To the guy who keeps commenting — every day now — on my Manu Dibango post, asking for a particular pressing of Soul Makossa — PLEASE STOP. I do not have the pressing, and I… 

As of today, Flabbergasted Vibes has received 10,000 visits since its inception. Thanks to everyone to has contributed with their posts or with their wonderful comments, you are all appreciated.

I’ve decided my eclectic tastes just can be contained in a single blog, so I’ve started a “splinter blog” named FLABBERGASTED FOLK. The layout needs tweaking and I’ll mess around with it when I have… 

Several recent uploads were listed as 320/kbs, the bitrate that I INTENDED to encode at. Somehow, these were ctually somewhere around 160-170 — a horribly and very lossy-sounding bit depth indeed. Conversion was done with… 

Dear readers.. I refuse to use I-Tunes to play or organize music (until they have native support for FLAC, i.e. never, I will continue to use Foobar2000 or, in a pinch, WinAmp). But since many…