Tag: Thursday Throwback

Well here it is. The last throwback. I had wanted to put together a mix of all (or most) of the tracks that I had “thrown back” over the last year, but I’m out of town and the hotel wifi is so brutally slow that it probably would have taken 12 hours just to download the tracks to my laptop. I’ll save this for another day.
Instead I’ve summoned my inner nerd (the same as my outer nerd, but slightly nerdier) to perform some data entry and mining. Here is a breakdown of throwbacks by genre:

Here’s the same thing in a word cloud:

Overall I think this is pretty indicative of where my musical interests lie, or at least did if you were to take a cross-section of what I listened to up until 2007 (the youngest throwback), with some bias towards to the latter part of this period.
Notable exceptions include metal and punk. While I did listen to these in my youth, they never really stuck with me, so I guess I felt less inclined to throw them back.
Other interesting but ultimately useless statistics:

• Average throwback age: 13 years
• Estimated percentage of throwbacks written in my underpants: 79
• Throwbacks that I didn’t feel like writing but did anyways because I felt an obligation: 5

So there you have it. If this whole exercise serves no other purpose at least Google now knows what kind of music I like (as if they didn’t already). You’re welcome, internet…

Happy December folks (though you wouldn’t know it if you’re on the East Coast – the mercury was well above zero today).

I spent the day in Centre-of-nowhere-ville again and was listening to techno and house pretty much the whole way there and back. It’s been a while since I had a good listening session and it totally jogged my memory about one of my – if not my all-time – favourite deep house tracks.

When I first discovered this track I went overboard and “over”-listened to it, hence why I had totally forgotten about it until now, but I think I’m ready to start including it in my semi-regular rotation once again!

I would go so far as to call this a masterpiece of deep house. It’s masterfully arranged and has pretty much everything I want to hear in a deep house track: a funky bassline, lots of space and texture, subtle rhythms, smooth transitions and a gradual build up to an excellent hook.

For me it’s right up there with one of my other all-time favourites, “Deep Breath” by Nick Curly c. 2007 (perhaps a bit too new to throw-back, however).

“Le Champagne” by Trentemøller c. 2003. Enjoy!

P.S. next week is the last official throwback. I hope to prepare something special, time permitting, although I just found out I’m going to be in Tennessee for the better part of the week! Fingers crossed I can find the time.

Going to explore some new territory this week with a TV throwback. If you don’t know this one you must have been in hibernation between the years of 1988 and 1995, when this theme song was on the air. (The show itself is still on but they’ve changed the theme. Blasphemy!)

As far as creepy theme songs this one destroys them all, hands down. I mean this makes the X-Files theme sound like a leisurely stroll with a loved one on a brisk Fall evening. It makes the Tales The Crypt theme sound like some kind of crazy, but enjoyable, medieval circus.

As a musical piece I think this thing is just brilliant. Sure the sounds may be dated but if you can look at past that I’m sure you’ll agree. I imagine this is the sort of things zombies would play if they threw parties (… who says they don’t?)

To be honest I had completely forgotten about this tune until just last week. I was working on an arrangement with Mr. James Spray of The WAX and he was describing this sound that went “waaaanh eeennh”, and I was like “that’s so totally the sound in the Unsolved Mysteries theme song!” (and also the sound my cat just made at me)