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I'm 20 so when it was like late 90s early 2000 i used to listen to a lot of UK garage and hip hop (i lived with my cousin whos 4 years older so listened to stuff he was in to).. then around 14-15 i started listening to grime, hip hop still, reggae and ska.. 16-18 was listening to bassline and drum and bass, 18+ dubstep.

Throughout my whole life i've listened to a lot of rock and metal as well and still do, i go see bands quite a bit.. i've always been surprised that i've always hated bro with a passion because i do listen to a lot of rock and some heavy metal.

Recently i've been trying to get back into uk garage because it reminds me of when i was very young.. hip hop i've always loved.. always listened to little bits of house and trance but never really followed it properly. I've tried listening to bits of jungle cause i went through a heavy phase of dnb and felt i missed out on the jungle scene.

Now its mainly UK garage, dubstep, dnb, grime.. bit of rock, reggae/ska and house.

One genre i've never liked is rnb but i do like the vocals used in other tracks.. destinys child have always had decent garage remixes, redlight has recently done a remix.. damu done a tune with usher vocals and theres a few usher garage remixes.

Dubstep never took over my interest in other music. So I'd like to replace "before" with "besides" if possible.

I started out as an 11-12 year old kid really. I was very "lucky" to hang out with some weird and degenerate kids back in the day who were only one or two years older than me but were well into hardcore (the uk kind) but mostly into rave and gabba music. So from an early age on, I was listening to pretty alternative and harsh (for a kid) electronic music.

At the same time I started getting into metal. Napalm Death, old Fear Factory, KMFDM, Pitchifter...sort of with an outspoken industrial edge.

My interest in electronic music never faded: I started going to Jungle/Hardcore/rave nights, which had a legendary resurgence in my area in the early 2000's. My area was known nationwide for that period of time. It also earned us the nickname "Little Amsterdam" in the papers. I'm really lucky to have known that crew who did all those parties (twice a month at least), they really educated me. And I still hang out with some of those guys today, even though they're old farts now.I branched out in a very short period of time to Breakcore, which I was really into for a few years. I still love my amens today.

The upsurge in tempo also meant I started listening to faster metal music: like Converge and sorts (big fan of them) and other harsh hardcore punk acts (also Blacklisted, The Hope Conspiracy, Most Precious Blood and its predecessors.... were among my favourite bands).

I then started getting bored with the up-tempo stuff and gradually started slowing it down. I got into Industrial again (Godflesh mainly), Dubtechno, Techno Animal, GOD, ICE, The Bug, Dälek... and also "post-metal" like Isis, Jesu, and also Neurosis (big fan) and stoner/doom like "Eyehategod", "Electric Wizard", "SUNN0)))". Generally SLOW AND HARD stuff with a lot of BASS.
So I started looking for slower heavier electronic music as well. And that's when my brother pointed me towards dubstep late 2005/early 2006. And I was sold. It had qualities reminiscent of jungle, it had slowed down pace, it had space and bass. It answered my search.

Still listen to pretty much anything today, expect for hardcore punk and uptempo metal. Was never that much into D&B to be honest.

so no UK garage, no grime, no drum & bass, not even house...

perhaps that's why I'm into these future sounds now. I missed all that. I only knew jungle, hardcore and rave really.

Grindcore, powerviolence, drone, death metal, doom, IDM, black metal, sludge, breakcore, noise.

In order of what I loved the most.

When I was younger it was mostly alt rock lol. Then more indie, and then metal upon randomly buying Mastodon's Blood Mountain one day. Cross by Justice and Crystal Castles debut are what started to get me into EDM. That's not to say I don't listen to any of those genres anymore (w/ the exception of alternative) dubstep is just my main thing atm.

indian music (which my dad used to play in his car), trance, Hip Hop, DnB, UK Garage, Grime & now Dubstep.

discovered sonic youth when i was 14, got mad into indie rock, noise rock, shoegaze and the likes, pretty much listened exclusively to 80s/90s indie stuff for one year, then got into liars and animal collective and started getting into more recent and weirder stuff, experimental rock, noise, ... i then got into idm through autechre and boards of canada, which led me to edm via pantha du prince; i then got into hip hop, wonky, and from wonky i discovered dubstep. got into much more electronic music too since i'm into dubstep - jungle, garage, house, minimal, ... have not really stopped listening to any of those genres though - which is why even though i certainly do not listen to them as often as i used to, i still consider sonic youth as the basis on which my music tastes lie! it all grew from here.

I listen to just about anything that I personally think has a good beat and sounds good. My initial music taste was stuff like, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Metallica etc. then I got into old school hip-hop biggie, tupac, mobb deep, shit like that and then i listened to older korn which really showed me how a metal band can be heavy, but still have a....funk to it i guess.

Within the last 4 years though, I got really into heavy metal like August Burns Red, Texas In July, A Day To Remember, Silverstein, The Devil Wears Prada and about 2 years ago I was introduced to EDM and I fell in love with it. I think it's because, the type of Dubstep/Filth I'm partial to still has that heavy metal feel to it and by that I mean the raw emotion behind it.

lol

apmje wrote:Grindcore, powerviolence, drone, death metal, doom, IDM, black metal, sludge, breakcore, noise.

