Music I enjoy
I don’t know why, but if I have to talk about me, or write my own biography, I’d like to tell about what music meant for me in my past years.
I’m also posting this because I’ve just discovered that what is written in "my favorite music" in my blogger’s profile is automatically split into keywords. The following paragraph explains well what I think about, but the automatic generated keywords and links resulted in a mess… thus, as I like to keep some order, here I keep my paragraph and I’ll updatemy profile.
My favorite music was originally (since 1995) trance, but now I listen a bit of everything: chillout, ambience, trip-hop, classical, sountracks, rock, punk-rock, latin etc. in fact I like to collect and to keep my music sorted and ready for specific situations (motivation, relax, background, party and even for romance 
). I usually like to give to each piece of music a special meaning.
To listen and to keep my music sorted I use several players:
- Winamp (lite version) is the fastest player that I use when I want to listen a single song (when I click on a mp3 file)
- Musicmatch Jukebox is the program I use to sort mp3 id3 tags and mp3 filenames and to encode my audio cds into mp3s
- iTunes is the one I’m actually testing to sort my entire music collection
Anyway, in these above few lines I didn’t say a lot about what I wanted to say. Here I come…
When I was a child I was listening mainly to the radio, or tapes that my friends borrowed me (and that I copied, of course). Some examples: Francesco Salvi, Queen, Sting, Sinthetized music (coming from my sister’s collection), Elio E le storie tese (given by a very funny friend of mine) etc.
Then something changed and I took my own path into music. When I first heard dance music, I felt in love for it. Groups such as Corona, Cappella, E-rotic, Scooter etc. were the first music that I really enjoyed with my heart (yes, you can laugh but at that period I was 12-13 years old…). I even started to do bad-mixed compilations, without mixer, on tapes… at that time I wish my parents could have seen my passion and bought me a mixer and some audio equipment, but it was not the case.
Thus I never developed my music passion, besides listening to it and sort it.
Of course I had the chance to give myself to this passion later, but my grown passion for computers was higher and stopped me doing that. Anyway this is another story.
In the dance music I distinguished "commercial dance" such as Corona, Cappella songs and other commercials and another branch: Scooter, Dune etc. which did faster dance.
…faster dance, closer to trance music, which I discovered on the radio thanks to the "Alca Parade". Dj Aqua, Dj Never… these DJs are my initiatiors into trance.
When I got my first computer, (Christmas 1994, a Christmas that I will never forget -the computer changed my life-) I begun to listen computer-made songs, so called modules. This sort of music is something special that can’t be easily cateogorized. Anyway, techno, techno-ambience, happy hardcore are the easier genres that I can remember without doing much research.
My first trance CD is The World of Trance, something that now I can’t listen anymore: it’s too acid. Anyway, in 1995 I was enjoying it.
Robert Miles made me listen more relaxing music, so called dream music. After a couple of years listening 883 -my favorite Italian rock-pop group that i begun to listen in 1993-, some dream, and the same trance CDs that I had, it begun for me the "trance boom".
In 1997, after buying D. Trance Vol. 6 I decided to buy the entire D. Trance collection. I own from Vol. 1 till Vol. 12. Then I stopped because I didn’t like anymore the compilation. I bought a lot of other CDs so now I own about 100 trance CDs. I transferred at least half of them on mp3: I have a project to create a DVD collection containing all my trance songs on mp3.
During high school, anyway, I started to listen also punk-rock music. My first punk group that I enjoyed was Fenix TX. Here there is a funny story to tell: in IRC chat my nickname was "Fenix", so one day a girl asked me if I was listening to that group. As I was curious she sent me some mp3 files and simply I loved it. Thus I begun to listen punk music…
During university I stopped buying trance CDs because I begun to copy trance CDs from my friends or downlaod mp3s from the web and because trance bacame boring after a while. One day I’ll anyway try to retrieve all what I missed. It will be quite hard, but I know some trance fanatics that may help me.
Now, as said in this post’s third paragraph, I like to listen a bit of everything and I’m simply open to discover new kind of music. So if you have a passion for a specific group or a specific kind of music, you may share it with me. I can easily like it.
Tags:February 4, 2005, Category: Personal
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