What's your latest musical find?

Ontario said:


Actually, the 1st and 3rd songs aren't even ambient. They belong to a genre called dubstep, which I'm slowly getting into. I think you should check it out (if you haven't already). I recommend Burial, Burial & Four Tet, Joker, and Mount Kimbie.

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The first video you posted was actually pretty good. I'm not too big of a fan of U2, but I liked Bono in this particular song. It was very calming, smooth like. The video accompanying it was pretty rad to. Some nice trippy space movie effects.

The second vid wasn't as good as the first one. I don't know what it is, but I just don't like the sounds used in this song (sounds kinda weird, I know). Sort of does sound like it belongs in an airport, though.

Do you have a last.fm account? Would love to see what you listen to.

Pierre Bezukhov's Facebook said:
In order for me to like the music I am listing to, it must fulfill these requirements:
1. Be creative and original
2. The structure of the song must be complex, multilayered, and evolving. But by saying this, I might be raising the standard too high. But I mean that it cannot be simple and must change as the song progresses.
3. Most importantly, it must be EMOTIONAL. If the music brings out my feeling to such an extend, it doesn't matter whether it qualifies for the other requirements, I still like it.
4. The last requirement is that it must be ear-piercing. The music must be smooth-flowing.

With these requirements, my taste tends to roam though the genres. I tend to stick to classical music and metal (with a handfull of general rock thrown in, but I'm picky about which ones). My favorite artist happens to be the (very, very) obscure French romantic compose Charles- Valentin Alkan (simply known in the music world as Alkan). My favorite band is Children of Bodom, Helloween, Metallica, and the sort. Other places I dip my feet in is ska (The Aquabats), classic rock (Boston, Led Zepplin, AC/DC), and a bunch of others. For people who still don't understand the requirements, the perfect example is Dmitri Shostakovich's 8th Symphony, 3rd movement (you can find it on youtube in the video entitled Dmitri Shostaovich).

Pierre_Bezukhov said:


I've actually just started getting into electronic music (really any experimental music too) a few months ago after switching over from my many years as a metal-head (I still enjoy it, but I don't solely concentrate there). So I really don't know too much about it, mostly since my range of what I've listened to is confinded to Pandora radio.

I created a last.fm account right after you mentioned it, but I don't really like it so far since I can only create one multiple artist station (but I haven't tried much on the site anyways since I'm at work, but I'll give it more of a try later). Below are my Pandora radio stations (if it wasn't blocked to everyone outside of the US, then I would link you up with my account).

Pandora radio stations: (italicized indicates rarely listened to, bold means often)
-A Day at the Races (rap, based off the video of the same name on the 1st page, so probably expand it to make it my abstract hip-hop station)
-Aphex Twin (Aphex Twin+Passengers+Brian Eno, just created it today and have been listening to it ever since)(experimental/ambient).
-The Aquabats (ska)
-The Boxer Rebellion
-Children of Bodom (Scandanavian metal, used to listen to a lot).
-The Clash (though I do listen to the album London Calling a lot)
-Coldplay
-Dragonforce
-Dream Theater
-Helloween (European power metal)
-Juno Reactor(Juno Reactor+Infected Mushroom+Astral Projection)(psy-trance)
-Lazy Eye
-Metallica
-Muse
-Rage Against the Machine
-Rise Against
-Robert Johnson (Blues, made it after reading Me and the Devil Blues)
-The Shins
-The Strokes
-Romantic (classical, works such as Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Shubert, and the such)
-Tiesto (progressive trance)
-Trains (based off the song by Porcupine Tree)

As you can see, there is a wide variety of stations. Simply looking at them doesn't really describe what I listen to though. Working in an office all summer has really expanded my range and interest since I has access to wikipedia, youtube, and pandora. I've still been trying to define my taste, all I can say is that I like cerebral stuff. Of what else I listen to that isn't on my list mostly is the obscure sub-genres such as Krautrock, Suomisaundi, the more experimental works, and also specfic songs. I just started listen to Animal Collective today too. Below is an attempt to encapsulate my music tastes from about a year ago. It is really outdated, but is helpful and forms a good foundation. I plan on updating it though in the next week. Last thing of noting, I don't pay any attention to the lyrics since I mostly started listening to music with classical, AC/DC, and metal.



