I hate....

... web sites (blogs / myspaces / whatever) that start playing music as soon as you enter the site.

I usually work with my headphones on, listening to the music I like to hear, and I find annoying to enter a web site that hits me with unwanted sound.

That's musical spam!!

OK, you have a great musical taste, that band is great, but PLEASE! don't hit my ears in this moment, I'm listening something else!!!

.. not to mention when you are in search of something and open a dozen of tabs and you have to seek where the hell is that noisy plugin...

New feature...

I just added a new widget that shows related post behind each of the blog's entries.

Hope this help you to re-discover some of the blog hidden treasures.

Anyway this is only on test, If I see it slows down the navigation, I may take it away.

Enjoy!

One Million !!!

ONE MILLION VISITORS!!!

Actually I'm not much interested in the number of visitors, I keep the counters to see where people come from and usually found many interesting sites linking us. But I'm proud to see that there are so many visits to this blog. That makes me to go on posting.. I still have thousands of things to share.. and I will do, certainly, as long as I'm allowed.

When I started this I couldn't imagine there where so many people interested in the music I'm posting.

Thanks for coming !

Stigma Rest Room on facebook

All links verified...

I have checked all links in the blog, and removed all dead ones.

Please, take a look at the old posts, still working 99% of them, ane there are true gems (not available elsewhere).

Remember: old posts have no password at all

300.000 visitors!!!

300.000 visitors since 1st January, 2008.

Thanks a lot!

Don't forget, you are not alone! Please leave comments or send a mail with your suggestions. You (yes, you!) are an important part of this blog. Let the world know we exists, share the music.

WinRAR

This is the WinRAR version I'm using.

Don't forget all new posts (since 2nd Feb 2008) have password: SRR (All caps)

STAY TUNED !!!

Spanish Telefonica has promised to have my line installed "sooner than soon". Not that I'll take their words as gospel, but seems that finally they're doing something in the right direction.

STAY TUNED!

I'll be back with new (old) material as soon as I can connect from home. I'm "scratching" the bottom of my vaults and discovering many lost treasures and also new discoveries.

Happy New Year !!!!

Well, well, well, 2008 is almost gone.

There were a lot of things happened this year, some bad, some good. But if one takes a look back and does it with "good eyes", there were a lot of good things.

What a vertiginous year it was 2008!!!

I cannot make a list of all good things happen to me this year.

Certainly this was a year of changes, in any aspect this was a good year. I have met people whose friendship I want to keep for a long time. I managed to survive. I was able to run this blog with very good results (though the last two months it's a bit idle while I resolve my communication problems), love... well.. it's an easy come easy go, but I feel "butterflies in my stomach" with a couple of girls (maybe someday, anyway thanks for making me feel alive), I moved to a bigger house, with my parents, lost any trace of intimacy- Told you already I met very nice people whose friendship I'll keep forever ? Told you already I was upset with spanish telefonica ?

There are four things I should print in bold letters:

Paloma, she helped me a lot to cross this sea of changes, and made me to wish to be a better person.

Cuisine, I spent most of my un-communicated time experimenting in the kitchen. I have managed to learn a lot of culinary techiques and learnt to bake cakes, bread, choux, biscuits, and enjoyed both the making and the eating-

Synths, I had enough time to spend with my synths and learn a lot about sound making. I promise myself to make a complete record for this new year. (My current equipment: Kurzweil K2000VP, Roland JP8080, Yamaha CS2x, Roland JX-305, Yamaha TG-77, Access Virus C, E-mu Emulator X)

AutoCad, I managed at work to spend a lot of time a programing AutoCad. I love it. There are a lot of things that can be achieved easily programing AutoCad with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), and there are a lot of tasks at work that can be easily done with good programming.

2009 WISHES:

LOVE, MONEY, SEX, INTERNET (not specially in the same order)

Last post with Rapidshare links

I see my Rapidshare links are still active. Don't know for how long....

Get them while stocks last!

Huge post today!

now it's time for a change...

Rapidshare has terminated my premium account, so most of the files in this blog will become unavailable in short time.

I will find a substitute file service and restart storing albums in a couple of days.

Stay tuned!

no news from the telephone company :-(

Absence of news aren't always good news. I still don't have internet connection at home. (weep weep weep)

I got some un-official info from an employee, but no comfirmation from the company. The problem seems to be that they are going to convert to optical fibre all phones in the zone (good news!) so they will not install any new copper line. So I'll have to wait for an unknown period of time until they convert the lines to fibre (bad news).

I'll try to connect through any of the wi-fi connections in the neighbourhood (har har har), but only for occassional mails and such.

So, for a while, I may post updates from work, but not daily.

Stay tuned and enjoy the music!

Dammit! No connection!

I don't have (yet) internet connection in the new house, neither phone line. I'm on holidays for the rest of the month, so there'll be no updates in a while.

The telephone company offered me a line usually installed on rural areas... damn! I want my connection back!!!

Maybe next sunday I can post a thing or two ;)

I'm moving today!!!

I'm moving today!!!

Well, not exactly today... I've been packing and moving the last two weeks.

My poor car needs a rest. One can't imagine how many things a person can collect for a period of three years until moving time arrives.

Today (in some hours, now it's 3 o'clock in the morning) I'll move the furniture with the help of a friend and a borrowed van.

