i had been enjoying several mixes i found on the now defunct dubstruck blog (it was at http://dubstruck.blogspot.com). i went to check it out the other day and found that there is now just a message saying that the blog has been removed. does anyone know if this was voluntary or forced? are there any other good blogs out there for dub/dubstep mixes?

of my top 10 artists from last week, i'm a featured top listener on 3 of their pages and on the first page of top listeners for another 2. i'm wondering if this is a normal phenomenon because most people who aren't me tend to listen to playlists and i tend to listen to albums or if it's just because i listen to stuff that is really unpopular. i mean, even the band i listened to the most only had 19 tracks played (by me), which isn't so much over the course of a week. any other last.fm users notice…

for no reason at all, people seem to be drawn to large, even numbers. i'd like to see my tracks played odometer roll past 10k before i reach my one year anniversary as a last.fm user. no reason. that gives me a week to listen to a little over 500 more songs.

i might fail, but even so, i can still keep listening to music.

i just wanted to record that i heard boards of canada on TV the other day. the wife and i were doing dishes in the kitchen. all of the sudden i noticed that i was hearing something very familiar from the other room where the TV had been left on. apparently CSI: miami was using dayvan cowboy for a scene in the show. they let it play for a long time and there was no other sound during the scene. i don't watch the show and i didn't watch the rest of the episode, so i can't share what characters…

is that there are times when i go back.

i really thought i was pretty much over my intense fascination with kmfdm. apparently i can still rock out to these guys. it started innocently enough. i just wanted to listen to Rules (Reapplied by Raymond Watts and Steve White) which is a very jazzy interpretation. but i decided to listen to the entire rules on which it appears. i found myself feeling very nostalgic as i continued to rock out. so i gave adios a spin. during sycophant when the sample, "kmfdm is gonna rock the house," played, i…

just a shout out to sielwolf for pointing me towards boxcutter. oneiric is available on emusic, apparently. this stuff is fantastic. it's like the techniques of venetian snares aplied to the mood of boards of canada. it's very purposeful in its composition, very much a cohesive point of view while managing not to get stuck constantly looking the same direction. i almost feel bad for using my free trial downloads to get it, feeling i should pay for good stuff and use the free trials to get stuff i'm not so sure about.

in other news, i went…

i just love the way the amen sounds. it's like a comfort food for my ears that i just can't get enough of. i prefer that people do something interesting with it, but i'll listen to uses that are less inspired and still enjoy it. for me it's become an instrument.

on a related note, the recent planet mu sampler sacred symbols of mu is just full of great stuff. there's a lot of variety. although the amen makes it's share of appearances, there are plenty of other good things this buffet has going for it. i like it so…

as i've played katamari damacy the katamari size has increased significantly. the diameters required to pass levels have increased past six meters to twelve meters. this ads a new point of reference for a song i've enjoyed for a long time, yü-gung.

first the obvious:

ich bin sechs Meter gross, und alles ist wichtig
ich bin neun Meter gross, und alles ist mehr als wichtig
ich bin zwölf Meter gross, und alles ist unverstehbar!

i am six meters tall, and everything is important
i am nine meters tall, and everything is more than important
i am…

every once in a while on days like today when i have a lot to do, but not a lot that requires my computer's CPU cycles, i listen to my records. this is useful because when i remember, i can digitize my vinyl collection bit by bit.

it's often a nice trip back in time to listen to my old records. this means i end up listening to a lot of older recordings. some are things i haven't listened to in a long time and forgot how much i enjoyed. due to the large volume of things released in the…

nitzer ebb is headlining the detroit electronic music festival on monday. i'd like to have been able to make it up for the whole weekend, but there are just too many other things going on this weekend.

nitzer ebb is a huge musical influence for me. i never got a chance to see them back when i was buying their music as new releases. since they broke up, they've been too pissed off at each other to do any sort of reunion. but after over ten years, they've finally made nice long enough for a reunion. right now it looks…