This would be roughly the week of January 27 through February 2.
***5 Years Ago (2009):*** Downstream (free download) entries included Wavespan’s music made from f[ields recordings of the Santa Cruz area](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/27/wavespans-field-recording-inspired-mp3s/), a [“mega mix”](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/28/loopy-cs-disquiet-2008-megamix-mp3/) of the Downstream entries from 2008 stiched into one single piece by Loopy C, some [proof-of-concept experimentation with the Nintendo Wii](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/29/wiimote-loopmachine-proof-of-concept-mp3/), some [laptop-enabled improv](https://disquiet.com/2009/02/02/1970s-mp3-documents-of-tangerine-dream-live/), live [Tangerine Dream](https://disquiet.com/2009/02/02/1970s-mp3-documents-of-tangerine-dream-live/), and [cut’n’paste grooves](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/30/odetta-cut-paste-mp/). … Quote of the week was from [Fennesz](https://disquiet.com/2009/01/31/quote-of-the-week-fenneszs-volume/). … Image of the week was of a performance art piece by [Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla](https://disquiet.com/2009/02/01/jennifer-allora-guillermo-calzadilla-mia-elezovic/).
***10 Years Ago (2004):*** The quote of the week was from [Aphex Twin](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/28/quote-of-the-week-laptop-restraints/), speaking with the Syndey Morning Herald:
>For a few years, I only made stuff on a laptop just because I wanted to train myself. But now it’s like being released from a spell that I put on myself because I’m getting back into more physical inputs and loads of analogue synthesisers again.
… Downstream entries included [music from GameBoys](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/27/more-game-boy-mp3s/), excerpts from [the *Traffic* score](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/28/traffic-mp3s/), netlabel work by [Meri von KleinSmid](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/29/von-kleinsmid-mp3s/), an [ambient pop mega mix](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/30/ambient-pop-mp3-mega-mix/), and [alien-invasion music](https://disquiet.com/2004/02/02/alien-invasion-mp3/) by Gschmidt. … I posted a lengthy interview from 1999 that I’d done with [Steve Reich](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/29/the-public-record/) and an interview with Pocka (aka Brad Mitchell) on his [Kikapu netlabel](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/31/shawnee-for-laptop/). … And I posted reviews of the compilation [*Active Suspension vs. Clapping Music*](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/31/two-causes-for-francophilia/) and the compilation [*freq_out*](https://disquiet.com/2004/01/31/art-music-for-effete-canines/).
***15 Years Ago (1999):*** A short piece on music by Hollowman released as RealAudio streams, and how the murky quality of the format did [little harm to the sound](https://disquiet.com/1999/01/29/hollwman-goes-public/).