Doo Re Mee Fa Sol La Si..

I love music. Usually in all of its forms if it's good (and I include in that heavy metal and psychodelic if I have to). Heck show me a good tune with a great beat and I'll dance to it (if no one is watching!).

My first music collection, which was at the age of 13 (and please don't ask why) was Elvis. On the good all cassette tapes, I had all his albums, and new most of the lyrics. I lost them to a girl who asked to borrow them a couple of years later, and never saw them again. I used to record ALOT of tapes off the radio cause I never like listening to a whole album, whereby there'd only be one or two good songs. When I travelled abroad for my undergraduate studies, I got major into hiphop and R&B. Even then I didn't like the mainstream stuff, most of what I had were either stuff that won't get onto the billboard for another 6 or 8 weeks, or underground remixes or re-dos. My favourite stuff was off Timbaland, original beats and tunes that just made my mood for the day.

What I liked about hiphop then was the music that was made for the fun of it. Good tunes, good beats, and great lyrics. Ludacris was one of my favourites, rapping about fun stuff. Nas was one of my favourite lyricists. Never was a fan of the whole Tupac and Biggie debacle, but none the less had an appreciation for their artistic work. I was on a mission then, get the music to which my friends would salute me on for their greatness, even if it meant them coming back in two months and saying "Hey! I remember you playin this tune a while ago and we all used to hate it, how the heck you knew it's gonna be a hit", cuz it'd just bring a smile to my face as i'd say in mind "thanks, but I told you" :-)

Time pass by, flavours change, and videoclips got into play. That whole bling bling, my b1t(*$ and my ho's, my cribs and my 23 inch wheel certainly did not appeal to me. Meanwhile there was this wave of ecstacy loving going on in Europe with a huge wave of drift sweeping slowly but with greater difficulty throughout the US. It was the drift of house music. Although starting originally in windy city of Chicago during the 80s, it only picked up recently when people were looking for something a little bit more laxed than the heavier and faster beats of techno, electro, and dance.

Now I'm the kinda person who likes change. One of the first reasons I did medicine (and possibly computers as plan-B) was the fact that in these two fields everyday is a new day. It's an endless ocean of experience, knowledge, and new facts everyday, and greater depth than probably most other fields people indulge in. Going back to music, the same rule applied with me. I like new tunes, beats, as long as it's good. So... started checking out some of the better and more known house tunes. Liked them, definitely nice beats, progressive and up-lifting (the kind that make you speed up on the highway, or chill and cruise on the beach if you're in the right mood).

Yet still I rarely listen to the commercial mainstream, and if I were to, I would have listened to that song way back before it's release. Most of my current music collection is from underground re-re-re-mixes of simple tunes that became an unbelievable mood turner due to great DJs like Deep dish, Hed Kandi, Mylo, Daft Punk, and the likes of them...

By now (that is if you're still reading!) you're probably wondering what the hell am I trying to get to. Answer is, nowhere. I'm just trying to justify why I listen to what I listen when people get into my car and beg me to change my music. It's because you haven't listened to it, fool!