Store!
Pro Midia - Hohner's most versatile brand
Music City - Cologne's big Music-Store
Musik Produktiv - Germany's biggest Music Store!

Access Music - Home of the infectious Virus
Adaptech - SCSI und Easy CD creation
Ahead Software - Nero burns ROM
Akai - Studio's good friend
Alesis - Q 1999!
Aphex Systems - Aural Excitement
Apple Computer - Studio standard
Behringer - Studio hardware, made in Germany
Cequadrat - If You have ToGo!, that's Your place to go
Clavia - Home of the Nord Lead and Modular
Creative Labs - Special Soundblaster Site
Creamware - Makers of the TripleDAT HD-Recording-System
Doepfer - Low-cost German Techno Equipment
eMagic - Logic Audio Homebase
E-mu - Sampler Kings!
Ensoniq - Fine synths and effects
Emu/Ensoniq - After Fusion: New name, new luck?
Fostex - Digital Trackers
Genelec - Monitoring specialists
Guillemot - Makers of the MaxiSound 64 Board
Hughes & Kettner - Everything to "crunch"
Jomox - Home of the X-Base09
Kawai - fine Synthesizers
Korg - more fine Synthesizers
Kurzweil - Known through "Singled Out"
Lexicon - Pro-EFX
Mackie Designs - Pro Mixer
M.A.M. - mam; Moog
Native Instruments - Home of the Generator SoftSynth
Novation - Home of the BassStation
Propellerhead Software - The makers of Rebirth338!
Quasimidi - Home of the Rave-O-Lution
Roland - Roland & Boss
Sek'd Software - Identical with the ProMidia-Page
Sonic Foundry - Sound Forgers
Sony - everybody has one...
Steinberg - Cubase VST released!
Spirit - Mixing specialists
Syntec - High-Tech from Syntec
Tascam - "Tapetown"
Terratec - Advanced Soundboards
VirSyn - Modular Software-Synthesizer from Germany
Waldorf - Home of the Wave
Yamaha - Musical equipment

General Informationen/News

Digital Domain - powerful portal for everything related to "digital"
NEW: ElectronicScene.com/RemixWorld.com - MP3.com-like platform for just electronic music with sample search and bulletin board
Guide to peakin' music - Database concerning technical and stylistic words of modern music
Harmony Central - Big site with tons of information
Hyperreal - Big site with tons of information
Midwest Underground - US-Underground-Site
Soulboy Collective Music Links - List of interesting links
Wizards of the OSC - Info, Loops, analogasm
ZEM - German centre of electronic music
Synthesizers
BBSonic - Informs about many synthesizers
Roland MC-202 Micro Composer - MC-202 online
Music Maschines - Synth-Info at Hyperreal
Sonicstate Synth.Site - Info and Links for many Synths
The Synthmuseum - Informs about ancient synthesizers
Synthony - Synthesizer knowledge
Synth Zone - Synthesizer and Midi
Vintage Synth Explorer - All cool machines
Yamaha DX7 - Info and links
Yamaha SY-List
Sampler/Sampling
The Aemit modular analog home/The Kurzweil K2000/K2500 Atomium
Digital Sound Page - Info and links about sampling and sounds
Midifarm Sampler Page - Sampler database
SonicState - More info and links about sampling and sounds
MIDI/Production/Recording
Homemade Music - Homerecorder present their works
Resrocket - Jam with others realtime on the web

Computer Links

Hardware: Info, tips and manufacturers - Software: Info, manufacturers, free stuff - Online, Web-Design, Security

BIOS, Mainboards, inner components

American Megatrends - AMI-Bios manufacturer
Elitegroup - AWARD-Bios manufacturer
Ping BIOS Database - Identifies Mainboards through AMI-/AWARD-BIOS-ID
FCC Mainboard Database - Identifies Mainboards through FCC-ID
A-Trend - Mainboard Manufacturers
Abit - Mainboard Manufacturers
Asus - Mainboard Manufacturers
Chaintech - Mainboard Manufacturers
Elito Epox - Mainboard Manufacturers
Gigabyte - Mainboard Manufacturers
PC-Chips - Mainboard Manufacturers
QDI - Mainboard Manufacturers
Soyo - Mainboard Manufacturers
Tyan - Mainboard Manufacturers
AMD - K6 higher than K2? The Sun investigating...
Intel - Future inside?
The Sysdoc - Informs about Hardware
Printers etc.
Canon - Best from Nippon
Epson - Stylish in color
Hewlett-Packard - many Jets don't make an Airline
Lexmark - For the mid-priced mind
OKI - Nawa!
HDs
IBM - More than just HardDrives
Maxtor - Maximum HD
Micropolis - A fierce Newcomer
Quantum - Quantum-Channel
Seagate - The Old School
Western Digital - Caviar for everybody!
Grafx Boards/Monitors/Multimedia
Creative Labs - The Soundblast
Diamond Multimedia - Stealth Fighter
Elsa - The Winner-Club
Logitech - I amm logic!
Matrox - Home of Mystique and Millenium
Miro - Made in Germany
Nokia - Connecting...
Number Nine - GDI for computers
Orchid - Flower Power
Pearl Agency - German Pearl
Samsung - What did You sing?
Tseng Labs - Hang-Tseng Index
Modems
Acer - surf, surf, surf
TKR - sounds like android
US Robotics - Sportsters & Couriers
Zyxel - A physical unit?
Buy Stuff
Computer Special - best buy US-Internetshop
Dell - low cost computers online
Gateway 2000 - German Division mailorder
Vobis - Germany's biggest dealer

