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In my last post, I detailed the ten albums that earned the highest ratings from me during 2007. But while I did find them each to be fantastic recordings, ratings don't necessarily reflect popularity. That is to say that the most highly rated albums might not have been the most often played. Indeed that's not the case. I took data from the past year and ran it through my Impact ...

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Another year come, another year gone. After spending 2006 evaluating the status of my iTunes library and trimming some fat, I took the opportunity in 2007 to explore a lot of new material. And I must say that overall it was a pretty good year for both my library and for music in general. I had added 1,891 songs to my library by the end of October, which marks ...

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This article is also a guest post for Webomatica, who asked me to fill in for a day while he's in Japan. Appropriately, I think, I dove through my library and pulled out some of my favorite Japanese albums. Enjoy... :: Susumu Yokota - Symbol (2005) Yokota is a musician of the sonic contortionist variety, meticulously sculpting sounds and bending them to his will. Symbol features some delicately constructed mashups of classical ...

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Ah, it's been a while since we actually talked about music here at tunequest, so let's pick up where we left off: Susumu Yokota. I recently posted about my discovery of his music via an Amazon recommendation for his 2001 exploration of ambient minimalism, Grinning Cat (perhaps a reference to Alice in Wonderland?). Having piqued my interest to the extreme, I started researching the man and his work and ...

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I came across Susumu Yokota's Grinning Cat (2001), amazingly enough via Amazon.com. I've had an account there for nine years and, before this record, I cannot remember a single time that the store recommended something relevant to me. Over the years, I've become fairly adept at glazing over the recs altogether. Maybe it just took that much time for the site to gather enough information about my interests, because ...

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