Blogging has properly fallen by the wayside recently. Hey ho. Lots of good stuff going on in real life which tends to detract from time available for internet-type things.

I’ve been playing about with Spotify Premium and for the first time I’m starting to think that it’s a potential life-changer, even for an inveterate record collector like me. The joy of trying stuff out at high resolution with the off-line feature of the iPhone application is great.

Yesterday’s listening:

  • Boulez – Le Marteau sans Maitre
  • Can – Delay 1968
  • Can – Monster Movie
  • Neu! – Neu!2
  • Burzum – Belus
  • Boulez – Pli Selon Pli/Livre pour Cordes
  • Billy Jenkins – First Aural Art Exhibition

The great thing is that I really didn’t like the Malcolm Mooney-era Can material, which I hadn’t heard before, nor Neu!2. And I didn’t have to pay for the individual discs in order to find that out. And it was legal (I never really got into the whole downloading thing).

Today:

  • Burzum – Belus
  • Billy Jenkins – First Aural Art Exhibition
  • Wild Man Fischer – Pronounced Normal

The Burzum album is on heavy rotation. It’s possibly the best thing he’s recorded, and it utterly relentless.