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Hjalmer Duenow

Music is connected to my thoughts and speech. Music helps me to time travel. Music takes me out of my head. Music soothes the savage beast. Music helps me get through it all.

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April 28, 2025

It's Alright artwork
It's Alright
Pet Shop Boys
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Perhaps surprisingly to folks who know me well, I have a playlist called “Happy.”

It started with It’s Alright, by Pet Shop Boys, specifically the version from the Introspective compilation.

The rhythm is pretty straight disco, but the synth baseline is kinda funky and staccato. The version from the Introspective comp begins with a choir singing the eponymous phrase.

And for me, another selling point are the various harmonies that come and go, various break downs, and points at which it becomes almost orchestral in its vastness.

It’s a mood.

I hope you can pick up what it lays down.

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