I started listening to electronic music again six months ago on the recommendation of a friend. I'd been having anxiety dreams a lot more frequently and my friend noted that I had been listening to a lot of melancholy music and that perhaps there was a correlation. He said I should listen to more uplifting and upbeat for a change and pointed me at Tiesto's Club Life podcast. Six months later here we are, a little more rested and a little more upbeat.
My challenge this week was confronting the melancholy again in the form of a rather emotional panel of candidate songs. While I've included some heavy songs on previous podcasts, not as personal nor as concentrated as those this week. It's been cathartic to revisit these feelings in a concentrated form to see how far I've come. That being said, I'm ready to put this mix in the books and move on, hence the early posting.
The standouts this week are perhaps rather obvious. Ghost In The Machine speaks rather directly to the aforementioned anxiety dreams that I've been dealing with. I connect very much with the sentiment of the lyrics and am very happy that I'm not personally in that place anymore. Coming Home is a song I considered including several weeks ago, but the original mix never quite worked for me; Harryson's remix changed that. The song's chorus "the universe cracked open on us; are you coming home?" reminds me all too much of a very tumultuous time in my marriage. The song seems to beg for the feeling of the sun coming up at the beginning of Enceladus; in fact I feel the songs are practically joined in that way. I'm again thankful listening to this song that I no longer live in the place this song takes me too. The final standout song this week, which I think frames this podcast, is Remember. Its lyrics tear into some very raw feelings of love and opportunities lost, but encourages the listener to not dwell and instead celebrate all the things that you have; I think that sums up the feeling I get listening to this podcast very succinctly.
Until next week, when I hopefully have more upbeat wares, cheers!
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