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I'd *LOVE* to be given some suggestions of good music that is legal to download and try out.

First off, check out CDBaby, an online record store that sells CDs by independent artists (which covers those burning CDRs in their bedroom, and those signed to tiny non-RIAA labels). You might want to check out their About Us page to read about their philosophy, and their artists terms page to see just how much of an improvement they are over mainstream distribution routes. In addition, the majority of artists on CDBaby have streaming RealAudio samples to listen to, plus a lot of them have free MP3s on their websites.

As for specific artists... well, I obviously don't know what sort of stuff you're into, but here's a selection of what I've been listening to recently:

• You're Pretty, MP3s at MP3s.com (play Something Real)
• Jennifer Terran (kookier than Tori Amos)
• Molly Zenobia (only a few MP3s on-site)
• Anger Of The Lamb, MP3s at IUMA.com (play Beautiful Disease)
• Violent Work Of Art (play The Worst Is Yet To Come)

If none of that tickles your fancy, CDBaby have a great search feature whereby you can enter the name of a well-known artist and get a list of recommendations, so whether you're a fan of Radiohead or (heaven forbid) Britney Spears, it shouldn't be too long until you've stumbled onto something you like.

I'd *LOVE* to be given some suggestions of good music that is legal to download and try out.

First off, check out CDBaby, an online record store that sells CDs by independent artists (which covers those burning CDRs in their bedroom, and those signed to tiny non-RIAA labels). You might want to check out their About Us page to read about their philosophy, and their artists terms page to see just how much of an improvement they are over mainstream distribution routes. In addition, the majority of artists on CDBaby have streaming RealAudio samples to listen to, plus a lot of them have free MP3s on their websites.

As for specific artists... well, I obviously don't know what sort of stuff you're into, but here's a selection of what I've been listening to recently:

• You're Pretty, MP3s at MP3s.com (play Something Real)
• Jennifer Terran (kookier than Tori Amos)
• Molly Zenobia (only a few MP3s on-site)
• Anger Of The Lamb, MP3s at IUMA.com (play Beautiful Disease)
• Violent Work Of Art (play The Worst Is Yet To Come)

If none of that tickles your fancy, CDBaby have a great search feature whereby you can enter the name of a well-known artist and get a list of recommendations, so whether you're a fan of Radiohead or (heaven forbid) Britney Spears, it shouldn't be too long until you've stumbled onto something you like.

Chef Meteur

I've been getting my music fix from the source, right down at the local live music bars. The musicians bring their small run CDs and you buy if you like what you hear. No copy protection or other BS. Someone asks me what I've been listening to, I'll point them at Mactra or Chef Menteur, or some good old stand by like Dash Rip Rock (ok, they are kind-o signed, but that was the way things were 15 years ago.) I'm sure everyone here has some kind of good music like that at their fingertips, but it's NOT in a store.

Sorry to state the obvious, but seriously, I have listened to a ton of good bands at mp3.com. You can download this entire album:

Scroat Belly: The Great Alaskan Holiday"

or this one:

Kirk Rundstrom: Wicked Savior"

or listen to these bands (highly recommended also):

Mezcal Bros.
Federal Weights and Measures (Sadly broken up now)
Crush The Clown

There is a lot of awfully good music on there, believe it or not.

Sorry to state the obvious, but seriously, I have listened to a ton of good bands at mp3.com. You can download this entire album:

Scroat Belly: The Great Alaskan Holiday"

or this one:

Kirk Rundstrom: Wicked Savior"

or listen to these bands (highly recommended also):

Mezcal Bros.
Federal Weights and Measures (Sadly broken up now)
Crush The Clown

There is a lot of awfully good music on there, believe it or not.

Sorry to state the obvious, but seriously, I have listened to a ton of good bands at mp3.com. You can download this entire album:

Scroat Belly: The Great Alaskan Holiday"

or this one:

Kirk Rundstrom: Wicked Savior"

or listen to these bands (highly recommended also):

Mezcal Bros.
Federal Weights and Measures (Sadly broken up now)
Crush The Clown

There is a lot of awfully good music on there, believe it or not.

Sorry to state the obvious, but seriously, I have listened to a ton of good bands at mp3.com. You can download this entire album:

Scroat Belly: The Great Alaskan Holiday"

or this one:

Kirk Rundstrom: Wicked Savior"

or listen to these bands (highly recommended also):

Mezcal Bros.
Federal Weights and Measures (Sadly broken up now)
Crush The Clown

There is a lot of awfully good music on there, believe it or not.

