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Filling the music void May 21, 2006

Posted by erik in : Music , 4 comments

When I first heard of podcasting, I somehow got it in my mind that they were just recorded talk radio shows on esoteric subjects. Ok, I didn’t think they were all like that but I didn’t quite get it at first. To explain, let me get a little nostalgic. Ever since I started to buy CD’s on the Internet (anyone remember CD-NOW?) I lamented the loss of the music store experience. There was something special about walking into your favorite music store (for me it was Virgin Megastore Vienna) picking out 20 hopefuls and then power listening to them all. On the good days I left the store with 20 cd’s in hand.

Fast forward to today. I haven’t been into a music store in years that I wanted to spend more than 5 min. in (ok Virgin London rocked, hmm perhaps this is an American only issue?). Which means I’ve been totally dependent on my friends and random chance to find my music (thanks Michael!) and yes before you tell me there are thousands of news groups and web pages dedicated to finding music, let me just say that when it comes to music, I’ve got to hear it, talking about it just doesn’t work for me.

Enter the music podcast.

If you are not finding new music via podcasts, you are missing out. For the first time in a long time I’ve got that music store experience back again, I’m enjoying those 20 cd’s and on the good days I’m puting in an order to iTunes or AllofMP3.com.

So there are a few podcasts you need to know about, and since i’m on an electronic kick right now, I’ll point you to two of my favorites.

Spacemusic is podcasted direct from the Netherlands by TC and generaly falls on the beat oriented ambient side of the house. Occasionally TC mixes it up and IMHO it’s always a nice way to keep people on their toes. Orbital Grooves falls more on the dance/trance/drum n base/house side and the latest podcast has induced 100 mph speeds at least twice now.

The void has been filled.

Progress Part 2

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It’s done. The site is moved, and hopefully you are enjoying the new clean look of silvexis.com/blog 2.0. For those of you just showig up, well you missed it, the old look is gone and I didn’t even save a screen shot. I did manage to save some of the old posts from the previous system, overall not an entierly painful process. I’m totaly digging wordpress…for now.

Progress part 1

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I sense that i’m finaly emerging from my XBOX 360 induced coma. I’d like to thank the makers of oblivion for taking away about 3 weeks worth of 24/7 playing from my life. Really. Ugh.

The first order of business is a facelift, the look and feel of this place is driving me nuts. I’ll be upgrading to wordpress later today. I’m sure in the process that all my past entries will disapear and links will break so for my readers out there, please be prepared to adjust your TV set.

I’ve upgraded a friends blog from BoastMachine to Wordpress and well it wasn’t pretty. There are hardcoded paths all over the place and sparse documentation that just make it a pain in the ass to change something as simple as the blog root, so no i’ll probably not have a link to the old blog, sigh… In the meantime enjoy some very excelent Orbital Grooves, it will get you through the transition…