No news from the telephone company, they said they will transfer the line "at the end of the month"... I hope that with "end of the month" they meant "end of july".. but one can't be sure with those people (grin)

I'll be off-line from home, but still got the internet at work, so not really a big problem.

Anyway, I asked Saint Google to show me pictures with the keyword "moving" and...

Summer Holidays Part One

You see I don't use this blog as a personal diary, but it's summer, I started a week of "vacation" and until the sun goes down I'm falling into boredom..

Recently I posted I was going to relax my postings for several weeks because of certain personal affairs regarding my ex-wife, justice, economy, etc. I should say that most of those things are solved.

I can barely face the monthly payments to my ex-wife (around 1.000 €, and that's a lot for my modest salary). I thought of several solutions (all include leaving my apartment):

1- become homeless
2- become an outlaw
3- go to a room at my parents'

Finally I found a much better solution, rent a bigger house and take my parents with me. That way we can drastically reduce the combined monthly expenses and not become a prisoner confined in a small room (It's not the same going to a room at my parents' than to take my parents with me). Rules change. I'm not under their rules and both should accomodate to each other. Psychologically it's a big difference!

This week of vacation I'll be packing and moving my personal belongings to the new house. Last week of july I'll move the furniture (thanks to a friend who will lend me a van. If you want a bike, talk to him), change the phone line and start my life in the new house. My parents will move at the end of august

My new home is a four room house, with a huge living room, a porch, a garden (even with a shed), communal swimming pool and a nice room over the garage for my computer, synths and the home-studio. It's in a quiet neighbourhood with good communication and sorrounded by nature.

To be honest, much better than before divorce.

I still have a huge debt of 11.000 €, but I managed to involve the company where I work in the solution of these. They think I deserve that much because most probably they will lend me the money and "don't worry how, when or if you return this money". (I must add that my company have had huge benefits thanks to my work, but it's good for my ego to see that they are aware).

I can be beated but not defeated!!!!

Now, back to summer...

When I think of summer, there are two things that come to mind:

Where do we come from ?

Countries with more than 1%:

23.36% UNITED STATES
11.94% UNITED KINGDOM
08.62% GERMANY
06.21% FRANCE
04.72% SPAIN
03.86% BRAZIL
03.74% JAPAN
03.56% CANADA
03.54% ITALY
02.96% NETHERLANDS
02.88% BELGIUM
02.58% GREECE
01.77% MEXICO
01.53% POLAND
01.32% AUSTRALIA
01.26% AUSTRIA
01.21% PORTUGAL
01.19% SWITZERLAND
01.12% TURKEY

One Year!

First birthday of Stigma Rest Room as a blog!!

I've been sharing music for years, in different P2P programs (Bearshare, Audiogalaxy, Filetopia, Soulseek, etc...), but I started to blog a rainy day (like today) one year ago.

Why Stigma ? Stigma has several meanings, it's the femenine sexual organ... of plants!, it was a "mark" to recognize the master of a slave, the wounds of mystic religious people...

But today, the right definition of stigma is: the phenomenon whereby an individual with an attribute, which is deeply discredited by his/her society, is rejected as a result of the attribute.

I suffered many many times "that look" and "that voice" asking "whaaaat are you listening?".

Now I know I'm not alone, there are lots of people that enjoy the same music I like.

Why Rest Room ? Why not ?

When I was a kid, the school restroom was a cool place. A place to hide, a place to smoke, a place to trade stuff. I must admit, a bit smelly, but what the heck! There were a lot of things happening there.

Why blogging? I must be grateful with all the people that shared music with me. And this is one of the ways to pay back what I have received.

I don't want anything in return (except comments, of course). I tried forums, and other means of sharing, but you always needed user interaction. With a blog, I don't need that. I'm only offering, showing people the music I like, and hoping users will enjoy it as much as I do.

Now I'm listening to some Ligeti piano music, the next one maybe some easy listening weirdo or some soundtrack or some moogy song. I will not hear these on the radio. But I don't feel alone anymore.

I know I'm not a talkative blogger. I don't like to make album reviews. I don't know how to describe the feelings I have when I listen these music. I like it and I have a blog to let people to kow it.

Thanks for the support!

R.I.P. stage6

As most of you know already, stage6 closed on 28th february.

Stage6 was a good source of high quality videos, music clips, TV series and documentaries. I surely will miss it.

Rapidhsare and XXL accounts

Rapidshare.com has started a new policy for all premium accounts with more than 20 Gb. They are marked as XXL accounts and files not downloaded in 90 days are automatically deleted.

Your account stores more than 20 GB of files and is a 'Storage XXL' account. Files not being downloaded for more than 90 days will automatically be deleted.

That means that some of the files from older posts in this blog could have been deleted from rapidshare. I may repost them if requested, but it takes me some time to locate the files (so I'm not promising inmediacy or even a repost at all).

This blog is NOT a repository.

This blog was made with the purpose of sharing the music I find interesting, allowing some people to discover music not easily available and most probably never heard on mass media. That's the reason of the blog subtitle "Unusual music reference site".

I recommend to take a look at the older posts and download while the files are still available, and of course, you should support the artists buying their music.

500 posts!

500 post since April 28th, 2007 !!!!