Nuggets 275 – Morning Tunes
This playlist has become part of my morning ritual – a gentle introduction to my working day.
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.
This playlist has become part of my morning ritual – a gentle introduction to my working day.
Last time I approached a mixtape anniversary (the 100th), I decided to make a series of mixes with different themes highlighting what I had come to love over the previous 99.
This is mix remains one of my favourites, the first 7 tracks in particular; dreamy voices lost in the mix. I liken them to electronic versions of Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound.
Why chullwave? Well, at the time I made this mix the music wags had yet to decide on a name for the keyboardy electronic sound with processed voices that was becoming popular. Chillwave, or better chullwave as one Scottish blogger termed it, is / was a term bandied about for this sound.
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