The worst thing

about this insomnia at the moment is the fact that it is costing me money. I curse the day I set up an iTunes account. It is all just too easy. I used to have to trawl Soho record shops looking for obscure funk singles, or modern German latin jazz EPs, or compilations of breaks from small towns in the US Midwest. Now it is all there - I just have to search for anything that takes my fancy. And then I check the record label’s website and see something else. And so it continues. And for just 79p a track. And I can not buy the b-side of a single if it is too awful.

Tonight’s foray has brought unusual hiphop and beats from Palov & Mishkin and a compilation of jazz, latin and afrobeat influenced tracks from the German label Jazz & Milk. Nice.