Hate the nazi that runs this website, but just popping in to say that I'm on substack now & if you'd prefer my posts in a microblogging format like this one, I'm also on Blu*sky. Here's an excerpt from my first substack post, its manifesto:

Just started posting again, but not here; over on another website instead that's a lot like this one but has significantly less reverence for Adolf Hitler these days...

Listened to Baby Boomer Classics: Mellow Seventies, a comp whose main focus is on a pair of genres that were integral to the pop music landscape back then, but whose popularity had waned preciputously by the end of the 80s: folk & country

Listened to Baby Boomer Classics: Lovin' Fifties, which is probably the worst comp that I've heard from this series thus far. Plenty of good romantic 50s songs that are out there, but the now-defunct JCI label decided to go w a slate that feels pretty tired in 2024 🥱

Listened to JBO: A Perspective 1988-1998, a double-disc retrospective on an eclectic electronic label & collective of remixers/producers called Junior Boys Own, who were deeply integral to the UK's acid house years & the time thereafter, following the UK govt's rave crackdowns