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How do you look at your old musical tastes? (pg. 2)
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| Project-K |
I look at them much like I look at old school textbooks. There's nothing in there for me anymore, but they have served their purpose.
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Do you think the tastes you have now will eventually seem "cheesy" or "bad" to you at a much later date?
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Interestingly, this is something I have thought about extensively over the last year or so. My old tastes were based on ignorance and lack of standards. I sought out music that was dumbed down, easy to understand. Like alot of people, I listened to what little I was exposed to and when introduced to something outside of my comfort zone, I had trouble appreciating it. In my early teens, I started my own little exploration of music, and that's when I found EDM, among other things. Then as I hopped from genre to genre every few months I learned how to appreciate different things, and during that process I learned what was possibly the most important lesson I would ever learn in music; how to step out of my comfort zone. I think at this point I'm pretty much done. I've learned to appreciate some of the most subtle and obscure forms of the art. What will most likely happen is that I'll get bored of what I'm currently listening to and move on to something else, but I'm very doubtful that I'll ever look on to what I like now as being cheesy. |
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| PETRAN |
I guess that most people would say that
They started listeining to cheesy music, but that their taste has progressed to the better and that this change is not a just a random simple change of preferences, but a linear evolution to better music. Most of them would also imagine themselves liking their current music forever.
Just a few predictions. heh...
As for me, i can say that i always liked some specific patterns in music, musical patters which i grew-up listening to, since my mother was listening to a lot of Vangelis, Jarre and Pink Floyd. From that moment, i always liked rich,layered, vast,spacey, atmospheric, melodic soundscapes, making me to embark on a musical journey exploring various forms of music that exhibit these musical patterms, including, various forms of Metal, Rock, Electronic/EDM and Classical. At the moment, i really like post-rock, shoegaze and ambient, genres of music that exhibit these musical patterns/characteristics, but i don't know where this musical journey will get me in the future. I have to say that i didn't start listening to melodic music from the very beginning, and that during my teens i was listening to a lot of plain energetic/agressive music ranging from The Prodigy to Slayer and Rage Against The Machine (lol), but at around the same time i bought Orbital's "In Sides" album when it first came-out, and from that moment my love for the more melodic music was (re?)evoked. I also started listening to a lot of melodic metal at that period, bit weird and complicated musical tastes lol. |
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| kadomony |
| when i first got into EDM i was into hard trance/hard house. not even close to what i listen to now. however, listening to those tracks is fun because they're still good tracks! |
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| Shade |
My tastes have definitely changed (and developed) a lot over the last while. To begin with I listened to a lot of things - very varied (really, originally I'd happily listen to anything that was played - that was when I was really, really young though). At some point I became really into the trance scene, and that lasted for quite some time.
I still enjoy a fair amount of the stuff I used to - especially when it comes to prog house and the like. When it comes to trance however, I don't really enjoy most of the stuff I used to listen to on the same level. I might have some minor appreciation for it, but things have definitely gone in another direction.
TBH, I think the once production came into the picture and I decided I really wanted to learn about synthesis and composition, the world sort of spun for me. Sure, in my case, my first two releases are relatively generic, but I still appreciate parts of them as some 'essence' of me is still in there.
I think I've been babbling a bit (it's been a long day/week) - hopefully someone follows!
Interesting thread. :) |
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| distant |
I got into EDM when I was about 14 or 15. I didn't really have a taste/interest in music at all before (other than stray tracks here and there), so I'll have to look at that as a starting point.
After the inevitable first exposure to vocal radio cheese, I moved on to late 90's prog and epic trance à la Oakenfold and PvD. This was about the time I signed up on TA, early 2004. A few months in I was rinsing prog house, techno, psytrance, breaks and what-have-you. Six months later I had an appetite for early detroit techno and classic trance.
Except those first couple of months of not knowing where to look and defaulting to DJ Sammy, I still enjoy all the music I've gone through. For me, "old tastes" doesn't really make sense to me as a concept, since I moved through everything in under a year and a half, which in turn was not even that long ago. |
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| chesco |
I actually started out listening to all my brothers old rezerection mix tapes from people like carl cox, producer, lenny dee, marc smith, and all his ruffneck records and some of the old dye witness records as well. Pretty bangin stuff. That was all around the 96 period when I would have been about 12-13.
When I first started dj'ing i bought some really awful records which have since been binned.
From about 2000 til 2002 I was right into picotto and thats really how I ended up listening to techno and developing that into what i like today.
Only regrettable part was the money I wasted on rotten music in my early dj days. |
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| MichaelBoogerd! |
99 - 02 Paul van Dyk / Ferry Corsten / Tiesto / Trance spoon-fed by media... Mixmag etc.
02 - 07 Exclusively Tiesto. Sad i know. But I always hoped 2002-03 might repeat itself, when he really was on song. The recent directions taken, distanced me with even less faith in the guy, the team, and the sound... so... i can say, its a bit shameful, to say Tiesto is my main reason for being here... but also at same time, my favourite from him comes from '95 - '98... with a few 2002 livesets on top of that. I am proud of that. I'm not some gimp trying to prove LCA or Just Be or Adagio is GOOD music, because i'm old enough to admit its NOT.
07 - 08 Started doing my own things in local scene, opening eyes to clubbier sounds that i've had more eyes and appreciation for as the years have rolled by.
Based on this experience i'd say there are 3 phases...
1. introduction
2. following heroes
3. developing your own sound/taste
Depending on the individual (and their patience to put up with i guess); people go through the 3 phases at different speeds.
Call it a maturity, but i think the general EDM journey is to start with some 'partyzone' or Ministry of Sound style tracks, that are absolutely everywhere. From there the listener will go to a club, meet the real EDM society and through the internet listen and download more and more EDM until a point when they reach the same part of looking up their own like most of TA. :toothless |
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| Owsey2008 |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
Jessica Simpson |
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| Ted Promo |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
in my old CD case i have CDs from Jessica Simpson, DMX, Hoobastank, Eminem, Dashboard Confessional, and much much worse.
in other words, i'm not embarrassed to say that i once reached for the lazers so high that i tore a muscle in my trance pants.
as i've gotten older i think i've become more open-minded about a lot of things. my musical tastes (even in the last few months) have expanded so greatly and i've been introduced to so many artists i never would have even thought of listening to because they were in a certain genre that i just kind of brushed off previously, assuming that it wasn't for me.
in other words, i credit my changes in musical taste mostly to an ever increasing desire to try new things and experience everything that is out there, rather than sticking with what i already know that i like. that gets boring after a while... and i am the type of person who thrives on changes of scenery. |
FINALLY someone else who knows that trancepants are really pure muscle. |
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| saluyamo |
| I listened to mainstream rap before getting into Trance. :nervous: |
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| HaeD |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
I still listen to almost all of the stuff I did back then plus a whole lot more. I won't stop looking back even when I move forward. |
yea cuz youve always been right |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by HaeD
yea cuz youve always been right |
Yes I have. What's your point? |
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