So what do you listen to?
I got asked the other day what kind of music I listen to. That’s a rather loaded question, and one not easily answered. I can say that I don’t listen to country, Celine Dion, most adult contemporary, classical (though I do appreciate it), rap, most R&B, reggae, Hip Hop, most (but not all) rock and alternative (though again, I can definitely appreciate the classics), HI NRG Euro dance crap, trance, ambient and 99% of what’s incessantly played on the radio. Sorry Britney, but you’ve never earned a penny from me.
What do I listen to? Well here’s a sample from my collection:
- Extensive New Order, Pet Shop Boys and Erasure singles, remixes, LP’s and CD’s (I’m gay, remember?)
- Lots of 80’s collections and LP’s from that phase a number of years ago.
- A little Depeche Mode.
- Some disco discs here and there.
- Hed Kandi – still loving house music after all these years
- The Seduction of Claude Debussy by The Art of Noise – an absolutely brilliant disc chronicling and interpreting Debussy’s life and work from an absolutely brilliant band.
- A number of other Dance club compilations.
- Bjork
- Electro CD’s – Miss Kittin, Goldfrapp, Tiga, Benni Benassi, plus a few compilation CD’s
- Mark Almond/Soft Cell
- Everything But the Girl
- A few jazz discs here and there
- Scissor Sisters
- Paul Anka – Rock Swings
- A growing number of Fabric and Fabriclive compilation CD’s. These tend to be on the more obscure side. Mostly unknown, harsh, dark electro put together by a different DJ every month. They can vary wildly from time to time depending on the DJ.
- Dimitri from Paris
- Brazilectro – I love Brazilian influenced music, even though I can’t understand a word of it.
- Café Del Mar
- Beck
- French electronica along the lines of Air, Rinocerose and Cassius
- The Beautiful South
- Towa Tei (the Japanese guy from Dee- Lite, another favourite)
Now how in the hell do I sum that up for when the next person asks me?
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