Tonight I discovered a new favourite choon when speeding home late at night in my super powered Micra: Dance Parties [Mechanised] by 65daysofstatic. This song has almost everything, and needs to be listened to loud.

(Must remember to turn volume back down on stereo in the morning.)

UPDATE: Rez HD is out today (30th Jan), and its a fiver. FIVE WHOLE POUNDS. Just five hundred new pence for this glorious piece of audio-visual gloriosity. 1UP gave it 10/10, so what the hell are you waiting for?

Ah, Rez, can I compare thee to a summer's day? Probably, provided there were some mind-altering substances on offer. And colours, and shapes. And colourful shapes.

And, of course, a brilliant soundtrack in Rez: Gamer's Guide to.... This album has been back in circulation for me: the brilliant 'Rez Edit' version of Adam Freeland's Fear (you mean Mindkiller? Hip-hop overdub? No thanks!), Creation The State of Art by ケンイシイ (Ken Ishii), Coldcut's Boss Attacks and Buggie Running Beeps 01 by Kenichi Sugiyama being particular highlights. Just don't play it loud in the car, driving home late at night, in the rain. On mind-altering drugs. It could be quite mesmerising.

Anyway, looks like Steve managed to get his mitts on Rez HD a bit earlier than usual, thanks to "PartnerNet - the closed Xbox Live Arcade network which is like peering into the future - game developers across the globe chuck stuff on there for other devs to download and play to death". I guess there are perks still working in the games industry: strike me particularly envious. Rez HD... mmm... I feel a disturbance in my trousers. Or is that just the Rez Trance Vibrator?

Old news, but I also noticed another of my faves, Ikaruga, could also be available on Xbox Live Arcade. I still play Ikaruga on the GameCube, probably cos it's ludicrously hard.

If you own the big grey n' green, keep your Microsoft lovin' ass on the lookout for these two diamonds.

Up late tonight: too much coffee and an idea. It may be a considerable task, but the result - ideally, and subject to perhaps two prerequisites - would enable me to press a button and play random tracks from almost my entire CD collection. Previously a dream (I normally get to about 15Gb of ripped/downloaded music on a hard disk before it gets replaced) could this now be plausible?

I stumbled on the idea on another random last.fm user's profile, fr0stbyte. The 'albums i own' tag. By filling this tag for my own account would provide a radio station for all these tagged albums.

Sure enough, there are loads of other peeps doing this too - looks like one could get some interesting statistics or trends from that. Nirvana and Radiohead! Who'd have guessed?

This may be old, but hell its called "Beatboxing flute inspector gadget remix". Every single word in that sentence is awesome. Apart from flute perhaps. No wait, flutes are also teh awesome.

Best thing I've seen in ages.

I think things are looking up for music and musicians especially. More and more (if not all) bands are getting themselves on the internet, and there are some great services cropping up to provide support, distribution and promotion of good music.

Take Jamendo. The aim is to let members "discover fresh music on P2P networks; listen to 805 albums from talented artists for free; download them on BitTorrent or eMule; review, tag and rate albums; get personalized recommendations; discuss them on the forums..." Phew. It also provides podcasts streamable playlists via RSS for a nice easy way to check out an album before you grab it via BitTorrent.

Wow. What a gig. Last night, Four Tet played our local venue, Central Station. I've been a fan for some time, and I was interested to see how it would work live... and work it damn well did. Taking tunes from his most recent albums, Pause, Rounds and Everything Ecstatic, Four Tet tore the place to pieces with stutters, tweaks and bass to bring the roof down: "Louder, louder!" he calls to the sound engineer at the back of the room, just two tracks in. Dylan called it "the soundtrack to the apocalypse".

There's definitely a harder edge to Four Tet live - the most chilled tracks are twisted into stomping monsters that you just can't help but move to.

Last night a few bods from HMV went down to the Talbot Bar to check out Kid Carpet, a self-proclaimed "one-trick pony". Oh, but what a trick... for those who haven't guessed from the pic, Kid Carpet plays toys. Casio keyboards, riffmaster guitars from Poundland, Simon and a squeaky toy. Awesome. I can die happy now I've seen a grown man rocking out with a 18 inch long white plastic guitar.

There's some tunes on the site, too. Check out Your Love, Shiny Shiny New and Jump (another great candidate for best cover ever).