What's your music taste?

[Hipster Bales]

All very nice!
I'll share more of mine:

Porter Robinson
Coldplay
Daft Punk
Sam Gellaitry
The Midnight (I even remixed one of their songs)
WRLD
M83
Pendulum

[Hipster Bales]

In my past, I've listened to probably most everything (especially all of the various branches and sub-genres of New Wave and Alternative, covering everything from goth, punk, and post-punk, to ambient, classical, and downtempo). For the last decade though, I've been mainly into Dream-pop, Shoegaze, Indie, Dub, and Post-rock. I'm especially interested in foreign unheard-of independent bands that no one else has heard of. Over all though, I'm really open minded.

Ah, very open-minded!
Love your proboscis monkey profile btw.

[slackhead]

No A.I.

Yeah. That's a real musician performing in a minor key with their hand. Should be right up Jamcat's alley.

[audiojunkie]

In my past, I've listened to probably most everything (especially all of the various branches and sub-genres of New Wave and Alternative, covering everything from goth, punk, and post-punk, to ambient, classical, and downtempo). For the last decade though, I've been mainly into Dream-pop, Shoegaze, Indie, Dub, and Post-rock. I'm especially interested in foreign unheard-of independent bands that no one else has heard of. Over all though, I'm really open minded.

Ah, very open-minded!
Love your proboscis monkey profile btw.

Thanks!

[ampetrosillo]

I find that there no longer are "scenes". Once upon a time (even before my time) you'd get "rockers", "metalheads", "punks", people into electronic music, casual listeners who only listened to anything without an overt distorted guitar, jazz aficionados, etc.

Homogenisation has meant that "everybody listens to a bit of everything", even the young ones. Which really means "whatever is in the mainstream". In fact, I deplore the people who confidently declare that there has never been a better time for independent music and niches. It's just not true and I feel they don't actually believe what they're saying either. To stress the point, there has never been a time when "old music" was as popular as it is today. People are no longer chasing the latest releases, there is no excitement whatsoever but rather dejection and disillusionment. The kids that once upon a time would have embraced some kind of subculture are mostly either going back to Pink Floyd or they have no real passion for music.

The only two scenes that still exist are the metal and jazz scenes, and even the jazz scene is watered down nowadays.

[audiojunkie]

I find that there no longer are "scenes". Once upon a time (even before my time) you'd get "rockers", "metalheads", "punks", people into electronic music, casual listeners who only listened to anything without an overt distorted guitar, jazz aficionados, etc.

Homogenisation has meant that "everybody listens to a bit of everything", even the young ones. Which really means "whatever is in the mainstream". In fact, I deplore the people who confidently declare that there has never been a better time for independent music and niches. It's just not true and I feel they don't actually believe what they're saying either. To stress the point, there has never been a time when "old music" was as popular as it is today. People are no longer chasing the latest releases, there is no excitement whatsoever but rather dejection and disillusionment. The kids that once upon a time would have embraced some kind of subculture are mostly either going back to Pink Floyd or they have no real passion for music.

The only two scenes that still exist are the metal and jazz scenes, and even the jazz scene is watered down nowadays.

The Dream pop/Shoegaze scene is alive and very well. About the only time it was really underground, was when it originally started and was over-shadowed by Grunge. Since then, it has been very much alive and well, and as healthy as ever.

[Bunny_boy]

Homogenisation has meant that "everybody listens to a bit of everything", even the young ones. Which really means "whatever is in the mainstream". In fact, I deplore the people who confidently declare that there has never been a better time for independent music and niches.

I can't imagine listening to one genre of music exclusively. I've been like that more or less since I was a teenager, but my tastes have broadened over the years.

[ampetrosillo]

I find that there no longer are "scenes". Once upon a time (even before my time) you'd get "rockers", "metalheads", "punks", people into electronic music, casual listeners who only listened to anything without an overt distorted guitar, jazz aficionados, etc.

Homogenisation has meant that "everybody listens to a bit of everything", even the young ones. Which really means "whatever is in the mainstream". In fact, I deplore the people who confidently declare that there has never been a better time for independent music and niches. It's just not true and I feel they don't actually believe what they're saying either. To stress the point, there has never been a time when "old music" was as popular as it is today. People are no longer chasing the latest releases, there is no excitement whatsoever but rather dejection and disillusionment. The kids that once upon a time would have embraced some kind of subculture are mostly either going back to Pink Floyd or they have no real passion for music.

The only two scenes that still exist are the metal and jazz scenes, and even the jazz scene is watered down nowadays.

The Dream pop/Shoegaze scene is alive and very well. About the only time it was really underground, was when it originally started and was over-shadowed by Grunge. Since then, it has been very much alive and well, and as healthy as ever.

