Nuggets 154 – Driving Electro
Go Steve McQueen.

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.
Eleven years on (good grief) here is a website to share my love of music.
Grump, grump. I found the time to put this mix on the interweb, only to find that grooveshark is off line. No shiny new tunes then. If it makes you feel any better, here is the cover.
Its a warm, mushy mix that gets a bit more frenetic towards the end… Will upload the songs when grooveshark gets better.
All good now.
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