Wish we had a culture like that back when I went in school. :) It was all mainstream music back then. Still, you get stuck listening to a select few artists all too easily; don't really keep digging and discovering all this great new goodness... least feels like I do! My feed's pretty much just full of Strange Music (TM) and Dan Bull lately, and a select bit of the mainstream. Everything's put out at such a pace you don't really go searching for alternative artists...
I'm here for a long time, not a good time.
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It takes effort to find new stuff. You have to force yourself to sit through something unfamiliar. Lucky me, shobaleader is just squarepusher in band format. I used to listen to these tunes back in highschool when it was just Tom Jenkinson making this stuff by himself.
Most the other stuff came from old friends. When I know friends that listen to good stuff, I hit them up to bleed new tunes into me. Bent Knee and Thundercat came from an old highschool connection. As a beatboxer, I get to see stuff from that community early. There is always new stuff coming out of that community.
The simpsons thing came from reddit. That grind core metal band was crossed upon in a record store as I randomly listened to everything they had on display. I spent hours picking up cd's, scanning them, then listening to shit. It was work.
Well sifting through unfamiliar things seems like fun, but indeed, tasking on that one most valuable thing: time. Squarepusher and Tom Jenkinson are both new names to me, but good to know! Learning some much overdue and important things here. :)
Aaa, well we have similar methods then: occasionally skimming through the pages of NG connects with musical backgrounds!
That last bit though: commitment! Yeah! Been way too long since I was even in a record store. Unrelated but: do you maybe buy vinyl too?
I avoided vinyl like some kind of anti-hipster hipster. I used to get into arguments over whether or not the human ear could discern the minute differences in quality between digital and analog. All in all, I missed out on a cool technology. Nothing can beat that slip art in regards to what you can package the disc in. That and record stores keep popping up because for some odd reason, that culture never dies.
Ah yeah the covers are the best part. :D When all other formats are slimming down more and more, or becoming inexistant entirely (digital) the vinyl's like a work of art. I just really like how it works too. A needle. Surface texture variations producing sound. Compared to magnetic formats where you can't actually percieve the information in any way without a device it's just really cool to me... and I do like that sound. That occasional crackle. The imperfections of it all. Quality or no I live by the possible placebo that it just sounds so much better, though maybe it's just the circumstance of the sound more than the sound itself. Anyway my brother had a pretty nice collection from back in the day, so I play, but haven't actually bought anything first-hand yet. Special releases though: would be cool to commemorate by getting one. Just waiting on the right one.
Yeah I think in this digital age especially people really want something they can hold on to; percieve differently. Hope Vinyl stays that way. Since it's not magnetic it ages a lot slower than all the more common storage formats too. Can't be wiped clean by a sun storm.
No plans to get into that culture you've been missing? Maybe get into turntabling too?
I missed this post. Turntabling is something I always put on the back burner. I'll wait until we have a little mroe room in the house before picking up a hobby that takes up too much space. I'm currently using my lap top on the kitchen table every day. I moved into a new house with my boyfriend. It's a a cute little thing of a house. Just big enough that we won't kill each other but too small for me to set up my drum kit. Not to mention the noise that would make. My cats would hate me.
You've got a good ear.
Sometimes.
Hmm do your cats like music overall? Wondering if cats like music, overall... yeah turntabling does seem like a space-consuming hobby! Hope you make it to mansion-level establishments eventually. ;)
I've passed a video documenting music made for cats. The soundtrack was just purring and bird noises. Animals that perceive sounds have thoughts about them though not the same kind of thoughts we have. When I take the cats to the vet, I try to do the drive without music. The noise of the tires gripping the highway is scary enough. No need to have some Swedish dude screaming death metal lyrics at them :'C
Swedish Death Metal dude? :D Who might that be? Interesting to know about cat sounds. They like listening to their prey huh... maybe being so sensitive to sound just makes loud sounds overall/certain frequencies not as pleasant, even if the melodies would have a different effect. You'd like to think animals can be made to like music too, but maybe it's all really just an act when they do.
Birds like to emulate things they hear. Probably an evolution to learn predator sounds and ward off unwanted competition? When I met my boyfriend he had a bird that would emulate car horns. It was annoying as fuck.
Meshuggah is the band I was reffering to. It's kind of down tempo compared to the other metal genres I'm into but I slowly fell in love with their catch 33 album.
Got any music recommendations? I'll give it a swing when I get home tonight :)
lmao. XD Sounds like a reasonable theory though. Interesting.
Ah, from Umeå, and they've been around too! I should have heard of those guys! Well I'm not sure you're into all the same categories but here's a test of tastes from my feed. :) A few that stuck to memory...
https://youtu.be/ZxhBFUCme2g
https://youtu.be/0mFCtPQPLCo
https://youtu.be/huKnL1ZRfOM
Beatboxing, violins, and loop stations. How can I not love this?? I wasn't feeling the raps but I can totally appreciate what that second guy does for people. Taking requests is legit. I do like raps but I have eclectic taste. Childish Gambino, Tyler The Creator, Wax... and then sometimes only specific songs. Rap is not my genre, sad face :C
Just stumbled upon: https://youtu.be/v4xZUr0BEfE
Some interesting Rammstein/Apocalyptica vibes there...
hahaha, I'm sorry I laughed. I liked it but sometimes you just have to laugh. That aspect ratio only added to my hysteria. It had a really neat ethnic vibe that took me off guard. Like mongol metal. That horse whiny he did with his violin was rad.
Ok, my turn to make you laugh:
Hey laughing's good. :) Definitely had a mongol metal vibe to it (oh that's actually a thing)!
Wax hmm, not Dax? I just discovered that guy (could this be one of those exceptions?): https://youtu.be/B2RYc19dcjU
Oh wow. XD Like TMNT... that video unfortunately wasn't available in my country but hopefully this was similar: https://youtu.be/J9VmmtAgiw4
Gotta listen to more of those guys! They remind me of Lordi. Style-wise. Sorta. Thanks for the entertaining introductions!
Regarding hiphop again, what do you think of stuff like:
https://youtu.be/J3pptWZPkLs
https://youtu.be/t2k5g7bj7DE
https://youtu.be/Rqq4Mw_55SE
Also curious what you think of (maybe more your style):
https://youtu.be/EVSqUl-FtCI
https://youtu.be/t12D7AET_dE
https://youtu.be/Eco4z98nIQY
Didn't remember you being the one who introduced me to Shobaleader One too! :D Been linking to that boiler room video a ton since.
And here's that Thundercat again... and here's another lost comment huh. :P
Can't seem to find the astronomy dome post though. I think I give u.. I'll try later.
The dome post is somewhere, of this I'm certain. I could always make a post about it at some point, include pictures of some nebulas.
Yeaah if you like that sure will be nice sometime!
Shall definitely dig more meticulously through these archives some other time though. When time though.
Cyberdevil
That Shobaleader drummer was pretty insane! And SARO. And great stuff overall. So much talent here I'd just never heard of before...
Quarl
If there's only one thing I miss about highschool, it's sharing new music. I just wish I had the ear for it back then. I turned my nose up to so much good music back then.