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I've been slowly moving on a downward slope away from electronica recently. I'm just no longer as enthused about a lot of my fave artists as i used to be. This is helped by the fatc that i've been listening to a lot of instrumental afro-beats, funk, dub and jazz recently and am loving the warm, soulfull and organic vibes that have been swirling around my flat recently (my new flatmate has a huge collection of souljazz and trojan artists). my enjoyment of the musical cleverness of my faves like autechre, squarepusher and afx is being replaced by a different part of my body other than my brain needing to be moved by sound and music... in a different way. Its more near my heart now. Sure, i still get gooey listening to BoC and some autechre tracks but i just need some more soul-grooving than head-knodding. Anyone else drifting? It strange after being a fantatic for so long. |
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the evolution of music, i think, will go full circle back to real intruments eventually. or rather, instruments will never die |
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i'm in the middle of saying good-bye to electronica. not forever, but i just saturated my ears with it since discovering it 3 years ago. sick and tired of it now. getting back to my roots. flamenco and classical guitar, classical piano music, helluva lot of jazz and a lot of grunge and rock. listening to a lot of electronic music does my head in now. looking forward to new boc. apart from that, fuck it. it's lost its charm and novelty. |
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it really isn't a "instrument vs electronics thing" and i'm not trying to say i've dicovered "real music". Its more about feeling it differently these days and i just get a lot of warmth out of stuff like ethiopian jazz especially. I just feel in a new phase of musical enjoyment. Not better or worse than before, just different and ..... well i think its connected to wanting to fill a sort of emotional gap i've been having recently. This music touches me deeper right now. |
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feelin the vibe don't stop the rock |
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i liek the idm alots a lots |
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You are depressing me. Electronica is the best music ever made. All the rest is shit. Jazz is always the same. Organic is like your bowels doing wet farts, it just sounds like random alga eating some fertilizers. Concrete music sucks. All music sucks except Incredible Drum Machine. |
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I've found my happy place sitting on the eclectic fence....Sure I go through fazes of listening to one style more than another, sometimes writing them off alltogether, this can go on for months and then suddenly I will find something brilliant that brings me back again. I have come to realise that Pidgeonholes and genres are a dangerous thing....Now I just have records that I like and Records that I dont like. |
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I don't see it as drifting but more as ex-pa-nd-ing |
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thats the spirit! |
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i agree with you KADO and i think i was just too exclusive before and just enjoying whatever for what it is itself is the best place to be...but i suppose i'm sort of like a pendulum at the moment. I've swung one way a lot... and and now swinging in a different direction... after i while i can see myself stabilising in the middle, like yourself. But the swinging is still happening at the moment. Don't get me wrong... i was listening to an autechre megamix this morning and lackluster in work there and loving it but jesus i can't wait to hear some afro-beats when i get home... its easier when your flatesharing to chat, eat and be generally socialable with jazz shit than electronica. Maybe it's that.. i'm in more socianle circumstances now so am listening to less head-music and more background, soully stuff. |
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word up |
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Branching out into new genres is like making new friends. Your dialouge with electronic music has degenerated into small talk and you would prefer more meaningful conversations. No need to feel bad about it. |
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It's a good thing to explore new sounds, like you said earlier you are getting a new buzz from it like the first time you heard the electronic stuff...I love the styles you were talking about and listen to lots of those types of record (Got a boxfull of trojan). I know purists who would listen to 4/4 techno all day everyday and never try anything new, anything different is shit to them. Enjoy the journey it's a fucking exciting feeling finding something new, and im sure your pendulum will be working properly again soon enough :) |
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If you like soul, I would recommend moving into Indian music. I'm not deep into it but I like Zakir Hussain or Shakti, and they are good origins. |
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yeah i agree with KADO.i've always liked electronica and am really felling it atm, but still i love hip-hop, rock, jazz .etc equally as much.they all have something to offer and it's great mixing and matching genre's. |
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I rarely listen to it nowadays. |
