Yes, it's THAT good and THAT revolutionary. Once you get started searching, downloading and playing individual tracks and songs you realize this is one of the final steps before the concept of an 'album' is obsolete as a product. A complete "album" will be an artists approach of telling a story. The individual tracks will be the way to promote yourself, much like many would-be-writers have turned bloggers.

v1.0: Songbird (www.songbirdnest.com).
Yes. It's really good. It'll take a bit getting used to. It's worth taking time for that.

Yes, I love music, I digest music, love music, love sound, acoustics, psychological intoxication of natural waveforms, vibrato, timbre, harmonics, tempo, synthetic sounds, organic pounding, funky slick aural anesthetics.

Free your mind!

Draft version favourite albums

Hm, I've proven to be not so good at maintaining this list. Especially so since I usually listen to music some months after they're released. The next list I'll be making will be a wishlist based on new albums I love and feel like supporting in the future when they hit a live stage near me.

Albums 2007

Björk - Volta
Intense, aural poetry

Venetian Snares - My Downfall
Obscure, medieval, experimental, controversial

Syl Kougai - La Ville Verte
(free download at www.sylkougai.com)
Beat noir

Denzel + Huhn - Paraport
Micromusic, Sunday afternoon ocean faring

Vladislav…

This post is not about music. Part of my love for music is the search, share and future potential of music distribution.

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The one unfortunate thing about tagging is that it's rather slow. As a paying customer I would demand a blazing fast server for tagging alone, aside from the lightningspeed wireless accomodation for the streaming music to my imaginary pod receiver that is.

My point is, it can take some time to start up the tagging process, which makes me lose my interest to bother with it. I'm not particularly lazy with community driven websites, but I'm consistently…

Have you heard of the ambitious Slacker player project? It will be released later this year and promises to be a mobile platform similar to Last.fm. The portable player hits stores later this year (US only?).

On the plus side, it can stream muic through satellite while caching music for playback without connection. I imagine this may cost a little, but if it is as relatively cheap as Last.fm, this should be of no consequence.

What I would really like to know, will the portable player be intuitive to use, does it sound decent (read : as good as my…

Forget your current media player, ditch your current browser, dispose of any preconceptions you may have of how you explore music.

While I was looking for a plugin for playing FLAC files, I found something with remarkably similar features (looks) as my former current player iTunes.

But it is so much more. This must be the first step into the world of web enabled music exploration. Combine your local music files in a playlist with music found on the web, or… play MP3's found on the web as if it was native on your desktop.

As you're reading this on…

Bizarre. On number one in this weeks' charts I find Plaid guarding the first spot with only 15 playcounts. I've seen them live twice that week, in Paradiso Amsterdam and at a Warp presentation night in De Helling in Utrecht with Funckarma (yay) kicking off the night. Consequentially, I´ve actually seen and heard more live than listened that week. Of course this is an encouraging thought as I prefer a live performance any day over ten full-length album sessions. I guess I was lucky eh?

Both mentioned artists inspired me to the tag elaborate aural cascade
And then some ……

Years ago listening to My Kingdom I was inspired to hunt down the haunting voice and unearthly tonal acquisition performed by vocalist Mary Hopkins. It took at least five years before realizing that I must've heard it before as I discovered it watching sci-fi cult classic Blade Runner. I then realized that every sceptical vein in me had wrongfully banished Vangelis as a potential artist I would consider liking.

Thus approximately 20 years after this feature film I 'discovered' the soundtrack to this movie. A disturbing piece in a strangely isolated distant future only starts to describe the…

The Netherlands are processing a significant number of influential artists, with Secede being one of the skilled potentials in the Sending Orbs pool of talent.

Tryshasla is a sterile piece calmly exploring luminous sounds with soft, crispy beats and an environmental feel to it. Could've kept out the piano track, which is no real addition to piano composition in general, but it doens't harm the album either. Lennard van der Last is taking this album further from his previous full-length album: Bye Bye Gridlock Traffic, which is also worth a session, except for the upbeat track, which seems trivial…

Every now and then I am consumed with a single record. A captivating experience which holds my interest for at least three times in less then a month's time. This is an expanding list documenting these rare personal favourites in reverse chronoligical order.

Latest added

2007
John Zorn :: Six Litanies For Heliogabalus
Tags : weird | experimental | fractured excessive | artcore
Style : jazz | metal | improv

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2005
Funckarma :: Refurbished One
Tags : elaborate aural cascade | triple distilled | elaborate | committing | cascade | captivating | melancholy
Style : electronic | eclectrics |…