[Professor]

I just wanted to share what happened to me about a month ago, and what has happened since then.

About a month ago, I had a second major HDD crash. I think I had a power spike, and the thing just up and started hissing and creaking and just died. That drive housed my ENTIRE itunes folder, all my personal audio production samples and sets...all my dj music...all my photos. Pretty much everything. It died. Some of you may know, that I am doing this show next week in London...so the crash was particularly badly timed. I freaked.

So let me explain what has come of this. First off, I had to listen to actual cds again. Take the time to stare at my disk collection, find what I want...and put it in the player. This provided me with an interesting "new world"....listening to an entire album, as a piece of art. I hadn't listened to a complete work in probably 3 years...since I got my first Ipod. I've been happily living in "shuffle" world. I had taken about a month and a half and had completely inventoried all my cds into my itunes folder...so when at the computer, I just ran THAT on shuffle as well. Or just chose a particular track from the library....mostly sorted by date added. All of that has changed...partially because I don't want to spend another month and a half re-importing ALL that music again....but also, because of this new connection with my music collection. I have some good shit in there that I never listened to. The Headz comp on Mo Wax, for one....amazing start to finish. Complete Joy Division albums...Luna albums....Underworld albums...I've also been discovering what albums AREN'T particularly great as a whole, that at one time I thought were....Orbital's first album is actually kinda hard to get through beginning to end. Hate to say it, but it's true. But I can put on The ORB's adventure's in the Ultraworld...and just let that one play...

Point is, that because of this hard drive crash, I've sort of gotten closer to what an album should be. And I'm better off for it. Also, that crash forced me to re do my upcoming show. That task was a bit tedious...but it's going to be a MUCH better set than before. And sure, I still need an audio drive, one for professional audio use...but I'm not going to go back to shuffle culture for awhile.

Those of you thinking your music might be dead....just try it...put on a cd you haven't listened to in a while and give it a new chance to woo you.


Another cathartic Dirty confession.

M