A friend of mine sent me this Youtube link, and I can’t stop playing it.

I’d never heard of the Hang Drum until last week - absolutely mesmerizing sound - my inner hippy wants to sign up and go and get one from Berne as soon as possible (there’s a long wait apparently!)

Depending on who you listen to, they are either the scourge of the recording industry or a fantastic new way to promote your music direct to fans. I’m talking about music blogs of course.

I’m definitely of the latter opinion - the technology isn’t going to disappear, you can’t uninvent the web or mp3s or IM or CDRs or Bittorrent or filesharing websites like Yousendit, Mediafire, Zshare et al, so it’s utterly pointless moaning about it and longing for the old days - they ain’t coming back.

In fact the Hype Machine is probably my main way of discovering new music these days, at least for non-dancefloor stuff. I get sent literally 100s of clubby promos every week from labels and producers, and in my free time I prefer to listen to other types of music, or else my mind would quickly dissolve into a kind of electro/house/rave mush, and we definitely don’t want that.

And yes, if I really like it, I’ll go and buy it.

Anyway, I’m really pleased that some of these music blogs have featured my tune “Regret”, in particular the runners-up from the remix competition. Please go and check them out:

Hot Biscuits
TribalElectroDance
Boule A Facettes
Dhuun

Big ups to Kyle, Cristian, Vincent and Kapil for featuring the tune - keep supporting new music!

My latest remix, for UK indie band Rocinante, is up on my myspace page. I have no idea when it’s coming out, but I’m pretty chuffed with how it’s turned out. Please check it out and leave a comment if you feel so inclined.

Also, while clearing out my studio I found a couple of CDRs and DVDs with pics and vids from some past gigs in Estonia (2004-2005), so I’ve thrown photos and clips up on Flickr and Youtube respectively - check the media section of my website, or the vid (10 minutes of it at least) is in the embedded player below.