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I definitely do not like most current pop-music. But I never liked most top-40 pop music growing up in the 80s and 90s either. I was always into oddball music g

by bane 12y ago

I definitely do not like most current pop-music. But I never liked most top-40 pop music growing up in the 80s and 90s either. I was always into oddball music genres, and though I do a lot less exploring than I used to, I still constantly find new stuff to enjoy. There are, however, genres I definitely stopped growing with and a few I fell out of love with. I'm pretty sure the only rock music I really like happened in the 70s and 90s -- I lost interest in 80s rock, especially hair-metal. I love 80s New Wave and Synth-pop/rock, and its grown on me more over time. Some of the really experimental EDM from the mid 90s still gives me goose bumps (the Artificial Intelligence #1 and 2 collections are my favorites, but old Moby, Underworld, Orbital, Autechre and the Orb are still amazing all these years later). I love the new revival of 80s type music, Mitch Murder, Com Truise. I like more poppy modern-rock, but the hard stuff comes across as trite and angsty, which doesn't resonate with me any more -- but there was a time when I would have soaked it up like a sponge. I go back and forth on World Music, Trance (especially Goa), old 78s Swing and Jazz, Classical (especially Baroque period and older), demoscene music fairly regularly. I'll put in an Huun Huur Tu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0djHJBAP3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0djHJBAP3U) live performance and absolutely milk it for weeks and listen to nothing else, and then I'll be ready for something else. Maybe M83's newer stuff for a couple weeks. Shuffling my music collection is annoying because there's too many genres to make a cohesive listening experience. But I find that many groups and bands I really like for a period...it ends up being the only period in their discography that I like, ever.

colordrops 12y ago
Are you me? 100% 1:1 with the musical tastes, including Huun Huur Tu. Just out of curiosity, I will list a few more and see if we still coincide: Web-of-mimicry style, e.g. Mr. Bungle, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faun Fables, Fantomas, John Zorn and other avant-rock-jazz Nu-Jazz/electro-acoustic: Floex, Hidden Orchestra, Bola, Moon Wiring Club, Alif Tree, Mr. Projectile
- bane 12y ago
  I'm going to say I've never heard of any of these (except for Bola who I quite like), I did a quick check: Likes right off the bat: Faun Fables, John Zorn, Floex, Alif Tree, Mr. Projectile I think I might like right now, but have to listen more: Moon Wiring Club, I think could grow on me: most of the rest Thanks for the list! Here's some more I like (going through my list): Abakus (great coding music), AKOV, Alpha Conspiracy, Amon Tobin, Autechre, Bibio, La Bottine Souriante, BT's more experimental stuff (this Binary Universe is amazing), Crystal Method - Vegas, The Cure right around Disintigration and All Mixed Up, Deli Spice, Emiliana Torrini, Cinnamon Chasers, Empire of the Sun, Friendly Fires, Imogen Heap puts out the occasional amazing song, International Observer, Iris, Johnny Clegg and all his various bands (Gijem' Beke is one of my all-time favorite songs), mid-90s Juno Reactor, the recent M83 post-rock stuff is great, the original Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells, Mree (her covers are great stuff), The Naked and the Famous, Psy-S (an amazing 80s Japanese Band), Sasha, Smashing Pumpkins (Gish, Mellon Collie, Siamese Dream, all the recent Solar Fields music (especially Movements, OMG it's absolutely amazing especially "Discovering"), Steve Reich's later music, Tangerine Dream has some great music, Toro y Moi, Cocteau Twins.
nate_meurer 12y ago
What a gift that youtube link is, thank you!
- bane 12y ago
  You're welcome! there's a small number of groups out there in this Tuvan style, but Huun-Huur-Tu is probably the most well known. I was introduced to it through an English professor who had been pressed into teaching a Junior Technical Writing class in my undergrad and thought she might connect with us by having us study Feynman's writing. Did she ever, I remember she played a short documentary (linked below) on Feynman's quest to go to Tuva and the music was like instant frisson juice. I became obsessed with Tuvan music for a few months after that class ended and hunted down everything I could on it. Here's the style in the wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCJ5hedcVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCJ5hedcVA And Feynman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXVTpxuSU3M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXVTpxuSU3M
sebastianconcpt 12y ago
Mindblow by Huun Huur Tu here. High vibration music. Thanks for the reference.
- sebastianconcpt 12y ago
  BTW a remix using their basics would be huge :) Either high tempo or down tempo would do great.

by bane 12y ago

colordrops 12y ago

Are you me? 100% 1:1 with the musical tastes, including Huun Huur Tu. Just out of curiosity, I will list a few more and see if we still coincide: Web-of-mimicry style, e.g. Mr. Bungle, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faun Fables, Fantomas, John Zorn and other avant-rock-jazz Nu-Jazz/electro-acoustic: Floex, Hidden Orchestra, Bola, Moon Wiring Club, Alif Tree, Mr. Projectile

bane 12y ago
I'm going to say I've never heard of any of these (except for Bola who I quite like), I did a quick check: Likes right off the bat: Faun Fables, John Zorn, Floex, Alif Tree, Mr. Projectile I think I might like right now, but have to listen more: Moon Wiring Club, I think could grow on me: most of the rest Thanks for the list! Here's some more I like (going through my list): Abakus (great coding music), AKOV, Alpha Conspiracy, Amon Tobin, Autechre, Bibio, La Bottine Souriante, BT's more experimental stuff (this Binary Universe is amazing), Crystal Method - Vegas, The Cure right around Disintigration and All Mixed Up, Deli Spice, Emiliana Torrini, Cinnamon Chasers, Empire of the Sun, Friendly Fires, Imogen Heap puts out the occasional amazing song, International Observer, Iris, Johnny Clegg and all his various bands (Gijem' Beke is one of my all-time favorite songs), mid-90s Juno Reactor, the recent M83 post-rock stuff is great, the original Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells, Mree (her covers are great stuff), The Naked and the Famous, Psy-S (an amazing 80s Japanese Band), Sasha, Smashing Pumpkins (Gish, Mellon Collie, Siamese Dream, all the recent Solar Fields music (especially Movements, OMG it's absolutely amazing especially "Discovering"), Steve Reich's later music, Tangerine Dream has some great music, Toro y Moi, Cocteau Twins.

nate_meurer 12y ago

What a gift that youtube link is, thank you!

bane 12y ago
You're welcome! there's a small number of groups out there in this Tuvan style, but Huun-Huur-Tu is probably the most well known. I was introduced to it through an English professor who had been pressed into teaching a Junior Technical Writing class in my undergrad and thought she might connect with us by having us study Feynman's writing. Did she ever, I remember she played a short documentary (linked below) on Feynman's quest to go to Tuva and the music was like instant frisson juice. I became obsessed with Tuvan music for a few months after that class ended and hunted down everything I could on it. Here's the style in the wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCJ5hedcVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCJ5hedcVA And Feynman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXVTpxuSU3M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXVTpxuSU3M

sebastianconcpt 12y ago

Mindblow by Huun Huur Tu here. High vibration music. Thanks for the reference.

sebastianconcpt 12y ago
BTW a remix using their basics would be huge :) Either high tempo or down tempo would do great.