Shoegaze and dream pop were actually not that popular back then. Slowdive were unfairly maligned by the press and their peers as middle class tripe. Middle class they may have been, but I wouldn't say it was tripe. Anyway, they only started drawing in their biggest crowds, like, twenty years later.

[Gewan]

For now
Bjork
Frank Ocean
Barry Can't Swim
Gorillaz
Hiatus Kaiyote
serpentwithfeet
Thievery Corporation/solos
and all things Bent & Simon Mills related

[VOODOO U]

No A.I.

Yeah. That's a real musician performing in a minor key with their hand. Should be right up Jamcat's alley.

And it's not like A.I. where it's the same output over and over again. Very passionate even with the utilization of music scales.

[Vortifex]

Depends on mood. My main preference is for stuff with a dreamy, spacey, introspective feel. So dreampunk/ambient dreampunk, chillwave, indie, shoegaze, basically anything with that kind of soundscape: Rashida Prime, Night Tapes, CMD094, Pinkshinyultrablast, 2814, Voyage, Metahesh, Martin Sturtzer, The Microgram. I also like dark gritty stuff by people like Lorn, Axius Link, Filmmaker, LONOWN, Rivoices, X1-Y2.

Since I was a kid I've been into electro. Too many artists to mention, but definitely everything by Gerald Donald and James Stinson, as collaborators and individual artists (Dopplereffekt, Drexciya, etc).

[Zipede]

When I was young, there was a need for some kind of validation of musical taste, I was dismissive of many genres and of anything too poppy. Looking back, music was my identity, an ego thing. Also limited funds meant I needed to be picky when buying my 1-2 albums a week (depending on how much money was left after Friday night), plus there was limited exposure to all the music that was available. I was mainly into prog rock, hard rock, psychedelic, electronic, ambient and fusion.

Now that I can put the ego aside, I like pretty much everything. It's the sound of musical instruments I like, and I find most songs have them in it. When I listen to something new, I search for the bits I like and focus around that. Pretty much the opposite of my beginnings, where a song was dismissed as soon as it did something I didn't like.

I like to think there are no bands, just the music of the human race.

[audiojunkie]

I find that there no longer are "scenes". Once upon a time (even before my time) you'd get "rockers", "metalheads", "punks", people into electronic music, casual listeners who only listened to anything without an overt distorted guitar, jazz aficionados, etc.

Homogenisation has meant that "everybody listens to a bit of everything", even the young ones. Which really means "whatever is in the mainstream". In fact, I deplore the people who confidently declare that there has never been a better time for independent music and niches. It's just not true and I feel they don't actually believe what they're saying either. To stress the point, there has never been a time when "old music" was as popular as it is today. People are no longer chasing the latest releases, there is no excitement whatsoever but rather dejection and disillusionment. The kids that once upon a time would have embraced some kind of subculture are mostly either going back to Pink Floyd or they have no real passion for music.

The only two scenes that still exist are the metal and jazz scenes, and even the jazz scene is watered down nowadays.

The Dream pop/Shoegaze scene is alive and very well. About the only time it was really underground, was when it originally started and was over-shadowed by Grunge. Since then, it has been very much alive and well, and as healthy as ever.

Shoegaze and dream pop were actually not that popular back then. Slowdive were unfairly maligned by the press and their peers as middle class tripe. Middle class they may have been, but I wouldn't say it was tripe. Anyway, they only started drawing in their biggest crowds, like, twenty years later.

Yeah, that's essentially what I was saying.

[audiojunkie]

When I was young, there was a need for some kind of validation of musical taste, I was dismissive of many genres and of anything too poppy. Looking back, music was my identity, an ego thing. Also limited funds meant I needed to be picky when buying my 1-2 albums a week (depending on how much money was left after Friday night), plus there was limited exposure to all the music that was available. I was mainly into prog rock, hard rock, psychedelic, electronic, ambient and fusion.

Now that I can put the ego aside, I like pretty much everything. It's the sound of musical instruments I like, and I find most songs have them in it. When I listen to something new, I search for the bits I like and focus around that. Pretty much the opposite of my beginnings, where a song was dismissed as soon as it did something I didn't like.

I like to think there are no bands, just the music of the human race.

Same here. I don't care what people think about what I like. But when I was young and growing up, there were bands that I was embarrassed to admit I liked (like the Bee Gees). Now that I'm older, I can totally respect the immense talent of some of these artists.

[Hipster Bales]

Same here. I don't care what people think about what I like. But when I was young and growing up, there were bands that I was embarrassed to admit I liked (like the Bee Gees). Now that I'm older, I can totally respect the immense talent of some of these artists.

+1

Even though I produce electronic music (my signature has my links if you wanna check 'em out), I'm actually a fan of Coldplay (awesome rock band) and some of Sam Gellaitry's hip-hop work: https://soundcloud.com/samgellaitry/caves