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Any of you all use the follow feature on other fan accounts on Bandcamp? I was looking at this cool reissue of Odion Iruoje's Down To Earth on bandcamp (https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/down-to-earth I think a lot of you guys on here would be very interested in this), and I noticed one of the people who was listed as having purchased was named Dan Snaith, and I think it might just be the actual Caribou dude. The purchase history seems like it would make sense for him, and he's following one fan account, and it seemingly belongs to Four Tet. So yeah, I'm following them both now because that seems like a great source of recommendations.

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my journey thru the nurse with wound list just struck some gold

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Samtvogel by Gunter Schickert

I'm a big nerd for when delay is used a lot to make cool patterns and also krautrock, so maybe this won't be of interest to everyone here, but if those things are of interest to you, then you should really give this a listen. honestly it's worth knowing for the cover alone, but the music is really worth hearing too.

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Going to write something up but here are my final stats for 2016 (though some of the counts may be a little off due to quirks, and the total time spent listening estimate is very rough but should be in the ballpark)

Final Tally '16

First Listens: 479
Releases Heard Previously: 440

Releases Listened This Year: 919
Artists Listened This Year: 663

2016 Releases Listened: 280
Pre-2016 First Listens: 199

Total Listens: 2317

Most Listened Album: Painting With (Times Played: 36)
2nd Most Listened Album: Zauberberg (Times Played: 22)

Only Listened Once: 468
Only Listened Twice: 215
Listened Three Times: 77
Listened Four Times: 46
Listened Five Times: 19
Listened Six Times: 20
Listened Seven Times: 18
Listened Eight Or More Times: 56

One listen, but listened before: 265
One listen, first listen: 203

Days with no new listens: 131
Days with no listens: 15

Album Count By Decade
1950: 1
1960: 22
1970: 107
1980: 46
1990: 76
2000: 174
2010: 492

Listens By Decade
1950: 1
1960: 34
1970: 185
1980: 85
1990: 120
2000: 255
2010: 1639

First Listens By Decade
1950: 0
1960: 10
1970: 50
1980: 23
1990: 13
2000: 43
2010: 339 (2010 without 2016: 59)

Average release length: 0:50:14
Estimated Total Listening Time: 1939:40:21 (for perspective, if I slept 6 hours a day, that would be 2196 hours, and I slept more than 6 hours a day)

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Been looking at listening experience density (how many days before I listen to an album again), got a cool little animated graph of it.

the appearance of each dot represents the 2nd listen of every album I listened to in 2016 with more than 4 listens. albums sink lower and grow in size when there are a larger number of days between listens, and they disappear after their last listen of the year. I'll be writing about this more but I thought it looked cool so I wanted to post it.

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so since I have all this data I've decided I'm really going to go for it and try to write something that will be interesting no matter how long into the year I finish it, which works out because it is going to take me a while. it's going to be very long. I'm going to finish it no matter what, but I'm curious if it's actually something anyone would be interested in reading, and how much they actually want to read. So here's the beginning of it, I still need to put the polish on to some of it but this should give an idea of what I'm working on, let me know if you have any thoughts

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so would you be mad if you read that much and I still hadn't even really talked about a 2016 release in any detail?

oh and as far as current listening goes, Oto Hiax - s/t, Keith Fullerton Whitman - rsp-00, and Katie Gately - Color are all getting lots of plays and are all great

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