For my Moods, I’m focusing in on the iTunes as a gateway to music: besides my dad’s fusion, my mom’s Phil Collins, and my brother’s Linkin Park and Eiffel 65, our dial-up connection to the iTunes Store was the only way I could sonically venture outdoors. Growing up quiet and introverted in Ada, Michigan — a middle-class, white-picket Michigan suburb where the Devos family decided to buy a dozen acres, build two mansions, and fly their personal helicopter over my room — meant the 30 second iTunes Store song previews were my access to things like “jazz,” “R&B,” or my favorite, “electronic.” As such, my music education wasn’t in school, it was in the iTunes Store, from Duke Ellington to Janet Jackson to Röyksopp. In fact, the first song I ever bought is the last song on my mix. It’s by Onra, a French-Vietnamese producer known for taking Chinese records and layering them with hip hop rhythms and crisp French production. The song, “My Comet,” is the highest played song on my iTunes. The rest are listed below -- they were selected because they had the most plays in my iTunes and feel the most sentimental to my upbringing on the internet. If you like any of them, find them on your local iTunes to pick them up.
TRACKLIST
Onra - Mai's Theme 2
Flying Lotus ft Erykah Badu - See Thru To U
Shlomo - My Drum Loop Is Stuck In Molasses
SZA - Advil
Bent - Beautiful Otherness
Joomanji ft Lindsay Olsen - Spread Too Thin (Remastered)
Siriusmo - Last Dear
Jessy Lanza - Keep Moving
Tiger & Woods - T&W Lab File #12
Daft Punk - High Fidelity
Suzanne Kraft - Morning Come
Les Sins - Taken
Bonobo ft Bajka - Days To Come
The Internet ft James Fauntleroy - For the World
Onra - My Comet
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ARTWORK + MORE
The album artwork is paired with Fu Baoshi's Abundance on the Way from 1961. It hints at the space in which I existed in as a child: in a forested suburb using technology as a way to connect to more. To learn more about Fu, head to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Baoshi.