Jukebox Heart Special Report: Themes!

It’s time to revisit portions of the Jukebox Heart sibling-site, , paulcollegio.net – my personal website. I’m not doing any major redesign, but a few issues are being worked. One of them is the site’s homepage theme music. I love it, but it’s time to change. I’ve been auditioning a number of tracks and have it narrowed down to three. Here is where you come in. You’re going to help me pick a theme for the site. This process will take a little bit of your time – three easy steps! – but you can do it in the background, with lots of other stuff you’d ordinarily do anyway. Plus it’s an excuse to procrastinate and listen to some music. Who doesn’t love that?
Step 1: Go to my site and listen to the theme music. It should start automatically. It’s an early 90’s ambient/experimental techno thing called “Henka” by a UK group named Tournesol, and it is from their wonderful “Kokotsu” album. If you like what you hear, the vinyl can be had for as little as GBP 5 from discogs.com, while the CD is available domestically starting at US$8, also from discogs.com.

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Step 2: I’ve reposted my “Themes” podcast, which originally published on 30 August 2007. I’m publishing it again, so you can hear all of the themes that have been a part of the www.paulcollegio.net website since its inception. I think you’ll enjoy it, but it may also help you in the next step, below the following track listing.

Jukebox Heart 002: Themes, Volume 1
43.6 MB | 47:40

This week’s Jukebox Heart podcast compiles all of the themes I’ve used on the PaulCollegio.net website from the launch date through the present. The themes have always been of a downtempo ambient nature, so the podcast has a swathing, kind of subtle groove going on. The track list is below.

1. Project5 – Demo Remix
2. Tyco – Dream as Memory (Hear You Soon)
3. Akufen – Skidoos (My Way)
4. Duet Emmo – Heart of Hearts (Or So It Seems)
5. Sybarite – Invisible Magnetic Missive (7″)
6. Languis – Countryside (Unithematic)
7. Technicolor – Labor (2088)
8. Tournesol – Henka (Kokotsu)

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Step 3: Listen to each of the following three cuts. I have deliberately omitted their identifying information for now, because I want your reaction to the music, and not to any other ancillary information. I’ll post the artists and titles tomorrow.

Track 1:
[audio:http://www.jukeboxheart.com/specrep/themes/track1.mp3]

Track 2:
[audio:http://www.jukeboxheart.com/specrep/themes/track2.mp3]

Track 3:
[audio:http://www.jukeboxheart.com/specrep/themes/track3.mp3]

When you’ve finished listening to theme music on the website, the podcast and these three individual tracks, please vote for the track you think is the best selection for the next theme of www.paulcollegio.net

Thanks for your participation!

If you are not subscribing to Jukebox Heart yet, you should! Until then, you may download this podcast here.