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marsel
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Sat, 01 Apr 2000 21:52:48 +0200
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Re: (idm) Has a song ever affected you in this way?
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At 31-3-00 +0300 01:19, you wrote:
quoted 20 lines I had the cd shuttle on repeat all night, and when I woke up, Solvent's> > I had the cd shuttle on repeat all night, and when I woke up, Solvent's > "Wig > > $1.00" started playing just as the sun was barely coming up. That was > such a > > perfect and beautiful song for that moment. Anybody else experience > > something like that or have a song that coincidentally captured a > haiku-like > > moment they were experiencing so perfectly? > > > One of the most exclusive moments in my life was a few summers ago when >I was going to town on a gray morning. I was listening to Kirk DeGiorgio's >Check One (a 2CD mix on Extreme), and the first track on the first CD is >Photek's T'raenon (from Op-Art OP1), a beautiful airy piece with a rather >long intro. As the intro ended and the stunningly subtle breaks started >rolling in after a rising resonance sweep, the clouds parted for just a >second and the sun shone quite literally on me. In rapid succession the >clouds covered the sun again and I didn't see any more sun that day. But >at that moment, I felt absolutelypositivelydefinitely alive and I still >get a backful of shivers when I listen to that song. Needless to say, the >event set the mood for the day.
just want to say it really is one of photek' finest things! very very, very waiting to hear real new stuff by rupert parkes --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org