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I’m always looking for music I can work to during long days in the studio, music that won’t break my focus, won’t pull me this way and that, won’t grab me by the shirtfront and tell me what to think or feel. This quest has, during work hours, landed me squarely in the camp of the Minimalists, but I am also not immune to having my emotions ripped up by selected works of another nature altogether. Here, I’ve mixed them together. As for explanations, I'm no good at rendering accounts of why I love something or someone, so I won't even try. Suffice it to say, if a composer appears on this list, chances are I own everything recorded by that person that I can find...