POST II : My Life Soundtrack

Music has always been an important part of my life. When I was a little kid my two older sisters had a big influence in the music I used to like. In the summer nights we usually watched videoclips of their favorite bands in a loop until 3 or 4 in the morning, thanks to my older sister, who used to download them from the internet. We whatched videoclips of bands such as Panic! At The Disco, My Chemical Romance, Blink-182... but my favorite bands at the time were Foo Fighters and Nirvana. I used to hear them all the time on YouTube when I came home after school, in fact, I can´t listen to them now without feeling like I'm ten years old again.

After I came back to Chile and started going to high school my music taste changed drastically. I started listening to a lot of rap, soul and jazz, genres that i still listen to this day. My favorite singer at that time was a spanish rapper called Kase O. His record "Kase O Jazz Magnetism" was the one that I think I listened the most until I graduated High school. In fact, I can sing it from beginnig to end to this day. Other artists who had a big influence on me at that point in my life were Tiro de Gracia, Wu Tang Clan, A Tribe Called Quest and Nina Simone.

As I mentioned before, after high school my music taste didn't change that much, the big diference is that I started to pay more atention to how some of my favorite records were made because I wanted to start making rap beats. For this reason I started focusing on the discographies of some of the Djs and producers who make some of my favorite records, and discovered the most influencial musician of my life: J Dilla. He was a producer from Detroit, who introduce me to the art of sampling, which is basically take parts of old songs and reuse them to create a new sound. Thanks to this I started to listen to a lot of old soul and jazz music from the 60' and 70' and discovered the record that to this day is my favorite piece of music of all time: What´s Going On by Marving Gaye.

I listen to this record almost religiously once a week since the pandemic started. In fact, I think it has been one of the few things that can give me peace in these rought times.