Note: I had half-finished a mini-review of each album, and then never got back to it. (smart).  When I went in just now to edit it, blogger decided to nuke the text and then conveniently auto-save.  Wheeee!

So here's the list without any commentary.

1. Laibach, Laibachkunstderfuge
2. Benga, Diary of an Afro Warrior
3. Earth, The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
4. Opeth, Watershed
5. Maga Bo, Archipelagoes
6. The Bug, London Zoo
7. Flight of the Conchords, Flight of the Conchords
8. Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80, Many Things
9. Apes and Androids, Blood Moon
10. Dub Trio, Another Sound Is Dying

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• 08:53 Simone Tavazzi is getting my morning going. #
• 09:09 now time for Bongo Fury. yay. i have it on vinyl but i ran across the mp3s on the net recently. #
• 09:46 attn: girl. while you were under the impression that he was a man, it has now been revealed that he was a muffin. goodnight austin tx. #
• 12:09 -> lunch is a salad & lowfat yogurt. i'm allowing myself ranch dressing today. living on the edge! #
• 17:49 heading home. #
• 17:51 just finishing the 2 hr DJ Q Essential Mix, dissecting the bassline beats. I should do this with another dj too. #
• 21:01 i pretty much rule at making chili. #
• 02:24 sleepy. time for bed. not much progress on the remix tho; gonna have to schlep to someone's place that has flat monitors. #

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• 09:18 per KFrey's recommendation, i am checking out Dave Angel's "39 Flavors of Tech Funk" to be schooled on tech house. #
• 09:19 not coming up in any kind of rave/dj scene, i have a lot to catch up on. #
• 09:41 5 tracks in, i think i've decided i'm not a fan. i need stuff a little darker. a *lot* darker. #
• 10:10 everyone i have a confession: i am listening to a david lee roth bootleg from 1986. #
• 13:01 / now playing: Clark "Turning Dragon". will try to avoid face melting away. #
• 15:32 found a bug in the Bubble Breaker game in wm6: score field doesn't deal well with 4 digit totals. I rule! #
• 15:33 let me revise that: the particular total I had wasn't displaying right. I still rule tho. #
• 15:53 yawn. more espresso please. #
• 18:05 time to head home. hungry. need groceries. #
• 20:08 successfully resisted carbs today. rewarding myself with a few hobnobs. #
• 23:17 tryin' to find some bassline mp3s online... #

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• 13:52 ack slept too late. shoulda set the alarm #
• 14:11 ok I am up but not necessarily at 'em. #
• 14:17 espresso brewing. I should be at 'em soon. #
• 14:55 espresso FTW! #
• 22:17 pockys are surprisingly south beach friendly! #
• 23:53 watching jen (my gf) play Bully. I forgot how great this game is! #

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• 13:39 heading to a wedding. #
• 13:59 wow I do NOT like being in a church. #
• 14:02 a bunch of the people at this wedding will actually see that last message, but I think none will be surprised by it. #
• 14:05 proof that i am in a church : www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/37603/ #
• 14:56 ceremony complete, now on to the reception, in Fairfield. I think I will detour past a coffee shop. #
• 15:11 ex's ex jockeying the register. dunno whether she recognized me tho. #
• 15:12 oh well, espresso attained ! #
• 17:09 is at the wedding reception, which I just realized is close to Jungle Jim's... #
• 17:52 Should be. I'll check when I get home. Might have forgotten to "authenticate" #
• 18:27 I think I earned the piece of cake. #
• 18:49 leaving reception a bit early. back in the car listening to Rechenzentrum on the way to Jungle jim's #
• 22:21 is brushing up on Atom™. Someone with that amount of music in so many styles just deserves an in-depth look. #
• 04:27 tired. didn't work on music like I intended. got distracted torrenting. #

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• 09:03 grill closed at work. makes sense but I want eggs. :( #
• 11:37 hungry. no eggs is the reason. stupid jeebus day making me hungry. #
• 11:41 listening to a couple Butt Trumpet 7"s that i (must have) ripped a few years back. #
• 11:47 needs to remember to make his statuses look like sentences so they make sense on facebook. #
• 11:56 found this on an old cdr. attn: Devo fans: www.zshare.net/download/53307381e7863304/ #
• 15:33 kicked out of work early. yay. stopping at camera store on the way home. #
• 15:37 fog. i clearly will not be in a hurry.: www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/37519/ #
• 16:09 gave up on the camera store. exit ramp traffic was asinine. #
• 02:58 time for Camp Washington! #
• 03:35 Evan's taking a shit, he says. #
• 04:08 finally crashing #

