Internet search, what’s that?
Things that creep
Lion’s share of the music I enjoy listening to, is, well, not quite mainstream.
From today’s perspective I don’t even understand how I managed to find new music just a couple of years ago. It must have been a bit of everything - late-night radio broadcasts (Artur Boryczko!), some press articles, having a chat with CD store owner and listening to his favourites, you name it…
Since none of my friends share any enthusiasm for most of what I listen to, the numerous ways
to broaden the horizons, were often strange, unusual and unpredictable.
And that was definitely fun!
Nowadays, I have a “must/should haves” list, evergrowing - thanks to recomendations in amazon, generally googling on things, and more recently looking in musicplasma.
But the whole joy of searching is gone. A pastime of buying new findings, got replaced by a regular frustration when I need to prioritize before ordering something.
So, could it still be called searching, that what we are doing regularly on the internet? Wouldn’t sieving be a more proper name for that kind of activities?
PS. Check out musicplasma. Sites like that sweeten somewhat the loss of the real searching pleasure.
Update:
Just had a look at the title and it sounds very backward. The RANT-LOCK on my keyboard must have been stuck again, I guess :-P. I will not change the post title, of course. So I added the subtitle instead, to convey the point: Although I regularly search the internet, and seldom do a search in the “real world”, I never took the time to realize that shift in the meaning.
More things that creep will sooner or later appear on these pages…
You write about late-night radio broadcasts (Artur Boryczko!). These are my unforgettable memories. I recorded about 60 tapes, mainly with Artur’s broadcasts. Now i look for the cds he played on the net. If you would like to see the list of them, visit www.muzyka.gdan.pl
Regards
Great list! Very comprehensive! Looks like my “to buy” list has a couple of points in common with it. If I find time today, I’ll put my list here in the comments, or post it in the blog.
Hmmm… my page ranks first when googling for “artur boryczko”. Surprising.
Let’s try: Muzyka dla frikow i frakow, and see if it makes to #1 in google.
Here’s my shopping list:
Abfahrt Hinwil
Acid Mothers Temple
Amalgamation of Soundz
Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
Arto Lindsay
Biosphere - Cirque
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children, High Scores - Skam, In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country, Peel Sessions
Chandra Sheila
Christian Kleine
Claro Intelecto
Clicks & Cuts (sampler)
Conrad Schnitzler - Gold
Deadbeat
Dieter Moebius
Dj Krush Jaku
Einheit / Ammer / Gry / Pan Sonic - Frost
Experimental Audio Research
Fennesz - Venice
Fluke - oto
Fly Pan Am
Gak Sato - Tangram
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Hoahio
Invisible Architecture 01
Invisible Architecture 02
Irresistible Force
Isan
Jaga Jazzist
Jeck & Kirkegaard, soaked
Jeck / Yoshihide
Kid 606
Kiyo - Chaotech Odd Echo
Lali Puna
Laurent Garnier - 30
Manual
Microstoria
Nagl / Bernstein / Akchote / Jones - Big Four
Neu!
Noel Akchote - Rien
Ogurusu Norihide
Pan Sonic
Photek - Solaris
plaid - double figure, not for threes
Recyclers / Akchote / Argüe - Visit
Ryoji Ikeda
Spacek - Vintage Hi-Tech
Takagi Masakatsu
Taylor Deupree
Tokyo Knights
Uri Caine
Hope you will find something interesting here…