While I've never enjoy listening to this new whipper-snapper music, this rip-hopped re-mixed musical menagerie of neo-disco DJ hipstuff, I just realized that's it's actually fun to make. With Apzu's new Digital Mix Master (DM2) plugged into my PC, I'm a veritable dance party music machine (with no dancers to be found).

Remember when tape decks and then dual-tape decks made every music lover a potential pirate? These days, CDs are the preferred medium and making copies of them is vaguely legit if you call the copy a "backup." That settled; go snag Philips' CDR775BK CD recorder, a dual-disc CD deck bringing high-speed recording, hard-wired convenience and regular music loving loveliness to a new level of affordability.