| With Manifold Petals |
[Mar. 6th, 2007|02:20 pm] |
The absolute height of my 'download everything aural' phase was 2000-2002. It was as though every constellation of my life aligned so as to maximize my music whoring. Soulseek was huge and easy to use, DRM & DMCA were still quiet, I was smoking a lot of pot, I wasn't spending time on school, and I had a lot of teen emotion to burn. Sounds like a recipe for expressing yourself through other people's art to me. During this ~2 year span I acquired a lot of tunes, which I culled, cropped, and regrew. I probably downloaded 500-600 gigs of tunes, but only kept the stuff I really loved. Since then my aural lust has been sated and my gaping maw has shut. My hard drive is no longer a bucket with a hole in it that requires constant refilling.
Recently I've been going through all my old tunes and listening to this stuff. It's been a while since I've heard a lot of it, and going through it has really sent me back through memory lane. Every song of this collection means something to me. Often it's something inane, but sometimes it's not. Looking at the totality of this digital rack of music it's easy for me to see a reflection of how I've grown up and where I've come from. Regardless of what I've been feeling, I've always been passionate about the music I listen to, so this collection is like distilled What I Used to Care About.
Rage Against the Machine from my angry highschool days, Smashing Pumpkins from melancholy breakups and the hope of future romance, Chemical Brothers and Prodigy for lacing up the boots, Herbie Hancock from all those solitary walks, Armin Van Buuren to incapsulate my first rave, Deep Purple from when I got my driver's license, Shpongle for the all the films I watched from behind closed eyelids... For me, this collection is a bloom with manifold petals. |
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