I had some ideas this morning of some projects that i could be writing about. But i wasn’t really feeling any of them, so i started to go through in my mind what i’ve been listening to lately, that i could write about from heart. And hence this post about The Pine Walk Collection on Mixcloud.
The first time i heard about his project was serveral months ago when it was brought up in the swedish speaking podcast called P3 Klubben, and one of the hosts introduced this musical project to us listeners – and i got hooked immediately.
The Mixcloud page of this project describes itself as:
”DJ Sets from Fire Island Pines & New York City (1979-1999). These tapes were found in a recently purchased house on Pine Walk. There are over 200 tapes in total and they have been carefully digitized and remastered and offered to stream for free here on Mixcloud with permission from all of the living DJs we were able to contact.” and it also links to this The New York Times article about it.
There’s so much pure joy in these sets, and you get introduced to so much new and fun music – however, sometimes it’s rather frustrating since some of the tracks never got officially released – so it’s impossible to find them outside of the sets from The Pine Walk Collection. This musical collection is a sort of a time capsule. I have listened to far from all of the sets from the collection, but i’m working myself through them. My favourite so far is this set: Michael Jorba . Heaven Must Be There . May 1985.
I hope you give this collection a listen! I recommend it! Only unfortunate thing is that you can only listen to it on Mixcloud, either on the website or in the app. And while it’s free, some ease of life features are behind paywalls.
Until next time, take care.
SLQT.
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