Music is important to me. I don't play an instrument, but I like to listen.
At varsity in Dunedin the gigs kept me warm.
Over the years I built up my record collection, boxes and boxes of LP's, EP's and 7 inch singles, only to lose everything in a burglary.
Travel and family commitments intervened. Time passed. CD's replaced records, and records gave way to MP3's.
I miss records.
A disk crash deleted the MP3 collection, and I started again from scratch.
Starting again was difficult. I found myself buying the same music. Boring. I read music magazines to find out what I might like, but I didn't learn much. The radio wasn't much better. I visited record stores but just got lost, rows of bands I had never heard of.
I resolved to spend 12 months listening to as much music as I could; where possible avoiding bands that I knew, trying to find out what was out there, and what I liked.
By 2007 there was no shortage of music to listen to. Music blogs share the tastes of 1000's of music lovers. I joined Emusic.
To keep track I burn MixCd's, 21st Century mixtapes. The CD's catalogue my exploring. I give them to friends. Sometimes they email me back with comments and suggest other bands to listen to.
Six years on here is a website to share my love of music.
Waskerly Way all the way. Obviously he likes cats.
Also, more power to railcars as he remakes a classic kate bush album.
I like the track in the mix, not sure if the album justifies all the hype.
purple prose alert
“…strange, heartfelt, and weirdly beautiful.” -Altered Zones
“Watch Kate’s mighty African steed gallop through the grid of Motown acid and jagged megalithic pop that [railcars] has meshed, to soar up and burning Pegasus-phoenix-like into the sky, crash through it and beyond, leaving us earthbound and cowering under a deluge of heavenly fragments, the source of that gigantic drone with which the song closes.” -20JazzFunkGreats
“…drowning among a sea of melted tape and LFO, it’s one of the most convincingly aspirational renderings there’s ever been.” -FADER
“Many have stepped up to the Kate Bush plate, and as many have failed. It seems better to go for broke than keep close to the original, and Jalali is certainly triumphant in doing so.” -RCRD LBL
“The fawning over the greatest Bush that ever lived has hit some high watermarks lately . . . Good timing for railcars, who’s made a monumental ode to the English lady…” -Impose Magazine