I love music. I usually rely on music to hype me up for work, for trips, for passing the time as I people watch and for, you know, life. So, I signed up for ‘soundcloud’ and I absolutely love it. My favorite deejays post their mixes and I get to listen to hour-plus straight mixes of reggae, Afrobeat, new jack swing, dancehall or whatever mishmash I can find musically. I discovered an awesome mix by Uproot Andy and Chief Boima of a famous Kenyan song, a throwback from 1979, by Les Wanyika: Sina Makosa (‘I have done no wrong‘ OR ‘It’s not my fault‘) and I have been playing it on repeat endlessly for the last four days.

Soundcloud also allows me to ‘follow’ people who may have some sets of music that interest me, thereby opening up pathways for me to discover new mixes, new deejays and interesting mashups.

I absolutely love soundcloud.com. However, I have noticed something funny. I suppose people are definitely looking for love or hook-ups online but they are not willing to pay for an account on Match.com or eHarmony, and consider themselves too classy to prowl Craigslist. Well, it seems they are landing in my soundcloud.com inbox, buoyed along by the idea that they may sort of know me, based on Continue reading →