This week I have mostly been listening to...

Last.fm is having a curious effect on my music listening habits. As you will have noticed from the side bar, Last.fm records statistics on how many times you listen to particular artists. Your profile page has an overall chart of the top 50 artists you listen to. I have become mildly obsessed with checking this list and getting my favourite artists to over 100 plays. "OK," I think to myself, "this week I got Plaid, Bonobo and McLusky to over 100 played tracks... This week I'll listen to Primus, Deltron 3030 and Herbaliser as they all in the mid-70s. Oooh, Luke Slater is a bit low on 48 plays..." And so on. I'm thinking that I have to get all the bands in the lower half of my Top 50 above a hundred plays before I can listen to Four Tet, Xploding Plastix and Amon Tobin again. And I really can't listen to Orbital at all at the moment because they are several hundred plays ahead of everybody else. It's insane behaviour, really.

Next week I will mostly be listening to Pink Floyd, Talking Heads and DJ Krush.