A Big Day
It’s been a while Euphony readers. I wish I didn’t feel the need to apologise for every time I seem to leave 3 weeks between blog posts. With that said, you have been given time of your own to inform yourself of some quality sounds that I probably won’t know much about - I hope it worked out well for you.
Today is a big day for me, an end of an era that I am sad to see draw it’s final breath. But I believe it is for the greater good and should make my life an easier one.
The announcement is that I am deleting my iTunes Library. Starting again, from this moment onwards to make up a new collection that defines my musical taste instead of the mish-mash of genres and general untidy-ness that I have lived with for (near-as-dammit) 10 years.
The hope is that I keep this new collection organised and relevant. The problem with having a 60GB music library is that, due to the vast amount of material in it, I can get stuck in a time-lapse of old music that does very little to inspire me. Sure, the music I have is good music, but everything that can be learnt from it musically has already been done.
All the music I try and listen to, is in a vein attempt to make me a better musician, making the material I write more interesting (more information on this soon). I’m sick of the regurgitated propaganda that mainstream music offers nowadays, none of it inspires me and I have no desire to try and create anything like it.
This includes all genres - Music from bands such as The Arctic Monkeys inspires me as little as music by The Wanted. It might be a little extreme to define them in the same category, as music by The Arctic Monkeys is much better than by The Wanted. I’m not saying I don’t enjoy the music of the mainstream, but I don’t aspire to play their songs or write songs like them; I believe there is music better than what seems to rise to prominence, and that is the music that I want to make.
So it starts today. A new chapter. The music I do have is now locked onto a hard drive for cryogenic containment, in case I can’t live without listening to Linkin Park’s ‘Papercut’ again…
