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If this works, I’ll be well pleased…

So might you.

I’ve been an avid follower of Jeff Giles’ mp3 blog since I stumbled over it. And I haven’t a clue how that happened, but suffice to say it was one of last year’s better days.

So since September, I’ve been slavishly (that’s the only word for it – slavishly) reconstructing his Friday Mixtapes on my iPod

“Slavish” probably doesn’t do it justice.

“Obsessive” might be better.

It takes the form of looking for WiFi hotspots in Bangkok in the middle of the night (because the mp3 files Jeff posts have the lifespan of a mayfly) and then watching as the battery meter slowly creeps down below the forecast download time – a bit like cricket ODIs: 8 runs needed off 2 balls, 2 fours or a 2 and a six will do, but they take a single… – and you’re stuffed, because that last track is IMPORTANT and people are looking at you as you pound your head on the table, yelling “Shit! Shit! Shit!”.

Or lurking around the mall in Richmond.

Now I can feel for trainspotters…

So the idea is to (illegally) share the tracks that really stopped me in my tracks or have a special significance or are good beyond words and need a wider audience. Or the Mix’n’Match tapes from the early 80s that I’ve faithfully digitized. I can even remember why I sequenced them the way I did.

So here’s the first one – Dave Dobbyn’s Welcome home from Available Light

Why?

You have to watch the video for that…