Mapping Influences Over Time
Sometimes My Musical Evolution is affected by sheer random chance. Such is the case of B.o.B.. It was my daughters first semester away at college. I know that because of the second random chance of B.o.B.. A guy who worked in sales resigned and a few days after he left, I was tasked with reformatting …
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Wow Part 400, another milestone. It is fitting for it to land here on what is the latest branch of My Musical Evolution, DubStep. Why do I love DubStep? Why do people like anything? I feel that my arrival here at DubStep was a natural progression. I think DubStep is first and foremost electronic dance …
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The 21st Century also brings us to our latest round of technological advancements. I now have a few personal media playing devices where I used to rely on cassettes then Compact Discs. My media players automatically sync with my media library and it is easy to load them up with hundreds or thousands of songs …
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I debated about whether or not to post something about The Beatles. I never went through a Beatles Phase where I was mad about them. For the longest time, my only Beatles CD was Sgt Pepper. I can’t quite define my relationship with The Beatles. I think that they made some really good music but …
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My friend Keith is a French & Indian War enthusiast. He participates in those historical reenactments. In doing so he has appeared in a few historical programs on the history channel and in Mel Gibson’s movie The Patriot. If you watch that last battle scene where Mel rides his horse to the ridge of the …
Vashti Bunyan , no relation to Paul apparently, was another of those songs that came via a commercial on the NFL Network. It might have been under armor or something. I’m having difficulty trying to explain what it was about the song that was so attractive. Vashti’s voice had this sort of soft purity about …
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It was just over two years ago that I heard the term Dubstep for the first time. I happened to follow a link to a video that was labeled Sketchy Santa. What waited for there was a little homemade looking video for a song about Santa and a Dirty Bass Line. The video was meant …
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It had been several years since The Division Bell, Pink Floyd’s last studio album. Along the way, I had picked up David Gilmour’s solo stuff. It was his solo work in combination that totally convinced me that when it came to the Pink Floyd split up, I was firmly with Team Gilmour. When they broke …
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I can’t quite remember how I stumbled across the Mash-Up phenomenon. I am fairly certain it was accidental. I am also reasonably certain that the song that started it was Rapture Riders. If you are not familiar with what a Mash-Up is, I’ll try to describe it for you. A Mash-Up is when somebody takes …
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What we have here is possibly the very first recording of Electronic Music. The Electrosoniks were Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan.. Interesting names for the 1950’s don’t you think? Was Kid Baltan from the future? You already know that I love electronic music. I find something fascinating about these tracks. Maybe it is because of …
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