The Eclectic Selector: Miami WMC 2010
news | Jan 27th, 2011 | View Comments
I had a long discussion about music a few weeks ago in Rome with my good friend and musical ally Andrea Lai, and then followed it up a couple of weeks later with a similarly involved conversation with Sam in Prague.
We discussed our music tastes and tried to define what exactly ‘does it’ for us about certain tracks, and whilst it’s hard to objectively put your finger on why we like what we like, perhaps it comes down to the ‘soul’ and how the musician manages to convey something of themselves through the music.
For me it can be a lyric, the shuffle of a beat, the bitch-slap of a bassdrop, the fuzzy warmth of an analogue embrace, the addiction to a lead line, or more often than not a combination of all of the above into one compulsive piece of music, into which you simply surrender yourself and tumble headlong. That’s the essence of this column – it’s just a personal standpoint of tracks that are broadly eclectic and appeal to my own sense of what works and what doesn’t.
It has been a fun few weeks on the road anyhow, and with Miami’s annual WMC taking place this week, there’s plenty more dancefloor action to come.
