SystemCulture.org has been going for six months now and it has been a fantastic experience, meeting, finding, accidentally discovering new musicians and artists (I have also rediscovered old mates).I have never really liked the concept of charts and the idea that the more sales or clicks you get makes you a more successful artist – in reality the ground breaking stuff never gets recognized straight away (if at all). I have tried to hunt down the people that have been on that edge, the edge where invention and creativity lurks.

I am going to list seven artists/bands that have been mentioned on this site – these are not the ‘best’; they are the ones that have in someway inspired me to continue making music. The other 100 plus artists that are not on this list are on this website because I have enjoyed listening to them – the comments I have made on them have been honest and truthful. They all deserve our support.

• The Uragany
• First Aid 4 Souls – Interview
• Edge of Chaos – Review
• Torturing Nurse – Interview
• Attrition – Interview
• LisaBe – Interview
• Katerina Stamatelos – Interview

ReverbNation and Microsoft Windows have created a thing called called Playlist 7, which for me has been one of the best things to have happened this year.

Each week there a collection of 50 songs which can be streamed or download from the Playlist 7 site. You can listen to all of the songs and create your own Playlist 7 by downloading up to seven songs for free. The songs that get the most downloads at the end of each week will be Featured Artists and available for free download for everyone. I think this is a brilliant idea to take us into 2010.