Paul Brown’s iPod. This is a lovely remembrance & time capsule: a playable iPod emulator of “the music on the iPod my dad had in 2018 before he died”. Click wheel works and everything.
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This is great! (iPods are like time machines....I recently found an iPod shuffle 4th gen from around 2013 and it's a blast from the past to put on and walk around with, still.)
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I've spent a couple days with this on shuffle. It's a time machine but it's also a beautiful memorial; it's a lovely example of how we humans keep memory and meaning alive after death. I didn't know Paul Julian Brown but now I have a glimpse into his musical identity. I never met him, and yet posthumously he introduced me to a 30-year-old french electronic duo and my "new" favorite song. I never knew PJB yet now, because of his child's love and attention, he lives on a little bit in me.
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