One of my myriad responsibilities is to serve as black market music supplier for a friend of mine who shares my taste in music but who doesn’t fileshare or anything, being a little net-phobic. I recently began compiling a new playlist for him when I realized that everything I’ve added is stuff that was popular at the goth and industrial clubs here at least a couple years ago. Chris and I just don’t go out much anymore, and while I’m dimly aware that music continues to arrive and disappear despite our absence, I actually have no idea what I’ve missed since, say, 2001. So, if I haven’t yet driven off all the club kids who used to read this site: what are the singles currently being overplayed by Ian Fford and his brethren? What should I be buying and downloading? What’s the late 2003 equivalent of that Beborn Beton song which must not be named? Do people still listen to Covenant?

You know the sort of thing I mean if you’re a current Batcave regular (or former Bank regular). There’s the stuff that’s been around for twenty years and isn’t going anywhere, and the stuff that nobody really likes, but every year there are also a few new classics that everyone loves and then says they’ll never dance to again because oh my god that song is so overplayed, but they end up dancing anyway if it’s 4am and they’re tipsy. That’s what I’m looking for: the stuff that would make me roll my eyes if I had been going to the cave every weekend for the past two years.

It’s depressing to be out of touch with this sort of thing at a tender 22 years of age, and I suppose it could be remedied if I actually made an effort to go out once in a while. And I do mean to, but every weekend that rolls around seems to be a bad weekend to go out. When I went clubhopping with Al around Halloween, we heard lots of things that we liked, but we were only able to peg a couple of artists by the vocals. Maybe over winter break I’ll see if I can’t catch up - I suppose I ought to invest in some new fishnets.