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I was well into indie about three or four years ago- Libertines, Strokes etc. etc. but now I can't listen to much guitar/band music at all. I don't know why really, I think it comes down to becoming so obsessed with bass/rhythm heavy music that if I listen to a lot of bands now the instrumentation sounds really gutless (trebly) and the rhythms are too incidental/weedy.

Darkcore DNB i.e. Tech Itch/Limewax etc.- When I first got into DNB it was probably the extremity of it which attracted me. It started out as pure drug music for me so it was all about the drop (or double drop)- Mampi Swift was my favourite DJ at that early point and I loved new Dillinja tunes along with Pendulum Clipz etc... then when I got deeper into it I went off that sort of inyerface jump up style, maybe just as a snobby reflex and I think the first think I got into instead was the ultra dark and noisy tunes that were always called things like 'Satan's Cock In My Copy of Cubase'. That was still when DNB was all about extremity and heaviness to me I suppose, but over time I got into jungle and deeper stuff and of course now I'm into dubstep and garage and similarly rhythmically spacious stuff I can't stand that kind of thing at all.

Drum and bass- just too fast and lacks any ideas that really engage with me, undoubtedly there are some good tunes being made but I have spent a few years following dnb in the past and I now like to focus on other forms of music.

Punk/modern forms of it- it's just too meaningless in todays context and the poppier shit is too sickly for me. More a fan of Fugazi-esque post punk and that but even so dont really listen to it much these days.

Cambodian Newt Whistle- experienced a real creative cusp at the start of the century but soon after people were clambering for space in the scene and populist forms of whistle started to emerge which inevitably lead to a lot of soundalikes and no real innovation. Shame really cos those raves reminded me of the Jungle days.

Yeah I've well gone off DNB at the moment aside from some producers (Breakage, D-Bridge...). I'm not sure if its just overexposure/boredom or if its to do with the limitations of the genre as it is now at the tempo it is.

Jubscarz wrote:Cambodian Newt Whistle- experienced a real creative cusp at the start of the century but soon after people were clambering for space in the scene and populist forms of whistle started to emerge which inevitably lead to a lot of soundalikes and no real innovation. Shame really cos those raves reminded me of the Jungle days.

Why this isn't a metaphor for du....

I'll get my coat

probably shouldnt start this again, but isnt this the main reason cambodian newt whistle exists: people who wish they hadnt missed out on jungle (or who didnt miss it but wouldnt mind seeing it again anyway) trying to recreate something that its not? this is all i ever hear ppl say about the newt whistle scene

jungle was undoubtedly one of (if not THE) most important musical form to come out of the UK since, er, ever. but its over, and trying to recreate it now on yr newt whistle is stupid. its forced and fake. i think its this more than anything thats bothered me about newt whistle over the last 2 yrs

dont go 2 many raves ne more, so dont know how it is all over...but from what i seen, the demographic of newt whistle is completely different to jungle: mostly middle class cambodians thinking they down with the workers and farmers

This is an amazing euphemism. Must be used more often.

I'll tell you what I've not gone off, midi files of Hall and Oates songs

http://hits.mididb.com/19580222/Hall_an ... r_That.mid?

jim wrote:I'll tell you what I've not gone off, midi files of Hall and Oates songs

http://hits.mididb.com/19580222/Hall_an ... r_That.mid?

Well who does

breakcore.

it was good before planet mu started muscling in..now you have a generation of producers who think breakcore starts and ends with whoever is on the planet mu roster...if theyre being really adventurous they might check out bong ra or whoever is playing at bang face this week.

Hence,the music coming from that scene now is a waste of everyones time.

Saxenhammer wrote:breakcore.

it was good before planet mu started muscling in..now you have a generation of producers who think breakcore starts and ends with whoever is on the planet mu roster...if theyre being really adventurous they might check out bong ra or whoever is playing at bang face this week.

Hence,the music coming from that scene now is a waste of everyones time.

haha, i was gunna say breakcore/glitch

after being so damn impressed and excited by squarepusher/aphex and the like, after finding more and more artists and tunes it all just started giving me the shits....

but a lot of the time you'll be into some stuff for a bit, go off it.. then find it again a year or so down the track and fall in love all over again...

I agree with the first post in that i listen to jazz, metal, rock whatever then find myself needing a fix of massive bass

I'v completely gone off Acid Funky Breakbeat Discostep recently
the scene has been flooded by rabid chimpanzee's trying to make music using a balloon and a butterfly knife.

Seriously tho, i have gone off many types of music
i seem to get bored easily

I used to listen to hardstyle/Techno, but now i cant stand it
same with house
i cant say i'v gone off house because some of the old tunes are IMO untouchable, but at the moment i fail to hear any house'y stuff that appeals to me

I also used to listen to metal (scary metal) but can no longer stand it

i wouldn't necessarily say that i've gone off any type of music, it depends if good music (to my ears) is still being made within a genre..

I don't really listen to D&B any more, but then i was more into the early to mid 90's sound anyway..i don't listen to a lot of hip-hop these days whereas previously it was the type of music other than reggae i was most into.

Like you corpsey, i was quite into my indie guitar bands, and i still buy bits and pieces..

I tend more to get bored of a style of music, but then rediscovering a cd after it's been gathering dust in the racks for a number of months can be really rewarding.

Bukem & Conrad sort of refreshed it a couple of years ago and still like the smoother DnB, good looking etc, but DnB sort of died for me in about 2000 / 2001.

Uk Hip Hop too much cod/stoned politics. Chatting about capitalism whilst wearing Nike .

Jungle fed up of waiting for it to get good again. 99% of it has been shit since about 1999.

spice girls and robbie williams. used to love them when i was 12

Baron_von_Carlton wrote:Uk Hip Hop too much cod/stoned politics.

agreed

Corpsey wrote: Darkcore DNB i.e. Tech Itch/Limewax etc.- It started out as pure drug music for me so it was all about the drop (or double drop)-

snaps!

plus postrock like godspeed

then i liked dubstep, and now i like stuff in every types of music

Used to be a total wee metalhead as a teenager. I still like some of it, but most just seems boring to me now. I also used to like Pendulum when I was first getting into dnb a few years back; now they (and most of the rest of modern drumnbass) also seem INSIPID

Hip-hop in general, I'm afraid. Just seems to be a lack of innovation/real talent on either side of the Atlantic.