This would be roughly the week of December 23 through December 29.
***5 Years Ago (2008):*** A feature collected this site’s [readers’ favorite albums of 2008](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/27/2008s-best-albums-according-to-disquietcom-readers/). … The quote of the week collated material from *Fringe*, among it: [“Was I humming? I thought it was in my head. ”¦ Nothing sings like a kilo volt. Unique pitch. Nothing else in nature quite like it.”](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/27/quote-of-the-week-fringe-sonics/) … The image of the week was the cover to the then new edition of a Penguin paperback of [Walter Benjamin’s *The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction*](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/28/image-of-the-week-walter-benjamin/). … The week’s Downstream entries included some [8-bit Christmas music](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/23/have-a-very-8-bit-christmas-mp3s/), a [raucous drone](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/24/free-noise-drone-mp3-from-growing/) by Growing, Esther Venrooy’s [saw-toothed wave forms](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/25/old-school-esther-venrooy-mp3/), jazz remixes from [Silences Sumire (aka Thomas Faulds and Charles Gorcyznski)](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/26/remix-ep-from-silences-sumire-mp3s/), and [foghorn-tronic material from Stray Ghost](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/29/foghorn-tronic-stray-ghost-mp3/).
***10 Years Ago (2003):*** My [favorite albums of 2003](https://disquiet.com/2003/12/30/best-cds-of-2003/), in a post this week, included *Quartets* by Boxhead Ensemble (to this day a major favorite — I briefly considered pitching it to 33 1/3 instead of Aphex Twin’s [*Selected Ambient Works Volume II*](http://www.amazon.com/Aphex-Twins-Selected-Ambient-Volume/dp/1623568900/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2)), *Systems/Layers* by Rachel’s, and *So* by So (aka Markus Popp and Eriko Toyada). … I must have been taking an end-of-year break, because there were no Downstream entries.
***15 Years Ago (1998):*** Nothing this week.