• Most new music really irritates me. I know there is some good stuff coming through the noise, but I hate subjecting myself to all the horrible crud to find a diamond in the ruff, all while getting spammed with advertisements the entire time.
• I don’t want to wear myself out on the music I do like. A lot of bands have been put on hiatus to pursue other interests.
• Also a lot of bands that used to be good got drastically worse, probably just because they had contracts saying they had to keep making music – or they just want more money.

It’s gotten so bad that I’ve basically outsourced my musical taste to trusted friends of mine. With services like Last.fm and Pandora it’s easy to just clone someone else’s musical taste. Today I saw a simple Facebook status update from Daniel O’Connor about becoming a fan of SoundPond.

These are folks from Australia that use UStream to offer a nice rotation of DJs making original mixes. They have a very simple (and limited) chat room, and they communicate with their listeners, which can be quite engaging. The folks I spoke with had a great attitude and everyone seemed to be having a great time, and it was 2:30 AM in their timezone!

I don’t know much about the service under the hood, or who is really behind it all, but I think it’s some of the folks from LibertySound, which consists of Ka$h, Penny Drops, and Kim Savage. This is another world for me, so if I’m drastically wrong please help me out.

Give them some love on facebook by becoming a fan (button on their homepage too), tweeting @SoundPond, and most importantly – enjoy the music.

Out of random chance I happened to remember the name of the video and showed it to a good amount of people throughout the day. We all had a fun time with it, but nobody knew anything about Symphony of Science, or the idea of there being more videos to come in the future. Later John released We’re All Connected, returning with Sagan and folk, including Bill Nye. After seeing this video, I don’t think John is going to have a problem finding amazingly elegant and on-topic sound bytes to mix and match together. So far most of us like Glorious Dawn more than We’re All Connected, but the fact that I have to pause and think about it means both are obviously awesome.