Listening to: DarkMateria - The Picard Song [via tastylog]

Listening to: :: DEEP MIX MOSCOW RADIO :: (Monkey Radio-ish)

Listening to: Spacer: The Beamer [via SomaFM Secret Agent channel]

• East Wind - Jade Warrior
• Peter Reno - Armed Escort
• Nucleo Antirapina
• dZihan & Kamien - just you & I
• Flanger - Quicksilver Loom
• God Within featuring Scott Hardkiss - The Phoenix (R.I.T.M.'s River & Rain Mix)
• Mysterious Traveller - Day After

• Fila Brazillia - Blood

Listening to: SinQ mp3s - smooth chill-out Vienna Lounge with a touch of Jazz uit Tilburg; first heard on SomaFM's Secret Agent channel a while ago.

Update: for faster downloads (wickedly fast even), give SinQ's Vitaminic page a try!

Listening to: Acts of Volition Radio - entertaining sets of songs + commentary in mp3. [via A Whole Lotta Nothing]

Listening to: Norah Jones - House of Blues mp3s and Fau mp3s. [both via Going My Way a while ago]

Some albums I listened to in 2003 (not necessarily released in 2003) and enjoyed quite a bit, listed in reverse chronological order:

Nelly Furtado - Folklore
Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
Cinematic Orchestra - Motion, Man With a Movie Camera
Outkast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Zoot Woman - Zoot Woman
Electric Six - Fire
Dirty Vegas - Dirty Vegas
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Roni Size - In The Mode
Gemma Hayes - Night On My Side
The Roots - Phrenology
De La Soul - Buhloone Mind State
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
Turin Brakes - Ether Song
Moloko - Statues
Moodlex - Moodlex Sessions

Listening to: Monkey Radio: Grooving. Sexy. Beats
I've been trying out a bunch of 'Internet Radio' feeds via the Winamp 5 Media Library today. I've had this one on for two hours now and it has yet to disappoint; great stuff.

Let them sing it for you - Flash app that converts your typed words to a song by selecting audio fragments from a database of sung words. [via Jeroen]

Pitchfork: Best New Music - handy overview of the most recent highly rated albums.

Listening to: B.S.T. [download at st-00 - classic .MODs]
Also: classic PC game MIDIs at Game Music Home Page (scroll down).

Listening to: Les Rythmes Digitales : (Hey You) What's That Sound? (RealVideo clip)

Bastard Pop - "the illegitimate sound portal" – with working mp3 download links. Wicked. Between this and the massive Metafilter thread on Hip Hop, I'm downloading way too many cool mp3s to ever check out. [via prolific.org]

Jumping Fences: Critics' Best 100 Albums of 2002 – calculated from 45 end-of-year magazine/webzine polls. I have heard 8 of these, just about... [via Another fine mess]

otisfodder.com - 365 days - posting a new mp3 for every day of the new year... [via xkot.net via dollarshort.org via scrubbles.net]

Here's a nice photo of Queens of the Stone Age & Jay Leno [via 8bit Joystick.com]

(obligatory thinner link) Listening to: Digitalis - Sin:ergy

Phew... Downloading (almost) all mp3s of (almost) all Internet based labels on the thinner links page. Yay tabbed browsing!

Listening to: kohina - old school game and demo music radio [via 990000]

braindump: recently enjoyed music:
The Strokes - Is This It
Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
Cowboy Bebop - OST 1/2/3
Fiona Apple - When The Pawn
Underworld - A Hundred Days Off
Kyuss - ...And The Circus Leaves Town
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Once More With Feeling OST
Braid, Pinback, Hey Mercedes, ...

Listening to: Hey Mercedes - Bells

Slashdot | Janis Ian on Life in the Music Business [via Boing Boing]

Listening to: Jimmyhat - Tranquillizer [via/by Low]

Listening to/watching: Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows (streaming Windows Media video)

Listening to/downloading: [THN017] Digitalverein - Zu Hause² Remixes

Listening to: Aimee Mann - Lost in Space (full-length streaming previews of new album). [via Low]

Prefuse 73 - Nuno
Starsailor - Lullaby
RJD2 - Ghostwriter
Ozark Henry - Ocean
Squarepusher - Papalon
At the Drive-In - Enfilade
Motorpsycho - Blindfolded
Blues Traveler - Crash Burn
Ian Pooley - What's Your Number
The Pillows - Ride on Shooting Star
Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around The Block
Elvis Costello - Radio, Radio (live at SNL, 1977)

stuart g smith - sounds. [via gevallen engel]

Listening to: The Shins - Know Your Onion [download at glish.com]
Catchy tune... more here.

