While working on my laptop, my media player was turned on and playing random selections mostly from alternative/rock music bands. Dad heard one particular song (I think it was from Switchfoot) and he disapprovingly commented, “What sort of music is that?!” I just smiled and went on with my work. After all, whenever he plays his favorite songs, I also have a hard time trying to understand some of them.

Appreciating music is really subjective and what seems to be a favorite tune to one could be “noise” to another person’s ears. There are also some songs that may sound weird or not so likeable at the start but later becomes acceptable as you keep listening to them. Of course, there are those songs that we easily label as “irritating” as soon as we hear them. Music somehow affects our emotions and moods. For instance, we play our favorite song to keep our spirits up or we suddenly become sentimental when we hear a mushy love song.

Music has also developed much through the years. Nowadays there are many styles and genres sprouting in the music scene, thus aside from classic, dance, jazz, rock or pop, some musical styles are more specific – electronic, progressive, powerpop, fusion and more. Browsing on a wide range of musical talents from WM Recordings, you can see new musical styles developed from jazz to rock genres. The site is an online label which offers commercial releases and free downloadable albums.

WM Recordings is a venue for budding musicians to share their music globally, for commercial releases or for free downloads, as long as they follow the site’s submission guidelines. Featured artists such as Happy Elf, The Aperion Project, CobSOn, and Elfferich Four have commercially released their CD albums in this site. More featured artists have their albums available in the list for free downloads.