For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Like many, Montrey started his musical education while engaged in playing classical music in school. What began as a simple adolescent activity, quickly transformed into a deep love and appreciation for all forms of music. This love would continue to grow into his adulthood and manifested itself into the form of becoming a Co-Founder of EARMILK. This online music publication has become his outlet to spread all genres of music to those impressionable people, much like himself.

MUSIC MENTIONS

• OutKast
• Aphex Twin
• Daft Punk
• Earmilk
• IRC Communities
• Tumblr
• Counter Strike (video game)
• Blur
• “Coffee and TV” (song by Blur)
• Gorillaz

Evolution of Earmilk, music journalism (7:54):

• Noisey
• Hype Machine

Music curation, streaming, discovery (13:20):

• Spotify
• TIDAL

Q&A

• UNKLE
• “Lonely Soul” (song by UNKLE)

Artists of note discovered in the past year (20:02):

• Bakar
• Joy Orbison
• Nilüfer Yanya

Most under-appreciated artist from favorite music decade (22:12):

• Burial

Desert Island Discs (24:40):

• Burial - Untrue
• Daft Punk - Discovery
• Nas - Illmatic