Here at the college they block torrent usage and most P2P activity. This has been the bain of my existence the past couple months, as I rely on torrents to get most of my music. I basically need a constant stream of new and interesting music to live, mind you. So recently I've been trying to find other places with internet access to obtain my music. I've tried walking over to the Casa Monica hotel across the street a few times, but I seem to get locked out of the internet there after about a minute of my torrent program being open. I guess they block IPs that are using up a ton of bandwidth.
So last night I went on a free wi-fi hunt, walking around downtown St. Augustine. I found myself propping my computer up on garbage cans, postage boxes and all sorts of things while out there. Finally I got down to the corner of A1A and King street and found out that the A1A Ale House has a free internet service.
And I must say, A1A Ale House, you are my savior. Thank you.
Although their internet blocked websites like Megaupload, Rapidshare, and all torrent file sites the simple use of a proxy fixed that problem. And it turned out they had no actual block on torrent downloading activity, just the websites.
Anyway, I downloaded 7 albums last night, and have listened to each of them about twice since I got them.
So I figured I'd post up a few good albums that I've been enjoying recently
These three albums are linked from http://strictlybeats.blogspot.com/ so all credit goes to them, I didn't upload them myself.
Suhov - Sympathy Modul
It's a nice hip-hop/downtempo/breakbeat instrumental album with a strong jazz/funk/soul influence
K u r i s o u l - Autumn Colors
This is straight down-tempo trip-hop, it's smooth and relaxing with lots of melody.
Guts - Le Bienheureux
Great album from Guts, hip-hop/down-tempo/experimental with a ton of great sampling. Definitely a strong funk/soul feeling to it.
So yea, there are 3 great albums on the trip-hop instrumental tip that I've been bumping. Definitely get my top recommendations. Especially the Suhov and Guts.
Music has always been one of the largest driving factors in my life, if not the single most influential thing to me. It's really a battle between that and visual art.
Visual art has always been incredibly important to me, but it can't always put me in the emotional state that hearing certain music can.
Despite all this I've never been able to really focus on making my own music, as much as it influences me to think and express myself the ways I do. I've always been much better at drawing or painting or anything else in that zone. I'm completely sure if I had the chance I would immediately give up all my artistic skill for music talent.
But I'm pretty sure chances like that don't actually happen. Though I could try selling my soul to the devil Robert Johnson style.
Anyway. I'll keep giving my best shot at it I guess. I think I'll pick up the guitar again and keep trying to play. Get my mandolin back out and drop some melodies.
We'll see how it comes along.
But now that we've got all that out of the way, it's time to talk about tonight's real topic of importance. Spousal abuse.
Just kidding.
Goodnight children.
-J
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