Sorry to state the obvious, but seriously, I have listened to a ton of good bands at mp3.com. You can download this entire album:

Scroat Belly: The Great Alaskan Holiday"

or this one:

Kirk Rundstrom: Wicked Savior"

or listen to these bands (highly recommended also):

Mezcal Bros.
Federal Weights and Measures (Sadly broken up now)
Crush The Clown

There is a lot of awfully good music on there, believe it or not.

If you're at all into the C64, you've got to check out the song "C64 Convention" by mindfusion, available for free on mp3.com.

Cool old school electronica that rocks.


Andy

I was thinking the exact same thing. I kept having to stop and think to myself: "PaInts, not pants"

Digital Pants(tm) activate!

Hmm, must be an IRQ conflict.

- RustyTaco

Makes me think of this artist. Some of the MP3's are nice.

Here's a Europop version of "Korobeyniki", which many players think of as "the Tetris song".

If you just can't get enough of it, try this version.

Seriously, if I'm going to pay for music, I want a real CD ... and maybe a nice jewel case and cover. IF musicians want to sell their product on Ebay in order to make some money, would it really hurt them to invest a little money into their product? It doesn't cost that much to have real CDs produced...

You've been rated "Funny", but I think you're serious, so I'll respond as such.

It does cost that much to have real CDs? Try again. A minimal run of "real CDs" can easily run you $1,000. If you're a small time artist who is working a traditional job to pay the rent while you work on your music, $1,000 is alot of money, especially if most of your disposable income is already invested in instruments and recording equipment. On the other hand, with the help of a friend with a computer, a CD-R writing drive, and color printer, you can burn runs of almost any size for a few dollar per disc (with nice jewel case and cover). What a great way for an unknown musician to get his music out!

I've purchased a half-dozen CD-Rs from musicians I've discovered online, and I've been pleased with every one I. I don't begrudge them that CD-R is the only format they can economically produce.

wouldn't it help these small bands to produce a product that people will be able to remember (not just the music, but the CD cover as well??)

Wow, and to think I've been making my music selections entirely based on the quality of the music.

That said, it's not relavent in this discussion. The artist specifically did print nice CD covers. The jewel cases he bought are identical to the jewel cases most commercial CDs come in. He's trying to market himself in all sorts of ways (personal website, free mp3 samples on mp3.com, and selling CDs on eBay) He's trying to market himself without going broke. He's using various services as they were designed!

No no, not cannabalism [sic], but half-lives. We know that the half-life of an astronaut is equal to the round trip of a mars expedition. It's something that NASA has been hiding for years, also known as the Terrible Secret of Space.

Viola! Instant nose reduction.

What does playing the violin's big brother have to do with telling the truth?

a song with a lot of base.

You mean "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by The Laziest Men on Mars?

The Terrible Secret of Space, by The Laziest Men on Mars, of course. Even better is the Flash music video.

They don't technically exist anymore, but they're all for getting their music heard. Download their songs from mp3.com, or the solo songs from the lead guitar/singer, Charles Balter.

No, the future is Digital Pants ... a so called, Smarty Pants.

DIGITAL PANTS ACTIVATE

For those who don't get it.

Saying "there's only one good song on the CD" sounds like something my teenage little sister would say when she discovers that the latest 'NSync CD has several songs that don't sound like what she hears on the radio.

Or when the writers realise that the problem is totally unsolvable and really screwy to begin with, they just make some sh*t up, usually involving Wesley saving the say.

A song by Voltaire springs to mind. I first discovered this song in a prior /. post, although I can't seem to remember what it was. He's got a few other ST-related songs that you'll find if you scroll down sufficiently. They range from highly amusing to highly twisted.

On a quasi-related note, I was watching TNG last night on the Star Trek & White Trash network, and I happened upon an episode from the first season, called "Justice". In this episode, Wesley is condemned to death for falling into some flowers on a planet ruled by half-naked nymphomaniac hippie love-children. It made me realize just how much the show managed to improve over the years.

As for you, Wil, I really gotta hand it to you. I remember in your interview, you said that you had little to no say over the lines you were given. Watching that episode, it became clear to me that whoever wrote the script either didn't realize you were over the age of ten, or rather was himself somehow spawned on a rockbed, skipping adolescence entirely. I've done some improv and other acting through college myself, and one of the most difficult things for a young actor to do is to swallow his pride and follow his director, however inane that direction might be. Personally, I think you did a terrific job with what you were given. I've been in that position on stage plays, with all my friends and family sitting in the audience, waiting for them to pounce on me later for something that was the product of poor writing/direction.

