Recently I have become fascinated by a new phenomenon in audio. The Chinese are making all these little pieces of hardware that can bring audiophiles to tears. For little more than a 100 dollars a piece you can buy amazing Digital Analog Converters and Intergrated Amps. Combined with no-nonsense speakers and a computer you’ll get the best musical experience little money can possibly buy.

This is the Super Pro USB Dac and is with a price tag of $99 by far the cheapest DAC available. You can connect it to your computer by USB which than uses it as an external audio output. But it can also receive coaxial or spdif input so you can connect it to your CD player. The analog output is through two RCA plugs at line level. I’ve had mine for a week now and it is in fact better than the Trends Audio UD-10 I bought earlier this year. I will spare you the audiophile superlatives, but I think there’s nothing that can beat this little thing given the price.

Go and improve your own weblog. The inline mp3 plugin is now ready for the masses. Check it and download it on it’s very own page.

Or stay here and listen to Obi One ramoni mixing Glen Brown.

Coming saturday for the third time there will be a London Night in Lantaren-Venster. Which is just around the corner from where I live. London night is celebrating an upcoming musical phenomenon called dubstep. Which is a fusion of drum-and-bass, techno, triphop, dancehall and dub reggae with a futuristic edge. The music is slow, the mood is mellow, the dancefloor is almost pitch black with people swaying slowly to the throbbing bass. It’s like subsonic sound architecture. The day after the last edition I had pain in muscles because of the bass sounds pulsating through my body.

A night that should not be missed. Still don’t know what I’m talking about? Check out the music:

Burial - Southern Comfort

Kode 9 and Spaceape - Backward

Also check the Last.fm page of udub.

While looking for mp3 files to link in this blog I stumbled upon this great mp3 search engine: Skreemr

It spiders many weblogs and suprisingly many obscure acts can be found using this. For instance:

Disco Inferno - In sharky water

Bark Psychosis - Big shot

Seefeel - More like space

I once interviewed console too, but never got round to translate the article for the web. I don’t think I got the magazine anymore either. Too bad, he’s a pretty good German electro-pop artist leaning more to rock than most.

Console - Zero zero

So happy to have this mp3 player working that I can’t stop linking great mp3 files. To start the day, check out

Keith Hudson - I’m alright

I got round to moving my great javascript inline mp3 player out of the clone recordshop. One step at a time I will turn it into my first WordPress plugin, and then a standalone version, and then a Drupal version. Come on let’s celebrate by listening to

Rogue Wave covering Debaser,

some Gino Soccio for the disco kids

Gino Soccio - Love Is (Prince Language re-edit)

Gino Soccio - Remember

and some

Finnish techno by Mika Vaino

and finally the amazing Rhythm and Sound/Maurizio

Round One - I’m your brother.

Pjoe.net has been online since late 1995. For the past five years it had grinded to a halt. I’ll try and revive it a bit. Bare with me and head over to the interviews.