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| Reepicheep wrote: |
| Taral-DLOS wrote: |
| Reepicheep wrote: |
"Satellite" by OceanLab. My gosh I love this band.  |
You're half a world away...
And in my mind I whisper every single word you say
And before you sleep at night
You pray to me, your lucky star, your singing satellite
*HARD TECHNO BEATS*
I may have to listen to Euro Invasion IV (the album I have it on) on the way home tonight. |
*raises hand for a high five*
I'm starting to really like European Dance Music. |
*high five*!
All I listened to when I lived near Toronto was their local Euro-techno-dance station "The New Z-103.5". In Grade 12, my friends and I had second period as a spare, and we'd stream the radio station through the computer in the student lounge. It was there that we discovered "Wayback Wednesday", where for 40 minutes commercial-free they played dance music from the early 90s to early 00s. Reminiscing about childhood, all "I remember this! I had this song on my Dance Mix '95 tape!" Good times had by all.
That station used to produce its own CDs, including Euromix, Street Mix, and Hit Mix, as well as the tie-in CD to their annual Summer Rush concerts (once held at The Docks, now at Wonderland I think, if they still do it). I used to buy all of them. Their DJs would also be involved in CDs like Euro Invasion and Club Hits and the like.
I don't listen to much music anymore in general, preferring podcasts and talk radio, but I have all my old CDs on my iPod, and listened to Euro Invasion IV on the way to work today 
Listening to that, as well as your mention of OceanLab yesterday Reep, made me think of how interesting it is that Techno and its various other genres (Euro, House, Trance, etc.) can blend emotions in weird ways. OceanLab's "Satellite" and other songs like Ferry Corsten's "It's Time" (both on Euro Invasion IV) are really really sad songs if you listen to the lyrics, but the music behind it is all "DANCE!" Maybe the subtle message is "Dance really close to the person you're currently next to, because you may not be around tomorrow." Or, per Ke$ha, "So while you're hear in my arms, let's make the most of the night like we're gonna die young." Makes you think.
As an aside, before iTunes was as pervasive as it is now, I would listen to streaming radio stations through Windows Media Player. One time I was listening to a European dance station (I think out of Germany), and I kid you not there was a techno remix of the Anakin and Padmé love theme. Brilliant!
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