Software: Info, manufacturers, FREE stuff

Grafx/Office - Shareware/Freeware/Windows - MediaPlayer, Tools, Utilities

Macromedia - Add life to something
Adobe - The guys from the Photoshop
Borland - C+-0 Turbo
Corel - Draw suits me!
Lotus - Best Notes!
Micrografx - For designers

download.com - Megatons of software!
Filez - spiders specific software
FPS-Universe - Fast German Internet-Mailbox
Jumbo - A Shareware-Giant
Microsoft - Much free stuff from Monopolsoft!
SupportNet - Search and find drivers, drivers, drivers
Top Network 95 - Everything 'bout the Win
W95Software - Everything 'bout the Win, too

Notify CD Player 1.51.3 - A substitution for the Win-Player, knows _ALL_ CDs, even ancient ones!!!
MP3.com - MP3 Player
RealMedia - RealAudio and -Video Player
Macromedia - Multimedia PlugIns for all browsers
Powerquest - The makers of Partition Magic
Symantec - Peter Norton's kitchen
Winzip - A must-have!
Anti-Virus-Software at Online/Web-Design/Security

Online, Web-Design, Security

Online, Web-Design, Security - Everything for Your Homepage

Online the other way

SMS Service - Send free messages 24h to German mobile phones!
SMS Service - Send free messages to German mobile phones between 1600 and 2200 CET
Scall Online - Send free messages to German Pagers!
Online, Navigation, Security
New Rider's Internet Yellow Pages - Yelow Pages database
Benjamin's Net Navigation Page - For Your convenience
The Blue Ribbon Free Speech Online Campaign
International Pretty Good Privacy Homepage - New PGP 5.0 here!
Guideon - removes Microsoft-IDs from Office-Documents
MS Office97 UI Remover - does the same like Guideon
MS Office97 UI Patch - prevents Your documents from being ID'd again
Backweb - Push-service, informs about updates
Pointcast - Push-Client
McAfee - The Cleaner
Dr. Solomon - The Doctor
Thunderbyte - The Warrior

Editors

Ulli Meybohm - Maker of the famous Phase5 Ed
Q&D Software - Known for the WebMania Web-Editor
Soft Quad - Known for the HoTMetal Web-Editor
Stoopid Software - Known for the Gomer Web-Editor
Webspace, URLs, Misc.
NEW: Simtel.net - FREE download mirroring on various servers around the world!
Internet Trash - 10 MB without ads and limitations
xoom.com - Unlimited MB Webspace (w/ ads)
GoWeb - FREE Counter, Stats and guestbooks for Your HP
TSX - FREE Short-URLs like "http://MyName.tsx.org"
InterNetDienst Schlei - FREE Short-URLs like "http://www.ind.de/MyName"
GMX - FREE, "anonymous" e-Mail-adresses with routing
Website Post Office - FREE mailing-lists for Your Homepage
Onelist - FREE e-mail community lists
InsideTheWeb - FREE Message-Boards
iSyndicate - FREE news-bulletin for Your HP
Web Site Garage - Checks Your HP like a doctor
Searchcodes - 100+ search forms for Your HP
Homepage-Tuning
Submit-It! - Submit Your URL to 20 american search engines FREE!
Der Eintragsfritz - Submit Your URL to 20 german search engines, check HTML and dead links FREE!
Dr. HTML - Checks Your HP, too. Fast and complete report!
Smart Clicks - FREE banners for Your HP

Directories

Bands/Artists/Projects Electronic/Dub/Hip Hop

Guitar Bands

Avant Garde

Search & Find MP3s

Player/Encoder/MP3 Tools

Info/Links

General Informationen/News

Synthesizers

Sampler/Sampling

MIDI/Production/Recording

BIOS, Mainboards, inner components

Printers etc.

HDs

Grafx Boards/Monitors/Multimedia

Modems

Buy Stuff

Online the other way

Online, Navigation, Security

Editors

Webspace, URLs, Misc.

Homepage-Tuning