I'll admit, when I first watched TNG as a relatively wee lad, I didn't much like Wesley's character. Still, I did know the difference between actor and character, and I was secretly jealous as hell, watching someone who was only a few years older than me and got to work on Star Trek!! I was also pleased to see the writers wise up and let Wesley start kicking some ass in later episodes, culminating with his eventual transubstantiation to deity-hood with an intergalactic "elder on the hill". I was kinda scratching my head at that one for a while, but concluded that it was a better way to go than being killed by a an greasy sentient Hefty bag in the middle of a living puddle of muck, as was the case with Denise Crosby. Best, I can figure from the special effects, the cause of death was "fatal birthmark on face".

Anyway, it's always interesting to see how it was for you on the show, especially since you're the member of the cast to which most /.-ers can most easily relate. And I'm pleased to see you popping up in User Friendly these days. Will wonders never cease...

/* Steve */

A song by Voltaire springs to mind. I first discovered this song in a prior /. post, although I can't seem to remember what it was. He's got a few other ST-related songs that you'll find if you scroll down sufficiently. They range from highly amusing to highly twisted.

On a quasi-related note, I was watching TNG last night on the Star Trek & White Trash network, and I happened upon an episode from the first season, called "Justice". In this episode, Wesley is condemned to death for falling into some flowers on a planet ruled by half-naked nymphomaniac hippie love-children. It made me realize just how much the show managed to improve over the years.

As for you, Wil, I really gotta hand it to you. I remember in your interview, you said that you had little to no say over the lines you were given. Watching that episode, it became clear to me that whoever wrote the script either didn't realize you were over the age of ten, or rather was himself somehow spawned on a rockbed, skipping adolescence entirely. I've done some improv and other acting through college myself, and one of the most difficult things for a young actor to do is to swallow his pride and follow his director, however inane that direction might be. Personally, I think you did a terrific job with what you were given. I've been in that position on stage plays, with all my friends and family sitting in the audience, waiting for them to pounce on me later for something that was the product of poor writing/direction.

I'll admit, when I first watched TNG as a relatively wee lad, I didn't much like Wesley's character. Still, I did know the difference between actor and character, and I was secretly jealous as hell, watching someone who was only a few years older than me and got to work on Star Trek!! I was also pleased to see the writers wise up and let Wesley start kicking some ass in later episodes, culminating with his eventual transubstantiation to deity-hood with an intergalactic "elder on the hill". I was kinda scratching my head at that one for a while, but concluded that it was a better way to go than being killed by a an greasy sentient Hefty bag in the middle of a living puddle of muck, as was the case with Denise Crosby. Best, I can figure from the special effects, the cause of death was "fatal birthmark on face".

Anyway, it's always interesting to see how it was for you on the show, especially since you're the member of the cast to which most /.-ers can most easily relate. And I'm pleased to see you popping up in User Friendly these days. Will wonders never cease...

/* Steve */

Everything you need to know about entropy and the 2nd law is right here.

You can follow the example of another indie duo which rose to international fame through mp3.com...PPK( regular site, mp3.com site). This is a band which come from a city (Rostov) near the Russian Siberia and met online. They started by offering their music for free on mp3.com and now you can't drive in NYC for 5 minutes without hearing their "Resurection" or other songs on the radio or in a passing car.

Way back in the day, when I was in band, we recorded a CD and were going to release it. (ie: try to sell it at the local record store). I asked a friend about his band's recent CD release, specifically about the Bar Code that they included on the back of their jewel cases. "Did you have to buy it?" "How much did it cost?" His answer was very straight forward... "We scanned it off of a case of Bud."

We never released our CD. But we had fun trying to figure out who's UPC to steal.

"Jimmy quit, Jody got married. I should'a known we'd never go far"

I remember when Megatokyo was first opening, and I still on occasion listen to Kim Justice

I have not read the comic in around a year, (I left off in the point where the dude was just starting to working in the store as a mascot) but from what I remember it was Kick Ass. :-D Just got bored waiting for the story line to come along, heh, I gotta check it out again one of these days before it goes titsup.com ^_^

Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie have recorded The System Administrator Song as a tribute for SysAdmin day. If you haven't heard of Three Dead Trolls yet, check out the rest of their music when you're done with this one for Every OS Sucks, The Internet Helpdesk Song and others.

this song by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie

Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins...these guys are the godfathers of techno. Where are all the Detroit Techno fans?
Check out Strings of Life and Nude Photo by Derrick May, No UFOs or Sound of Stereo by Juan Atkins. I'm not a big fan of Kevin Saunderson, but I'm just really suprised no one has mentioned him yet.

