The Hidden Joys Of The MP3 Playlist

good track. the video is quite good too, in the greenwich foot tunnel if memory serves.

actually...

I quite often queue up every single MP3 on my hard drive into Winamp and then play it at random. Unsurprisingly, I find myself skipping half of them, but every so often, as Tom says, you find a gem you'd forgotten all about.

Discovered this with my iPod. "A Neutral Milk Hotel track that sounds like MBV fronted by Roy Montgomery? Brilliant!"

What song would that be, Ned?

i burnt a cd of most of my 2001 mp3s, some of which i'd only given a cursory listen, and played it on my friend's 5 channel stereo mp3-reading hi-fi system. and at 2am all this idm i'd forgotten about sounded INCREDIBLE! with everything amped up, all the clicks, hiccups, fizzles, blips, blops, squelches (etc) sounded so *visceral*.

i couldn't read the names of the tracks unless i was staring at the machine, so i was stunned by the greatness of a cex track ("theme for cex" or something like that) - boc pastorlism with mind-bogglingly intricate glitch-fuckery overlayed. and perfect for watching a plane slowly move across the night sky with a twinkly joburg beneath it. (my friend's house is in the (just-about) mountains). later, curd duca's "pop" (just the sound of skipping vinyl surface noice clicking along to some half-present rhythm) made the house sound like it was coming off its foundations. there was also a low track with reverbed drums that sounded *exactly* like some guy living underneath the house banging against the plumping with a large metal wrench or something.

Some rarity a friend grabbed from Napster along with a bunch of others, wish I could remember the name.