{"id":2846,"date":"2026-11-11T21:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T21:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2026-11-11T21:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T21:42:30","slug":"ireallylovemusic-the-2026-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2846","title":{"rendered":"ireallylovemusic : the 2026 dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_20261111_210558_hdr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_20261111_210558_hdr-576x1024.jpg?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2847\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_20261111_210558_hdr-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_20261111_210558_hdr-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_20261111_210558_hdr-768x1365.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_20261111_210558_hdr-864x1536.jpg 864w, http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_20261111_210558_hdr-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_20261111_210558_hdr.jpg 1207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">if ever there was a picture that summed up the sonic chaos of 2026 for me, then it&#8217;s this picture.<br \/><br \/>basically, this is a picture of my crappy, cheap as chips laptop that i run my sonos system from.<br \/>as you can see, there are 2 stickers either side of the keyboard.<br \/>on the left is a sticker from the northern ambient techno collective,<strong> the black dog<\/strong>, who have in the last few years released a lot of fantastic new and remastered old material, and have made the walls of ireallylovemusic hq shake.<br \/>on the other side of the keyboard, is a new addition from the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">weaponize records<\/span> label, who have in the last 18 months provided all manner of brilliant hip hop mixtapes on cd, that have subsequently revived my love for a genre i never thought i would reconnect with.<br \/><br \/>my dilemma has now been represented in sticker form everytime i use my crappy cheap-as-chips laptop.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more detail<\/span> : <a href=\"https:\/\/theblackdog.bandcamp.com\/\">the black dog <\/a>&#8211; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/weaponizerecords.bigcartel.com\/products\">weaponize records<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if ever there was a picture that summed up the sonic chaos of 2026 for me, then it&#8217;s this picture. basically, this is a picture of my crappy, cheap as chips laptop that i run my sonos system from.as you can see, there are 2 stickers either side of the keyboard.on the left is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}