Derrick May I just recently found out has an mp3.com page at http://mp3.com/derrickmay. If you end up enjoying Detroit Techno check out other people who were part of the Transmat Timespace Tour.
If you get really into it, come to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. You'll have a blast.

Unfortunately, he had to pull the album from his site due to excessive downloads. There's still a good sampling of songs on mp3.com.

Alternatively, you can buy both his albums from CDBaby or Amazon.

Way to quote it out of context. The text you're quoting is with respect to sharing 3 songs on the Washington Post site. 3 songs that were chosen by the copyright holder (presumably the band, given that they're unsigned). Not their entire album. Not whatever 3 songs a random P2P user chooses.

Guess what? This is the exact same thing that RIAA acts do, too. Take, for example, Linkin Park. They're big right now, they're signed with Warner Bros. Records, they're on the radio a lot, they're showing up on MTV. You don't get much more RIAA than that.

Yet on mp3.com, they've got their own page with FOUR songs available for anyone to download. That's a whole song more than the band interviewed by Roblimo. But still, it comes back to the fact that it's 4 songs that the copyright holder chose to release. It's only the songs they pick, and it's certainly not the entire CD.

Arguing that giving away a few songs from a CD validates unrestricted P2P filesharing is like arguing that a free demo of the first few levels of a game validates piracy. It's up to the copyright holder to decide how much freebie/give-away advertising to use to promote the product before it starts to cut into sales.

In Philadelphia, venues like the Grape Street Pub do much more than promote their own shows. They are trying to build a thriving original music scene in philly, especially with the compilations they sell and put out on the web.

Local music magazines are also much better at promoting local musicians to the people who will actually come out to see them. Origivation is a good example for Philadelphia.

Ben Garvey
Acoustic Rock : http://www.bengarvey.com

The name of the song is Korobeiniki. This I know only because the band Ozma (who have a thing for all that is Russian) did a version of that classic folk tune (available here at mp3.com)

And yeah, they are the same guys who did the Natalie Portman song too for any who remember that :)

"Doom Music" is superb - I bought a copy for myself and a friend a few years ago. Easily worth the $15 or so it cost - plus I got a nice personal letter from the Man himself when he shipped my order.
If you want a nice selection of Bobby Prince tracks, including some from that album you can go here.

And *definitely* check out this band, especially their song "Loungemeister" It rocks.

The Cynic Project

Taucher

Schiller

Sunbeam

There are a bunch more, even among my favorites, but that's a place to start.

First I'd like to apologise, although I read your post the music I am going to suggest is a bit darker then the selections you have mentioned. That said, this music is some of the best of its kind, it's electronic and tends to be "isolationist" or "paraniod". Who know's, maybe you'll like it?

Terminal Sound System
Twine (ambient, glitchy, experimental)
horchata (dub, glitch, experimental)
S.E.T.I. (glitch, experimental)
Rapoon (ambient, experimental)
Mick Harris (aka Scorn, founder Illbent, dub, experimental)
Sara Ayers (ambient, experimental)
Dead Voices On Air (ambient, experimental)
Muslimgauze (ethnic, found sound, dub, experimental)


A good place to look would be emusic.com if you've got the bandwidth (and $9.99;) you could download I lot of music and probably find a good deal of if suits you. They even have some Sasha And John Digweed.

I also like finding artists I like on mp3.com (suprise) and checking the links they provide to artist they like! Great way to accidentally pull an all nighter.

Now I know this is getting alittle long, so I'll make this my last comment: if you do like ambient (perfect, cerebral, moody ambient) and literature try Paul Bowles spoken word album Baptism Of Solitude , the only thing more amazing then his stories is his voice.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

First I'd like to apologise, although I read your post the music I am going to suggest is a bit darker then the selections you have mentioned. That said, this music is some of the best of its kind, it's electronic and tends to be "isolationist" or "paraniod". Who know's, maybe you'll like it?

