MUSIC~

Everyone has that album or band that is *theirs* even if they didn't make it. Something they highly connect to and is their favourite thing to hear. I can tell you now that I have one of those albums for almost every genre, or year! I love every genre. And yes.. that includes country.

Growing up (infancy to elementary school)

I grew up in a very musical household. Not in the sense that instruments were taught and played, but in the sense that my parents shared a similar (but I assume weaker) passion for music. There was ALWAYS music playing. And I still love many of those songs today. I seldom listened to albums growing up, except when I started to get my own CDs. My dad liked his IPod and our local radio station alot.. which is still the same to this day! Anyways, I grew up listening to a myriad of different music as our local radio station is KXLU, from Loyola Marymount College. A few albums I remember while growing up: Rated R - Queens of the Stone Age, El Camino -Black Keys. Some tracks I remember most prominently are

1. Molly's Lips - The Vaselines
2. Blue Clouds - Modeselektor
3. Bam Bam - Sister Nancy
4. Mercy Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye
5. Odessa - Caribou

And this is JUST the stuff from my dad! I can attribute my musical open mindedness mostly to this period in my life.

Growing up (elementary to adolescence)

I'll shorten this mildly because its a huge amount of time. Of course the internet was VERY pivotal to me finding new music. Since then, I have been very (much more) attracted to anything electronic. Aside from the internet, my sister also played a huge hand on what I like. I got introduced to Anamanaguchi, which is still a band I absolutely love TO THIS DAY thanks to her! That was my first concert. I'd say almost all of my music taste was from her. I ended up getting very obsessed with Gorillaz. Something my sister and I both share, but surprisingly, wasn't because of her! I bought every single one of their CDs and vinyls. and then because of that, I got very into Blur. Shortly thereafter that, I switched from playing only from CD to finally signing up for streaming. I absolutely refused to use Spotify when I was younger and I would listen solely from my physical media, my downloads, & (rarely) Youtube. Since I was very into punk and metal, it lead to me trying to find solo work for Kirk Hammett. I found the Spawn: the album compilation on Discogs under his name. I listened to the whole thing since there were names I recognized in both electronic and rock. I cannot explain how much my mind was blown when I heard Atari Teenage Riot for the first time. As you read earlier, I grew up listening to stuff like Modeselektor. I had no idea electronic could ever be that explosive. I was hooked on the first listen. Since I was no longer limited by CDs, I decided to explore nearly every genre. Songs About My Cats by Venetian Snares was one of the records that really marked the beginning of what I like now, if not for the Spawn soundtrack.

Emotion

Streaming

I have such a huge disdain for streaming though this is what we have in the modern world. This is whats most convenient and sadly what alot of music infrastructure seems to be built on nowadays, & even I am very guilty of using it!

Physical Media

Files

Archiving

Audio Equipment

My Favourites