Moving right along.. here’s the next group of CDs I scanned with Red Laser.

Cataloging more CDs in the Noodlecave..

Items marked * weren’t recognised by Red Laser. I hope The Cloud (praise be) picks this up and is useful to someone somewhere.

I keep going to buy CDs I already own. Henceforth, a project to make a list of my physical music collection. This is section one on shelf one – there’s (does a quick count) 48 of them in total. We’ll see how long I can keep this up. Fortunately with the aid of the Red Laser app it shouldn’t be too hard.. should it?

Not an auspicious start.. the very first barcode I scanned wasn’t recognised by the internet. Perhaps Sony Australia “Promo Copy Not For Sale” CDs died out before it was invented. I wondered for a minute why Force hasn’t got a barcode – but given it was made in the 80s before the technology was ubiquitous, maybe not so mysterious.

Not really a lot of A bands are there. Weird.

Antarctica Starts Here is a local band, I love the track on that CD that samples John Howard, and crows. Hand made CD package by the artist.

Automaton was an early internet find, I had a couple of (legal) mp3 download tracks of theirs for years and only recently managed to search out the full albums. They’re great, in an angular, math-rock-slash-sonic-youth way.

The rest – well. Let’s just say I’ve enjoyed lots of different styles for lots of different reasons over the years.. there’s more interesting and obscure stuff to come, promise.

Mixing my submission for the Clan Analog Heads Tribute Album revealed a limitation in my setup – I have no monitoring to speak of. It’s great having a studio-in-a-laptop but if you can’t hear what you’re doing what’s the point? Well, there’s hearing and there’s Really Hearing. So I got myself a pair of AKG K242 cans. Mixed the track. Sort of forgot about them for a while. Tonight I decided to sit down and have a good listen to a selection of stuff and.. Continue reading Eargasm →