Hard drive is BUNK

I am angrier looking than this BBQ right now. The firewire port on my external hard drive somehow broke off and fell into the hard drive enclosure. All my music is still there, I just can't access it.

Sorry if this place blows massive balls for the next little while. Hope to get the shit fixed & up 'n runnin soon.

Whole lotta numbers

TheDockingStation.ca

So zShare has been down for quite some time now, meaning none of the songs I've thrown on this blog are playable/downloadable anymore. Either they step their game up (and are back up soon) or Imma have to switch file sharing hosts.

BUT...

this wackness gives me a chance to properly introduce you guys to The Docking Station website. The site showcases an eclectic collection of all good up-to-the-minute released music, whether it be electro, hiphop, house, dancehall, indie, or any 841530 sub-genres in between. Not to mention, it's currently getting over 1,000 unique daily hits (a number that sees a 15% increase every month)... which stumps the shit outta my lil' ol' blog.

Earlier this week I was asked to jump on board as a contributing writer and, without a moments hesitation, I said fffffsho. The Docking Station peeps and I have kept in close touch over the past few months... trading tracks (they even pushed the Tom Wrecks Kanye edit I sent them to the 6th most downloaded song on the internet spot 2 weeks ago), mixes, youtube videos, used socks, and semi-scandalous pictures of hot chicks of mixed-backgrounds. Our tastes mirror, really.

No foot dipping, I'm straight jumping in - so make my 2nd home your 2nd home!!!

> > > THE DOCKING STATION < < <

Study: Music tastes linked to personality

Pic from Gabriel Galvao on Flickr

Just saw this. A study involving 36,000+ people ties certain personality traits to musical genre preferences.

Here are some findings...

Bollywood: Creative, Outgoing
Samba: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing, gentle and at ease
Blues: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing and at ease
Funk: High self-esteem, creative, not hardworking, outgoing and at ease
Jazz: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing and at ease
Classical music: High self-esteem, creative, introvert and at ease

Opera: High self-esteem, creative, gentle

Easy listening: High self-esteem, not creative, hardworking, outgoing, gentle and at ease

Country and western: Hardworking, outgoing

Rap: High self-esteem, outgoing

Reggae: High self-esteem, creative, not hardworking, outgoing, gentle and at ease

Dance: Creative, outgoing, not gentle

Disco: High self-esteem, not creative, hardworking, outgoing, gentle

Indie: Low self-esteem, creative, not hard working, not gentle

Punk: Lack self-esteem, creative, not hard-working, not gentle

Rock and roll: High self-esteem, creative, hardworking, not gentle, at ease

Rock/heavy metal: Low self-esteem, creative, not hard-working, not outgoing, gentle, at ease

Chart pop: High self-esteem, not creative, hardworking, outgoing, gentle, not at ease

Soul: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing, gentle, at ease

Swing: High self-esteem, creative, at ease

I gotta get me some Samba tunes.

Watch the short video and findings recap here.
Read the article here.
Or be a part of the still growing study here.

I don't post enough hip hop on here

But I'll explain why...

My old computer is filled to the tits with hundreds (upon hundreds) of full rap albums. So filled, in fact, that I don't even have enough memory to connect to the internet and upload a single track to a file sharing site. Even worse, my "critically low virtual memory" warning says I don't even have enough room to update my iTunes (old version doesn't recognize my new device, so I can't sync any songs either). I've cleansed the shitputer of everything but mp3s and music software, but still not enough. My current laptop is all 'bout the 124+ bpm dancefloor stuff, so until I start transferring all those old files with an external drive, this blog will remain quite dance fist pumping-ish.

I promise to start sprinkling with the genre. Like, asap.

Eliminating zShare timer script!

Posts have been kinda lacking due to the discovery of THIS. A script that eliminates the wretched 60 second ad-infused wait when downloading off zShare. I've been spending, and now saving (in minute intervals), my time collecting music like a madman.
Anywaaaaays - once you click a zshare download button and get hit with the countdown, just paste the below script into the address bar, press enter, and poof, you're a minute ahead of the game.

javascript:var time=0