Content tagged with "Music"

I started playing Hardspace Shipbreakers last night, it’s a really fun space sim game which is quite relaxed and not too aggressie. However, the standout feature is definitely the soundtrack which is absolutely amazing americana/bluegrass style instrumental music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxTyMVPaOXY

I spent some time updating my digital garden page on music with some bands that I recommend. My taste is somewhat eclectic so you have been warned!

I really enjoyed reading Wouter's post about his top 25 albums of all time and realised that for someone who mentions music pretty prominently in my bio, I barely talk about it on my blog.

I might do a top 25 albums post at some point but for now, I am content to share a couple of music updates that excited me this week.

Firstly, on Wednesday Mike Portnoy announced that he's going to be returning to Dream Theater which is awesome. Mike Mangini who's been drumming for the band since MP left has been doing an admiral job (he was pretty well qualified, previously holding the world record for the highest number of drum beats in a minute - 1203). MP is one of the main creative voices in the band so hopefully, with his return, we might see a return to concept albums like Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and Metropolis.

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It’s the end of week 4 of January 2023 already. I can’t believe how fast things are going - as usual. This week has definitely been the week that the January blues really hit me but at the same time, some good stuff has happened too.

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On Friday afternoon I got this email:

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I ended up subscribing for this service - I quite often listen to jazz and electronic music with no lyrics while I’m concentrating. This service gives me “infinite work music” that I can listen to while I code etc.