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• 08:56 Finally heading out to the parents'. Be there in 3 hours #
• 08:57 Vintage (to me) cd time: Republica. #
• 09:03 Back when everyone had chubbies over Garbage, this was my band. Too bad their 2nd album blew. #
• 09:08 mmm... Espresso... #
• 09:16 Passing CVG #
• 09:26 Crap it just dawned on me that I took a wrong turn, duh! Hehe espresso dammit kick in! #
• 09:34 Back on track. Funny I messed up a drive i've been making for a dozen years #
• 09:47 Next "vintage" record: RHCP "one hot minute" I don't care what people say, this record is good. #
• 10:00 Funny town name watch: Vevay, IN #
• 10:23 Espresso kicking in. Need metal. Disc 2 of Garage Inc coming right up. #
• 10:43 passing through Louisville : www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/37324/ #
• 11:04 Damn, gotta get gas. I was hoping to make this all in one go. p.s. Hey guy in front of me, when you top off your tank it spills on the g ... #
• 11:17 Next disc: Front Line Assembly "Hard Wired" #
• 11:25 If i'm not mistaken, FLA sampled Aphex Twin on track2 #
• 11:35 Haha I think they sampled Aphex Twin on track 4 too :) #
• 11:51 Just drove past the local Denny's. The lot is full. :) #
• 11:53 Why the hell do all these nativity scenes have Magi in them already? amateurs. #
• 12:13 small town indiana: www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/37337/ #
• 18:26 ok time to head home. 3 hours to go! #
• 18:54 just passing Santa Claus, IN. #
• 19:42 man, twitter suddenly got quiet... did you guys all nap at once? #
• 19:57 ah weird... just got all the missing tweets all at once. #
• 20:19 hot damn this gas station has South Beach snacks. #
• 00:08 hooked up facebook to the twitter again. #

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• 11:52 Annoyed that twitter's api is still effed. #
• 12:18 Yay for chipotle #
• 12:21 Unfortunately I have no groceries. Kroger is bound to be stupid. #
• 12:25 I can see that i'm going to need a bowl for this burrito. #
• 15:25 Time to do the dishes #
• 22:04 chillin at home, listening to ken nordine. #
• 23:11 THE MOST DYNAMIC SHOWS EVER BEING GAVE #
• 23:13 sorry i meant THE DYNAMIC SHOWS EVER BEING GAVE #
• 23:13 pertaining to that last tweet. #
• 01:01 Woot bag o crap #
• 01:02 Woot server busy! #
• 01:10 on the confirmation screen... #
• 01:13 didnt make it! :( #

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• 11:32 finally listening to John Oswald's "Discosphere", which i've never heard in full before. (only a couple tracks from it were on his comp) #
• 12:34 annoyance of the moment: the "fyoo-ooo-elll" part of wenceslas (sp?) #
• 12:37 can we at least all agree that if you ask a question on twitter to call it a "twhat"? #
• 14:22 being sent home early. I don't celebrate imaginary birthdays but i'll take the time off! #
• 14:51 stopped at Time Warner to drop off the remote I forgot when I dropped cable. line out the door. not worth the $6 credit. #
• 14:56 hey lady the sign says DON'T WALK #
• 15:06 for some reason i'm very annoyed when a high profile dj does a bunch of non-mixing on a cd. 1 or 2 times maybe but after many yr just lazy. #
• 15:26 I think i'll celebrate my afternoon off by ripping cds. then again, it may be faster just to nab them from torrents... #
• 18:00 I can hear someone trying in vain to get up the not-very-steep hill. #
• 18:01 hahaha it's a cop. damn he stopped #
• 18:02 the cop just caused a wreck! #
• 18:07 cop in the road caused a wreck: www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/37159/ #
• 18:10 i'm gonna go move my car farther into the driveway away from the street. #
• 18:59 firing up the espresso machine for late night music session. #
• 19:28 you're up to about my avg (if a cup = 8 oz) #
• 19:28 two more wrecks outside. #
• 22:38 ripping cds to boost my what.cd ratio. got a little greedy last week. :) #
• 22:41 mmm... breakcore... #
• 04:07 Upped a few torrent, now it's time for bed. #

