2014, my retrospective in music
Last year, I started what I would like to become a personal tradition. I decided to create a playlist that would describe my prominent emotions of the year that just passed. The creative process would be a way for me to look back at the year, both emotionaly and musically. I was afraid though that it would be an endless process and that I would end up putting up an endless collection of tracks without any meaning. I needed some limitations.
I always liked the length limitation of vinyls. Back in the days, album were also designed with that limit in mind and you could really feel how it influenced the construction of the album. The original LP record had a maximum playing time of nearly 45 minutes, or 22 minutes by side. I decided to take this restriction and to add another one: Only 4 tracks by side.
These constaints gave me a framework which enabled me to focus myself on the most important phases I went through during the year. I added a soft constraint as well: Tracks should be the one I listened to during this year.
Without further ado, here is my 2014 retrospective.
2014 retrospective: “Mont-Royal LP”
https://soundcloud.com/marcw/sets/mont-royal-2014
Side 1:
- Pachanga Boys – Black Naga (Hippie Dance)
- Flore – Numen (POLAAR)
- Suuns – Music won’t save you (Secretly Canadian)
- Kool & The Gang – Summer Madness (Polygram)
Side 2:
- Flore – Random (POLAAR)
- Parquet Courts – Ducking & Dodging (What’s Your Rupture?)
- Run The Jewels – Love Again (Akinyele Back) (feat. Gangsta Boo) (Mass Appeal)
- The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows (Parlophone)