Digital Old Skool

We are soon celebrating our 2nd anniversary! How exciting! And I do really hope it will last much longer! Forever? Maybe, who knows...? Yes it's love! Of course it's love!

It started in 2009, the first exchange. The love affaire officially started in April 2009.

The love for music! Confused?

Well March 2009, my friend Marit from the Netherlands was came to visit me in Freiburg. A few drinks and long conversations led us to that affaire. Or maybe call it business deal. But a fun business: we both love music and we love to share it. But we both thought that giving a full DVD full of music usually leads to forgotten albums, because many of them stay un-listened due to the overload. 

Therefore the business business deal could be called "A CD-A Month". Marit send me each month one album, and I send her another one in return. We can be a little bit creative as well when designing our covers with whatever we find (paper, ribbons, cottons, pins...). Another rule we have in this "game-business-thingy" is to make a whole album of only one artist, not a compilation, in order to discover in depth during one month that artist.

I just told this whole story because last night, I got four Cds of Marit. Four because she was late. But I was late too. I have three on the way to Amsterdam. Everytime I get a packet it's like Christmas! I love it! And the best part you never know what will be in this time!

This time I got a nice mixture: some of the artists I knew already but I didn't have this specific album, another band I only heard the name but never listened to their music and the last one is a complete new discovery! And now I have a whole month, and even longer to discover them!

The "old-skool-mix-tape-exchange" is still alive, just in a digital format!

N.