This would be roughly the week of December 30 through January 5.
***5 Years Ago (2008):*** My [top-of-2008 list](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/31/best-of-2008-10-albums-10-downloads-8-processes/) included commercial albums (among them *Unitxt* by Alva Noto and *The Elephant in the Room: 3 Commissions* by Mira Calix), free downloads (among them Wobbly’s massive birdsong megamix and computer-addled metal by Drumcorps), and “key processes” (among them the continued rise of netlabels, ambient movie scores, and fetishized sound objects). … At the start of January 2009, I’d checked in on the listens to the [*Our Lives in the Bush of Disquiet*](https://disquiet.com/2006/09/04/our-lives-in-the-bush-of-disquiet/) project I had put together in September 2006, and noted that it had over [25,000 downloads](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/02/our-lives-in-the-bush-of-disquiet-over-25000-served/). The album collected reworkings of music from *My Life in the Bush of Ghosts* by Brian Eno and David Byrne, who had put up stems from the album for open-source remixing. Participants included Brian Biggs (aka Dance Robot Dance), Roddy Schrock, Stephane Leonard, John Kannenberg, My Fun, and Mark Rushton. As of this writing, a week or so before 2014, the release is making its way toward 60,000: it has had almost 41,000 downloads on [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/OurLivesInTheBushOfDisquiet) and an additional 15,000 or so at [freemusicarchive.org](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/disquietcom/Our_Lives_In_The_Bush_Of_Disquiet/). In many ways, that *Bush of Disquiet* endeavor started me down the course that led to the weekly [Disquiet Junto projects](https://disquiet.com/2012/01/27/the-disquiet-junto/). … The last two Downstream entries of the year were a piece made on a [Nintendo DS port of the Korg DS-10](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/31/emmanuel-witzthums-piano-tronic-mp3s/) and piano-based music by [Emmanuel Witzthum](https://disquiet.com/2008/12/31/emmanuel-witzthums-piano-tronic-mp3s/) released on the Stasisfield netlabel. … Among the first Downstream entries of the new year, 2009, were [historic Frippertronics pieces from 1978](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/01/historic-frippertronics-mp3-from-1978/), some [Austrian d’n’b](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/02/austrian-drumnbass-mp3/), and [Berlin sound art](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/05/berlin-sound-art-document-mp3-from-philip-marshall/). … The quote of the week was Nico Muhly on working with [tape](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/03/quote-of-the-week-muhlys-tape-sausage/). … The image of the week was a [taxi-based sound-art](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/04/image-of-the-week-staalplaats-connaught-project/) project by Staalplaat Soundsystem, from a New Delhi residency. … I posted brief [reviews](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/04/heavy-rotation-rob-swifts-dusty-vinyl-alex-wurmans-kill-you-score/) of a DJ Rob Swift album (*Dust to Dust*) and the score by Alex Wurman to the film *What Doesn’t Kill You*. … And I wrote about the [John Zorn”“curated sound installation](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/05/john-zorns-contemporary-jewish-museu/) at the then recently opened Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco:
***10 Years Ago (2003):*** My [best albums of 2003 list](https://disquiet.com/2003/12/30/best-cds-of-2003/) was posted this week. It included Matmos’ *The Civil War*, Rhythm and Sound’s *The Artists* and *The Versions*, and Brian Eno’s *January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now*. … The first Downstream entry of the year was Human Isolated Bacteria’s [*Boleros Románticos de Ayer y Hoy*](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/05/three-track-mp3-set/) (“blippy background jazz, groovy syncopation and whiz bang party music, with occasional bridges of timeless suspense”).
***15 Years Ago (1998):*** My [best albums of 1998 list](https://disquiet.com/1998/12/30/best-of-1998/) was posted this week. It included Amon Tobin’s *Permutation*, Autechre’s *LP5*, and Praxis’ *Mold*.