{"id":654,"date":"2020-10-04T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/?p=654"},"modified":"2020-10-04T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T12:56:00","slug":"25-years-of-mfna-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2020\/10\/04\/25-years-of-mfna-org\/","title":{"rendered":"25 YEARS of MFNA.ORG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have playing in the background right now some streaming audio from a site I’ve been listening to for a short while now, and it got me to thinking: Music For a New Age<\/a> (MFNA) — this site — is now 25 years old!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That category of music sometimes erroneously (in my opinion) labeled “new age” is certainly not new. Fifty years ago, artists such as Tangerine Dream, Kitaro, Tomita, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Mike Oldfield were producing flowing, electronic, meditative and other-worldly music, experimenting and forging new ways of thinking about, and listening to music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MFNA web site was born out a personal wish to learn the then-new technology of the worldwide web. I didn’t purchase the domain name right away, but when it became apparent this thing called The Internet wasn’t just a passing fancy, I latched onto it. That was 25 years ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally, mfna.org<\/a> was little more than a “portal.” It was mostly links to other sites, separated into “pages” of data: records companies, broadcast stations, artists, and reviews. It was a personal creation; mostly a set of bookmarks to sites I enjoyed. It grew when others found it, and I wrote reviews and communicated directly with artists and producers. It was an exciting time to be a “web producer.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much has changed over the past quarter-century. Sites come and go, new performers arrive, old labels go under and new ones arise. But music survives. So, this brief revisit is more a “memory bubble” than anything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without further ado, here are some links to music and musicians I listen to today. I should note, that some of these sites and their operators, performers and personalities, have been doing so for much longer than mfna.org<\/a> has existed. Music From the Hearts of Space<\/a>, for example, has been broadcasting since the early 1980s. So, let’s start with them…<\/p>\n\n\n\n