From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #582 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, October 20 2012 Volume 16 : Number 582 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- New here [Raphael Schweikert ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:09:42 +0200 From: Raphael Schweikert Subject: New here Hi Ectophiles, Ibve just subscribed to this mailing list after years and years of pondering this decisionb& No really, joining a mailing list always seemed to be like a big commitment that I was not sure I was ready to make. Still, finally, Ibve found the courage to commit. This comes after Ibve used the ectoguide hundreds of times to find new artists to love (to read more about me finding artists, see [http://www.last.fm/user/sabberworm/journal/2010/05/02/3lws6z_my_secret_of_artist_discocvery%E2%80%A6]). Ever since I can remember consciously listening to music, Ibve been listening to the music of Kate Bush. Some friend of my motherbs sent her a Kate mixtape when I was about five years old and I was hooked immediately. The tape was quickly worn out and the strange distortion on bMovingb that this caused still gives me chills even today and sends me right back to this part of my childhood. Ibll be twenty-seven years old in a few days and Ibve yet to change my opinion of any piece of music I ever liked: sometimes I do get tired of some songs but I have never had to reverse my decision. I own a lot of CDs and my digital music library clocks in at about 35 000 songs. My real obsession with music started in 2001 when I first began earning my own money. The first thing I did was try to complete my Kate Bush collection. The tape I listened to as a child had gone missing years ago and Ibd gifted away the one copy Ibd made, so I only had a CD of bThe Whole Storyb that I bought myself with pocket money some five years before. The first few CDs I bought did not contain any tracks I already knew and I was both disappointed by that but also surprised about how much more versatile than I thought this womanbs work (pun intended) actually was; how much more there was to her than my original mixtape (which, as I would learn later on, comprised mostly of songs from Hound of Love and The Kick Inside). I was especially fond of The Red Shoes. Fast forward some years and I, now knowing all of Katebs music, found some references to Happy Rhodes on a site called bGaffawebb (which Ibm sure all of you know). Incidentally, Ibve always liked the anachronism of the Kate Bush and Happy Rhodes fansites, harkening back to my initial experience with the world wide web in the mid-b90s. I was lucky enough to be one of the last people to be able to order all of Happybs albums from her web sitebs store in one swoop. When the package arrived, I was incredibly thrilled and Happy Rhodes became one of my most-played artists (as you can see on my last.fm profile [http://www.last.fm/user/sabberworm]). So, what music do I like besides Kate and Happy? Well, mostly womenbs voices, especially if they have got some ethereal quality to them (just see my last.fm profile for further info). There are some male voices I love, like the ones of Peter Gabriel, The Alan Parsons Project, Supertramp, The Pines, Midlake, Patrick Wolf but theybre the big exceptions. Ibve found that the voice makes the biggest difference in whether or not to like a certain piece of music. I am not afraid to like pop (or electronic) music, quite the opposite, actually: it does take a long time for me to like music that is difficult to access. I have yet to really bgetb the songs by some of the ectophile godesses like Emily Bezar or Veda Hille. I have added Emilybs music to my iTunes library in 2008/9 and I still have only about 10% (six songs) rated even though Ibve listened to all of them at least several times. So much about me. Ibm looking forward to seeing what goes on on the ecto mailing list. Raphael ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #582 ***************************