Watching the Propellerheads Reason tutorial videos... If the thoughts a person can have are shaped by the language they speak, then Reason is the language of electronic music (or, at least, a major dialect). Just learning a bit about the tools of the trade teaches you volumes about why music sounds the way it does.

Why did I let Archive set on my hard drive so long before checking them out? These are the most beautiful beats I've heard since Portishead.

If you hear Death Cab for Cutie's "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" coming up on the radio, change the station. It's not that it's a bad song, it's that you don't want something that depressing stuck in your head.

It is with great glee that I watch the demise of Tower Records, because I can almost see the RIAA crumbling with it.

And it's all the sweeter because at 50% off, their prices are almost reasonable. I picked up some Quantic and Cinematic Orchestra that I would otherwise never get without paying Amazon shipping.

Yaaay! iTunes 7 has "skip count" and "last skipped"! This could render ratings obsolete.

Too bad I lost our iPod Shuffle a week or so ago. I may have to order another. (Damn loose slacks pockets... In fact, damn slacks altogether; I wanna wear jeans to work!)

Ah, that's why I've been in such a blue mood lately! I forgot to listen to The Campfire Headphase for, like, a whole month! I feel much better now.

Either that, or I had my first productive day in a few weeks. It feels good to be out of programmer's block.

Nobody around here had the new Boards of Canada album (well, Tower Records did, but I'm not paying $18 for it). So I ordered it off Amazon and was resigned to not getting to hear it until the package arrived ( Read more... )

Audioscrobbler/last.fm finally calculated my "musical neighbors" (people with similar taste to me, as judged by the tracks they play), and now my profile radio is running. It's pretty good at guessing songs I'd like, even though I'd never seek them out on my own. (Of course, it also plays a lot of tracks I already have, but for someone without a ( Read more... )