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I stumbled upon this collection of house music back in the mid 00's and immediately fell in love with it, adding them all to my iTunes library. They were perfect "background" music for working on the computer or around the house.
I eventually got rid of the original CDs (along with most of the rest of my collection) after we moved to Denver and the music pretty much fell off the radar.
But a few weeks ago I rediscovered house music on YouTube via the Yoyaku Record Store and Humano Studios channels, and it was at this point I rememberd Bargrooves, and immediately ripped them from iTunes onto MiniDiscs.
Imagine my shock then when I first listened to my newly ripped discs and uniformly hated every one of them! "I liked this stuff?" I asked myself.
The other day I was going through disks and retitling everything (one of the perks of the format) and while pulling up the track lists on Discogs I realized that the songs I'd ripped to iTunes all those many years ago were completely out of order. It's no wonder I hated the sets…there was no continuity, no "groove" as it were.
Thankfully, another perk of MiniDiscs is that you can rearrange tracks to play in whatever order you want. So—even though they were originally ripped in the wrong order—I was able to reshuffle them into their proper sequence and voila! my love for this music returned.
The only problem is that there's now a break in between each of the tracks (the downside of ripping from iTunes) so I've tracked the original discs down on Discogs—for cheap!—and should be receiving them next week so I can gaplessly re-record them onto MD.
I can hear you all now: "He's such a nerd."
Yup.