the birthing soundtrack

i’ve been spending a lot of time at hmc’s behest to come up with playlists for the birth.

this is much harder than you (and certainly i) would have thought. you need one with hours and hours of appropriately relaxing birthing music. follow up with another playlist with hours of slightly more active pushing/breathing down music.

the issue is coming up with like ten hours of music that’s a lot less active than you think. anything with words or understandable lyrics is right out, as you don’t want anything that’s going to take her out of a relaxed state. and then a lot of the things you’d think would work (the orb, lemon jelly, etc.) don’t work either, as they’re actually too uptempo(!).

but what’s left? how do you fill up the rest of the time without resorting to hours upon hours of that new age meditation buddha bar softcore porn sounding crap? this would have obviously been easier to address at home, where i could call upon our some 90GB of music, but once again it’s something i ran out of time on. i suppose i could resort to a buddha machine, if nothing else.

i suddenly feel like neal pollack’s alternadad, determined not to have snapper be born into the world listening to mushy new age buddha bar pap!

of course, i’m fine with snapper coming out listening to glitchcore, but somehow i don’t think hmc’s going to go for that.