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feel free to follow along, ‘cuz I’ve got lots of comps, mixes, playlists, and tracks to post on a near-daily basis!'

Hate the nazi that runs this website, but just popping in to say that I'm on substack now & if you'd prefer my posts in a microblogging format like this one, I'm also on Blu*sky. Here's an excerpt from my first substack post, its manifesto:

Just started posting again, but not here; over on another website instead that's a lot like this one but has significantly less reverence for Adolf Hitler these days...

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Soft, country-twangin' guitar plucks & very lovely flute that, when deployed together like they are on this reflectively melancholic softie, are guaranteed to speak to your soul 😌 youtu.be/LJYhuW5bLvI

Listened to Baby Boomer Classics: Mellow Seventies, a comp whose main focus is on a pair of genres that were integral to the pop music landscape back then, but whose popularity had waned preciputously by the end of the 80s: folk & country

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The instrumentation that backs her, however, isn't much to write home about 😕. Oh yeah, & there's a back-to-back selection of lusty songs about minors too, which of course is no bueno...hopefully we never get a nu- or neo- or revivalist period for any of that type of stuff 🤢

Listened to Baby Boomer Classics: Lovin' Fifties, which is probably the worst comp that I've heard from this series thus far. Plenty of good romantic 50s songs that are out there, but the now-defunct JCI label decided to go w a slate that feels pretty tired in 2024 🥱

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& I didn't even mention the great remixes of My Bloody Valentine & Saint Etienne by Andrew Weather all or the remix of U2 by Terry Farley & Pete Heller. Clearly a whole lot of tremendous music on this pair of discs!

Listened to JBO: A Perspective 1988-1998, a double-disc retrospective on an eclectic electronic label & collective of remixers/producers called Junior Boys Own, who were deeply integral to the UK's acid house years & the time thereafter, following the UK govt's rave crackdowns