I routinely try to categorize trends in dance music. I’ve been listening to this stuff for well over a decade now and I usually lump the eras, arcs or interests of the various underground and mainstream scenes I follow and assign it to the year where that was a “thing”…

I make a yearly musical trip listening to all the Anjunadeep compilations in anticipation of the new one’s release. Anjunadeep 14 is here tomorrow and its release feels sudden with all the album announcements the label has been making lately. While it’s unclear how rushed this release is for James…

I have been listening to Anjunadeep compilations for ten years now. In the hot summer of 2013 I found myself enamored with the weekly Group Therapy radio show and my friend recommended I start checking out the house music regularly released on Anjunadeep. I had already enjoyed Andrew Bayer’s You…

2022 has been a weird year for me. The biggest change technically took place in the fall of 2021 in which I got married and moved in with my wife. The months following were an obvious adjustment period of moving in, buying all the things that don’t come with a…

In 2010 my friend was talking up this stuff called trance music and why it was so rad. At the time I was only half-listening, lost in whatever melodrama was eating my boring 18-year old soul at the time. But then that friend mentioned this new release having electric guitars…

Batman: The Enemy Within (The Telltale Series) is a game about Batman. You can imagine what’s in store. You fight criminals. You go undercover among criminals. You even potentially…perform crimes? You throw batarangs. You wear a cape. You pick brooding dialogue choices. You have a butler named Alfred. You’ve seen…

In 2020 I played through about 20–25 games from start to finish. Some were new, some were old, some I didn’t finish, some I did. Some I had played many times, some I had never played before. But in the year involving large amounts of time trying to avoid going…

Definition of LONGING Longing definition is - a strong desire especially for something unattainable : craving. How to use longing in a…www.merriam-webster.com People who read my writings on Medium but don’t know me in real life may not know that I’m a physical medium fan. As a 28-year old, I’m considered a millennial, but I grew up around computers and had earlier access in my life to the capacity to store, backup…

Last week I finally got around to playing and finishing Remedy’s 2019 third person action-shooter game Control. It’s a wild and weird one that I liked a lot. The game tells an odd story about Jesse Faden, a young woman searching for answers about the disappearance of her brother Dylan…