Ichimusai's Place » spotify

Training Wk 19

Ichimusai — Sun, 22 May 2011 15:44:56 +0000

This week I was working with the radio systems all the week and I managed only two workouts which felt a little bad but that’s life sometimes. On Sunday I left for Basingstoke, UK for training with Motorola on their TETRA system so the next week is all about running in Basingstoke.

Day by day

Monday: Rest
Tuesday: Jogging at Järvafältet. My nice 8 km route there was begging for me to come out and it felt really good. Nice tempo as well, around 8 min/km which is not bad considering…
Wednesday: Rest
Thursday: Slammertorp route here in Kallhäll. All the way, the most hilly part as well. 7:33 tempo and a nice runners high actually.
Friday: Resting
Saturday: Resting
Sunday: Resting

This Week

Total distance	11.66	km	Total tim	1:33:13	HMS
Avg tempo	8:00	min/km	Avg. speed	7,5	km/h
Max. HR	172	bpm	Avg. HR	150	bpm
Training Effect	4.1	TE/EPOC	Energy spent	2 051	kcal
VO2(max)	51	ml/kg/min	Peak EPOC	201	ml/kg
Max. ventilation	83	l/min	Max breathing	41	bpm

Last Week

Total distance	20.54	km	Total tim	2:55:02	HMS
Avg tempo	8:31	min/km	Avg. speed	7.0	km/h
Max. HR	162	bpm	Avg. HR	149	bpm
Training Effect	4.0	TE/EPOC	Energy spent	3 405	kcal
VO2(max)	47	ml/kg/min	Peak EPOC	80	ml/kg
Max. ventilation	90	l/min	Max breathing	41	bpm

Not enough workouts really, will regard this week as a maintaining week but not very developing. Although I managed to up the pulse a bit with some good VO2max results as well. Next week I will be running in Basingstoke so we will have to see how that works out

Podrunning 100 min

Ichimusai — Thu, 12 May 2011 21:09:33 +0000

For the longer runs that lasts up to 100 minutes of energetic exercise. I really like running to most of these songs and they give me a lot of energy.

Spotify link

Podrunning 100 min

Song	Artist
Time to start	Blue man group
Äppelknyckarjazz	Movits!
I'm so excited 180 bpm	The Gym All-Stars
The road to hell part 2	Chris Rea
White Wedding	Billy Idol
500 Miles	Hooters
Dream on	Depeche Mode
Jump	Van Halen
Brother, don't you walk away	Hooters
Under the boardwalk	The Boppers
The Complex	Blue man group
Route 66	Depeche Mode
Bongo Bong	Jeremy Oates & The Music Makers
Vara	Rootvälta
Enjoy the silence	Depeche Mode
Mambo Witch (Club mix)	A Split Second
You can leave your hat on	Joe Cocker
Les Voiliers Sauvages De Nos Vies	Vaya Con Dios
Find her Finer	Bohuslän Big Band
Believe	Cher
Alle Gegen Alle	Laibach
Nice Work - If you can get it	The Cassandra Complex
Lightning Man	Nitzer Ebb
Det är jag	Den Fule
Stripped	Depeche Mode
Human Remains	Cat Rapes Dog
I Feel Love - Album Version	Depeche Mode
Floodwater	Nitzer Ebb

Wk 16 Playlist

Ichimusai — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:33:31 +0000

This weeks playlist is the soundtrack of alien life. All music are parts of movies that I like from films about life extraordinnaire.

Get soundtrack here.

Dream is collapsing
Bad Things
After Dark
Cat People (Putting out fire with Gasoline)
El Tango de Roxanne
Eye of the Tiger
Mombasa
Theme from Salt
On the Road Again
Girl You’ll Be A Woman Soon
I See You
Lothlorien
The Bioluminescensce of the Night
Inception – Mind Heist
Batman: Dark Knight
Rambo
He’s a Pirate
Wolverine
Becoming one of “The People”
Theme from Sherlock Holmes
Dexter
Star Trek
Not Human
Mogadishu Blues
You’ll be in my Heart
Lust for Life

Spotify to limit free use

Ichimusai — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:32:31 +0000

The very popular music service Spotify is about to limit its free use for people who has been using the service for more than 6 months. People who have already used the free Spotify service for more than 6 months (prior to November last year) will have the limits reinforced on may 1st and new users will start counting when their accouint is created.

The limits means you may only listen 10 hours a month and play the same tune maximum 5 times.

I believe it is pressure from the music industry behind this, in order for spotify to be able to offer their music to unpaid subscribers in some fashion the commercial spots are not enough for the industry. We have seen several labels lately pull music from the Spotify service and hopefully by doing this the music will come back, at least for the paying users!

And in actual fact, the 99 SEK a month it costs us here in Sweden (and many broadband ISP’s have deals where you get Spotify for a discount or for a free period) means you can listen to it on your mobile, in your home and so on unlimited by these new rules.

I’m a happy paying customer and so is my wife and Spotify is still the best music service out there – especially in comparison to anything the record industry has produced so far…

Wk15 Playlist: The Roadtrip

Ichimusai — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:35:57 +0000

This is a collection of music I like to listen to while I am driving. It is a pretty long playlist, more than 2 hours of music but it is suiteable for driving alone as well as together with good friends.

