DeLorean Discoveries

on Tiny Mix Tapes webzine:

The past seven years have seen an explosion in both music and music journalism. Everyone now races for a daily fix of the new at a pace that would have been unimaginable even a decade ago. At its best, paradigms are shifting and power is moving into the hands of the many. At its worst, music culture is now more disposable than ever, with people fixated on the Next Big Thing like a pack of hyenas closing in on wounded prey. Tabloid times these certainly are, and not even our beloved tunes have escaped.

We here at The DeLorean have only one way to respond: bah, humbug! There's no need to rush our way through record after record on an hourly basis. It's okay to take days, months, and even years to absorb a band's work. Music doesn't need to be consumed like a fashionable commodity operating on a 12-month buying cycle. The latest is rarely the greatest, and the old do not have to make way for the new.

So, why don't you take some time out of your day, make a cup of tea, and sit back to ponder our DeLorean Discoveries: a collection of great records from the past that we happened to stumble upon in 2007. We hope you enjoy.

-Charles Ubaghs, DeLorean editor