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                                             June 3, 2018

  About:   THE_MUSIC_OF_ALWAYS
     
  When I came up with this playlist    
  I was feeling enthusiastic about    
  Japanese pop-culture and anime         JWAVES
  soundtracks; plus some obscure   
  bands I'd turned-up on the        
  internet archive; and I was                 The reasoning behind these
  reaching back to some earlier               picks, and the circumstances
  obsessions like Vietnamese                  that I let steer me to them
  pop-music, Bowie, the VU,                   were very casual and arbitrary.
  industrial music and goth music.            Nothing was tremendously well
                                              considered, it was almost the
     Looking back on it, the set is           opposite of the usual "desert
     surprisingly light on jazz, and          island picks" game.
     has very little from the Bay Area
     Improv Scene save Myles Boisen.              An aversion to the big
                                                  sources of DRM'd sound
     It heavily features Yoko Kanno,              files and a laziness about
     The Winter War In Tibet, Soviet              ripping disks myself both
     Jazz, Cheiko Kawabe, Aya Hirano,             played a huge role: the
     Sa Ding-ding, Arcade Fire and the            Internet Archive looms
     Velvet Underground...                        large, here.
                                          
                                         
         It's a funny idea to use an entire    
         album by _The Winter War In Tibet_,    
         "Tragedy in Space"; and further to    
         use the tracks in reverse order as 
         instrumental interludes between the
         poppier tracks.                    
                                                
             I didn't remember doing that, but it's     
             immediately recognizeable to me as the     
             kind of thing I might've done.             
                                                        
                                                        
                                                       


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