Music

I enjoy listening to many types of music. My favourite rock group is Queen, but since the death of Freddie Mercury in 1991 they have been less than prolific. I helped compile and currently maintain a set of Queen related discographies for the Queen Mailing List.

Over the past few years my tastes have shifted towards other types of music. I have always liked instrumental electronic music and am a great fan of Tangerine Dream (and solo members' works), Jean Michel Jarre and Klaus Schulze. On the classical side, I like the romantic composers and Grieg in particular. I also appreciate some comtemporary composers like Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

More recently I have discovered ambient music and so-called "Intelligent Dance Music". These genres cover many artists and the best place to read about them on the web is the archives at hyperreal.com.


Text and images by Mark Dobie, back to Mark's home page