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also. if you make music you get lots of various influences from other genres that you're open to. it's inspiring and refreshing your taste when you put away your fav electronic records - from time to time. it's healthy. |
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just because you discovered your love for curry doesn't mean you can't still order a pizza now and again... |
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raz0rblade is spot on. it's not about leaving the genre behind (fuck this electro shit, rnb's my thing now!) but more about adding on to what you already listen to <-this is really just a regurgitation of what has already been said after having enjoyed good years of excellent electronic music, there are certain albums which hold up to this day and others that don't evoke anything out of me anymore. |
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I haven't been listening to electronic music as much as I was, say, a year ago, but I still find a great album to stick on every once in a while. I long ago heard a lot of the older stuff that I was supposed to hear, got myself up to speed on rich back catalogs and older movements, and so-on and so-forth. So now, with all those commitments fulfilled, I've pretty much settled into a slower, more comfortable electronic groove that I'm happy with. Things like this move in phases anyway, I'll be back into a little heavier in a few months. Maybe. All it takes is one remarkable album to set me back off. A lot of the stuff I'm really into right now has electronic elements, but it's not really ''IDM'', per se. |
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Ethiopian Jazz and funk is fucking brilliant. Alemayehu Eshete is quite possibly my favourite discovery from this year. but yeah i listen to a large quantity of experimental electronic and electroacoustic music, but very very little IDM these days. Other than that my listening havits have been all over the map these days. |
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I've just begun. Rock (all sorts of), metal, jazz, improvised instrumental - been there, and still listening. Always looking for the right beat. |
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Pardon my ignorance but what sets Ethiopian Jazz apart from other styles? The only ethnic Jazz I've heard is the stylings of Supersilent and Arve Henriksen. |
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well... i wouldn't consider myself an expert or anything, but i think what i really dig about it, and what sets it apart for me is that it has a arabian tinge to it... i'm not sure if this is a disingenuous description or not, 'cause i don't really know to what extent Ethiopia can be associated with that sort of culture... Ethiopia's pretty unique. but that's what i hear, i guess. but the stuff that i've heard i would equate more with funk than with jazz, although there are definitely some awesome jazz polyrhythms in there that just hook me like nothin' else. The series is all the exposure i have to this stuff, and it's entirely possible that mr. keyfumbler has heard other stuff... or even other stuff within the series, it's a big and very diverse series. |
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yeah this happened to me ages ago. people here told me to fuck off. but i returned when ultravisitor came out. I still come here cus it's a good place to find good info about everything not music. |
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im turning back to electronic music again.. |
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You need to shape up Tolst and get some Ethiopian Jazz flava in your ears double quick. |
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how can ethiopian people play jazz? wouldnt they be too exhausted from lack of food, water and what not. |
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I think it's just loads of rib solos and a chorus of flies on their faces. |
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IDM is drifting, ladies and gentlemen.. we must plan our next action very, very carefully. |
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i think the next big thing is going to be "NSIDM" (not so intelligent dance music) |
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i just try and keep things balanced really.... i try not to force myself to make atleast 33% of my weekly purchases non electronic... however that includes grime , experimental hip hop , planet mu , skam , touchin' bass , warp, phlex , chocolate industries , ninja tune etc etc... there is so much variety in electronic based music that you can live within that boundary for an age , however it is lovely to shove on some jazz or old skool sonicyouth to toss things about a little and keep it all fresh. though i think listening to "idm" all day would do nearly anyone's head in.// |
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that first "not" is an error. |
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just an example of one of the many places you might find enjoyable music since none of the seven or so apostles of idm seems to be worth so much anymore |
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i'm a punk myself. |
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DeadEight... that Ethipique series is the one thats really got me grooving these days. I love the instrumental stuff but ther'es something about the singing(in ethiopian) thats really top class too... pure heart (tho the translated lyrics are completely nuts!) |
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