Lots of things have inspired beautiful music: love, death, road trips, marijuana. But the idea of a musical compilation based on an intellectual symposium sounds kind of, well, boring.
Turns out that assumption would be wrong. See: Music for Ideas, a free compilation from Ghostly International that was inspired by the TEDxUofM conference held earlier this month at the University of Michigan.
"We are fans of TEDxUofM and having started a company in Ann Arbor it made sense to be involved," Sam Valenti, founder of Ghostly, told Wired.com in an e-mail. "[The collection] focuses on music that is ritualistic and slightly dreamy, engineered to suspend rational thought."
Music for Ideas features artists from the record label's stable, producing a compilation that actually delivers on its promise of providing brain food. The mixtape brings together the rubbery electronic vibe of Lusine's "Gravity" with the ethereal hip-hop vibe of Mux Mool's "Valley Girls" and the robotic dance-iness of Matthew Dear's "Good To Be Alive."
To snatch the free comp based on the TEDx event (theme: "Encouraging Crazy Ideas"), head over to the Ghostly site.
[via SF Weekly]
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