SOUNDWAVE : 60 : NATE HEARD

<p>Today’s guest deejay is <a href="https://twitter.com/nateheard" title="Twitter: Nate Heard">Nate Heard</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://techdef.bandcamp.com/" title="Fitz Gitler">Fitz Gitler</a> introduced me to Nate after I asked him who would be interested in doing a mix for Soundwave (listen to Fitz’s mix <a href="http://josephaleo.com/blog/soundwave-40-fitz-gitler/" title="SOUNDWAVE : 40 : FITZ GITLER">here</a>). If Fitz recommends <em>anything</em> then I’m going to listen because that guy has excellent taste in music, so invited Nate to guest deejay on Soundwave without hesitation.</p> <p>Nate did not disappoint. I’ve listened to his mix many times, usually with a cup of coffee while I’m starting my workday. Despite each listen, Nate’s mix sounds fresh even as it’s burnished with another lacquer of familiarity.</p> <p>Nature said that today’s mix inspired him to dust off his Ableton and begin composing again. I look forward to whatever he decides to share.</p> <p>Nate is a medical geographer who uses maps to support health programs around the world. When I asked him if there was anything I should mention on today’s show notes, he said he wanted to promote efforts such as <a href="https://80000hours.org" title="80,000 Hours">80,000 Hours</a> (a London-based organization that conducts research on which careers have the most significant positive social impact and provides career advice based on that research), <a href="https://www.givewell.org" title="GiveWell">GiveWell</a> (an American non-profit charity assessment and effective altruism-focused organization, focusing primarily on the cost-effectiveness of the organizations that it evaluates, rather than traditional metrics such as the percentage of the organization’s budget that is spent on overhead), and <a href="https://animalcharityevaluators.org" title="Animal Charity Evaluators">Animal Charity Evaluators</a> (a US-based non-profit charity evaluator and effective altruism-focused organization that finds and promotes the most effective ways to help ani