Thursday, February 16, 2006

Radio, Radio

This new radio buttons feature really makes me happy. I can set the "ambient" button going, and enjoy dozens of songs as I work. I'm perpetually amazed at how many great mixes exist in the mixter that I had not heard before now. It's like cruising down a river lined with trees.

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2 comments:

fourstones said...

funny thing about the 'ambient' station I noticed the other day: not many ambient pieces in there. no?

Gurdonark said...

I tend to travel among the ambient "purists" who look with suspicion upon any beat other than perhaps "tribal ambient beats" and who would never call the chill, downtempo, pop and other non-ambient things which get the ambient tag on mixter "ambient" at all.

When I put together the webjay for ambient, I titled it "hints of ambience" because so little truly ambient work is on the mixter--perhaps Black Sun Laboratories and some John Holowach pieces, and a few others.

But I try not to get so purist about such things. I'd rather people not tag mainstream hip hop as both "experimental" and "ambient", but the ambient radio button is still a darn good listen.