I've been in iPod land for a while now - and while its pretty cool having 90% of my music jammed into my pants, there's a few "new" ways of listening to music I've discovered recently.
Col's fuzzy old decks:
- I'm minding Cols' decks while he's loving it up in Austria and got them working proper-like the other day. Man the sound is amazing through those old wooden speakers he found one day - so I had a lovely evening with Aoife on Easter Sunday playing some of my old records. Our 16ft hgh ceilings do a good job of expanding out the warm aural glow too.
- Boards of Canada, Takemura, Global goon , Squarepusher, Autechre, Aphex Twin etc. It was so nice that I rushed out and bought Burial's 2 albums on vinyl the next day.
Motoring:
- I honestly can't believe I'm driving these days. It's no so much that its taken me years to get around to it - mostly because I never needed to - but because nobody's ever really expressed what fun it is. Is this because so many people do it and so there's a collective global "meh" factor? I don't get it.... its like a virtual reality computer game that takes you to actual real locations.....My sister, my cousins, my mates... people i work with - they're all just so used to it or something. It's bloody brilliant.
PLUS..... every piece of music i love has a new environment to fall into... a big silvery glidey one that has extended mine and Aoifes geographical reach. So far its been Autechre's new album, Burial and a bit of Warp's NED mix. Watch out when I start playing squarepusher! Nobody will ever want a lift!
I have been feeling guilty about consuming our preciosu fossil fuels, but I firmly believe that by the time we're just about fucked planet-wise.. they'll have sorted the problems with nuclear fusion reactors and we'll be using heavy water to power everything and no more oil-powered middle-eastern mess. Now that will be sound.
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