blogs

2008 was a great year for electronic music fans, and one of the reasons why is the growing number of major electronic musicians that blog. 

Here are five electronic musicians that had great blogs in 2008:

Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails blog was probably the most influential electronic musician’s blog of 2009.

Reznor, more than any mainstream musician, has deftly used Internet media and social networking, and his blog has tied his multi-pronged approach together.

In 2009, Reznor used his blog to tease fans about new projects, highlight NIN media from Flickr and YouTube, release two albums of Creative Commons licensed music, share an insider’s view of one of the biggest concerts of the year and just to share his thoughts about the world.

In 2009, Reznor set an example of how musicians can use new media that will be hard for other artists to match and hard for Reznor, himself, to duplicate. Read more…

Andrew Haarsage makes things – things that are insane.

Things like the Bloog modular blog synthesizer:

It’s a machine that scrambles the words and sentences of real-time blog posts, based on the look of a 1960’s Moog synthesizer. It pulls text using any any RSS feed.

The knobs and sliders scroll through the text and add or subtract words from the screen, creating new ideas from the existing sentences.

I like the idea – it could help me keep the site fresh. But I’d go for a MiniBloog Voyager!