Albums and mixes listened to: 2005

lol. Good point - some sort of a rating/genre/explanation system might be called for here...this is currently quite a useless list...

Most of them, yep (I bought a few really good ones).

The trick is to "room searches" as well as general searches, and search in multiple rooms.

Hmmm...well, that's not really possible...

But try using soulseek. The albums are often very difficult to get even on that program, but adding them to your wishlist should yield some results...eventually.

Glad you you enjoy the music :)

I thought...OW!!!
But they were interesting. Although they didn't get many repeat listens. Truth is (for Stockhausen and Subotnick): I found they were barely music (especially Stockhausen) and while they were fascinating intellectual exercises, they didn't really have much impact. World's End Girlfriend I found too all-over-the-place: andn ot in a good way. I found the tracks just ripped themselves apart and stopped being enjoyable: noise was never my kind of music (why do I really need more of it in my life? I hear enough every day as it is.), and mixing it with other genres does nothing to improve it: all it does is drag those styles down with it.

I really felt the same way about those three as I do about most experimental music***: artistic, interesting, important, and not very enjoyable.

***don't confuse experimental with innovative. Experimental artists try to create new sounds simply for the sake of creating new sounds. Innovative artists make those new sounds into music. For example: Stockhausen is experimental, Kraftwerk is (was?) innovative. I do feel experimental music is neccessary though. But while styles of actual music trickle up from those experiments, it doesn't mean those experiments themselves are all that fun to listen to. Think: While most don't enjoy memorizing equations on electromagnetic fields, electron bending, light diffraction, advanced electronics, and liquid crystal interaction, many people enjoy watching TV. While most people don't enjoy listening to Stockhausen, many people enjoy listening to Orbital.

And there are a huge number of examples of this in musical culture. Mille Plateau's Clicks + Cuts 1 to the entire "microhouse" musical genre. Terry Riley's bizarre drone experiments to Philip Glass and Steve Reich's minimalism. The baroque style of music was simple and strange in the beginning, but it eventually gave way to the classic works of Johann Sebastian Bach. (although there are times where the experimental version is more interesting and fun than the styles to come out of it. Think experimental jazz to smooth jazz.).

craaap, I completely missed the fact that this thing was 3 years old... oops.