In a message dated 11/7/99 12:36:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
brucelev@mindspring.com writes:
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the nature of my job doesn't allow me to listen to music while i work. my
daily commute is about five minutes, which rules out car listening. this
really only leaves me a couple of hours at night, and then the weekends.
factor in movie watching, reading, television, cleaning, laundry, grocery
shopping etc., and i'm not left with much time to just sit down and listen
to my collection.
sometimes, i think about not buying anyhting new for a couple of months
just so i can catch up, but then i panic about what i miss out on.
so, how do you do it?
>>
I take a night to listen to my new pile. Then I put one track
from each record that I like the most onto a tape (or two
tapes, some weeks). Then I listen to it when I drive around
all week. My job entails me being in a car about 40-50 hours
a week, plus I have an hour round-trip commute to school,
so by the end of the week I've beaten the tape to death.
This week's tape was dominated completed by Drexciya,
who are like the greatest group ever. Every time their tracks
came on I had to struggle to stay below 70 [on suburban roads].
And, I'm a huge advocate of this: keeping one's collection
lean and mean. I spend as much time hunting down records
as most folks on this list, but I also turn over a huge part
of what I get, and I also don't buy things I'm fairly sure I won't
like or will only be 50/50 on. If even an extremely obscure record
comes out these days that is very strong, you'll hear a lot
about it. Thusly, selective buying, and especially selective
keeping is what does it for me. If I ever had more than 1,000ish
records I'd feel like a total jerk.
Aside from Drexciya the picks of the week are the Gimmik 12",
the F. Schikowski 10" on Lux Nigra, and the M-Tec remix on the
Multicast 10". However, all the other Multicast tracks were
really boring. So thusly, I'm not keeping those records.
Matt
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