I had a bit of a music overload this week, getting about 10 CDs on Thursday alone. I'm actually a little surprised I got through all of it.

Brian Eno Thursday Afternoon
Just recently have I started to pick up the ambient releases from Brian Eno. I got Neroli earlier this year and finally Music for Airports a few weeks ago. This one was shipped to me from a user on the CD trading site lala and contains a single hour-long track, similar in style to the Music for Airports stuff. It was also supposedly the first album ever to…

I just passed 100000 tracks played on last.fm today, and I thought it might be cool to start writing journals regularly again. I've been acquiring new music at a fairly rapid rate lately (while trying not to spend too much on any single CD… spending most of your time looking through the clearance bins rather than regular-priced stuff helps with this I guess) and I'm getting excited about the annual "World's Largest Garage Sale", which is coming up in one or two weeks now. I always pick up a lot of good CDs there. Anyway, here are the new albums…

… so I will do a journal entry … haven't done one here in a while. I have still been listening to a lot of excellent music, though; just today I got Spellewauerynsherde by Akira Rabelais as my first receive from the CD trading site SwapaCD. Their selection and number of traders seems a lot smaller than the CD-trading heavyweight lala, but they have some features (like artwork guarantees) that make me thing they could be a serious contender if only they got their membership up. Most of what is available on the site seems to be country, Christian, and…

I'm looking for some interesting ambient music and throwing out a lot of connections so maybe someone with some good ideas will post a reply. Actually I think I'm at least moderately knowledgeable about the genre, but my trading on lala has slowed considerably and I'm looking for stuff to add to my wantlist.

On the noisier side of things, one of my favorite albums ever is Tim Hecker's Radio Amor. I also have his Mirages album and the Trade Winds, White Noise CD is coming to me now. All of his other albums are on my "to…

I need to brag about my most recent purchase. I went to a used music and book store yesterday and got 11 CDs, a lot of them pretty hard to find, for less than $20. The best things I got were some Coil albums… seven of them: Stolen and Contaminated Songs, Windowpane and The Snow, Astral Disaster, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox, and Winter Solstice. I also got a couple µ-Ziq CDs: The Fear and µ-Ziq vs. The Auteurs. And also Futique's Luv Luv and Amon Tobin's Chomp Samba…

Hi, this journal is about three releases I have recently obtained from 12k: 1am by Taylor Deupree, Abri by Goem, and Chessa by Shuttle 358.

Taylor Deupree: 1am
This one-track, 21-minute EP by Taylor Deupree just became available at the 12k online shop a week or two ago; before that it was sold during his recent Japan tour. I've been subscribed to the 12k blog's RSS feed and it's been interesting to read Deupree's documentation of the production of this CD, starting with an apparently disappointing performance by him at the Decibel festival to this disc's…

Hi, here's a new journal entry where I will discuss releases by Arc vs. Tiny Objects in Space, Drum Komputer, Bionaut, and Jan Jelinek avec The Exposures.

Arc vs. Tiny Objects in Space: Arc vs. Tiny Objects in Space
One of the early releases on 12k records, this disc has five tracks by Arc, which is Taylor Deupree and Savvas Ysatis, and five from Tiny Objects in Space, which is just Taylor Deupree, although I would have a hard time telling one from the other. Even though everything here could probably be classified under the "minimal techno" label…

Two from eBay and three from lala. I'll start with eBay.

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Komet: Rausch
This album, released on 12k records in 2000, is sort of similar to the other Frank Bretschneider albums I own, being made up of minimal clicks and tones while keeping a steady groove and at times allowing subtle melodies to emerge. Like Bretschneider's other albums that I have this one plays as a continuous mix, with each track flowing into the next, making the disc a lot stronger and more coherent than a track-based album, in my opinion.

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Shuttle 358: Frame
I think…

I went to the "World's Largest Garage Sale" again on Wednesday of this week and got a lot of stuff. Here's what I bought for only $6.50:

Adam X: Fate Unknown
Reviews on the Internet describe this 2xCD set as a mix of techno and industrial, which seems like a good enough description to me. Apparently this guy is also the brother of Frankie Bones. I don't really listen to this harder kind of techno very often, but for what it is it's not bad at all.

Bear vs. Shark: Terrorhawk
Not for me. It's on my…

Well yesterday I went to the "World's Largest Garage Sale", which is put on every year by the American Cancer Society. I always look forward to it because they have tons of CDs for really cheap. I'll probably go again on the last day (half price day) like I did last year, but even after going just once I feel like I got a lot better stuff this year. I got 15 albums for $23.00 (plus the $3 to get in on the first day). I haven't fully listened to any of these albums so these are just my first…