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How has your music taste changed over the years?
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29-12-2007 3:39pm#1
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As embarassing as it is, I first started listening to trance music at first. I didn't have the internet or anything so I used to just get Euphoria albums and stuff like that. I got bored of it after a while though and eventually got my hands on some Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and stuff like that. After that I just started tracking down other stuff that people said was good and thats mainly what I do now.
I've never seriously got myself into techno, I like some tracks and artists but overall not really. I used to hate house music but I enjoy minimal and progressive stuff (mainly because of Sasha's 2003 creamfields set). I like drum and bass, at least, I like the idea of it. Theres a lot of bollacks associated with that genre though. Always liked electro, how could you not?
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Born in 86, in truth I didnt become interested in any genre until about 1999 (although I do have a vague memory of singing the chorus of Put Em Under Pressure with my cousins on a scorching day in 1990, but thats a different story
A song like that should be somehow genetically implanted into every newborn babyin Ireland 
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Late 90s I liked the Oasis and Blur tunes that would be on the radio. Was big into the Will Smith stuff that was prominent around 96-99, Miami, Wild West, all that craic. Probably what cemented my hip hop interest was the singles from Dr Dres 2001 album released in 1999. Still Dre, Next Episode, Forgot About Dre, despite her objections id try to bang them out of the oul ones stereo as we drove around, me 13 and all. 2000/01 brought new Eminem stuff, D12, MOP Ante Up, and along with that we got sky digital in 2000, so Id a million and one channels to hear rap on. Later I got bored with the new stuff. Only past artist most of the channels played reg was Tuapc. Id see the extremely rare very occasional play of a Snoop, Dre, Nas, Biggie or Wu Tang tune from 1992-95 and Id go get the albums, and they were lethal, lyrically and beat wise uperiour to the increasing cack that was appearing post 2000.
As for dance, I kicked of with....yep...I confess... BLEEDIN SCHOOUTER Ah come on, born 86, man of my time and all Cant recall liking any dance at all until Scooter brought out Logical Song in (iirc) summer of 2001. We tore the kiddies disco dancefloors apart when it came on Even after that until I was about 17 Scooter was the only dance artists who I thought everything they made was legend (tbh at the time the only other dance tune i recall liking was Maniac and Jan Waynes Because the Night. And ya know what, I still like those two, so fcuk yis ). I got their "Singles 1994-2002" album off a mate. Logical Song, Posse, How Much is the Fish, Let Me Be Your Valentine, Nessaja......legends With enough drink in me Id still dance to Posse and the Fish.
Then I summer of 04 still 17 went to *dont mention here banned music yoke** * (** yoke being a rather approproiate word ) Wasnt even into dance, wandered into the dance arena drunk as fcuk trying to pull when some bird...eh... ahem, introduced me to the dance scene. Half an hour later Im dancing around to the Madchester Experience tribute band as if I am in the Hacienda in 1989. That weekend I saw Faithless, Darren Emerson, The Chems and, last but by fa most certainly not least, Felix the Housecat tearing the ****ing roof off on the Sunday evening. I had heard Born Slippy when I had seen Trainspotting a while back, it was only in a warehouse with thousands of peoples hands in the air ad me on a mad oneI realised "jesus christ, this is ****ing brilliant".
Nowadays I like a bit of electronica, trance, 90s mainland eurodance (some cheese, but there is own brand cheese and quality semi cheese ) and house (when I was 14 I thought house was gayer than San Fran. But then again the only house Id heard was cack like You`re a Superstar 
). And beer/vodka nearly always my weapon of choice, as it generally always has been bar the odd rave or DJ set (or when Ive had a hard week and feel chronically depressed )
As for hip hop, 90% of the stuff I give a regular listen to in the iPod is the exact same stuff I was listening to 6 or 7 years ago. Apart from the odd bright showing there is fcuk all worth even downloading, let alone buying. Crunk is good for a club but come on, making entire albums with every tune crunk and lyrics straying no further than lyrics all containing either "drunk" "crunk" "weed" "gat" "henney/cris" or boasting about how much "x*" they can pop in "da club". The intelligent lyricism is long gone.
*: Having said that, In Da Club by 50, Lets Get High by Dre and X by Xzibit are all quality. It just gets tiresome if every crunk song revolves entirely around henney, weed and yoke lyrics.0 -
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grew up on reggae, jazz-fusion and punk, first paid attention to electronic music with the likes of front 242 and the belgian hoover techno tunes that used to be on dutch radio around 1990, after which a cousin in england used to post me over tapes of london pirates and what not... the likes of colin dale, elliot eastwick, carl cox, grooverider, fabio, ltj bukem, dave angel... then there was a gap of a couple of years when the tapes stopped coming at the end of which i picked up a copy of "angel" by goldie (specifically the peshay "back from 'nam" remix) and the direction that uk hardcore had taken after those early days (and after i'd stopped paying attention) just floored me, lush soundscapes, deep sub bass, rolling breaks, strings, vocals and angry evil bass noises... started buying drum and bass from then on, all the old photek and source direct stuff...
many thousands of records later, and many irate neighbours later, i'm finding myself playing 99% drum and bass, but i'm branching out slowly into techno (the full spectrum from chris mccormack to carl craig) and dubstep, and i've always kept a vague eye on hip hop and jazz too... loved my uk garage too but it was fierce hard to get your hands on it over here so i have feck all records
suppose the dawn of dubstep and my growing realisation that techno isn't ALL clanky repetitive drug noise are the biggest changes to my music taste... listen to a lot less house too, but then house lost all interest for me after everyone stopped playing naked music records0 -
Hmm,
Well I was always into the electronic element of music as opposed to screaming guitars, adored erasure, Eurithmics, new order type stuff among other things...
