emusic.com

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I paid a year in advance at the old rates. Will probably cancel next time round.

Just bought that Polska 2nd Rate album

Good stuff!

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wow....had no idea about this:

http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/dav.../12884994/

I was going to cancel the other day and they offered me a free month!

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I was going to cancel the other day and they offered me a free month!

Ah, I might try that then

The new design is a total fuck up. Why do sites always feel the need to redesign something that already works?

To get you to mill about downloading things you might not otherwise have checked those sections for. Which I did - I got the Lana Del Ray single off the reconvened front page.

What don't you like about it apart from familiarity breaching?

Also just got Mike Patton - The Solitude Of Prime Numbers

http://www.emusic.com/album/mike-patton/.../12877603/

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To get you to mill about and download things you might not otherwise have checked those sections for.

Or... To get you to pay attention to "popular" stuff that emusic are probably being paid to promote – which, if you really wanted, you could probably get cheaper on Amazon.

What don't you like about it apart from familiarity breaching?

It's full of pictures of album covers and stuff that take up too much space on the screen, take too long to load, and make it harder to find anything. I don't want a bloody shopfront. I don't want to know what's popular or what's selling. The more popular it is, the less likely I am to want it. Just give me a list of relevant (to me) artists and titles, so I can skim through them quickly, and see whether there's anything I want. If I want to look for other stuff, I can look for it myself.

Also just got Mike Patton - The Solitude Of Prime Numbers

You should've been looking for Mike Patton anyway :P

I did ya grumpy dibbler

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Latest download:

Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma

http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/chr...12870605/:

Chris Watson’s late-2011 disc starts out as the train recording it is, pulling into a location with a rumble and a metallic screech. But with the Spanish and English announcements for “the ghost train,” things move into a slightly different arena, a kind of ultimate train journey of the mind. Watson drew on recordings he made for a BBC project on a now discontinued Mexican railway line from the Caribbean to the Pacific to create El Tren Fantasma. With his ear for field recording and collage again at play, the resultant hourlong disc sometimes has the feeling of a retrospective advertisement at work to some unavoidable degree, a tourist impulse that can’t be fulfilled.

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I was going to cancel the other day and they offered me a free month!

yep

I used it to download Scorn LPs — currently listening to Anamnesis.



I'm still probably going to cancel though.

Discovered some Boymerang tracks I hadn't previously heard of on Emusic recently :


Lo Recordings Vol. 1: Extreme Possibilities

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Lo-Record...ease/74717 (alongside Psyche, not the Carl Craig Psyche - don't get too excited !! haha)

&


Lo Recordings Vol. 2: Collaborations

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Lo-Record...ease/74727 (alongside Voafose)

Audio : http://www.beatport.com/track/second-fun...mix/384361



check em, very good stuff.




also, after almost of year of emailing CD Baby about 3 missing Subtle Audio albums (Polska "2nd Rate", Subtle Audio Vol II and Subtle Audio Vol I) - they are all finally on the EMusic site today.

Vol I and the Polska album were on Emusic before through Tunecore but then I switched distributor (over to CD Baby) and they re-delivered the albums. Those 2 albums never made it and neither did Vol II which was going live for the first time.

Anyways, it's sorted now : http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/albums/la.../?sort=fr:

I think of cancelling my account, too. Lot of things I'm interested in are not available for my country. Is it that some artists like to be pirated more, than others?

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check em, very good stuff.

yes, I have these

though I originally found them when aiming at Omni Trio completeism rather than Boymerang

Latest download;

Kyle Bobby Dunn - Bring Me The Head Of Kyle Bobby Dunn

http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/kyl...13418666/:

Stars Of The Lid's "And Their Refinement Of The Decline" isn't on there any more, which I had, so I'm getting this to tide me over with drone quota.

Tricky - False Idols

First since "Knowle West Boy" in 2007.

http://www.emusic.com/album/tricky/false.../14083464/

http://www.emusic.com/album/william-onye.../14445886/

Downloaded the entire available Grouper back catalogue at eMusic this evening. My favourite ambient artist.

http://www.emusic.com/artist/grouper/11693581/

To keep in with my 'no new music consumption' ethos, I'm only continuing promo subscriptions that already exist. One of those is eMusic. I may as well use up my £20 Connoiseur sub this month with a few new downloads:

Bill Frisell Plays Lennon
Lone - Reality Testing

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signed up again temporarily to pick up some modern recorder LPs

http://www.emusic.com/album/genevieve-la.../13642734/
http://www.emusic.com/album/lucia-mense/.../12749295/
http://www.emusic.com/album/katja-reiser.../12032418/

Latest downloads today: BJ Nilsen & Stillupsteypa - Passing Out / Last Harbour - Caul. The Nilsen collab costs only 42p for 1 single 67 minute drone and field recrordings track. Will report back.

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signed up again temporarily

and I'm still there




this month's selection:

Art Ensemble of Chigago - Live in Paris CD1
http://www.emusic.com/album/art-ensemble.../11306498/

Nikolaus Brass - String Quartets Vol.1
http://www.emusic.com/album/auritus-quar.../13063894/

Guapo - NEARFest 2006 / Rock in Opposition 2007
http://www.emusic.com/album/guapo/nearfe.../14481102/

Mary Halvorson & Weasel Walter - Opulence
http://www.emusic.com/album/mary-halvors.../11452894/

The Necks - Drive By
http://www.emusic.com/album/the-necks/dr.../12373006/

The Necks - Hanging Gardens
http://www.emusic.com/album/the-necks/ha.../12363816/

Zed Bias - Boss (tracks 1-4; I'll get 5-10 next month)
http://www.emusic.com/album/zed-bias/boss/15314173/

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and this month:

Guapo - Obscure Knowledge
www.emusic.com/album/terry-waldo/the-soul-of-ragtime/14784457/

Karin Krog & John Surman - Cloud Line Blue
www.emusic.com/album/terry-waldo/the-soul-of-ragtime/14784457/

Razen Sheldon Siegel
http://www.emusic.com/album/razen/razen-.../12033788/

Terry Waldo - The Soul of Ragtime (completing from earlier months)
www.emusic.com/album/terry-waldo/the-soul-of-ragtime/14784457/

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I now look forward to "emusic day", when my subscription renews. What shall I get?

So far...

The Exaltics - The Truth
http://www.emusic.com/album/exaltics/the.../15675828/

Barbara Monk Feldman - Soft Horizons
http://www.emusic.com/album/various-arti.../15607574/

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this month's purchases:

Charles Cohen - Brother I Prove You Wrong (Morphine)
http://www.emusic.com/album/charles-cohe.../15938479/

Meredith Monk - Piano Songs (ECM)
http://www.emusic.com/album/ursula-oppen.../14975024/

Population One - Theater of a Confused Mind (Rush Hour)
http://www.emusic.com/album/population-o.../15409251/

You said that 3 years ago today x