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I'm pleased to announce to any friends of Northcape here that the Some Bright Valley [mtk202] EP has now been released (for free download) by the monotonik netlabel. Here's what it says on the release page:

A Monotonik debut for Brighton, UK-based electronic artist Northcape, then, with the sublimely mellow 'Some Bright Valley', all chilled-out strings and gently departing sunsets. Previously having debuted a couple of self-released albums, this first netlabel release starts out with the cutely meandering 'Red Panda', before moving on to the even more gorgeously pastoral, almost triphop-flecked 'A Part Of The Forest'. Also in there - 'Low Lying Mist' and EP closer 'On The Hill', which uses smart and beautiful repetition to make a chilled-out, signature Monotonik sound, awkward percussion making things all the better. Viva la Northcape!
Monotonik has been in existence for over 10 years, and is probably one of the most well-known labels for chilled IDM and electronica having…

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

84/100


The 84 related artists for my profile are 808 State A Man Called Adam Afterlife AFX Air (2) Amon Tobin Aphex Twin (2) Arovane Autechre Basement Jaxx Benfay Bent Björk Boards of Canada Bonobo (3) Christian Bloch Christian Kleine Coldcut Coldplay Daft Punk Deceptikon Dire Straits DJ John DJ Shadow DJet DZihan & Kamien Emil Klotzsch Enigma Enya Fatboy Slim (3) Flevans Gorillaz Gschmidt Isan Izmar Jay-R Jean-Michel Jarre José Padilla Kazooo King Of Pants Kolibries krill.minima Kruder & Dorfmeister Lackluster Lomov Machine Drum Marko Fürstenberg…

Found this one from dsto's journal: http://keef.metfabonline.com/?page=lastfm_test1

"The script lists the users top 20 overall artists and lists the 8 most similar artists to each one, then delete's any repeated artists.

The idea is to see how varied your taste is, a score of 9 is extremely unvaried while 160 represents an extremely varied one."

1: VAST
2: Nine Inch Nails
3: A Perfect Circle
4: Stabbing Westward
5: Filter
6: Tool
7: Garbage
8: Massive Attack
9: Orgy
10: Chromeo
11: Cut Copy
12: Tiga
13: The Knife
14: Hot Chip
15: LCD Soundsystem
16: Annie
17: MSTRKRFT
18: The Rapture
19: Beck
20: Radiohead
21: The Flaming Lips
22: The Beatles
23: The White Stripes
24: Modest Mouse
25: The Shins
26: The Arcade Fire
27: Sufjan Stevens
28: Audioslave
29: Foo Fighters
30: Rage Against the Machine
31: Red Hot Chili Peppers
32: Soundgarden
33: Pearl Jam
34: System of a Down
35: Incubus
36: Queens of the Stone Age
37: Nirvana
38: Muse
39: Green Day
…