In school I was a prodigy fanatic, happy hardcore (gasp!), ultrasonic 4th dimension, which I used to play at school discos
First record I bought was Nikolai - ready to flow, when I won vouchers for abbey on sunset I think it was.
When I started playing in clubs my taste changed to more "grown up" music, happy hardcore and basically anything over 140 bpm or a speeded up 80's vocal went out the window.. I was only 17 though
Funky house, trance, techno (to some degree), a bit of hard house (trade styleeee!) and progressive were the order of the day ... I'd always manage to cheeze up a gig with mixing something nuts like Cindy Lauper and terry lee brown jnr's version of for an angel on the fly
As music changed i guess I followed
These days ... well I try to cross all barriers from minimal / tech / disco-punk / progressive / industrial / and beyond, there's very little I wont of play at some stage - educate but not alienate is my motto.
The way I see it ... there's room for it all, so long as the doors are open and the night is young and people have the energy to cheer it on
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Ok here goes.....
Like prefabsprouter im one of the older people on this forum
:D and certainly my music taste has changed considerably over the years since i was a child listening to my uncle playing Bowie, T-Rex,Pink Floyd, The Doors,etc (i still love that music though) i can just about remember punk and disco although i always preferred Disco and i still lover Disco, in the early 80's i remember listening to stuff like The Jam and The Specials,etc and thought it was brilliant, the 1980's actually was very good for music and i got big into the New Romantic scene,my fav band of the 80's were Simple Minds and fav song of the 80's is dont you forget about me a classic to this day.
Around 87 i started getting into Metal and was big into it for a year or two, around late 89 i started taking an interest in some of the Acid House tunage being played, Technotronic were probably the first outfit to get me interested i never forget hearing pump up the jam, i soon began to lose interest in the metal scene and get into the Acid House sound and also the Madchester sound which was also a massive influence for me.
Come 1990 and Madchester was massive,even in Dublin at that time a small enough city compared to today it was getting big, i remember going to Sides and hearing the Happy Mondays played alongside The Stone Roses and Charlatans and then mixed in with Acid House and other stuff, i was blown away by all this and got heavily into the whole scene.
Then i went to London for a long weekend and went to a Rave playing Acid House and Bleep, i took my first ecstasy tablet a New Yorker:D and that was my life changed forever,from there on in i became somewhat obsessed with the Rave scene, the music and the whole culture behind it, i actually lost interest in almost everything else i was into for years it all but took over my life, come 91/92 it was all about Rave/Hardcore, i used to live in London in 1991 but unfortunately worked most weekends but on the rare weekend i got off id go raving,came back to Dublin late 91 i told all my mates about London and they were fascinated, i went to Sides almost every week in 92 and id also go elsewhere as well but Sides was what it was all about back then, more House orientated but definitely in 91/92 i was more into Rave/Hardcore,Sides though a that time was the best club in Ireland, in fact Sides was the best ever club in this country hands down IMO and ive been to most of them,
1993/94 i got more into House and Techno and Trance also in 94 early Happy Hardcore was excellent but it got too cheesy in 1995,i actually loved Jungle but hated the vibe at Jungle raves and avoided going to them until i went to see Goldie/Metalheadz in the Point in 1996 and it was only half full but i was blown away, in fact that was one of the best weekends ive ever had, seen Carl Cox and Orbital on the Friday also in the point,someone else on the Saturday and Goldie on the Sunday, i didn't go home for about 6 days!!!!!
From about 1997 to 1999 i became a Techno head but not your stereotypical train spotter geek but i was big into the Techno sound then,but those muppets who used to be train spotters used to annoy the fcuk out of me, proper geeks, mammys boys and girls from D4 and the likes although some of them were actually sound.
Since the millennium really despite still being massively into dance music in general (anyone remember big beat and all that Fatboy Slim shizzle) i became a bit disillusioned with the whole scene, the whole vibe wasn't the same,and asides from a handful of tunes every year there wasn't one particular scene i was into although House music was and still is my first love from 1987 to 1994,although Basement Jaxx always blew me away and still do, but thesedays i like most styles but i absolutely cannot stand stuff like minimal and hard house especially minimal, at least @ hard house clubs there's a bit of atmosphere and energy in the music even if the music is too fast.
So today id still be into funky house and garage and some electro house although that's now getting too trancy, progressive house today from what ive heard is as dull as dishwater as is a lot of trance, there is some brilliant breakbeat doing the rounds right now which im really digging, ive always liked breakbeat anyway.
Id like to see more breakbeat type house with pianos for 2008.0 -
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BillyoftheBeast wrote: »For a guy thats slated other djs you have the worst taste in music. Funky house to electro minimal.
Surely taste is subjective though. Apart from trance and many of it's variants! 0 -
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early to mid 90's I listened to rave stuff, Prodigy, N-Trance, Altern 8, The Shamen etc. Then I started listening to Hardcore stuff, loved Thunderdome stuff...god when I listen to that stuff now I can't see what I liked in it (and I was too young to get my hands on drugs ).
Mid 90's I also listened to The 4th Dimension, remember the Nutter??
Late 90's I listened to quite cheesy stuff, Cream, Promo International etc.
In the past 5 years I am big into Ambient stuff like Stars of the Lid, Windy & Carl and Brian Eno etc but since this is the dance music thread I won't go on about that here.
Anyway, today I still listen to the Prodigy, Cox, Daft Punk, James Holden etc but I am listening to a lot of stuff from DJs on boards lately, Giles-K, Johnny Rave, Colly, LTC, Micky Linick & DJ Tonic, all varied styles but I'm enjoyin' it all lads.
I don't think I will be ever going back to the likes of Charlie Lownoise & Mental Theo or DJ Gizmo 0 -
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