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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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A short seven months after the release of his debut record, Diplomatic Immunity, the unfathomable intergalactic negotiator and groove machine has returned with a most urgent message. You see, The Phantasmal Farm is in danger and in need of saving. The pull of the 8th Dimension has that place of transcendental epiphanies in its grasp and only you, yes you!, can save it. The Polish Ambassador implores you to download ...

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Anyone who's been around tunequest for a while surely knows of my fondness for The Polish Ambassador, the Earth's greatest half man, half cyborg, all electro-groovin' diplomat. Anyone who is new around here should get up to speed by reading my write-up of his debut album, Diplomatic Immunity. After posting that review, I sent a list of questions to the Ambassador, inquiring about his species, his adventures, his artistic methods ...

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Yeah, What They Said, links to interesting stories that I don't have time to write about. Some people call it "link sharing." Why “Vote For The Worst” Just Might Work. Medialoper has a Theory of Popularity in a niche-dominated, long tail world and relates it to American Idol: "In a culture defined by niches, the more popular something is purported to be, the less popular it actually is." Director Nicholas Meyer ...

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When I was in middle school, I became a big fan of the first few entries to the Mega Man series of games for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Game play was straight-forward. The stories were fairly one-dimensional Mega Man good; all others bad, but exciting. And each level, named for an element or mineral (Bubble Man, Heat Man, Air Man, etc), proved to be a uniquely constructed ...

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Originally uploaded by The Polish Ambassador. The Polish Ambassador has posted four downloadable electro-musings on intergalactic negotiation tactics. Partake of them slowly and acclimate yourself to the Ambassador's power. Though he is on a mission of peace and synthesized grooves, these treatises are but a prelude to the all out assault that will be Diplomatic Immunity which launches December 15.

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Please allow me to recommend Crunching Numbers, by The Polish Ambassador, everyone's favorite electrogroovin emissary from a far-away land, who will save you from internet electrocution by harnessing the incredible powers of space.

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