http://www.techgnosis.com/paradise.html

This is an article about the origins of the goa trance parties from Goa, a coastal area of India. The history begins in the 1980’s/1990’s and this is an excellent read:

"It's one hour past midnight, and the jungle throbs with techno. The tropical breeze off the Arabian Sea is warm and wet. I stuff a wad of rupees into the outstretched palm of the auto-rickshaw taxi-driver, and head toward the noise. I'm 350 kilometers south of Bombay, in India's coastal state of Goa, and I'm about to hit a rave."

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A list of all the things that scrobble.

http://build.last.fm/category/Scrobblers

In no particular order… and highly incomplete:

Dave Matthews Band
Minus The Bear
Hocico
Hardwire
People's Republic of Europe
Indigo Girls
Mt Miriah
Bitch
Vast
Empty Space Orchestra
Crystal Method
DJ Dan
DJ Icey
DJ Baby Anne
Bad Boy Bill
Donald Glaude
Simply Jeff
BT
Infected Mushroom
Mike Doughty
Sonic Youth
Bush
KoRn
Catherine Wheel
Better than Ezra
Face to Face
Supersuckers
Presidents of the United States of America
Beach Boys
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Save Ferris
Engine 54
Evanescence

More to come when I remember them.

Lately I've been writing a story. Its a story about initial

hopelessness, and finding oneself in this world amidst the

distractions; its about finding who you are and finding love.

And the perfect soundtrack to such a story I discovered, is a

genre of music called post-rock.

The wikipedia describes it as such, "Post-rock is a subgenre

of progressive rock characterized by the use of

instruments commonly associated with rock music, but using

rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures"

not traditionally found in rock. Post-rock musicians typically

produce instrumental music."

This instrumental often 'ambient' and moody layered…

Lately I've been writing a story. Its a story about initial

hopelessness, and finding oneself in this world amidst the

distractions; its about finding who you are and finding love.

And the perfect soundtrack to such a story I discovered, is a

genre of music called post-rock.

The wikipedia describes it as such, "Post-rock is a subgenre

of progressive rock characterized by the use of

instruments commonly associated with rock music, but using

rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures"

not traditionally found in rock. Post-rock musicians typically

produce instrumental music."

This instrumental often 'ambient' and moody layered…

Sat 18 Jun – Minus the Bear

I'm a big MTB fan and all the years living in Seattle, Everett, Bothell, and Lynnwood I never got to see them. But now that I live in Spokane they decided to drop by around my birthday, how about that? The best review I can give besides the trite, "they were so awesome" (well… they WERE) is my girlfriend's review of our whole evening. She is a better writer than I, so here it is:

This is from my girlfriend's blog located at http://kit10phish.wordpress.com/

I went to see Minus the Bear last night…

01. Your favorite song:

Tool “Lateralus” - http://youtu.be/36dI2ILZtrs

02. Your least favorite song:

Beach Boys, “Good Vibrations” - http://youtu.be/TCeD_6Y3GQc

03. Your favorite artist/band:

I have 3: Dave Matthews Band, Tool, Minus The Bear

http://youtu.be/gD4M12cFNgc “Two Step” by Dave Matthews Band

http://youtu.be/Bxl39OCcm-E “Schism” by Tool

http://youtu.be/OVKcCCoq2s8 “Into The Mirror” by Minus The Bear

04. Your least favorite artist/band:

The Beatles. Over rated! “Here Comes The Sun” - http://youtu.be/U6tV11acSRk

05. Favorite song lyrics:

Tool - “Lateralus” Link: http://www.songlyrics.com/tool/lateralus-lyrics/

06. Your top played song on iTunes/your music player:

Tool - “Lateralus’”

07. Your top most played artist on iTunes/music player:

Dave Matthews Band…

http://criticalbeats.bandcamp.com/album/bluetech-rainforest-reverberation

Click there to download Bluetech’s new album, Rainforest Reverberation. Proceeds go toward ending deforestation, species loss, and cultural upheaval in the Amazon. Visit www.amazonvoice.org to learn more about where “Rainforest Reverberation” contributions go.

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I thought this was pretty important, and a great benefit idea. Enjoy the music and feel good for supporting the planet!

So… I don't listen to doom metal or any other kind of metal that often really. Very little, if at all. I mean does Tool count? See, I don't even know. That's how little I listen to it. But I do listen to a lot of psytrance and it seems like there's a lot of great psytrance artists with the same names as black metal, doom metal, progressive metal, etc, artists, for example, Elegy.

So my charts and stats might be skewed a bit with the genres because of this. I wish Last.FM had a better way of handling…

So… I don't listen to doom metal or any other kind of metal that often really. Very little, if at all. I mean does Tool count? See, I don't even know. That's how little I listen to it. But I do listen to a lot of psytrance and it seems like there's a lot of great psytrance artists with the same names as black metal, doom metal, progressive metal, etc, artists, for example, Elegy.

So my charts and stats might be skewed a bit with the genres because of this. I wish Last.FM had a better way of handling…