Addicted2Melody

Simply a fan of electronic music in almost all its many forms - trance, house, progressive, electro, hard dance, psychedelic, breaks, drum and bass, chillout, pure ambient, trip hop, dub - to me, it's all good. My profile might not show it that well, but my real roots are in trance and if I had to sum up my taste in three words they'd be: ibiza, sunset and euphoria. Gazing across the sea on the Sunset Strip, sipping a beer and listening to the sounds of Café Del Mar or standing, arms aloft, on the crowded dancefloor of Amnesia amidst the smoke and lasers - that's what music means to me. If you need any electronic music recommendations or advise, don't hesitate to give me a shout.

N.B. - I do listen to live sets and radio shows (ASOT, Radio One's Essential Mix etc.), but I don't scrobble them here. This profile shows the vast majority of, but not all, my listening.





"You are a creature loose in a landscape of meaning,
and you are that landscape of meaning"
- Terence McKenna (Seeking The Stone, 1991)

“...the spirit of child-like, untrammelled curiosity is what we are striving for. Not the anal retentive, rational person, not the ‘i’ll go for anything’, channelling ‘flake’, but an attitude of “we don’t have to look far for miracles because they’re all around us." Everything is astonishing; the universe on its surface is alive with mystery. Well, how do we make our way toward that when we live in a culture, practice a language, embody a philosophy - scientific rationalism - which is entirely designed to suck wonder out of reality, to turn everything into shades of gray, to subvert all hope that lies outside the realm of career accomplishment material possession?”
- Terence McKenna (Seeking The Stone, 1991)

“The emphasis of house music and rave culture on physiologically compatible rhythms, and this sort of thing, is really the re-discovery of the art of natural magic with sound. That sound, properly understood, especially percussive sound, can actually change neurological states, and large groups of people getting together in the presence of this kind of music are creating a telepathic community, a bonding, that hopefully will be strong enough to carry the vision out into the mainstream of society. I think the youth culture that is emerging in the Nineties is an end of the millennium culture that is actually summing up Western civilisation, and pointing us in an entirely different direction; that we are going to arrive in the third millennium in the middle of an archaic revival, which will mean a revival of those physiologically empowering rhythm signatures, a new art, a new social vision, a new relationship to nature, to feminism, to ego - all of these things are taking hold, and not a moment too soon.” - Terence McKenna (Re: Evolution, 1992)




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My Journal

See my journal entry, MUSIC ACCORDING TO ME (2007), for most of my general opinions and thoughts on music, including the development of my taste and what dance music is really all about. Also, see the more recent follow ups, REFLECTIONS (2008) and SO LONG … AND THANKS FOR ALL THE TUNES (2009) ... Includes my thoughts on fanaticism in music, Pendulum, Shpongle, the state of the UK mainstream and how I achieved download karma.

Other entries:

THE TRANCE JOURNAL
PART 1 - HOW TRANCE WORKS - My attempt at answering the question: what really is trance and how does it work?
PART 2 - THE BIG COUNTDOWN - My 150 greatest trance tunes of the last 15 years (1992-2007)
PART 3 - TRANCE CULTURE - My analysis of trance as a culture - it's ethos, philosophy and ideals.

SCOOTER - THE GREAT Q&A & JUMPING ALL OVER OUR GRAVE - My thoughts on the recent demise of one of dance music's most controversial bands.

SEEN LIVE - An arbitrary list of the DJs I've seen live whilst clubbing over the years.

THE VOICES BEHIND THE BREAKDOWN - A list of the various origins of vocal samples in hard dance and psy-trance records.

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Random Comedy Quote Of The Month - NOVEMBER 2009

“I’ve never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of, “Don’t sit on a wall if you’re an egg.”... How is that applicable to an 8 year old human?”

- Ricky Gervais