This one isn’t new, but it’s still fun. Remember the music that plays in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time when you ride into the Gerudo Valley, where the bandit village lies? Ever wanted to hear it pumped up with a bit more energy?

Gerudo Wall Thumper (Ocarina of Time)

Made in Reason.  I found a MIDI file online and used it to get the raw notes and ( Read more... )

Well, I'd like to admit that I'm the type of person who tries to be creative and do music and draw and so forth but gets discouraged and makes excuses for not keeping up with it. The news now is I've done my best to eliminate those reasons for excuses and I'll soon know if I was feeding myself total BS or if I was right (to a certain degree of ( Read more... )

Here's something kind of cool. Last.fm now has "widgets" for embedding my recent play stats. I think it updates live, too. Last.fm has been down for a while, so there were over 400 songs cached in my plugin, waiting to go into my chart. I continue to subscribe to eMusic with 90 downloads a month. It's finally starting to get hard to use them ( Read more... )

Some of you may remember my epic playlist, which contained every song I owned in March 2006 and to which I added songs I purchased along the way.  I played the list whenever I was at my computer, and every night, I cropped off the played songs and saved the list again.

Devvyn the sleeping kitty says:
I finally exhausted my playlist yesterday.
The epic ( Read more... )

I've discovered I'm a sucker for male/female indie-pop duets. Example: "Nothing Better" by the Postal Service.

I'm browsing through electro-pop albums on eMusic and every time I hear a sample for a male/female duet, I can't resist downloading it. Must find more!

*returns to browsing*

Well, I'm still trying to play my music collection all the way through in one go. I've been re-playing a few songs I really like (such as this one), so I've been slowing myself down a bit, but not too significantly I feel. Here's what my playlist is at presently ( Read more... )

Okay, it's time for another update on my music collection. Now, I may have mentioned to a lot of people that I've got a little experiment going on. The idea is to put my entire music collection into a single playlist and shuffle it, then play only that playlist while I'm at my computer. I actually began this on March 23, if I remember correctly ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how many of you out there are familiar with Kraftwerk. They were a German electro-rock band that basically defined electronic music at the time. Had a pretty solid following in Europe in the 80s and 90s, mostly with the dance scene. They stand as the most well-known electronic band in the 80s ( Read more... )

This morning, as I awoke, I listened to some music I'm fond of and put into words why I enjoy listening to music so much:

Every once in a while, as I explore listening to artists with new techniques, new aesthetic formulas, new standards of normalcy, I come upon a song that catches me off-guard. Usually, this results in acquiring a strong taste ( Read more... )

This is what iTunes says about my music library:

5429 items
16:03:23:10 total time
25.92 GB

(yes, 16 refers to days)

That is all.