Interview: One Track Mind curator Danny de Zayas
By Ricardo Baca | September 11th, 2009 | No Comments »
Danny de Zayas has a One Track Mind for free (and legal) song downloads — and you should too. Photo by Nina Barry.
While some music fans have voracious, insatiable appetites for new music — and the news, MP3s, critical essays, videos and live shows that go along with that kind of an addiction — most fans can devote only so much time to their new-music fix.
And that’s where One Track Mind comes in. The Denver-based music blog presents one free, legal song download each day for its visitors’ pleasure. Hit “play.” Read the blurb. If it strikes your fancy, download it. If you think your best friend would love it, e-mail the link. Sign up to have the songs delivered to your e-mail — or Twitter — daily.
It’s that easy, and while Colorado is home to many quality music blogs — from Fuel Friends to The Post’s own Reverb — we talked with One Track Mind’s curator, Danny de Zayas, about how music should be like love: free.
Question: One song, one day. It seems so simple. Why does the world need One Track Mind?
Answer: Simplicity is really the point. Not everyone has the time or inclination to actively seek out new bands or keep tabs with what’s going on in the music blogosphere, but everyone can spend three minutes a day listening to a new song. It makes music discovery easy, both in terms of finding emerging artists to love as well as keeping tabs on new releases by old favorites.
Q: Listening to a couple months worth of songs, I get the impression that indie rock is your primary focus. But there is some other goodness in there. Tell us about your selection process.
A: I’m truly a fan of all genres, but indie acts are the ones which pitch me most frequently (either directly or through their labels or publicists), so the decidedly indie slant is a reflection of that. I probably get fifty songs a day in my inbox and I do listen to them all–everyone gets a fair shake. From a personal perspective, it’s always a rush to receive an amazing track from a band I’ve never heard of before. In a way, it’s more rewarding than hearing a new song from an established band I assume is going to be excellent.
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