Terminal Sound System
Twine (ambient, glitchy, experimental)
horchata (dub, glitch, experimental)
S.E.T.I. (glitch, experimental)
Rapoon (ambient, experimental)
Mick Harris (aka Scorn, founder Illbent, dub, experimental)
Sara Ayers (ambient, experimental)
Dead Voices On Air (ambient, experimental)
Muslimgauze (ethnic, found sound, dub, experimental)


A good place to look would be emusic.com if you've got the bandwidth (and $9.99;) you could download I lot of music and probably find a good deal of if suits you. They even have some Sasha And John Digweed.

I also like finding artists I like on mp3.com (suprise) and checking the links they provide to artist they like! Great way to accidentally pull an all nighter.

Now I know this is getting alittle long, so I'll make this my last comment: if you do like ambient (perfect, cerebral, moody ambient) and literature try Paul Bowles spoken word album Baptism Of Solitude , the only thing more amazing then his stories is his voice.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

First I'd like to apologise, although I read your post the music I am going to suggest is a bit darker then the selections you have mentioned. That said, this music is some of the best of its kind, it's electronic and tends to be "isolationist" or "paraniod". Who know's, maybe you'll like it?

Terminal Sound System
Twine (ambient, glitchy, experimental)
horchata (dub, glitch, experimental)
S.E.T.I. (glitch, experimental)
Rapoon (ambient, experimental)
Mick Harris (aka Scorn, founder Illbent, dub, experimental)
Sara Ayers (ambient, experimental)
Dead Voices On Air (ambient, experimental)
Muslimgauze (ethnic, found sound, dub, experimental)


A good place to look would be emusic.com if you've got the bandwidth (and $9.99;) you could download I lot of music and probably find a good deal of if suits you. They even have some Sasha And John Digweed.

I also like finding artists I like on mp3.com (suprise) and checking the links they provide to artist they like! Great way to accidentally pull an all nighter.

Now I know this is getting alittle long, so I'll make this my last comment: if you do like ambient (perfect, cerebral, moody ambient) and literature try Paul Bowles spoken word album Baptism Of Solitude , the only thing more amazing then his stories is his voice.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

First I'd like to apologise, although I read your post the music I am going to suggest is a bit darker then the selections you have mentioned. That said, this music is some of the best of its kind, it's electronic and tends to be "isolationist" or "paraniod". Who know's, maybe you'll like it?

Terminal Sound System
Twine (ambient, glitchy, experimental)
horchata (dub, glitch, experimental)
S.E.T.I. (glitch, experimental)
Rapoon (ambient, experimental)
Mick Harris (aka Scorn, founder Illbent, dub, experimental)
Sara Ayers (ambient, experimental)
Dead Voices On Air (ambient, experimental)
Muslimgauze (ethnic, found sound, dub, experimental)


A good place to look would be emusic.com if you've got the bandwidth (and $9.99;) you could download I lot of music and probably find a good deal of if suits you. They even have some Sasha And John Digweed.

I also like finding artists I like on mp3.com (suprise) and checking the links they provide to artist they like! Great way to accidentally pull an all nighter.

Now I know this is getting alittle long, so I'll make this my last comment: if you do like ambient (perfect, cerebral, moody ambient) and literature try Paul Bowles spoken word album Baptism Of Solitude , the only thing more amazing then his stories is his voice.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

First I'd like to apologise, although I read your post the music I am going to suggest is a bit darker then the selections you have mentioned. That said, this music is some of the best of its kind, it's electronic and tends to be "isolationist" or "paraniod". Who know's, maybe you'll like it?

Terminal Sound System
Twine (ambient, glitchy, experimental)
horchata (dub, glitch, experimental)
S.E.T.I. (glitch, experimental)
Rapoon (ambient, experimental)
Mick Harris (aka Scorn, founder Illbent, dub, experimental)
Sara Ayers (ambient, experimental)
Dead Voices On Air (ambient, experimental)
Muslimgauze (ethnic, found sound, dub, experimental)


A good place to look would be emusic.com if you've got the bandwidth (and $9.99;) you could download I lot of music and probably find a good deal of if suits you. They even have some Sasha And John Digweed.

I also like finding artists I like on mp3.com (suprise) and checking the links they provide to artist they like! Great way to accidentally pull an all nighter.

Now I know this is getting alittle long, so I'll make this my last comment: if you do like ambient (perfect, cerebral, moody ambient) and literature try Paul Bowles spoken word album Baptism Of Solitude , the only thing more amazing then his stories is his voice.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

First I'd like to apologise, although I read your post the music I am going to suggest is a bit darker then the selections you have mentioned. That said, this music is some of the best of its kind, it's electronic and tends to be "isolationist" or "paraniod". Who know's, maybe you'll like it?