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• 09:36 now playing: new Wiley record. I like it, but i'm a bit sad to say it's not grime. he was one of the stalwarts... #
• 10:11 #DJESOTD Umberto Tozzi "Gloria" i'll bet you though Laura Branigan's was the first! tinyurl.com/7slcuu #
• 11:25 now playing: audio ripped from the Gil Mantera's Party Dream live dvd. #
• 14:11 just received xmas gifts from coworkers. my gf will be inheriting the wine and candy. i've got to maintain my figure. ;) #

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• 16:19 stopping the Red Dead Revolver to prepare for sorta band practice. #
• 20:21 loving the new gloves and scarf I bought today at Hansa Guild. #
• 02:22 crap. time got away from me again. lucky thing it'll be a short work week... #

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• 17:27 viewing done. heading to Amol. #
• 00:19 at The Subway (a bar, not the sandwich restaurant) checking out Evan Scott's dj set. he's killing it. #
• 01:46 moved to a house-party type thing in a small warehouse space. #
• 02:25 on the way into this (admittedly hipster) party, a passing drunk punk rocker told us "american apparel's up the street, FAGS!" #

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• 14:43 showered, dressed, ready to start my day. #
• 14:54 metro drivers are fuckin assholes. I have driven 6 blacks and have almost been hit by 3 buses. #
• 20:55 cooking lentils. curry powder FTW #
• 23:13 yawn. headed out but maybe I should make espresso first? #
• 23:15 rendering a remix I started last year but dropped. aftr seeing AC Slater last night I was inspired to figure out how to ctrl the bass filter #
• 00:56 now at C&D checking out the replacement of last week's canceled The Fix. #
• 02:44 back home. should I play video games, or make music? I think video games will win. #
• 05:03 time to crash. gotta go to a friend's dad's visitation tomorrow. not fun. #

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hell yes! check it!

my boys in GMPD just released an EP just in time for my best-of-2008 rankings!

it's Ballerina, and the title track has been one of my favorite tracks of theirs for a year at least.

awesome. happy freakin' friday.

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• 07:54 attn npr:puns suck. ending a story with one is not clever. you do it way too often. #
• 10:52 uploading a christmas comp. even though i hate christmas. #
• 12:10 #DJESOTD Even Though DJ Empirical Hates Christmas HeStill Seems to Have Christmas Songs: A Compilation djempirical.com/audio/xmas.zip #
• 18:47 canceled plans for catching Tub Ring tonight. instead heading to Cbus to catch AC Slater. #
• 22:26 LBE soundchecking at Spice in Columbus : www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/36685/ #
• 22:43 a snippet of Love Between Equals : www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/36688/ #
• 23:04 weird... more ableton than serato at this show. #
• 00:02 how many voices in a SID chip? is the SID what was in an amiga? where's akers when I need him? #
• 00:23 sweet thanks guys. my friend just got a mssiah and he was telling me about it. #
• 00:27 oh and p.s. sam I knew the c64 had the sid, I just didn't know whether the amiga had it too. #
• 00:44 ac slater is killing it. bubbly bass FTW! #
• 02:22 AC Slater is now playing dubstep and it is LARGE #
• 03:25 eating at Tee Jaye's : www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/36707/ #

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• 11:56 i just remembered that The Faint is at SGH tonight. and really, after their latest album, should i go support them? i'm not so sure. #
• 11:59 more importantly, Tub Ring is there tomorrow! sweet. #
• 13:45 thinkers and others tinyurl.com/6fdtdj #
• 18:05 new Ruckus Roboticus mix "Dirty Dancing" avail here: ruckusroboticus.com/DirtyDancing.zip #

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• 09:31 espresso sinking in. #
• 12:11 and so it begins: www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/36442/ #
• 12:33 thinking about going vegan. #
• 13:33 the twitter gadget has few features and looks bad and updates slowly. buh-bye. #
• 17:11 time to head home. meeting later. #
• 21:38 LBE talking at the Priss meeting: www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/36477/ #

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• 21:28 threw on Shogun for the hell of it... now I may be stuck watching it. of course, I love it, so "stuck" may not be the right word... #
• 01:52 going to bed. maybe i'll be lucky and there'll be a new Smew build waiting for me in the morning... #

