Month: April 2018

Avicii: The dark side of ‘hard work’

Last week, it was announced that Tim Bergling (aka Avicii) had passed away, aged 28.

A 2017 documentary on his life ‘Avicii: True Stories’, shows his meteoric rise from bedroom producer through to international superstar, with the highs of this stardom, and the associated lows which led to Tim taking absence from performing live. This provides a thought provoking reminder on the value of your mental and physical health, and where respecting ‘hard work’ in the guise of no sleep, long hours and an unsustainable lifestyle is a cultural phenomenon we may need to change.

His recent death has put this film in another context, and makes scenes like the below with Tim’s manager quite a hard watch…

 

Soundcloud

For better or worse, we have a digital footprint of our online activity all over the place. However, one area I fortunately stumble upon every once in a while is my old Soundcloud account. Whilst I still listen to a lot of music, the distinct lack of time and resources (my personal laptop unfortunately met it’s end) has led to a real decrease in my ability to collect tunes and record mixes.

Feel free to check out a selection of these recordings below. Although my taste has definitely changed a lot over the last few years, I still really enjoy listening back to these and there’s definitely a couple of low key amazing songs which I’m sure most people aren’t familiar with.