In order of what I loved the most.

this sounds good

KONTRA wrote:Within the last 4 years though, I got really into heavy metal like August Burns Red, Texas In July, A Day To Remember, Silverstein, The Devil Wears Prada

These guys just died a little inside...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YYhc8gvgRM

KONTRA wrote: the raw emotion behind it.

I dont listen to music - not even dubstep.

just come here to post how I'm feeling sometimes.

R&B and gangster rap

KONTRA wrote:Within the last 4 years though, I got really into heavy metal like August Burns Red, Texas In July, A Day To Remember, Silverstein, The Devil Wears Prada and about 2 years ago I was introduced to EDM and I fell in love with it. I think it's because, the type of Dubstep/Filth I'm partial to still has that heavy metal feel to it and by that I mean the raw emotion behind it.

The genre of metal you are describing is called metalcore, by the way, and it's almost as good as tech death. Haha.

shit > reggae > ska > punk > IDM/glitch > liquid dnb > dubstep > house > hip hop > 130 > complextro > srebme breaks

Pretty much BREAKCORE all the time. I listened to crap metal before (Skindread, Ill Nino) but nothing religiously. I only really starting listening to any music seriously in like 2006 when i was 14. I actually remembered how it happened - my sister had her copy of Q Magazine lying around and it was a feature on the Greatest Music Videos Ever. One of the entries was Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy and i thought it looked great so i looked up on this new Youtube ting and was blown away. "What are these noises!? Why do they sound good!?" and so i looked into it and someone mentioned the word Breakcore. From there I discovered Venetian Snares , Squarepusher and pretty much became obsessed with the stuff. Used to go onto last.fm and rinse these bedroom producers with 30 listeners. Obviously, while browsing the outer limits of electronic music, i came across dubstep but i never really cared for it at the time, i was just hyper and needed gabber kicks and amens to the face. As time went on i guess i matured and stuff like that didn't do it for me. I just wanted better production and stuff i could really appreciate so i just started listening to the more refined stuff. Some of it was still pretty extreme in terms of noise (Xanopticon, Dev/Null (still one of my favourite artists ever, shit i rinse daily)) but stuff like Shitmat and Cardopusher just weren't doing it anymore. I still listen to the harsh noise stuff like the two i mentioned in parenthesis, but just acquired a taste for the downtempo glitch stuff, ambient/drone, trip-hop and finally gave this dubstep ting another go. In recent years i even started enjoying more organic music and bands, only 11 acts total though. For the past few days i've been listening to System of a Down on loop. Sometimes i put that old gabber/amen shit on from time to time, cringe when i hear now though but good for a laugh and some nostalgia.

I never really got round to liking much of Aphex Twin though.

EDIT: Noticed a lot of us came from Breakcore - what are your thoughts on some prominent artists dropping the amens for wubs and making some shit dubstep?

System of a Down is my favorite band, since i was like 8. It's beautiful that their music could interest me that young, while their lyrics keep me interested now.
I remember waking up everyday for school and turning on MTV and listening to Chop Suey! and Drive by incubus.

been listening to hip hop since i was in the womb, otherwise i guess i just listened to grime, or whatever else sounded kinda cool.

I've always been heavily into electronic music, even before I knew what I was listening to was called. I remember when I was little listening to dance classics, Haddaway, Technotronic, stuff like that.

Since I lived in Ecuador until I was 9, I listened to mostly salsa, merenge, ballenato, Latin Reggae (before it was called Reggaeton!!), then I moved to NY and like any kid growing up in an urban city, specially NY, I got into rap and hip-hop, some Pop, anything that was on the radio in the early 00's.

It wasn't until I saw a commercial for Midnight Club 2 that I got into Trance, heavily! I had never heard such chords and moods before. It was so calming and peaceful compared to rap. No lyrics of killing and drugs. I fell in love.

That made me get into everything electronic really, again, but now I knew what I was listening to, it wasnt just, ohh it's that techno track. Now I knew, this is trance, this is house, this is hardcore, techno, and so on.

It wasn't until falling out of love with trance (mainly because after 2004 trance got very stale and predictable) I started listening to a different type of house, I had stumbled upon Tuff Jam, and UK Garage.

Along with UK Garage, Drum & Bass, I got into Jungle, then around 2009 a friend of mine told me about Dubstep and Fusion and I thought it was merely ok, just a poor imitation of rap or drunk music. with an electronic vibe. But then I slowly started to listen to tracks and getting into it more.

Now dubstep is mostly all I listen to. But anything that has a good vibe I'll listen to it. Classical, Reggae, Dub, Rock, Metal, Country. Any genre of music, I probably have at least one song in my iPod.

i liked 90's hip hop, reggae, dub, and dancehall ... plus a bit of techno when i were fucked
This was the logical progression.