Banksy v2.1

So the other day I watched the movie Exit Through the Gift Shop. Loved the film - a quirky look, not really, at the graffiti artist Banksy. It's more of a sideways glance, as seen by following fellow artist Thierry Guetta. The documentary also happened to have a great soundtrack that I was immediately drawn to. I very quickly downloaded the bulk of the music from the soundtrack and listened to it for days.

Like most things, the music started to lose my interest and songs were taken out of the list. Slowly and surely the playlist morphed into something new. A lot of electronic-ish music, which didn't really resemble the original playlist. Please to be checking out and and letting me know what you think:

“I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.” 

        --Banksy 

Banksy Playlist v2.1

1. Death Cab for Cutie - You are a Tourist
2. Lykke Li - Get Some (remixed by Beck)
3. MGMT -Time to Pretend
4. The Naked and Famous - Young Blood
5. Foster the People - Pumped up Kicks
6. Teddybears - Punkrocker (Featuring Iggy Pop)
7. The Kills - What New York Used To Be
8. Breakbeat Era - Ultra-Obscene
9. Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
10. The Rolling Stones - Under my Thumb
11. Matt & Kim - Daylight
12. Thao & Mirah - Eleven
13. Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours
14. The Black Keys - Tighten Up
15. Y la Bamba - Juniper
16. Hot Chelle Rae - Tonight Tonight
17. Kid Infinity - P.Y.C.O
18. Mark Ronson  - Just
19. Kid Cudi - Up UP & Away

My digital music library has under gone many changes.

Countless hours of lost song ratings, play lists and files.

There was the failed linux experiments - songbird, rhythmbox and Banshee. This also included the several years of not paying for software as I bounced between Ubuntu and Fedora; never quite finding exactly what I was looking for.  Now I've come back, full circle back to Apple and itunes as the keeper of my music. Everything purchased IRL or via Amazon  but still with iTunes and iPod as the keeper at the gate.

This blog is an attempt to archive my creations, playlists in the event that I need to recreate them later when the data is no doubt lost to an old hard drive's whim of magnetic drift. This is my dream, my wish and I'm taking it back. I'm taking it all back.