Melody AM was a fantastic album. It mixed sublime, chilled tracks with some lovely singy-songy ones, and was a firm favourite with me for a long, long time. The Understanding was mostly good, with a couple of decidedly terrible tracks thrown into the mix. Junior is…is…horrible.

Actually let me quantify that statement. It's "almost entirely horrible" with a few nice(sih) tracks on it. The opening track "Happy up Here" for example is actually pretty damn sweet; an Epleesque little thing with blippy-bloppy beats, a nicely mellow harmony, and an overall good vibe to it. Then there are…

After a long, long hiatus, it's back, and a new part is due very soon. For those of you not familliar with this, it's a site where electronic artists (some of my all time favourites amongst them) work solidly for one week (168 hours) to produce an EP, and then put it up for all to comment on.

i cannot wait to see what Part Four will bring.

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Oh yeah, and the new Retic album "Somnolent Massive" is absolutely fantastic; another collection of strange, warped delight that takes me back to the happy place…the one…

Firstly, happy new year. Until yesterday, I had no idea of A) How many stupid superstitions there are associated with the new year, and B) How taken in by all that garbage my other half is.

Seriously; I wanted to do some washing, but was told that was not allowed as I would be "washing a loved one away", and when I tried to put a calendar up early, I was told that basically, my life would be infested with shrieking, shuddering gel babies, wretching up vast, crawling carpets of screaming slime and adhering to my trousers all year if…

Portal's new album "An Uninsured Flood" arrived this week, and has rarely been out of my ears since. It's been a long, long time since I've come across something that has clicked so perfectly with me (okay, a couple of moons), but it's been more than worth the wait.

Okay, so let's get one thing straight, I'm not talking about the death / thrash metal version of Portal, and obviously, not the computer game sountrack. I'm talking about THIS one. This Portal dishes up lovely, whispering tunes, that shimmer with dreamy, fragile melodies and nostalgic, full-moon ice halo sounds.…

This Article rather interested me, and further convinced me that I am basically a very mixed up little puppy…mainly because, according to my music tastes, I am a hard working person who doesn't work, who is both very comfortable with themselves and highly uncomfortable with themselves. The one common thread is I'm creative. Yay!

This smacks a little of stereotyping given gravitas, and really doesn't ring true at all. Maybe my job helps me to see beyond the immediately apparent with people (and indeed, encourages that), or maybe it's because I get really annoyed about people making assumptions about me…

Is it me, or is there an awful lot of absolutely fantastic music in video games? I mean, have you sat down and listened to some of the tunes in Diablo and Diablo II? Have you taken a moment to soak up the beautiful strains that accompany many of the realms in World of Warcraft (especially in the Sin'dorei lands, and in the Undercity when the Banshee Queen is singing ''Lament of the Highborne"), or heard the evocative melodies and darkly descriptive tunes that float throughout Fable?

How about the many, many wonderful little tunes that accompany the…

I'm sitting in a half-completed kitchen at the moment, bathed in the artificial moonlight of some white LED bulbs, surrounded by looming shadows, listening to Aviation Weather by Boreal Network; and my friends, the two go together perfectly.

Aviation Weather was entirely worth the wait. Seriously. It's the fluffy, nostalgic and slightly woozy sounds we have come to expect from Boreal Network, but it's all bound together with a degree of confidence that didn't seem (in comparison I hasten to add) to be present in the earlier stuff - except "Another Bad Dream", which still ranks…

Is it me, or is "Akeshore" by "Lazare" one of the best fucking tunes ever?

It's not just me, it is.

Apologies for the lack of new posts (I'm sure you have managed fine without me though ;) ), but I have recently been hijacked by a certain MMORPG….if you want more details, then CLICKY.

So, here I am, once more borne aloft on the digital wings of the web…and (insert a load of other pretentious crap).

Being separated from the web gave me time to do other things, to rediscover the wild places, to spend time examining my compost heap a little too closely for my other half's comfort, and to listen to some new music!

Alas, there has not been that much to listen to though. Booh!

I picked up The Prodigy's last album “Always outnumbered, never outgunned”, and although it's a far cry from the greatness of “The…