Listening with Two Ears

"You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have
sound all over them. There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no
nothing, just like — static."

— Bob Dylan in Rolling Stone magazine

Maybe this is the reason environmental or field recordings appeal to me. The article has three samples and a lot of background information that opened my ears.

http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/stories/xl/2006/09/28cover.html

Esoteric Binaural Label - Skeet Music - Mike Skeet

There are sample MP3s to choose from on these pages:

http://www.britishmusiclabel.com/ebl/ebl01.html

http://www.britishmusiclabel.com/eml/eml01.html

http://www.britishmusiclabel.com/bjl/index.html

I found the amplified source recordings less appealing than the acoustic recordings. If enjoyed the samples and want more, go to the homepage:

http://www.britishmusiclabel.com/index.html

Selected Samples by French Engineers and Artists - L'Association OmniHead

http://www.univ-brest.fr/mstis/omnihead/SiteEN/eomnihead.htm