Music tastes before dubstep..

[therapist]

Mainly hard / progressive rock, but mainly the original, old stuff...

Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple


But then also Krautrock like Tangerine Dream.


Folk rock sorta stuff in the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young frame along with Joni Mitchell


Jazz (various types) - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Louis Armstrong (mainly his Hot Five stuff from the '20s)...


Industrial / EBM - Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Front Line Assembly
Warning, weird video...


The only thing that really coincided with the 'hardcore continuum' was a vague interest in early techno / house / acid / rave tunes, from seeing documentaries about that sorta thing, but I had never known any song names or artists until later on.

Just reminded me about all the amazing music i used to love. Was such a shame I didn't keep following all that stuff. Just seemed like a didnt have time for both at the time

Yeah, I don't listen to my other tastes as much as I should maybe, but I always love the occasional times when I'll turn off my 'bass' mode and indulge in my original loves...

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[dubfordessert]

i listen to any old crap, ngl, and i tend to sample genres rather than properly follow them. when i was 13 i used to buy the NME with my paper round money like a goon, but other than that i've never really "followed" music before/other than dubstep/"bass music", i just chance on artists i like. i'd say it broadly falls into two camps, pop and rnb stuff like christina aguilera, rihanna, beyonce, amy winehouse, alicia keys blah blah, and then so-called alternative/indie and bands like tool & a perfect circle, radiohead, rage against the machine, the smashing pumpkins, the stone roses, the smiths. add a dose of bob dylan, elliott smith, low + some hip-hop and some old blues/jazz and soul artists like aretha & ray charles and that's basically it... come at me

[Molzie]

Went something like like :

Punk and shit generic dance rap/hip hop trip hop IDM drum & bass Dubstep

pretty much exactly the same for me

[TheTornado]

Alicia Keys is sick, nothing to be ashamed of there.

[TomatoAndBasil]

My musical tastes started out being that of my parents (what was played in the car)

Exactly the same for me. I'm still trying to track down what half the stuff was...

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[dubfordessert]

Alicia Keys is sick, nothing to be ashamed of there.

yessss gotta be one of my fave alicia keys tracks, although lenzman takes it somewhere else

[jameshk]

uk hip-hop and dnb, still big fan of both.

[Ferryman]

Same as it is now really (just slightly more slender). I first heard dubstep at a Hospitality rave at The Custard Factory in Birmingham... loved it.

Before that though, I hate a strong diet of hardcore (metal), punk, d'n'b & hip hop - with a healthy splashing of dub and down-tempo including trip hop. My music taste has definitely grown a lot since latching on to dubstep though, as it kinda engineered my move to Bristol, where my ears have opened a lot

[1017_duck]

double post sorry

[1017_duck]

the radio -> rap -> rawk n roll -> thrash -> punk -> extreme metal -> indie -> big beat -> trip hop -> trance -> d&b -> house -> dubstep

Neil Young

[TheTornado]

Alicia Keys is sick, nothing to be ashamed of there.

yessss gotta be one of my fave alicia keys tracks, although lenzman takes it somewhere else

Big tune. All about teasing in 'True Romance'

[cityzen]

thread number 5000 about this lol.

Have you not yet grasped the cyclical nature of dsf?

[Sexual_Chocolate]

my tastes have never been on just one ting.... ive pretty much been able to listen to anything

but in terms of edm it was dnb/liquid - house - dubstep .... and now its back to house

[teamhobson]

thread number 5000 about this lol.

Yeah sorry i had a look but obviously not hard enough.

I should probably chat about my history of music since everyone else is going into quite a bit of depth.

pop music shite until i was about 11 hip/hop and grime (mostly jumpoff.tv on the grime front though) rock/metal Deftones stuff and some EDM (Boys noize, Tiga, Justice...) Dubstep/garage/'bass'/grime again/dub/reggae

And throughout all that guff the stuff i was brought up on thanks to my dad. Eric clapton, B.B King, Robert Johnson, Led Zeppelin, ALANIS MORISSETTE and so on...

[skevin]

Always listened to loads of different things, fom soul to jazz to hip hop to jungle. Dubstep and bass music is just another genre i listen to.

I never quite understand how people can limit themselves to 1 certain sound and make that thier main focus.

[TheTornado]

^Yeah, one of the things that drew my to dubstep in the first place was it had everything I liked sonically and flipped it into strange combinations with the cultural aspect I loved about hip-hop and drum & bass. Now you have dubstep producers being influenced by only dubstep... that's a rant for another time I suppose!

[kay]

I used to listen to all sorts of stuff. Didn't really matter if it was cheesy as long as I liked it.

[kruptah]

Jazz, Blues, Raggae, Dacenhall, Alternative, Punk, Hip-Hop, Grime, Jungle, Drum & Bass,

[butter_man]

pure donk.

[Neptune]

Don't really remember what I liked when I was a child, probably chart stuff. I do remember being a big spice girls fan.

when I was about 11 it was indie, the stuff on Xfm. Then early teens it was a bit of everything metal, punk but mainly electronic music (ed banger stuff, metronomy, Sebastien Tellier. I was really obsessed with French music).