So enjoy a roadtrip experience with this playlist.

Playlist Wk13

Ichimusai — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:19:27 +0000

This weeks playlist is an absurt mixture of new and old, forgotten things and stuff that was never really forgotten but found again anyway.

Enjoy it here

Spotify Playlist WK13

You know, youy know	Mahavishnu Orchestra
Chatelet	Peter De Girolamo
42nd street	Mel Torme
The Garden	Einstürzende Neubauten
Bare Bones	Madeleine Peyroux
Her Visions in Blue	Chrome
Jubilation	James Last
Green Onions	Blues Brothers
The Reaper	Blue Oyster Cult
Spoonman	Soundgarden
V for Vendetta	Veronica Maggio
Folsom Prison Blues	Everlast
Lady in Black	Uriah Heap
Blender	Yello
100 miles from Memphis	Sheryl Crow
Scatterheart	Björk
Koop Island Blues	Ane Brun, Koop
Concierto De Aranjuez	Guitarra Clàsica Española
Find Her Finer	Bohuslän Big Band
Two Tribes	Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Sing Sang Sung	Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
Save Tonight	Eagle-Eye Cherry
Rolling in the Deep	Adele
We Built our Own World	Hans Zimmer
Heaven and Hell	Black Sabbath
Cat People (Putting out fire with Gasoline)	Big Electric Cat
Get a Haircut	George Thorogood
Släpp mig fri	Blues

Podrunning 60 minutes

Ichimusai — Fri, 07 May 2010 09:54:55 +0000

Here is my 60 minutes podrunning Spotify link. This version includes also a warmup phase 6:03 and a cooldown phase that is 4:36 with softer music.

This is the list I currently keep in my android phone for a good outdoor run. The songs are a strange mix between soft and hard with a lot of love for Electronic Body Music of course.

(Yes the photo above was taken by me.)

Warmup – So Klingt Liebe – And One – 6:03
Running – Lucifer – Blutengel – 5:38
Running – I Feel Love – The Blue Man Group – 5:13
Running – On Fire – T-Connection – 7:26
Running – Mambo Witch – A Split Second – 7:48
Running – Headhunter (Live) – Front 242 – 4:40
Running – Above – Blue Man Group – 2:46
Running – Ruder Than You – Liberator – 2:45
Running – Dammit – Blink 182 – 2:45
Running – Sent to Destroy – Combichrist – 6:23
Running – Radioactivität – Kraftwerk – 7:23
Running – Sultans Of Swing – Dire Straits – 5:36
Running – Cherry Blossom – Nitzer Ebb – 5:>30
Running – Det Vete Fan – Movits – 2:57
Cooldown – Do you want the truth or something beautiful? – Paloma Faith – 4:36

All in one glorious running package!

Podrunning 45 minutes

Ichimusai — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:00:55 +0000

Here is my 45 min podrunning list of music. Works great to run to. This list however is without warmup and cooldown so it is just that, 45 minutes of nice jogging music ending with a United States Marines march when you are really tired.

Have fun!

Contents:

Eye of the Tiger / Survivor [4:06]
Panzermensch / And One [5:05]
Walk Away / Dropkick Murphys [2:51]
Mercy Me / Alkaline Trio [2:49]
Menschenfresser – Klubmischung / Melotron [4:55]
Battle without honor or humanity / Tomoyasu Hotel [2:29]
Walking on Sunshine / Katrina (formerly of the Waves) [3:55]
Isn’t it funny how your body works / Nitzer Ebb [3:47]
Arroganz Der Liebe / Melotron [3:48]
At Midnight / T-Connection [9:44]
We Run Through the Jungle with Our M-16s / The US Marine Corps [1:29]

All in one glorious running package!

A Spotify Journey into EBM

Ichimusai — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:27:37 +0000

Electronic Body Music groups: The Cassandra Complex, Die Krupps, Melotron, A Split Second, Front Line Assembly, Front 242, à;GRUMH, Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy, Laibach, Cat Rapes Dog, DAF, Einstürzende Neubauten, Depeche Mode…

These are for me the most prominent EBM bands I was listening to in high-school and later and still comes back to now and then. Now thanks to spotify I can share a link with Ichimusais Essential EBM where you can listen to some of these ground breaking bands greatest…

Here is your essential guide to Electronic Body Music.

Spotify EBM Tour by Ichimusai

Enjoy on your way to work or just if you are suffering from insomnia for some reason…

Spotify for Android

Ichimusai — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:27:58 +0000

Now there is a spotify client both for the Android and for the iPhone. The client can also sync music for offline listening. This is such great news, I can bring my playlists from spotify where me wherever I go and listen anywhere as long as there is space on my memory card everything should be dandy.

The iPhone version apparently stops playing in the background something Apple demanded it should do, but on the Android background playing works GREAT so now I can strem music while I jog and can set up the playlist on my computer at home or pretty much everywhere and then just sync it with my phone.

So now the phone not only tracks my workout times and distance using the GPS, it also plays the music to my mood and this is something I have been waiting for some time now.

Time to become a premium member, the ad-financed version of spotify does not cover the mobile version but I don’t care. 99 SEK for a month is nothing compared to the joy it is bringing…