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A top mission of mine is to collect non-mainstream, relatively obscure, high quality, climactic, resplendent & hauntingly beautiful music (the kind of beauty, where you have your jaw wide open, tears helplessly falling down, due what is suddenly happening inside of you): as powerful and soul-stirring as possible, as I tend to respond to profound intensity in music. It needs to have that voluptuous catharsis of emotion and feeling. Many people have been moved by my collection, therefore I know that this playlist contains something worthwhile. It is my hope that listeners find a gem or two for themselves.
Criteria: Nearly universal appeal, soaring strings that could split one's heart open, at least one live instrument, preferably be instrumental (no vocals), be of impeccable production, and, of course, be staggeringly lush and beautiful.
I have been collecting from every nook and cranny for quite a long while. (A recent study has revealed that some brains process music in a bit of a deeper way, where each note, chord, or tempo change carries extra special meaning. Music is a language of its own dimension...)
If you think I'd love a track, please send it to me!
The top fifteen most beautiful (in my highly subjective opinion;
they are beautiful because they are powerful, in a hauntingly beautiful way that is capable of rousing a state of inner emergency) musical masterpieces I have, so far, ever heard (updated 02/2026), available via the link below:
1. Aria (Paul Schwartz): Horizon
2. Pink Floyd: Cluster One
3. Vanessa-Mae: The Blessed Spirits
4. Sarah Brightman: Deliver Me
5. Dead Can Dance: The Host of Seraphim
6. Hovhaness: Prayer of Saint Gregory, Op. 62b
7. Aria (Paul Schwartz): Furioso
8. Mari Samuelsen: White Flowers Take Their Bath
9. Vanessa-Mae: I'm A-Doun For Lack O' Johnny
10. Orlando Soundtrack (1994): Pavanne
11. Conni Ellisor: Dream Trilogy
12. Vangelis: Roxane's Veil
13. Depeche Mode: One Caress
14. Verve: Bitter Sweet Symphony (rare exception)
15. Mylene Farmer: Pardonne moi
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(My strange journey to Electronica:
Mortal Kombat led me to the music aligned with my soul, because Mortal Kombat, at 15, gave me a sort of rebirth. The Immortals put out a Mortal Kombat CD to go with the video game, and the 1995 film soundtrack to Mortal Kombat the Movie was some of my first introduction to Electronica. I intuited a way forward to something untamed, powerful like a gale, and driven inside of me, yearning to be known. I had listened to "club dance" music before, but this was different: non-conforming, defiant, exciting, transformative, clandestine, deep, primal, sexy, kaleidoscopic, badass, energetic, cryptic, evocative of higher spheres of thought, unifying, and it revived like mother's milk. Listening, I peered into the slumbering, swirling, rising power within the global collective - a delicious underground rebellion - and within myself (and it must be known that EDM was partly created by and for marginalized communities). I felt I was being invited to participate in something enormous (it is via this music, alone, that I can sense that a massive collective awakening is approaching within our lifetimes. I can hear it. It is this sound of electrifying anticipation that drew me to the genre in the 90s); it was well over ten years before I went to an event, so I, essentially, meditated to all of these energies. The film soundtrack introduced me to Orbital's "Halcyon and On and On", and the rest is history because my life had begun. Since this also happened to, I assume, many other people, I have to conclude that the universe is... holographic.
[The music may definitely be off-putting to those that cannot stomach its repetitive, even robotic elements. Those of us that can, find in EDM trance-inducing states of consciousness.] )
note: I have songwriting, (some) music production, and vocal abilities, but am not ready to share them with the world.
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