abangaku

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Member Since: 7/1/2005
Total Mixes: 104
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I was born in 1982, but I'm fascinated with music from before I was born. Singer-songwriters, prog. Want to get more into ambient.


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CD | Rock - Prog-Rock/Art Rock
8/11/2021
Seven: its reputation, numerologically, is that of a magical or mystical number, and while it’s possible that many numbers really do have personalities of their own, seven, i.e. septuple meter, has for …
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CD | Theme - Narrative
12/26/2020
In August 2019, a group of four Americans, including me and my wife Connie, set out to walk Hadrian's Wall Path, a National Trail in England that stretches from Bowness-on-Solway on the Irish Sea in th …
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CD | Mixed Genre
8/7/2020
Thirteen years in the making (give or take), The Wild Cathedral Evening actually reaches back even further than 2007: it’s a mix composed mostly of music I appreciated during my senior year of high sch …
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CD | Other Mix
10/15/2019
When I posted my mix “The Mighty KRIM” (MixID = 110192) on this site over twelve years ago, it seemed like I was on the brink of a new mixing era. “I think I've got a new way of thinking about making m …
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CD | Rock - Prog-Rock/Art Rock
1/16/2019
I conceived of this mix of British prog in 2014 at the prompting of a friend (who’d received several other mixes from me, and who was interested in prog when I described the style to him), didn’t finis …
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CD | Theme - Romantic
10/24/2017
Well, I avoided it in my last post here, two days ago, but, as it turns out, I got married last month! The idea of making a mix for the wedding (and distributing it as a wedding favor) was one I'd orig …
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CD | Single Artist
10/22/2017
When I think of the musical promise of the first blush of hippiedom — before the psych-rockers solidified into the structural ecstasy of prog — there are two names that come to mind, both with their ro …
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CD | Theme - Road Trip
3/14/2017
Welcome to my shortest mix ever...! In late 2015, my now-fiancée and I took a trip down to New Orleans (we were there on November 10th when Allen Toussaint died), and this mix has been percolating ever …
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CD | Single Artist
7/23/2016
This was originally conceived as a successor to my 2005 Indian-Western fusion mix LOSE MY MIND & DANCE FOREVER (mixid = 98102), but I realized pretty soon that the musician I there called "the crown pr …
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