Open thread

With Haloscan dying, I ended up losing a lot of comments, and unfortunately Blogger won't allow me to have comments on old posts. So, here's an open thread.

I'm in the process of making some possible career changes, and so am extremely pressed for time. When the proverbial dust settles, I do have a backlog of material I want to upload for you all. Thanks for your patience.

In case you hadn't noticed

This place has become busy as of late. One factor is some occasional time to breathe. Until the 2nd of January, I'm on vacation, which gives me some time to line up some music to post. Even before that, once my courses were sufficiently prepped late in the semester, I was able to devote more to this particular endeavor. We'll see what the interterm and spring semester do to my schedule - I wouldn't expect the current torrid pace to go on indefinitely, but realistically I should be able to up a couple albums a week most weeks. The other factor was - thanks to some very kind donors - I've been able to afford some better software for ripping and transforming my cd collection to high-quality mp3 files (at least better than Windows Media Player). You've already begun reaping some of the benefits, and I'm only warming up. Over the next several months, I should be able to treat you to some out-of-print and often hard-to-find jazz recordings, as well as some industrial music, fourth world, and some other dangers.

In the meantime, if you're new to this joint, take a look around - there are plenty of albums to download (as of now there are over 120 active downloads available). To those who visit, I never say this enough: thanks.

Thanks!

I have received the occasional contribution to the tip jar. Let's just say, that if I've been remiss in sending a personal thank you note, I'll make sure hopefully soon to get one fired off. Trust me, it's appreciated.

Quick update

I've re-upped a temporary version of Sunny Murray's album Big Chief. I'll have a better quality mp3 version hopefully later tonight [Update: Mission accomplished].

Also, I'm going to go on a fundraising drive this month. If you've appreciated this blog and its contents, just click on the tip jar. Finding and sharing some rare music can be resource-intensive. A little help with the overhead is always appreciated, and the more help I get, the less time I spend hustling up a few bucks elsewhere and the more time I can spend providing y'all with quality and rare music.

Some Housekeeping

I fixed a couple broken links, in the process re-upping the following albums:

Coleman Hawkins - Wrapped Tight

Olatunji - Flaming Drums!

Update those blogrolls and bookmarks

As you can see, we've moved. Thank Blogger for completely botching the migration process, and eating my old blog in the process. I had to create the complete archives manually in order to replicate the original blog which took a bit of doing, but we can say it was a success.

When time permits, I should have some new music up for y'all.