More on music (currently listening to That Feelin’ by The Rurals [Franco, take that as a hint of a recommendation for the love of Rhodes!])…
My list will be long as I start to remember things that I have in my old cassette collection, but who cares—it is for the record. 
Back in my teenage years I had discovered the music of groups like Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures, The Cure, The Fall, The Damned, Bauhaus, The Smiths, Morrissey, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Depeche Mode, etc. I am compiling a list of my collection, so I know what I have when I have to sell/give away most of the cassettes I can’t listen to anymore. I did start to brush the fringes of aural sensory with electronic at a time when Depeche Mode was extremely popular with DJs in dance clubs. And so, that is how the worlds of the Synthpop, Britpop, and genres of Dance/Electronic music did collide to provide more eclectic future discoveries for me.
I still enjoy listening some of these groups on certain occasions—sometimes for nostalgia, but in particular The Smiths, Morrissey, Nick Cave, and old Siouxsie and The Banshees tracks. But I had progressed a bit over into the Hip Hop and the Organic Hip Hop genre—listening to groups like Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, The Roots, and later in Europe having a preference for French Hip Hop—MC Solaar, Alliance Ethnik, NTM, IAM, Soon E MC, Les Nubians, etc.
When I lived in Belgium, I started to more fully discover World music, Acid Jazz, Funk, Drum ‘n’ Bass, House, US Garage, Trip Hop, Downtempo, and other subgenres in Electronic. I bought many CDs in Europe and enjoyed the fact that my worlds of sound were opening up and branching out. Over time, I got to hear quite a lot of things.
I was surprised to discover a group called Stereolab a few years ago at the insistence of my brother who was dying to check out their CD—but for some reason, I had a hard time taking his advice about that because it seemed a bit different from what I expected him to recommend to me. Well, I can never be surprised with him anymore. Later on, I saw a VW commercial with a track I liked, and found out the song featured was a Stereolab song (Parsec), so I ended up getting the Dots and Loops CD.
More on music for the next time.
Cheers!
