vanae’s tip of the dae: discover and listen to good music! so when you’re on a date, you can have conversations about music. come off as a cool person who have diverse and excellent taste in music. this is where i come in to help. ultimately, music makes us complete and makes everything that much sweeter.
i get your emails all the time asking about cool music recommendations, so starting this week i’m going to be better at highlighting hot music for you (even make your work day better). i’ll give you the daily ‘vanae’s track of the dae’ and ‘vanae’s album of the week’ on mondays.
we’ll kick it off with recommending one of my favorite bands ‘the radio dept‘, which is a shoe-gazey band from sweden. they have an amazing album, pet grief, that you preview one of my favorite tracks on it: purchase here: 
Thanks for highlighting some of your favorite “hot” music! I have liked many of your electronica (sp) choices.
What should be considered as good taste of music? I’m 31 and my music is classical, instrumental, jazz music. That’s what I consider good taste. But many of the youths and even my age nowadays listen to hip hop, rap and rock. Should we use a more appropriate word for “good taste”? since it is very relative term?
hey andy, i know the adjective ‘good’ is always relative but i consider good taste in music as outside of the mainstream hip hop/pop. instrumental and jazz can be good. you are considered to have good music if you are able to recommend peoople music she/he hasn’t heard before and majority of the time, they thumbs up your recommendations.
I recently discovered this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgFwiCApH7E (Which is part of a cypher track.) The artist is DJ ALex, and I must say after reading about him I love this song so much more. He has no ego, and spins music as a hobby to brighten peoples listening pleasures. Check it out V i think you may dig.