Being introduced to this forum by Mr himself, what can I say other than I found a treasure on-line! So, let me introduce myself...
My name is JimAth, but you can just call me Takis. I'm 21 years old, an Athens resident, and avid fan of library music!
When I was like 11, exactly 10 years ago, I began listening to soundtracks (I grew up with classical and the greek folk traditional music), and whenever I was watching Spongebob I really wanted to have the background music. So, I downloaded a torrent with the "Production Music" (still then, I couldn't exactly understand what was it all about) and submerged into the obscure world of the libraries. Everyday back then, I was googlin' and googlin' for albums (we had the dreaded Rapidshare back then -remember?), downloading and filling up my hard drive. 10 years ago, Facebook was still in its infancy, and blogs and forums were the place-to-be if you were on the search for obscure genres of music. Indeed, the blog community back then was very active and with exceptional quality (remember the Crime Lounge, a guy who used to upload albums but I just can't remember his name). Endless hours on the search...
Through library music, when I was around 15, I discovered jazz (even though I wouldn't fully appreciate it back then, as I do now), other genres and learned to distinguish between composers, eras and styles. When I entered University and had some money from student jobs, I started building my CD and Vinyl collection. I have around 4-5 CDs of Production music as of now (I mostly bought soundtracks and classical at first), but in the future I will enrich it with more findings.
Well, that's my -musical- life story! I hope we can have a very nice time here!
Greetings,
Takis
