My
musical tastes ranged from Sesame Street to Strauss until the fall of
1981, with the birth of Music Television. Circa 1982, using a
monaural cassette deck with a condenser microphone, I would sit in
silence next to my Sony Trinitron while recording tunes from Rick
Springfield, Hall & Oates, Asia, Quarterflash, and Rainbow.
The first compilation was named "Mixed Music 1." My
first mix tape.
By 1990, PJC Mixed Music Productions had morphed into
Mirae PandaJam Entertainment, with significantly higher-tech equipment,
namely a Denon component system then on to a Technics tape deck and
Denon CD player. PandaJam's focus was on R&B, namely Teddy
Riley's New Jack Swing, but new Korean compilations were released
semi-annually through most of the '90s.
1999 saw the purchase of my first CD-R/RW and the
transformation of PandaJam Recordings into the digital age. Thanks
to a trip to Chicago's Crobar, my musical tastes narrowed to techno and
house, thanks to DJs like Paul van Dyk, Psycho Bitch, Sasha and Digweed,
and groups like Fragma, Alice Deejay and Darude. Subsequently,
PandaJam Int'l's Korean output slowed significantly.
MPE is comprised of PandaJam Recordings (music),
PandaJam Visuals (video compilations), Mirae PandaJam International
(Korean and Japanese music), PandaSoft ReCreations (software), and
PandaNet (this website) . Mirae
PandaJam Entertainment's catalogue includes over 400 CDs, 17 original CD
compilations, 90 original cassette compilations, over 70 video
compilations, and almost 7 GB of MP3s.
Mirae PandaJam Entertainment
exists as an elaborate way for me to manage my archive of multimedia as
well as to personalize my recordings as distributed to my friends and
select acquaintances.
