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Stranger Things 2 is coming out this weekend and I can’t stay still! This track, the second on the soundtrack for seaon 2, revisits Kids and that beautiful cycling scene in the first episode. In fact, that’s the scene that got me attached to the kids in this show. Listening to this new soundtrack and reading song titles is having my mind run with ideas on what we’ll be seeing for S2! Oh boy, oh boy.

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New Gramophone House, Chandni Chowk, Delhi

I needed some help getting here, but buried somewhere in the heart of Chandni Chowk is this absolutely wonderful house of records called the New Gramophone House. This place had by far got to house the best and most records I’ve seen in India. 

I was pretty disappointed that they didn’t have anything alternative and 90s rock though - surprising considering how attached to that age of music many music lovers from India are. That said though, there was a pretty solid collection of old school pop, funk, jazz, and classical records. 

I left the place pretty happy with my copy of Kraftwerk’s The Man Machine. It’s not an album I haven’t heard before - but just the satisfaction of owning a physical piece of Kraftwerk music gives me a lovely high. I can’t remember how many times my dad would play The Model from his compilation CDs on our long drives back home.

Bonus Atoms For Peace CD In my hunt for this elusive vinyl store, I actually came across another place in Khan Market where I picked up this one! Man, I’m sucker for anything Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood.

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Dedicated to all human beings

It’s been ten years since Radiohead releaed In Rainbows!

What was I even doing in 2007? I was a ninth grader digging Linkin Park’s Minutes To Midnight when I heard about the revolutionary return of mysterious leader Thom Yorke and company. Sorry folks - I’m from a generation that listened to the wave of music that OK Computer and Kid A influenced, not what it successfully interrupted. 

My friend Deepak and I would dig a lot of fun music in high school. One day while we’re walking back to the buses, Deepak asks me if I listen to Radiohead. 

Z: Not a lot of their songs. I’ve watched some videos on YouTube. There’s so many albums I don’t know where to begin. I know I’m not supposed to like Pablo Honey. They’re so hard to get!

D: Dude I started listening to In Rainbows. It’s really good dude. You have to check it out.

Z: What’s it like?

D: It’s really different.

I don’t remember how Deepak described it further but the next time we swapped our USB drives, I made sure it was in his collection for me to copy...

I 'rediscovered’ this album in college, close to when The King Of Limbs would be coming out. But that LP8 hype was so real that a normie like me had to pay attention!

I’ve had a lot of good times with this album. 15 Step is still my go to song to test a new pair of headphones with. And my hostel-mate Aditya says to this date that I ruined Reckoner forever for him because of all my falsetto singalongs. #sorrynotsorry Aditya

To me, In Rainbows is up in my top five of the greatest albums ever. Thank you Radiohead, for this masterful record. My shitty music blog can’t say enough.

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Ridiculous Godlike Genius Best Ever Remix: Radiohead - Reckoner (Chris Martin RMX) (ft. Matthew Bellamy)

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?

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What I’ve been listening to - Nov 2017

Okay maintaining this is hard. Sorry, blog. Here’s some of the stuff I’ve been digging over this past month.

Dirty Projectors - Little Bubble from Dirty Projectors

I’m discovering Dirty Projectors now. Looks like there’s seven other albums for me to explore in the back catalogue. And in this one, it sounds like David Longstreth’s friends have left him. This is going to be fun.

“Morning. There's no one else here. I'm alone and the cold. October light hits like a black hole.”

Four Tet - Two Thousand And Seventeen from New Energy

In a year that’s so polluted with horrid negativity in the news (at home and abroad), it’s nice to have Kieran come down and bless us with the ultimate escapist’s soundtrack.

Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein - The Return from Stranger Things 2 Soundtrack

That soundtrack was incredible, no surprises really. My only problem with the show, and therefore the soundtrack by extension, is that it’s not enough. Loving the adrenaline building Soldiers and The Return. 

Kamasi Washington - Truth from Harmony Of Difference

This year was me discovering jazz. Like, discovering discovering jazz. Like doing Thursday Jazz Nights at Shisha Jazz Cafe discovering jazz. And then Spotify has to come along and suggest this 14 minute epic and here I am again, dicovering jazz.

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Delhi Playlist

A post shared by Zeashan Ashraf (@zeashanashraf) on Oct 21, 2017 at 9:57pm PDT

Everytime I travel to some place else, I’m trying to make sure it’s a different playlist I’m listening to. Something that I can remember the place with when I listen to the song later, so this is the Delhi playlist I made when I spent Diwali with K and her family.

We’ve had endless debates before over which version of By Your Side is better - the original by Sade or the dream-rock version by Beachwood Sparks. The 1975′s version doesn’t top it but hell, it’s such a dreamy atmosphere that *makes* you forget all your debates.

Later K played Ed Sheeran’s Perfect which was her song for me. And as if in cue, I have to annoy the hell out of her with The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room) by Flight Of The Conchords.