I started this post last year. When I opened the file to continue last week, I saw the title (“September 2024 - Music Recommendations”), and one, measly line:

You ever feel completely creatively bankrupt and drained at the end of every work day?

Yes, past me. I do. But as the great Protein Ribosome¹ himself reminds us:

Hey! It’s been a while! A new website! A new domain! Wait, some of this content wasn’t here before! What’s going on?

Uh oh, the time between posts on this blog is approaching the 1 year interval I release my DJ sets in. Content is hard, also scheduling is hard and also moving sucks.

LET’S GET INTO IT

Turns out working full-time and writing blog posts do not mix. I also didn’t have a ton of time to discover new music, but there are definitely some gems in here that have caught my ear.

Hope you enjoy!

If you’ve been following my blog for any period of time, or spoken to me about laptops in the last 3 years, you’ll know that I’ve been waiting for a 13 inch, all AMD laptop with USB4/Thunderbolt capabilities that I could use as a desktop replacement. The combination of open-source graphics drivers, performance, and battery life with ultimate flexiblity - the ability to become a competent gaming machine when plugged into an eGPU.

The ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1 is not that laptop. I think the X13 Gen 3 might be a better contender for that. What the Z13 is, though, is a quite nice ultraportable that ticks almost all the boxes I could want.