useful websites

• black market playlists: independently curated playlists for underground artists
• radio garden

youtube channels for discovery

• yкраїнська естрада: retro ukrainian music 𝄞
• poclanos: korean indie distributor 𝄞
• should be asleep: japanese ambient & instrumentals 𝄞
• aranjuez records: jazz 𝄞
• pingu87: rare japanese music 𝄞
• habibi funk records: north african and west asian music 𝄞

historical databases

• internet archive live music recordings
• smithsonian folkways

albums

• record of the day archive
  • reviews are paywalled