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Musical MileStones
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Songs that excited me on first listen.
Only "Pop" music does that I guess. That is its function.
I fell "in-love" with them... so they changed me.

They are my musical influences. Nothing too obscure.
I don't even like half of them anymore except in historical context
and for sentimental reasons.
I'm really not that weird. Just out of step with mass culture.

Before I became a "freak"
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         DAVID BOWIE: Heroes (single)

1979 Discover Radio 2JJ (Sydney)
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      FLYING LIZARDS: SummerTime Blues (My 1st "Alternative" love)
              POLICE: Can't Stand Losing You (Its 1st release)
 SIOUXSIE + BANSHEES: Hong Kong Garden
           KRAFTWERK: Robots 
   JEAN MICHEL JARRE: OxyGene

   THROBBING GRISTLE: Hot On The Heels Of Love (My first "techno")
                DEVO: Mongoloid
              B-52's: Planet Claire
                CURE: Forest
          GARY NUMAN: Are Friends Electric? (+ Aus Tour)
            ULTRAVOX: Quiet Men
         DAVID BOWIE: Heroes (album)
       TALKING HEADS: Take Me to the River
          THE NORMAL: Warm Leatherette  (DanielMiller - MuteRecords founder)
                                        (World's first industrial pop)
         GRACE JONES: Warm Leatherette  (Add chords to one note song. Funky)
       SILICON TEENS: Music for Parties (DanielMiller - MuteRecords founder)
                                        (World's first electronic pop)
        GANG OF FOUR: Love Gets you Like a Case of Anthrax

           RESIDENTS: Diskomo (single) / Eskimo (album)
        HUMAN LEAGUE: Being Boiled
          FAD GADGET: Back To Nature
HUNTERS & COLLECTORS: World of Stone
      BIRTHDAY PARTY: Release The Bats
        KILLING JOKE: 1st album
 ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: Over The Wall
              CHURCH: Unguarded Moment
            VANGELIS: BladeRunner Soundtrack
     LAURIE ANDERSON: Oh, Superman!
        JOY DIVISION: Atmosphere
     MONSOON/BEATLES: Meaning of Within
      Discovered 60's Psychedelia, 60's Punk

1983 Macquarie University, Sydney
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   DAVID BYRNE & ENO: Bush of Ghosts
 NOT DROWNING WAVING: Another Pond (album)
            VANGELIS: Soil Festivities
        PHILIP GLASS: Koyanisqaatsi + (more so) Powaaqatsi Movies
           BRIAN ENO: Thursday Afternoon 
       PETER GABRIEL: Passion (album/soundtrack to "Last Temptation of JC")
       COCTEAU TWINS: Song to The Siren
         SUGAR CUBES: BirthDay
      DEAD CAN DANCE: Aion (album)
           PACHELBEL: Canon ("classical")
            ALBINONI: Adagio ("classical")
      GEORGE WINSTON: Winter (album)
          SPACEMEN 3: [don't even know the album name]
         JESUS JONES: Info Freako
    JANE'S ADDICTION: Been Caught Stealing

1992 Moved to Melbourne
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                RIDE: Leave Them All Behind (was this a msg? ;-)
        My first drumming jam at ConFest Easter 1994

1994/1995 India + KohPahNgan
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             PRODIGY: Poison
           JOSH WINX: Higher State of Consciousness

Notice how it thins out as we near the present.
Indian Classical Music is currently my favourite to listen to -
I wouldn't know the title of any piece though
(why should I, they are all improvised anyhow).
I listen to others' electronic music only as a "job"
and a way to get to know fellow musicians & human beings.
I rather create music than listen to it - 
Only I can satisfy all of my requirements.
Only you can satisfy all of yours.
I hope to eventually appreciate the musicality of my breathing 
via Vippasana training.

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