Music for people who don’t listen to music.
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KeineMuzak
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Every clip of music I hear from their sets sounds like it was created by AI
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Background music in general. I’ve never understood people who can have music on quietly while they work - it’s either all in, or I’m out.
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See also ‘casual listening’.
Back in summer 1997, when I stapled bits of paper for a living at the Customs office in Staines, someone would have Capital FM on all the time, at a low-end volume that was quiet enough not to scare the horses but audible enough to feed you lifelong earworm. Todd Terry ‘Something Going on’ and Rosie Gaines ‘Closer than Close’ and Gala (always Gala…) on auto-repeat. I would’ve preferred AIR or Zero 7 or something conspicuously chillout to fill the vacuum if not offset the monotony. The earworms don’t stay in the office. They’re in the bus and in the bath and on the karzy and I’m not sure this blight on our lives has been nearly researched enough
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Customs you say?!!? And Horses??!!?? I’ve had the dogs on me but never a horse thank god. I won’t be able to sleep tonight now!
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The way people describe a good night of tech house makes it sound like they want it as a sort of background dirge sometimes. I had an “amazing 5 hour set” described to me recently and it sounded like they really enjoyed the persistent groove, with the variations in style being minimal, but spread throughout multiple, well selected songs to keep an overarching theme and sound.
I want to understand this mindset more than i am seemingly capable of. I think i just need to hear a really good example of someone doing it, maybe i needed to be there on that night to hear that/those dj/djs.
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I enjoy a set of slowly evolving grooves, when it’s done with functional dance music. There’s an enjoyment to the mindlessness of it if that makes sense. The best example I’ve experienced was Hashman Deejay playing a groove-oriented deep house set that circled around and around. Subtle and trance-inducing, there’s a real art to it if done well.
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The popularity of Babe Ruth’s “The Mexican”
Im with you but 
Dreams of Santana
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One of those ones where the songs that sample it are typically better than the original.
I love the song. I love playing it; dancing to it; all the songs that I’ve got that sample it; and all the cover versions of it that I’ve got. I’ve got an edit of it too (just with the intro tidied up), and I love that too.
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Chuck Mangione - Land of Make Believe … awful, cloying nonsense
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Yeah, gotta say I agree, even as a Bboy, it wasn’t my bag.
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Drugs?
Yeh it’s well crap! Spoilt a perfectly good London loft party
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Twee, polished, disney jazz. Just awful.
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Any reason to get Crooked Man/Parrot onto another thread? Certainly.
Exclusive to any record shop you care to look in, strictly limited (to the number of people who wish to buy it) and NOT available digitally (apart from on our Bandcamp site).
The post-truth era indeed.
In fairness they were possibly exercising caution re demand initially and that position may have changed due to increase in demand?
Just a thought