Anyway, while tagging music, I’ve been spending some quality time just listening to other peoples' music. Here’s a few things that I’ve enjoyed recently.

• Programmable Love Songs, Volume One by FlexE (Benn Jordan): I got this in Benn Jordan’s recent-ish complete discography drop, and I rather enjoyed it. I’ve been watching his YouTube channel for a while but only recently have started to actually listen to his music. Some of it’s pretty good! Maybe even most of it.
• Trippin' Out, by Chris McDermott & His Wild Combo: This is a CD I bought back in CDBaby’s old “online record store” salad days, before the entire music industry switched purely to digital distribution. It doesn’t seem to be on any of the indie purchase services these days and as far as I can tell the band is no longer active, but this album is some pretty fun, frenetic blues jamming. My favorite song on the album is “Polkadot.”
• Song Fight!: Tyson’s Corner: This is a fight from 2015 (gosh, has it been 9.5 years already?!) and I don’t think I ever got around to listening to it before. There’s some great songs in this one, and this was from a time period when Song Fight! generally had a decent level of overall quality in most fights.
• Let It Be, by The Beatles: I used to be a huge Beatles fan and their music still holds up for the most part. Some of the songs on this particular album are a bit self-indulgent but oh well, it’s called “classic” rock for a reason.
• Determinance: Original Soundtrack by nervous_testpilot: some pretty great 90s acid techno-style stuff that sounds like it’d be totally at home on any given Playstation 1 racing game. I have no idea how it fits with the actual game it’s from. Maybe I should play it someday.

It’s still a bit of a work in progress. There’s a lot of meta-information I still need to add, and the music section will eventually get a nice tag browser to make it easier to filter through my, uh, 25 years of releases to find what you’re looking for, but adding in the data that’s necessary for that to happen will take some time.

I also hope to eventually make it so that you can get nice printable liner notes from all of my album pages, but that will also take a bit of doing!

There’s also obviously a bit of design work that needs to be done, especially around tags and the buy/listen box for things. I definitely have plans! But for now I’m just trying to get this site functional enough, and I think it’s at that point.

I also have a lot of plans for this blog in particular: I want to have articles on music making, stuff about the music industry (and trying to survive as an independent musician in general), and also an ongoing diary of the music I’m listening to or inspired by! I might also post occasional things like deeper meanings behind songs, and random work-in-progress things or other little experiments.

This blog will definitely be more focused on my music, though; for other stuff, I have a whole other website.

I’m still trying to decide whether I want a comment system, and what form it’ll take. Sometimes I feel like simple is better, and in the meantime there are plenty of other ways for people to get in touch with me.