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• 13:23 starting my day, though i'm just bringing a blanket into the living room, so my day's not starting too crazily fast. #
• 13:39 making espresso. definitely need it. #
• 14:38 have I mentioned how much I LOVE john oswald? I have gone a couple years without listening to his retrosp comp but it rules. (it's on now) #
• 17:28 like eminem, I am cleaning out my closet. unlike eminem, I mean it literally. and I don't suck. #
• 19:00 very close to rejoining tx6294. #
• 20:28 hungry. had small lunch due to slight excess last couple days. I think i'll just fry a few eggs. #
• 21:11 to aid digestion, I will now play a bit of Red Dead Revolver. #
• 22:37 ok. pausing game to check up on backup/setup of drives. #
• 23:13 hey mac folks: if i'm formatting a hard drive to be used by a mac person, what format should it be? fat32? will ntfs work? #
• 23:38 thanks everyone! formatting now. windows wont let me go fat32 for partitions > 32 Gb go i guess the drive will have a few. #
• 00:39 ugh what a pain. stupid ports not forwarding. #

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• 13:10 hungry! who hasn't eaten yet? #
• 13:38 no cable means no catching up on dvr'd stuff on saturday, which means i might actually clean up my place & try to have people over tonight. #
• 14:05 shamWOW! tinyurl.com/6lpuoc #
• 17:09 my bro called and asked if I wanted to have lunch. i'm like, "breakfast" is defined by the food, but "lunch" stops at like 5pm. #
• 22:23 trying to de-pack-rat myself. found a bunch of 3" floppies. don't need them, since I don't have a drive for them. #

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• 09:07 i just got a failwhale trying to upload a new pic. lame. #
• 10:52 shortened work day today, due to "holiday" party. between being veg & being on south beach, i expect to be hungry at the pot luck. #
• 10:53 note: "veg" in that last tweet means "vegetarian" not "vegan". if i were vegan i suspect i'd essentially already be on south beach... :D #
• 11:50 ugh. work holiday music is *very* jesus-y. #
• 13:25 successfully resisted food temptation. quite an accomplishment considering it's a pot luck with 50% desserts. #
• 13:45 especially proud of resisting the indian girl's samosas. I would have murdered those. #
• 14:10 traffic in the parking lot is dumb. 1000+ people all leaving at once. #
• 14:21 had an espresso before leaving. traffic gone, ready to go. #
• 17:29 watch videos based on my music listening: playmymusicvideos.com/ enter "djempirical" to se mine, or if you're a last.fm user, use yrs #
• 18:31 nap. then food. #
• 19:55 ok, nap over. now to find food. #
• 20:57 apparently my nap wasn't over yet. just woke up again. had a dream about a mobile app that uses last.fm to help johns choose prostitutes. #
• 02:41 back from gypsy hut (meh) and northside tavern (better). jeremiah brought up Neil Hamburger so i'm throwing on one of his dvds. #

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• 08:32 Mike Duncan on npr. the guy couldn't/wouldn't give a straight answer. seconds of dead air while he figured out how to respond. #
• 08:38 yay for nobel laureate on obama's cabinet. #
• 08:42 I meant nobel laureate in *physics*. there have maybe been laureates in prior cabinets but not in physics. #
• 09:27 devoting part of the day to listening back to the recordings from SCHWARZ last thursday. hopefully they are not full of suck or fail. #
• 09:43 things kittens cannot do: tinyurl.com/6aqbqx #
• 09:57 just got my watch battery replaced, only to find that it takes three(!!!) batteries. wtf? #
• 14:26 so, dj's -- if i share a sloppily performed live set here, will you judge me? :P #
• 14:26 maybe you already have! lol #
• 18:37 I just realized that I *can* hear Newsted during parts of "Dyer's Eve". crazy! #
• 19:03 "leggo my blago"? did Hardball hire a Daily Show writer? #
• 19:19 watching the doc on the making of Wild at Heart. interesting! I want to read the book now. #

