A song from your most listened to artist of the last 20 years.

I would need to spend a lot of time writing to explain how incredibly precious this song is to me. Jimi Hendrix is the first musician I remember listening to through headphones. That first song was Purple Haze, the first track on Are You Experienced. I fell in love with that album and the rest of Jimi's music that year. Fast forward to today, I've scrobbled 200,000+ tracks on last.fm over the last 19 years and Jimi Hendrix remains my number one most listened to artist of all time.

While I enjoy his collection too deeply to choose a single favorite, Little Wing remains uniquely transporting to me after years of familiarizing myself with his catalog. That's a remarkable feat for a song I've listened to hundreds of times.

What’s a song that helps you focus or concentrate?

It's definitely Revenger by F.O.O.L.

I love using this for focus and concentration whether I'm at my keyboard or at the gym. It's a super versatile hype song. I originally discovered this song via the "Fendetta's Beats playlist". (I was looking for "cyberpunk EDM". If that sounds interesting to you, I highly recommend this playlist -- if you're open to Spotify.)

The sole spoken line in the song is well-timed at a fairly early drop. It's haunting -- in a good way.

I love this song so much that when I heard it just now, I just had to tell someone about it. I decided this would be a great opportunity for my first "Crucial Tracks" post!