A bonus album today for Indigenous People’s Day! I rolled the dice and our bonus Random Album of the Day is Hysteresis from Dolenz.
Dolenz is a DJ from the UK. Their specialty is apparently Halftime which I’ve never heard of before but it’s an offshoot of Drum & Bass. It’s an odd album for me to have downloaded as it is not at all in my wheelhouse.
I’m torn. I think it’s good for what it is but it’s not my favorite style of music at all. So I may rate it well but I think I’m likely gonna delete it from my collection because it is not a style of music I pursue. And I’m trying to increase the ratio of things I want to hear in my collection. So I while I kind of liked it and appreciate it for what it is – I don’t really care to ever listen to it. But it’s good so if it’s a style you are into – check it out!
Rating: 7.5
Favorite Track(s): “Rap 1 ft. Toofless” is good. I really liked “BBoxyrama”.
Keep or Trash: Trash. Mainly because it’s not a style of music I care for that much.
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: