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If there's one thing my friends know about me its that <em>I love music...any kind of music</em> (brownie points for guessing the song..hehe). My tastes are quite eclectic but almost never involve the Top 10 or Top 40 as most of that stuff is tripe. I think my affinity for good sounds originates from being raised in a home with a DJ (my bro), and a father who played and danced to his varied mix of LP's every Saturday afternoon. (His music ranged from Tammy Wynette to Bob Marley to Otis Reading to Vanilla Ice - I kid you not..).

There are some tasks I cannot perform without music, and cooking is one of them. Most times I have my ipod attached to my hip and my big headphones, not dissimilar to ones like those pictured above. I think the music I listen to affects my cooking, if its a strong drum and bass tune I mix harder and faster - if its a melancholy ballad I am more deliberate in the layers of my dessert and so on and so forth.

I had been toying with the idea of getting <a href="http://store.apple.com/us/product/TS836VC/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1NA&amp;mco=MTA4NDM1NDY&amp;s=topSellers">a speaker</a> for my kitchen/living room, but can't really justify it. One thing's for sure, indie music is fast becoming my fave to cook to - Postal Service, Kaiser Cartel, Bloc Party, Whitest Boy Alive, Nurses, Wintersleep, Two door cinema club etc with driving dance beats a close second - Miike Snow, Basement Jaxx, Massive Attack, Little Boots, The Ting Tings, SSPU, Moloko etc.

So what about you? What gets you whipping up that batter, slicing n dicing, flipping and frying with that much more finesse?



<i>image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cgoulao/3255443210/">c goulao</a></i>