The local university has a radio station, and I finally looked it up and of course found HEAVIER in their Mixcloud archive.
Letting a radio show just play can be hard, as DSPs and social media has made me so impatient. But I let it play, and to my pure delight Kublai Khan TX came on, which is one of my client’s bands, and a band I saw a bit ago on tour.
Over the past few years I’ve danced with the magic of the radio, mixes, and DJ sets, watching chemists mix together tracks like potions. I’ve watched hours of ambient drone made in real time using equipment I’ve never heard of.
All this stuff is harder to find, harder to “consume” while on a bus or whatever. But I grew up in a home with a music room.
There was a stereo, shelves of records, and that’s where you listened to music. I have memories of mom dancing to the Rolling Stones, Abba, Kris Kristofferson, and Dire Straits.
Some nights I just never want to go to bed. Hopping from one YouTube video to the next, looking up something on Wikipedia, then digging for a track on Bandcamp. On Spotify. Whatever.
A whole world of music is out there, still waiting to be discovered, and it’s so fun to just dig through so much of when you discover it from other people.