Mike Oldfield. Peter Gabriel. Billy Joel. Paula Abdul.

other shit that was on B96 in Chicago.

still occasionally listen to some Mike Oldfield. after all, that's how i got my screen name anyways. so yeah.

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Originally posted by tubularbills Peter Gabriel.

Yes! I still enjoy some of his stuff...

Rnb/Hip hop like Nelly, 50 Cent, R.Kelly and Pop Punk Rock like Blink 182/Yellowcard and Filipino Rock.

Jam bands. Widespread Panic, String Cheese Incident, Galactic, North Mississippi All-Stars, some mish-mash of 70's and 80's rock.

Simply Red and Top-40 radio broadcasts.

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Ummm...I went though a lot of different phases of music over a few years in early high school including rap, 80's pop, 90's dance, punk, rock, alternative, a bit of hardcore rock, the current top 40 tunes,, and all the while I was enjoying cheesy dance music. From there I phased out all non-edm and went into strictly trance/house for a few years. Just recently I've started branching out again.

Oh, and to answer your question if I still enjoy any of it? For the most part no. I had very shallow music tastes and just made one random burnt cd after another.

When i was 15, i remember i started buying metal records (started with heavy than proceeded to black and atmospheric, these genres were at their peek in the 90s) but i had a "guilty pleasure". The "quilty pleasure" was, "secretly" buying EDM records by Orbital, underworld, Leftfield, FSOL, Salt Tank etc. (and these were also at their peek at the 90s so it was a great time really!) and compilations (such as Trancemaster) because you know, if you were a metaller you were not supossed to buy "electronic records", this music was for gay fluorescent kids and so it was kind of a taboo lol.




As the years passed, my taste matured from the harshness of black and goth/doom metal (etc.), towards more elegant-but still-dark sounds. When i was 18 i started buying darkwave, post-punk, goth, post-apocalyptic folk and industrial records from the 80s and 90s, from Joy Division, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, The Chameleons,Sad Lovers And Giants, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance,Bauhaus, Clan Of Xymox,Killing Joke, Mephisto Walz, Death In June, Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA to even more underground stuff like Fields of the Nephilim, Garden of Delight, Age Of Heaven, Corpus Delicti,Secret Discovery, Vendemmian, This Burning Effigy and many others (quite underground). To tell you the truth,i still listen to some of this stuff from time to time-mainly the classic 80s stuff because this music is really good and full of quality.




During these "dark years" though (in...1998-99...) i remember this mainstream radio station of my town playing these very melodic dance records which i liked a lot. I rememeber listening to the En-Mass mix of Synaesthesia and El-Nino among others and being very impressed by the atmospheric, ethereal qualities as well as the energy of the sound. I thought that this type of "trance" was the evolution of the trance compilations i used to buy a few years back in the mid-90s and i liked it a lot, so i remember "secretly" buying a few records again from Oakenfold and Sasha. To confuse matters even more, "epic-trance" never got famous in Greece, in contrast to "Psy-Trance" which was the sound of choice by the vast majority-Astral Projection, MFG, Transwave and Juno Reactor were famous names in Greece back in 99! i even remember going to a lot of open-air psy-trance parties with my friends, visiting Ololiuqui, Total Eclipse, Transwave, Atmos etc. So i thought that this type of north-european "melodic trance" sound that i "secretly" liked and admired was a very underground thing or something! Who would guess that after a few years this phenomenally "underground sound" would be accused of everything cheese, cheap, derivative and stupid.




Whilst all these musical genres seemed to be radically different to each other, i thought that they were common auditory patterns in all of them, even with the atmospheric black-metal records i use to buy when i was 15. All these had epic, atmospheric synths, the feeling of soundscapes and "richness/vastness" in sound. These are qualities i always liked in music, and these are some of the qualities that i like in my "post-EDM" years of post-rock, shoegaze, ambient, IDM and neo-classical.

My dad always had music playing at home when I was a kid, his collection spanned pretty much everything, strongly anchored in jazz and blues. I listened mostly to what other people did mixed with what I heard at home when I was younger, lots of alternative rock and then more hip hop into middle school. In high school in france I got really into Moby, lots of french rap, and more jazz. When I finished school here I was all over the map, some trance, some hip hop, didn't really know what I liked. I always liked abstract and sort of subtle electronic stuff, trance led me to discover "dance music" in the broad sense, I never really knew it existed until then.

I still like a lot of the french rap I was into, almost all the jazz (always loved anything with fun percussion). Been trying to discover more classical and more obscure jazz in my dad's CD collection recently when not listening to dance music.

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Originally posted by PETRAN All these had epic, atmospheric synths, the feeling of soundscapes and "richness/vastness" in sound. These are qualities i always liked in music, and these are some of the qualities that i like in my "post-EDM" years of post-rock, shoegaze, ambient, IDM and neo-classical.

Yeah, that's a good way of describing one of the qualities I look for in music, "vastness." Right now I'm listening to Yes-"Close To The Edge" and it's on the middle part with the synths and great vocal harmonies and then that organ solo.

In high school I was a "thug"... wore baggy pants, walked like a penguin, and listened to thug gangsta rap

then I woke up one day and said to myself "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU????"

that was about the time I started college, discovered the cure, EDM, new romantics, new wave, shoegaze, GARY FUCKING NUMAN, and my whole world changed for the better



PS> PETRAN... I think you are my clone or something...

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i was in the hip hop scene, but also listened to the vengaboys and the police.