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One of the things that got me interested in Benn Jordan and his music was the fact that he was uploading his own albums onto What.CD

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If you are the same Solar Fields I’m thinking about, I’m pretty sure I discovered your/their music, specifically the album Until We Meet The Sky, via what.cd. Cheers!

Man! I would have missed that username if you hadn't commented about it. Thanks for saying something!

I will always associate Until We Meet the Sky with a roughly two week period late in my undergrad during which several of my friends were moving away and I was pulling all-nighters helping people pack, blasting this album on the dorm's speakers to a deserted campus and generally thinking about impermanence. Strong album.

Didn't find them via What, though - I think it was by branching out from the Mirror's Edge soundtrack.

How did you find it? Staff Pick or similar?

My memory of that specific detail is a bit fuzzy, however I’m pretty sure it was a staff pick. That or via the fantastic similar artists feature at the bottom of an artist’s page, the star/spoke map that was user generated/voted: thicker the line between artists, the more user votes that similarity had gotten.

I am not Magnus, only a fan of his music. Sorry to disappoint :)

I actually discovered Magnus via Pandora ages ago, but WCD allowed me to really discover the full discography and subsequently Ultimae records which puts out a lot of great music in that genre

The Flashbulb was "vanity house" (internal user, real artist) and published his music there. He went on to do great things.

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