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ok fine true. I started out writing something along those lines and then went back and changed it, and ended up making this gaffe.

what I mean was that the album as a format for recorded music was not where recorded music started, but then it was the king of profits, and singles came back to form when digital music made it easy for people to just buy the one song they really wanted instead of having to buy the whole album.

you get my point =_=

You are correct with your first statement but I don't think it's for that reason.

Electronic music gravitates towards EPs because traditionally, electronic music (being pressed on vinyl) has a lot more bass than traditional recorded music like rock or jazz, and when music is recorded as physical grooves on wax, the more bass there is, the wider groove needs to be. If you don't make the groove wide enough, the bass will literally shake the needle and make it jump off the record, making it unplayable. Therefore, with very bass-heavy music (thumping drums, fat synth bass lines, etc), you can really only fit about 2 songs per side, and keep in mind that DJs want big lead-ins and -outs, so your songs average over 5 minutes long, and in some cases you have a 9 minute techno banger that takes up a whole side of a 12" record.

So even as electronic music transitioned into the world of CDs, vinyl still dominated the world of DJing, and even though electronic musicians might release an album of all their own material on CD, they were still releasing vinyl EPs ahead of the album (to cater to the DJ market and get DJs playing their stuff in clubs before the album would drop) or vinyl singles of the most popular songs with accompanying remixes (so DJs can play the hits). And even now as the world has mostly gone digital, there are still a lot of die-hard vinyl DJs out there, so you still have electronic artists releasing vinyl EPs and singles to cater to that crowd, aside from the obvious nostalgia of releasing digital EPs because that's the way it's always been done.

Obviously this all seems silly now in the world of digital music, and to your point, you are correct that EPs and singles are used as a promotional tool to drive albums. Just figured I should share how the EP got to dominating the world of electronic music even though the LP was king of rock & jazz.

oh hey now the download comes from Soundcloud, awesomesauce.

Guys I'm having trouble downloading the mp3, apparently I need a 4shared account? Help me Luke, you're my only hope (OuO)

highly highly highly recommend this show, you can listen to it on the web:

http://www.spinitron.com/radio/playlist … howid=2636

and you can get the full back catalog here:

http://www.mixcloud.com/eric-byrnes/

I keep this in my dropbox public folder because I hear this request a lot:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15215130/YMO%2 … ver%29.mp3

and I totally understand if the mods don't like me posting this so um, feel free to delete this thread...

a ha ha seriously tho this is good.

and I know this is a minor detail, but I really appreciate how each track is tagged with the genre as "chiptune/[genre]". such professionalism! it makes it so much easier for me to pick these tracks for my DJ sets. and these are good tracks! so it will definitely happen

looking forward to more music from you! keep it up!