Change for Christmas

Here at www.moretronics.com, Christmas spirit is in full swing, and this past weekend you could sense the Christmas rush being in full swing as well. Too many people out and about clogging up the arteries in from the suburbs on Saturday and Sunday annoys me to no end. I happily took the train into town for some Xmas shopping while the missus took the car to visit a friend near home.

Sure enough it was full and I settled into a spot near the middle of the train. Within two stops it’s packed and a young woman stood close enough to me that I could hear the rhythm of the song playing loudly on her ipod. The same dun-chikka dun-chikka dun-chikka 2/4 beat rattled away repetitively over the course of minutes, the same beat monotonously rolling along like the rhythmical equivalent of a burden mule plodding mindlessly through a muddy field. Her eyelids began to dip drowsily, almost as if she was being sedated by the ceaseless inflexible chugging of a synthetic bass, snare and hi-hat.

Now I’m sure she was just your average sleep-deprived commuter, but I couldn’t help but draw a line between the two. What’s more, I found it somewhat unpleasant and saw no recourse but to don my own ipod for percussive salvation.

A random on Incubus’ Make Yourself found the song Out from Under with tasty rhythmic progressions and fills / accenting courtesy of the talented Jose Pasillas. I had a late Saturday night as well, but the undeniable vibrancy of dynamic music brought a contrasting tap to my foot and soothed me just right. Being the holiday season and all, I pictured my own “little drummer boy” masterfully wielding the sticks next to his ordinary robotic counterpart in the pod across the way. The drumming equivalent of the defective stammering protocol droid across from C-3PO in the Jawa Sandcrawler.

Change is good people, and for the music enthusiast in your family we’ve got some great ideas for Christmas gifts. If he or she might be so lucky as to have a Sirius 4 Plug&Play Radio on the way, they’re going to love having so much music at their fingertips. A Sirius Boombox would make a perfect on-the-go compliment, as would be a Sirius Universal Vehicle Kit with a sleek mounting panel and connection outputs for older auxiliary / line-level inputs on older car stereo units.

Having the freedom to connect your ipod directly to your in-dash player will be a welcome convenience for any motorist that needs their music while on the road. 5 different Scosche ipod connectors are compatible with JVC, Pioneer, Kenwood, Sony and Alpine car stereos, and you’ll be tapping on the steering wheel in no time. An Iluv Digital FM Ipod Transmitter offers the same freedom by relaying your ipod songs to a range of selectable frequencies on your radio, and is a sleek mounting option as well.

Lastly, take a look at this Ilive Portable Music System and tell me there’d be even one music-loving ipod owner who wouldn’t be thrilled with this sleek and lightweight portable stereo unit. Those bulky “blaster” portable stereos won’t hold a festive candle to this guy.

To each their own, to be sure. That’s what makes music such a special art loved by almost everyone. However, there’s nothing like the sway that grabs hold of you in creative, expressive music where the rhythm moves like a fish in water – and thankfully dun-chikka dun-chikka just doesn’t provide it for me. Whatever your tastes, we’re fortunate that technology has made personal music devices so much smaller and easily-portable, and that there are so many stylish and practical accessories outgrowing as a result.

At MoreTronics, there are more different audio accessory products sure to fit the music nut on your list than could ever be listed here. Take a look, and make this Christmas a special one for any tune fanatic in the family.