The Music for Ideas mix is inspired by a TEDx event at the University of Michigan.
Image courtesy Ghostly International
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]
Angela is a reporter for the Underwire, Wired.com's pop culture blog. She is also a senior editor of Longshot magazine. Follow @WaterSlicer and @theunderwire on Twitter.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/04/free-ted-mixtape/
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