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• 09:47 listening to Dusk & Blackdown's newest. www.discogs.com/release/1423064 #
• 09:54 ooh, this track "Lata" is clearly sampling Lata Mangeshkar. sweet. #
• 17:38 heading home after work. listening to R. Villalobos just before I left, so i'm in the mood to make techno. #
• 18:12 jesus kroger is re-goddamn-diculous. #
• 18:15 and this lady's goddamn happy singing is annoying as fuck. bruce dickinson called; he needs his vibrato back. #

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• 10:32 still working on the top 10. "Laibachkunstderfuge" might be a shoo-in for number 1. it's amazing. tinyurl.com/55xqte #
• 14:56 still going through '08 releases. Mrs. Jynx is quite good. review if you like mike paradinas. #

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• 12:10 lunch time. no book. boo hiss. #
• 15:45 god DAMN is "township funk" not the best track of 2008? SERIOUSLY #
• 00:45 watching the tick vs dinosaur neil #
• 00:50 now the tick vs the breadmaster #

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This is my friend Eric, a very talented spoken word artist, talking about Mother's Day and Scientology. It's from an appearance in May, but I just now ran across it.

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• 19:57 back from parents' house. got a couple early gifts. watched Hancock. made & ate chili. good times. #
• 01:33 about to crash. grabbing a couple new things to listen to for tomorrow at work. #

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oh, and our show friday was great! i was sloppy as hell, but we had a good reaction.

the other bands on the bill were all great too. thanks to all!

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just spent the weekend at the parents' house. seeing as how i'm still doing the South Beach diet, i volunteered to make chili. that way i knew i'd have something to eat. i left out the jalapeno, which revealed that the kick it has is likely due to the green salsa i put in, not the jalapeno. oops!

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• 13:13 finally heading to the parents' place. 3 hrs through snowy hilly rural highways. lucky thing i'm getting coffee now. #
• 14:07 roads are not snowy after all: www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/35349/ #
• 15:56 weird. loads of highway construction at my parents' exit. very confusing #
• 23:26 watching Hancock. good job on them using The Meters. #
• 01:43 the biggest air mattress i have ever seen: www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/35419/ #

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• 09:34 still re-listening to 2008 releases to reduce to a top 10. will save good/fave songs for a comp. #
• 10:30 my verdict on the newest record by The Faint: meh. #
• 11:33 #DJESOTD Fanu & Bill Laswell "Hollow Ground" dnb/jazz/dub tinyurl.com/5zlhm4 #
• 12:13 soup & salad for lunch. #
• 13:49 hahahaha COLDPLAY FREAKIN RULES www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/147952 #
• 19:03 heading to band practice to run through the set before the show later #
• 22:27 that last tweet's full band name: The Guild of Calamitous Intent. #
• 22:29 there are a good amount of people here. that's awesome. #
• 23:22 now playing: The Damn Thing. very upbeat. #
• 01:18 lovely crash on now: www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/35294/ #
• 02:07 heading home. show went very well. too many tweeters there to thank everybody! #

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• 18:53 getting to work late means leaving work late which means no nap before dj-ing. #
• 21:03 off to play records. #
• 21:21 tonight is the last of our monthly night SCHWARZ. will try to record. #
• 21:35 listening to Lull on the way to the show. it's a good reset button. #
• 21:49 sexy santa: www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/35195/ #
• 22:54 the librarian gets noisy : www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/35201/ #
• 02:31 the librarian gets noisy : www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/35213/ #
• 02:37 the librarian gets noisy : www.cellspin.net/user/038640fb92/post/35214/ #
• 02:50 goddamn cellspin duped the tweet. #
• 09:34 still re-listening to 2008 releases to reduce to a top 10. will save good/fave songs for a comp. #
• 10:30 my verdict on the newest record by The Faint: meh. #
• 11:33 #DJESOTD Fanu & Bill Laswell "Hollow Ground" dnb/jazz/dub tinyurl.com/5zlhm4 #
• 12:13 soup & salad for lunch. #
• 13:49 hahahaha COLDPLAY FREAKIN RULES www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/147952 #

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just saw this on enduser's myspace blog:

UPCOMING METHOD OF DEFIANCE: LASWELL / BROADRICK / END.USER / DR ISRAEL / SUBMERGED

work has begun on the new method of defiance album, should be very exciting.

the lineup for the new project is:

bill laswell
justin broadrick
end.user
submerged
dr israel

due out 09 on ohm resistance

the firs Method of Defiance record was good but not great. however... Broadrick?!? awesome.

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