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Why is this here at all?!
After a few years since landing this lovely locale, I am finally ready to blast this thing off with some actual content.
My idea is 2-fold & simple - create a place where I can share my unique but not unusual passions & explorations for mostly under-the-radar, falls-between-the-cracks music styles, genres, artists & their sounds; explore my own need & knack for writing, ideally about things I know, think I know and love.
My gut tells me that posts will be weekly or more, and mostly pertain to the various & sundry electronica & electronic music out in the world. This is an immense category of sonic wonder, a path I've been on since 1981 and my earliest college days at UCSD in La Jolla, California. Dropping some household names (to those in the know-ish), think non-western avant-garde stuff from John Cage (see also Wikipedia), Steve Reich, Milton Babbitt & friends, to contemporary groove-oriented trippy-hoppy electrons from Thievery Corp, Massive Attack, Moby, Sounds From The Ground (SFTG) and Trentemøller, to more pure electronica, ambient & down-tempo / chill from Telefon Tel Aviv, Autechre, Michael Stearns, Brian Eno and Ultre, among many others. I suppose in all honesty much of my musing will come from the latter 2 camps, though my 30+ year appreciation crosses many borders in this blurry landscape, as it should be (yes?). If this meets your reasons for staring at a screen while making better use of its static electrons, please stop back occasionally or more. Comments and conversation will be allowed, encouraged, sometimes responded to and all that. And I do intend to offer actual music listening samples, as permitted, etc.
So do hold your breath, but not for too long! This is an organic work-in-progress. My hope is to enlighten, possibly entertain, and maybe upon reading & listening you'll want to grab some new sounds for your own collection, tired, new or old or not.
See you again soon...thanks for jumping off your train for a bit.
Aurally yours,
david
david@musicelectrons.net
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