![]() "Bass Trap" was my first real introduction to ambient music, the kind especially when seemingly "nothing happens." I didn't know that Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, and kraut rock in general had already perfected this aesthetic. It still always reminds me of her apartment complex, called "Taos," and my languid lazy days that spring when I was deluded with some misplaced notion that I could hold off "real life" and its obligations literally forever. I had the cassette for many years, and on long (very long) drives, at some point, this track would come on. So I went through his vinyl collection and recorded a bunch of stuff onto cassette, one of the tracks being this. There was this kind of hippie hipster dude who lived upstairs, I forget his name, he had long hair and played guitar all day. I first heard this track, I think, in the spring of 1989, when I was at my (then) girlfriend's apartment. But until then, here is "Bass Trap" from the b-side of the "The Unforgettable Fire" (1985) single by U2. I will have my favorite albums of 2016 up in a few days.
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