On another note, here are some more songs:
Mushroom - Can (from the classic album Tago Mago, hugely influential in the development of Krautrock)

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My Girls - Animal Collective (you've probably already heard this, but I love it after only one day).

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Dmitri Shostakovich (see Facebook quote)

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Conversation between Ontario & Pierre Bezukhov said:
Quite a bit has been talked about and some cool videos were posted too.

Pierre_Bezukhov said:
I found this video that I want to show everyone before it gets taken down for being over ten minutes long (yeah, its really long but absolutely amazing). The works were composed by Alkan and performed by Jack Gibbons.
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Above was the first movement of Alkan's Concerto for solo piano, this is the third one (sorry about the second one, it isn't up on youtube but is absolutly beautiful and dark).
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Even if you don't like piano, just watch it to see his fingers. Blows your mind.
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Fuck, just look at the sheets on this one. Quite possibly one of the hardest things to play. After listening to it, it is quite apparent why Lizet feared Alkan.
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The reason why Pandora radio is only in the US is because of copyright laws. I am pretty fed-up myself with the US government and its laws (especially the copy-right ones), but thats a completely different topic.

I agree with you when people are branded to a specific genre, but mostly its the people who brand themselves to that genre because by that they shut themselves out from the rest of the music out-there to stay in their own little music world. Thats one of the reasons why I don't really like a lot of the metal community is because many of them are "elitist" and say whats metal or not. Tool isn't even listed in the Encyclopaedia Metallum. I don't know why, but its probably because it is part of the post-grunge metal scene (and since the sub-genre is influenced by alternative rock, then its not metal, or something like that--bullshit). In a way, its more of a thing of pride and to call themselves different from others or to be accepted. I, on the other hand, want to try to expand my music range as much as possible. I personally believe classical music is hugely underrated since it is associated with the "high-brows" and the culturely elite and isn't for the "average" person. I have to learn some music theory and learn sheet music where I'm going to for college (plus sing Gregorian Chants), so thats going to be fun.

I wouldn't get high while listening to Suomisaundi. A few of the artists purposely tried to make their music give their high listeners a bad trip (Mandalavandalz in particular named his newest album "King of the Bad Trips"). Probably because they are aiming for a completely different purpose, thier work becomes highly original. I posted one of his videos on the first page of this thread (its the psychadelic looking one with mushrooms). Actually, just smoke some pot to it before moving onto the really heavy hallucinogens (if you take them that is). I personally don't do drugs so I don't need to worry about that.

My new college roomate introduced me to Animal Collective and he's really big on music, so we will undoubtily be influencing each other heavily. I really like the modern psychadelic music rather then the classic stuff from the 60's and 70's. Probably because there is a heavy electronic and ambient influence that the classic stuff lacks. Now that I think about it, in my Facebook description, I use the word "emotional" in a very vague sense. Usually when its used in modern society, the emotions of sadness and pain are associated with it. Not so much with me. What I mean by "emotional" is the ability to bring out an emotion. Not just the ones already mentioned, but any emotion. That includes happiness, awkawardness, angery, frustration, you get the picture. I don't reallly know specifically what emotion it is, but stuff like trance where it creates an atmosphere and you become completely immersed in it (which is what I really like). So in a way, many of the more popular/popy stuff that is very simple and doesn't change I let it fall under the "emotional" catagory. An example is The Strokes pandora radio station (The Strokes, The Artic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand to name a few). I should rename it, but don't know what to change it to.

Heres an Infected Mushroom song. Its Echonomix from their album Converting Vegetarians. Its the place I started, but I haven't got too much into them since I don't have the time to fully explore everything.
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I would like some help on where to start off with Aphex Twin and other stuff like him. There is so much out there that it is quite overwhelming.

P.S.: What's with the girls on your profile? At least it proves that you have a life (unless you met them on the internet).

RazorBeamz said:
YMCK! J-pop meets 8 bit!

Orangevision said:
Coaltar of the Deepers. Holy crap it is awesome.

matt379 said:
These bands ----> Los Campesinos and of course....
Pendulum

TheAlxEnigma said:

best pendulum songs imo:

blood sugar
tarantula
propane nightmares
fasten your seatbelt
visions