It’s summer. I’m sitting on the floor, crossed-legged, in a school hall in Portland, Oregon, with a dozen other twenty-somethings. “For a week, we create the world that we want to live in, not the world we actually live in,” says one of the coordinators. She waves her arms about as she talks about out there, the real world that lies beyond. Her voice carries such certainty. They are only words and it’s only a week but I can feel this space and the real world drifting further apart.

Happy Record Store Day! To celebrate, we’ve asked six Australian musicians to ruminate about a crucial record from their life: those CDs and vinyl acquisitions that helped forge friendships, soundtracked their youth and which, more often than not, paved the way for their own musical careers.