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This is driving music.
You will notice that many of these are recognizable from films. This is because there are people out there who's job it is to cue songs to events in films. Incidental scoring, underneath the composed songs, is so goddamn neat.
This is driving music.
Walking.
Driving.
Do you see?
Runners up include: All Ratatat records are driving music.
All Nujabes records are walking music.
Okay okay I need to make this quick. Can't get sucked in, need sleep!
Permanently tired all the time nowdays! Can't be helped! Stuff to do!
There is walking music and there is driving music.
And there is a lot of other music too obviously but that is not the point. False dichotomy. Whatever.
What I mean is there are certain songs that you listen to while you're walking, and you go "this is a perfect walking song" and songs that come up while you're driving and you don't think a single thing, it's just road road road.
Some of you may be saying "you don't drive" yes well okay maybe I just mean "traveling in a car" then.
There isn't any airplane music because sitting uncomfortably for long stretches at a time doesn't require a soundtrack. There is no sensation of movement during flight, which in my opinion is a damn shame.
(Note: This is hemitrue. During takeoff, being pressed into your seat, there are appropriate songs you can play.)
It turns out this was solely an excuse for me to look at that video. Jets are fucking awesome.
Wrong.
It is actually really difficult to identify this type of music when you're sitting. I keep trying to make note of the really good ones but hey sometimes I revisit them and go "No, no, this is just a good old song. It doesn't properly contain motion!"
Now.
The majority of these are cheating, in that they mostly consist of ambient electronic music.
Ambient electronic music will allow you to do anything rhythmic or monotonous until you die of exhaustion or boredom.
Trance music is shit and always will be shit, but it doesn't matter because the people who listen to it are on drugs and you wouldn't give a baby Voltaire straight out the oven would you? They'd only slobber on it anyway, bless them.
Movies have conditioned us that the next best travel music is singer/songwriter acoustic guitar stuff because that is when Joseph Gordon Levitt is on the train back to his hometown and the girl is transitioned to while he stares out the passing landscape.
The illusion of progress is different than the sensation of movement; do not be fooled by Hollywood music magic! They know your emotions and they have built the right toxins to play them like a fiddle. Fiddles. Plural. I think that makes the sentence flow better.
There has been a whole lot of talking and not a lot of music and that is because I think that if I just list these songs the concept will be lost.
Oh. Also.
Don't confuse Songs about Movement with Songs that Make you Move!
Pretty much a lot of the songs I put on here make you move! That is my definition of funkiness anyway. Well, even of any downright good song.
If it makes you unconsciously associate with it, physically, it's good! Rhythm, you know, in the purest sense, affects everyone. Even grandmothers.
Let me play music for your grandmother.
I think I'll add the actual songs later.
Okay okay what I'm trying to say is
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