I remember seeing Leroy and his glossy eyes, a fifth of Jack flowing freely through his bloodstream. He smiled. “You’ve gotta listen to this, fool. Shit is great.”

There, under a suburban night sky, a melodic echo, something akin to chamber music, but with a hip-hop beat, came careening out my car speakers. “Insight/Foresight/More sight/The top of the wall reads a quarter past midnight…” I didn’t know it then, but I was going through a musical revolution; the turn of the century around the corner, and a world of music about to shape my next decade.

“Good Morning Sunshine…whole new ball game…whole new day…” More music followed and my catalog bulged to include genres, sounds and compositions I never knew existed. These tracks are a mixture of songs that shaped me throughout my late Teens and early Twenties. In fact, they’re tracks I can’t live without today. The Manu Chao/RATM transition is gonna F#*$ with your head.

• Quasimoto – “Good Morning Sunshine”
• Moby – “Porcelain”
• Deltron – “3030″
• Manu Chao – “Luna Y Sol”
• Rage Against The Machine – “The Ghost Of Tom Joad”
• The Roots – “Act Too…The Love Of My Life”
• DJ Shadow – “Midnight In A Perfect World

Image: “Lay Down The Needle”
Prenzlauer Berg, Germany 2007
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