22 minutes, 44 seconds

X-Fusion
Choir of Damnation

Just realized today that it's really only a matter of a week or two before I get to the end of the list. Maybe less than that. And that it'll feel weird once it's over. It's been hard sometimes to blog every day, but I'm sure I'll miss it. There were times when it felt like having a second job, but it often helped get me out of bed in the morning. I felt a responsibility to it, even though I couldn't be sure how many people were reading it. I'm still not sure.

In any case, I've been thinking about what I want to do with this blog space after I get to the end of the CD list. Not sure if I want to continue writing about music in some way here or just leave this blog be, as a kind of monument to nine months' hard labor. The thing is, despite my original intentions, I'm under no illusions--I know now that writing this blog hasn't exorcised any demons whatsoever. I'm sure I'll resume listening to my CDs in order of total time soon enough. The list will flip over, incorporating all the new arrivals, and the whole process will begin again, where it started, at 79 minutes and 54 seconds.

Also today:

22:43 Phragments, We Are All Beasts
22:37 Dive, Extended Play
22:37 E-Craft, Reaktanz
22:35 Velvet Acid Christ, Pretty Toy
22:31 Von Thronstahl & The Days of the Trumpet Call, Von Thronstahl & The Days of the Trumpet Call
22:24 Various artists, Writ in Water
22:19 Current 93, The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home
22:12 Morrissey, My Love Life
22:11 Mortal Constraint, Second Move
22:03 Current 93, I Have a Special Plan for This World
21:55 DavaNtage, No Candle Light
21:52 Harold Budd, Ruben Garcia & Daniel Lentz, Music for 3 Pianos
21:48 Absurd Minds, Come Alive
21:48 Laudanum, Laudanum

52 minutes, 52 seconds

X-Fusion
Bloody Pictures

So X-Fusion's new Rotten to the Core box set arrived yesterday, and this is one of the two bonus discs included. A handful of new songs, a handful of remixes. The usual how-can-we-maximize-our-revenue-from-this-release approach. But the funniest thing about the box is that it comes with a metallic X-Fusion dog tag on a chain. Why? So they can identify you as a fan of German EBM when you inevitably OD on meth in the bathroom of a dingy club in Chemnitz?

Also today:

52:51 Assemblage 23, Storm
52:50 Current 93, Imperium
52:46 Neotek, Brain over Muscle
52:41 Lamia, Dark Angel
52:39 Robin Guthrie, Imperial
52:39 NVMPH, Nuclear 45 Is Dead
52:38 Tony Wakeford, La Croix
52:37 Mortiis, Keiser av en Dimension Ukjent
52:35 Infekktion, Virus of Time
52:33 Les Chasseurs de la Nuit, Homo Homini Lupus
52:32 God Module, Viscera (CD 1 of 2)