Listening to: (king of) floss mp3's [via ~elout]

Catching up on the latest mono211.com releases... and thinnerism.com... and autoplate.org... great music for free!

Listening to: City Breaks 3 and 4, two amazing 70 minute (!) mp3s at liquidx.dj. (by one.point.zero)

Listening to: bauri - mosika elektronik [via rgb(153,0,0)]

Listening to: Live Human - Elephants' Bliss [via palla]

Listening to: Kaleido001.mp3, linked on this japanese bbs.
No idea of the who or what but it sure sounds awesome.

Free/good music downloaded this evening:
- Stereo DIY CD Volume 5
- THN013 - Blamstrain - Kavel EP
- Harold Budd @ Epitonic.com [via pallalink.net]

Soundtrack for 105: AFX - Laughable Butane Bob

Listening to: iotic - flute editor and other cool mp3s from iotic.com.

Beatbox mp3s [via Anil Dash]

A flock of agitated seagulls I came across this morning sounded remarkably like the vocals in the Doll's Polyphony track on the Akira soundtrack (samples here and here).

Listening to: m-flo - Prism (Sunship Vocal) ['song of moment' at littleyellowdifferent.com]

Tool Grammy Award comments and other quips from Maynard, transcribed at deftone.com.

Listening to: Disciples Of Ageema - All Times By Music [download at mono211.com]

Ooh, fresh t h i n n e r!

Some good music coming at me lately:
4 Hero - Two Pages
4 Hero - Creating Patterns
A Camp - A Camp
Herbert - Bodily Functions
Jazzanova - Remixes 1997-2000
Nitin Sawhney - Prophesy
Röyskopp - Melody A.M.
Vangelis - Blade Runner OST
...

Listening to: Thinner 008 - Dolby - Dub Expo EP [download at
thinnerism.com]

the_dr: Top 11 Bootlegs of 2001 - don't have speakers here but looking forward to try 'em at home... [via Low]

Listening to: free mp3's at systemf3.com [via pallalink.net]

Listening to/watching: Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar. Another mind-bending Michel Gondry video. Check the Quicktime and info at director-file.com.

Or watch the video in RealMedia or WindowsMedia at thechemicalbrothers.com.

Listening to: Devo - Satisfaction [click "song" at Elrado.nl]

Listening to: Manual - man9.mp3 [download at vitech.dk/media [via pallalink]]

Update: found some info about Manual. And here are some more mp3 downloads.

// the tokyo dawn netlabel - free legal hiquality music in ogg/mp3/opensource formats [via ... i forgot]

Listening to: De Kift - Rolfie [download at dekift.nl] [via Low]

Listening to: Benfay - Carbon EP [download at thinnerism.com]

Listening to: Röyksopp - Poor Leno [Quicktime video]

Listening to: Towa Tei - Butterfly [RealVideo (scroll down)]

"Hello / My name is German Bold Italic / I am a type face..."

Retro-active bronvermelding: beingginny.com is where I first found a link to the lackluster video and mp3. [posted 011108]

Listening to/watching: Tenacious D - Wonderboy

Isn't Ian Pooley's Balmes the most beautiful video ever? (Scroll to bottom for streaming RealVideo or Quicktime versions.)

stereo.pitas.com has instructions for assembling a DIY-album of freely downloadable mp3s. Click the 'Te downloaden bij' links to download the tracks. [via tonie.net]

Listening to: Lackluster - 131099 [download at monotonik; video version here]

Listening to: Genox - Sonnensegel.mp3 [download at nse.chscene.ch]

Listening to: Noir Désir - Le Vent Nous Portera [RealAudio sample]

Delisound et F Communications présentent LLORCA - "extrait de l'album NEW COMER", avec Flash video. [via san630]

The MTV Chronicles by Adam Curry(.com). [via Low's Neplog]

B E A T 1 3 ® / MUSIC - download *.* and check the Personal Pods (bottom of menu). [also via microbians.com mailing list]

Now playing: Thinner 006 by Nulleins [download at thinnerism.com]

Now playing: Goodfellaz - Sugar Honey Ice Tea.mp3
"how can I ackshplain... standing out in the rain...."