A Zune and tuning back into music.
It would appear that I have to eat my own words as I went and bought myself an 80gb Microsoft Zune around the holidays and have begun to feed my music addiction like I wouldn’t have expected. I’ve reacquainted myself with a bunch of my old favorites like Massive Attack, The Orb, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Spock’s Beard and many others as well as begun to dig into new music (to me anyway). Some standouts that I’ve recently acquired would include recordings by Kiln, Tim Hecker, Mouse on Mars, Loscil and The Flower Kings. I should also mention all the free great recordings that I’ve been listening to from the nice little web label Earth Mantra.
It’s actually been great fun exploring various music sites and looking for interesting things. It reminds me a little of my younger years (yes I am officially old) when I would just scour music stores for something new and cool to listen to. I honestly can’t wait to get my hands on my CD collection (which is still in Indiana) and load them all up.
Although it might be a little Orwellian, the Zune software also keeps track of the stuff I listen to and allows me to show it in a social environment and on sites like Facebook and Myspace. Check out what I’m listening to. I’m happy to say you won’t find any Yanni or Kenny G there. 
