This week there was a fashion/music event here. Featuring two bands a day. I went there monday and wednesday. These pictures are from monday. Mauricio Fleury in particular was really nice.

Mauricio Fleury

Lalai

Firefriend

For some reason (the space I didn’t have in my bag) I didn’t bring my harddrive containing my music. I love music. My music library is always growing, last time I checked I could listen around the clock for over 3 months without listening to the same song twice.

So when I suddenly only had a few days worth of music (what I had lying around on my macbook), I eventually went mad. Well, I spent some time trying out music services, such as deezer, last.fm radio stations, blip.fm etc. But I had issues with getting them to stream good enough to be really usable. The internet connections here can be really bad at times.

A few days ago Björn gave me a Spotify invite. If you’re not familiar with it, think of iTunes that streams whatever you want from the mayor labels, and a bunch of smaller ones. There’s a few things I haven’t found, but it’s definitely not too much that’s missing (unlike deezer). And not having to run it in a browser is also a plus.

Now if they’d only integrate it with last.fm and have the option to add in your own local music (like obscure remixes and other stuff that you don’t find in spotify).

So thanks to Björn for keeping me sane. ;)

In Madrid there are a lot of people doing weird stuff in the street for money… Like standing completely still for a long time or dressing up like a brazilian dancer and dancing, without music (this was a guy). But this was something else. I had to record it and show you guys.