I just bought Zaireeka! is not just another technical thread on how to play the mythical Flaming Lips four disc album. Someone has actually made his personal mix of the CDs and has put it as wma files online. So you don't need four CD players in sync anymore to listen to the whole thing.

Today's PopNose (available until Sunday) is a German song! And it wasn't me who suggested it. Of course I had to download the song after Tom's order not to. I thought it was a hint that it was another dance/hiphop track I wouldn't like. If you join the discussion and know what it is, keep it for you, will you? Weird to discover a band of your own country you have read about quite a bit on an English website. I am so totally off the German music scene, it's unbelievable. By the way it was the first PopNose I saved onto hard disk. Retro but in a good way.

P.S. This seems to be one of those songs you only like the first time you hear it. On second listen it is quite banal. I don't want to imagine being overexposed to this song on the radio/music tv.

Strongly recommended: Nusrah Fateh Ali Khan's 25 minute jam version of Haq Ali Ali Haq available for download over at the Tofu Hut. What a voice! When he does his long drawn-out "ahahahahah" is he expressing grief or joy? Is he singing to God (Allah)? It sounds as if he feels pain and bliss at the same time. What a hypnotic piece of music! The kind of mind altering stuff I prefer to any drug in the world. I should really stop this cliché-ridden dancing about architecture. Especially considering that I can't really dance.