Hello music lovers! I’m Abhishek Mathur and I play the lead guitar in a band called Advaita. I recently got a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic handset which came with a voucher for redeeming songs at the Nokia Music Store. I have since then been exploring NMS and getting my hands on lots of great music!

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Personally, I’ve grown up listening to all kinds of music and my tastes are quite varied. In school it was hard rock and metal and later I got into psychedelic stuff like Floyd and also blues and jazz. In college I also got turned onto electronic music and I was into trance for a while but settled on more dance / house type stuff like the Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim and also the darker down tempo trip hop of bands like Massive Attack. Later I also opened up to our beautiful Indian Classical music and on a lighter note older S.D Burman and Mohammed Rafi songs. (I know  …that’s a lot of music genres – but I still listen to all these forms of music till today)!! By the way, found all of them on the Music Store! Kudos!

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The first thing that struck me as I went looking for music on the Nokia Music Store was the fantastic variety of music available. There is a real HUGE reservoir of music here and a lot of rare stuff you can’t find anywhere! I must confess I wasn’t expecting this!  So far I’ve already downloaded albums by Nine Inch Nails, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Enya and a bunch of other artists. Of course one doesn’t have to download entire albums and can get individual tracks as well. The 30 seconds preview clip works very well indeed. Gives a clear idea if the track is worth the download. The search engine is also a really well designed one, giving you not only direct hits but also rare collaborations and tributes to artists by others. I also got to hear a lot of new stuff from the “Try These” recommendations section which catalogues other music considered similar to what’s being previewed / downloaded.

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The player is probably the only thing I feel could be designed better in terms of the display and how tracks can bequeued. But overall I’m quite satisfied! I can definitely vouch for the Nokia Music Store hands down! One last thing, do check out Advaita’s debut album ‘Grounded In Space’ on the music store! Cheers & Happy Listening!

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