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Create the soundtrack of your year.
Now THIS is more like it! Though to be honest I feel like I talk about music to people so often I don\'t know what to put here that\'s worth reading.
It\'s actually pretty easy for me to find what I\'ve been listening to this past year because of Last.FM. => http://www.last.fm/user/Gabek/charts?rangetype=year&subtype=artists In fact here is my 12 month chart in detail. However, this year I haven\'t really been \"into\" anything significantly like most years. It\'s certainly been a soundtrack of a year built of previous years and a couple new discoveries. But unlike years where I can say \"I was really into Daft Punk\" or \"I discovered the new pornographers this year\" this year has been a pretty casual listening time.
Of course Nine Inch Nails has been a staple, but there\'s nothing new there. Though I really enjoy any live releases that happen to come out from shows, so there\'s generally always been something new to listen to.
Ghostland Observatory came out with a new album this year, \"Codename: Rondo\" and I\'ve given that a few e-rotations. They ended up pretty high in my list with 119 plays.
Crystal Castles also came out with a new release this year, and I\'ve played them a bit. Well, only 85 times.
I went to see Lords of Acid this year, and around that time I was playing them quite a bit.
Blaqk Audio is an electronic dancey group that I never would have heard of if \@andrea\_joi didn\'t suggest them to me. They get a pretty constant play rate in my rotation.
If you organize my music
by what tracks I listened to the most
it gets even a little more broad. Is that Semisonic\'s 2001 hit \"Chemistry\" way up on the charts? Yes it is. And that, my friends, shows you that it\'s been kind of a down year when it comes to tunes for me. (Don\'t get me wrong, I really like that song.)
For some reason \"Shiny Toy Guns\" was a staple this year as well. But that\'s some feel-good, fun time poppy dance tunes that I can\'t go wrong with. So who would blame me?
If you look at albums I\'ve listened to the most, I think it\'s a pretty good list. We start with Blaqk Audio\'s SexCells, as mentioned before. A couple soundtracks, including Repo! The Genetic Opera. And the *awesome* comedy album by The Lonely Island, Incredibad.
Also as far as albums we have that new album by Ghostland Obervatory I mentioned, The Dance Macbre Remix album by The Faint, Daft Punk\'s Discovery, and Battles\' Mirrored.
I\'ve heard Battles in previous years, but it was just this year I got their album \"Mirrored\", and it\'s really great stuff. Highly recommended.
To close things out I\'ll point you to songs that I\'ve been recommending, as they are a great example of music I\'ve loved at that point in time. So seriously head over to
http://gabekangas.com/musicrecommendations
to hear some tunes.
I know this post wasn\'t very deep or anything, but hey. What do you expect?
Below I\'ll embed a few sources of tunes probably mentioned above, and you can partake if you like. Enjoy!
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