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15 years can fly by. Yet, 19 years can seem like a blink. You see, it was in fact 19 years ago — if one can completely trust the internet — when a germ of a thought and of a vision was being created, one piece at a time, when Ricks and April were hand-painting…
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Looking back, it feels like my relationship with Endy goes back more than recently. Trolling through my Discogs orders I see that my oldest purchase from the man behind Groove Bunny Records was in 2017 – a copy of Mich Live’s Message From Heart which y’all finally got a chance to listen to in 2019.…
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Isn’t it always those late night thoughts that can push you to do something meaningful during your daylight hours? I say this because lately I’ve been ruminating on something: if ever this blog runs this course, I’d hate myself if I never took the time to document in some way those that had some way…
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Summer. There’s just something about hearing that word, about living in that season, that brings a certain urgency in me. It’s the meaning I place behind it that allows me to express my best sense of self. It’s when I think this blog’s readers get to hear music that’s the closest to what I enjoy…
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How’s everyone doing? If you’re like me, perhaps, things are looking up. When I was going back a week or two thinking about where to take my latest LYL Radio mix, I kept looking at all the music I’ve gravitated towards to lately, and all of it was seemed joyful. So I thought: “there’s something…
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When I went about curating my latest mix for LYL Radio, a phrase kept guiding me forward: “atmosphere as culture”. If any of you are like me, I imagine one of your passions might be exploring how much music can drive culture and vice versa. Some of that urge to simply “dig deeper” might lead…
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It bears repeating, well, at least serve as a reminder to myself, that: music lives best outside any kind of gatekeeping. When we’re blessed to discover music that moves us, doesn’t that blessing feel even more profound when we discover that others can partake in its existence with us? It’s what’s leading me to explore…
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First of all: thank you. I can’t thank y’all enough for all the kind thoughts you’ve all sent me since my father passed away and I had to take some time off from writing here. As I put the blog on pause during this “mental health” break, I was able to take in that space…
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Life sure is something isn’t it? I imagine, many of you who’ve experienced a great loss in their life (or are experiencing another one, as I am, at the time of this writing) can understand the course of feelings one goes through. They’re complicated. You can call it a certain numbness. Bouts of intense heartache,…
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Isn’t it funny the things that make us emotional? For me — I’m unafraid to share — it seems it’s experiencing “beautiful” things. It’s something I’ve pondered lately: “Why do I cry when I hear music that’s, quite simply, beautiful?” It’s something that pulled me to create my latest mix for LYL Radio. In the…
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