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i've seen twenty-one harvests
the first electronic music i got into was stuff like tangerine dream, jean michel jarre, jan hammer when i was relatively young, because of my parent's record collection. i grew up mostly listening to jazz, new age, and some classical music. i listened to a good deal of 80s new wave and synth pop. i more or less rejected buying music because i was an angsty misanthrope. my dad brought home thomas dolby's mind's eye series in '94 and it was actually the inspiration for me to start 3D modeling as well as being an early exposure to different sounds. i've been interested in the future as a theme since as far as i can remember, so when I started to hear electronic music it naturally appealed to me
around '98/'99 a high school friend introduced me to the drug world and the kind of happy hardcore and cheesy euro trance he was into. everyone knew the songs like 'sandstorm' and 'castles in the sky' at school, and I had no idea because I was way too lost in my own world (a huge freak). anyways I started to learn about it and I found a ton of music in the libraries to start and I also had access to a shitload of illegally downloaded music. from about 2000-2004 i was into very mellow, bittersweet, futuristic trance music like Joker Jam - Innocence, Space Manoevers - Stage One, Airwave - Ladyblue, V-One - Dead Cities, Der Dritte Raum - Hale Bopp, Hydra - Affinity, Kamaya Painters - Summerbreeze, Vercetti - Skimmer, Art Of Trance - Madagascar, Moogwai - Viola (original), cygnus x - superstring (Original).
I was a new age kind of listener going in, and even to this day, atmosphere is the main thing I listen for.
I still can listen to tracks like this and be swept completely away, but I wonder if it is more because of nostalgia than because of the music itself. I think it's probably both.
collecting music accelerated when i started driving and needed a soundtrack for my car. i had a huge collection of illegally acquired music.
When I entered college in 2004, I started DJing and clubbing. My taste in music completely changed. I deejayed a lot of commercial house and progressive trance. I remember when my friend/dj mentor told me 'house music is where it's at'. I was extremely reluctant because my exposure to house was limited to Jerry Ropero and MoS shit, and I really bought into the 'children of the future' vision that trance promised. Anyways, I made a good chunk of change deejaying and also started to appreciate some of the house music i was exposed to.
Then two things happened - I started digging back in time and listening to older music, and I began to lose an interest in a lot of the trance music i had liked as a result of playing house music at parties and getting more in tune with my body and with a party atmosphere.
In a short time I stopped playing trance entirely. I began to buy music, and I deleted all of my illegal music (mostly shitty quality setrips anyways). I went through a desyn/sander k/big room phase, and then a prog house phase.
I fell in with deep house and techno, and that's essentially what I am into now. I'm on a constant quest to return to the raw, to attune myself more carefully to the spiritual messages that we embed in music through the process of creation. I go out several times a week and let my body feel rhythm until it's saturated from head to toe.
i like to say that I like music in which I feel like I can drown myself. atmosphere, depth, repetition, music which surrounds you and involves you, rather than music which demands your attention. i really am into loose organic arrangements, lush sounds. i like music that is about the sound and not about a set 'narrative'/arrangement. i like music that heals, i like lots of repetition because i feel it creates a basic 'framework for freedom' that allows you to just simply be yourself. current 'trance' offers nothing like this.
so now i'm very much into dubby techno, deep house, chicago house, detroit techno, and some tech house.
i would say the tracks that currently define the sound i'm into are:
quince - vitjazzdepth (will open my upcoming promo)
felix leband - whistling in tongues (todd terje remix)
kerri chandler - vector graphics
rennie foster - monochasm
kuniyuki - precious hall
xdb - descap
rhythm & sound - see mi version (basic reshape)
williams - love on a real train (studio version)
guillame & the coutu dumonts - mederico
substance & vainqueur - libration
quince - sub 01
etc, i don't want to give away my entire tracklist lol
Last edited by nefardec on Mar-02-2008 at 22:55
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