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Curated: Headphones
Ever since I really discovered music I have been obsessed. First, by soundtracks from video games like Megaman X, Sonic, Final Fantasy, then by TV & Movies like Dragonball Z, The Lion King, A Goofy Movie, moving into radio mainstream like N*Sync (fun fact, no strings attached was the first album I asked my parents to buy me), Oasis, & Eminem, and finally learning that my now very religious father was once a metal head and discovering Metallica, Nirvana, The Scorpions, and Linkin Park. Now, by no means do I have a masters in the history of music, to this day I continue to learn the roots of where a lot of my current favorite artists draw inspiration from, but my fascination with music continues to evolve, even reaching into technical audio production and creation, not just music.
Opening Thoughts
I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business since I was about 17 years old. I fell in love with music through video games, first enjoying the sound of background music, to theme songs, and then radio waves. Much like many a Millennial, I’d wait for Q101 or 97 The Zone to announce a song I loved and hit the record button on my Unlce’s Sony radio cassette player, learning how to time the start and end before a radio announcer spoke over some of the measures. The very first Christmas I really remember, I asked my parents for a laptop. I was fascinated by the old Macintosh II Mrs Klausen had in our kindergarten class, choosing to play Oregon Trail instead of playing outside with the rest of the kids during recess, and other times just typing away at that primitive word processor just to hear and feel the keystrokes of it’s mechanical keyboard. Bless my folks, there was no way they could afford a laptop in the late 90s, a bad investment on a 8-9 year old kid anyways.