Terminal Sound System
Twine (ambient, glitchy, experimental)
horchata (dub, glitch, experimental)
S.E.T.I. (glitch, experimental)
Rapoon (ambient, experimental)
Mick Harris (aka Scorn, founder Illbent, dub, experimental)
Sara Ayers (ambient, experimental)
Dead Voices On Air (ambient, experimental)
Muslimgauze (ethnic, found sound, dub, experimental)


A good place to look would be emusic.com if you've got the bandwidth (and $9.99;) you could download I lot of music and probably find a good deal of if suits you. They even have some Sasha And John Digweed.

I also like finding artists I like on mp3.com (suprise) and checking the links they provide to artist they like! Great way to accidentally pull an all nighter.

Now I know this is getting alittle long, so I'll make this my last comment: if you do like ambient (perfect, cerebral, moody ambient) and literature try Paul Bowles spoken word album Baptism Of Solitude , the only thing more amazing then his stories is his voice.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

First I'd like to apologise, although I read your post the music I am going to suggest is a bit darker then the selections you have mentioned. That said, this music is some of the best of its kind, it's electronic and tends to be "isolationist" or "paraniod". Who know's, maybe you'll like it?

Terminal Sound System
Twine (ambient, glitchy, experimental)
horchata (dub, glitch, experimental)
S.E.T.I. (glitch, experimental)
Rapoon (ambient, experimental)
Mick Harris (aka Scorn, founder Illbent, dub, experimental)
Sara Ayers (ambient, experimental)
Dead Voices On Air (ambient, experimental)
Muslimgauze (ethnic, found sound, dub, experimental)


A good place to look would be emusic.com if you've got the bandwidth (and $9.99;) you could download I lot of music and probably find a good deal of if suits you. They even have some Sasha And John Digweed.

I also like finding artists I like on mp3.com (suprise) and checking the links they provide to artist they like! Great way to accidentally pull an all nighter.

Now I know this is getting alittle long, so I'll make this my last comment: if you do like ambient (perfect, cerebral, moody ambient) and literature try Paul Bowles spoken word album Baptism Of Solitude , the only thing more amazing then his stories is his voice.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

First I'd like to apologise, although I read your post the music I am going to suggest is a bit darker then the selections you have mentioned. That said, this music is some of the best of its kind, it's electronic and tends to be "isolationist" or "paraniod". Who know's, maybe you'll like it?

Terminal Sound System
Twine (ambient, glitchy, experimental)
horchata (dub, glitch, experimental)
S.E.T.I. (glitch, experimental)
Rapoon (ambient, experimental)
Mick Harris (aka Scorn, founder Illbent, dub, experimental)
Sara Ayers (ambient, experimental)
Dead Voices On Air (ambient, experimental)
Muslimgauze (ethnic, found sound, dub, experimental)


A good place to look would be emusic.com if you've got the bandwidth (and $9.99;) you could download I lot of music and probably find a good deal of if suits you. They even have some Sasha And John Digweed.

I also like finding artists I like on mp3.com (suprise) and checking the links they provide to artist they like! Great way to accidentally pull an all nighter.

Now I know this is getting alittle long, so I'll make this my last comment: if you do like ambient (perfect, cerebral, moody ambient) and literature try Paul Bowles spoken word album Baptism Of Solitude , the only thing more amazing then his stories is his voice.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

Bassic - Swedish guy...moved to the US and uses a Mac driven studio... I prefer to buy from the artist (or his immediate rep), whenever possible.

Bassic is a bit like Vangelis at times.

Why hasn't anyone mentioned Vangelis yet?

You're refering to Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie's Every OS Sucks The other one in my sig is pretty funny too.

She is the radio astrophysicist, who took radiowave data from UGC 6697 and turned it into music. She has a album of this music called Music From The Galaxies.

She also sang two songs on Thomas Dolby's soundtrack to "The Gate to the Mind's Eye". (one of my fav soundtracks, and the best of the "Mind's Eye" series), The cuts are "Quantum Mechanic" and "N.E.O. (Near Earth Objects)".

You can check her music out at MP3.com, url:
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/164/dr_fiorella_te renzi.html

And, to be a little "sexist" here, she is really hot! She also has her own website...URL:

http://www.fiorella.com/

ttyl
Farrell

> wish my DVD player could play the kitchen sink.

Well, why don't you download it, burn it onto a CDR/CDRW and see what happens?