Archive for January, 2006

The return of the Warp Records catalogue to Yahoo! Music Unlimited

I dogfood good and plenty, but only where stuff can be made to integrate with my world. My world, as it happens, tends to include asynchronous whirrs and chips — often supplied by Warp Records, of Autechre, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada and Plaid fame.

One day they disappeared from the Yahoo! Music Unlimited catalogue - a rather abrupt reminder of all that’s entailed in a subscription music service. “A friend in the music business” said there was an issue of some sort. Meanwhile, despite owning more Warp tracks than is good for me, I had gotten hooked on sipping the newer releases from Boards of Canada and Autechre from YME, access to which was provided through my unlimited subscription. But man, once they pulled Warp, it was a little dismal for us connoisseurs of IDM, ambient, and electro.

Now they’re back. Yay!

So it’s time for me to support both Warp and YME and make my first purchase :-) - Campfire Headphase from Boards of Canada, though the review from Y! Music is a little off the mark. Who knew Yahoo! had music reviewers? Sign me up.

Hello world: Return from the silent majority

OK, all the signs are pointing to me needing to spend more time with WordPress. Among PhotoMatt’s 22nd, the fanfare around the launch of WordPress 2.0, and the fact that my VP is leaving to go work with Matt - all conjoining with a long weekend, time had clearly come to upgrade and finally port my whole bloggy world over to a vibe more manageable from my Yahoo! busyness.

So I’m down to 73 feeds, with a few more hanging on the edge of (in|ex)clusion. I’m proud - I used to find 200 almost indispensible daily reading.

Hello world, many happy returns, etc.