>"your music taste gets locked in by about 30">me: no I'm too smart for that>also me: I am completely trapped in a Youtube algorithm cycle of Pendulum and Sleep Token (who I did only discover this year and kind of love-hate but YT is pushing them so hard jesus)Please give me something new lads.I was on kind of a "safe" electronic-ambient path before. Jon Hopkins, Moderat, Nils Frahm, Bibio, Max Clark, Ulrich Schnauss, the kind of thing Pitchfork gives 6.2/10 and moves on from and doesn't seem to see the majesty in compared to Autechre shitting out eight more hours of bleeps and bloops.Really got into Porter Robinson's Nurture, Bon Iver's 22 a Million. I lost my HDD from like 2005-2015 so there's probably cool acts that I've simply forgotten with the algorithm not helping and keeping me in a loop.I am kind of synesthetic and I think I find kind of gentle but sometimes "monumental" electronic music the most pleasing. A lot of rock music is just tinny to me and unpleasing.I want to keep expanding and learning.
>>127850662I turned 30 in 1987. Still listen to stuff from the '90s but very few from after 2019.
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Growing up I was a huge Pink Floyd nerd, probably too muchAnd only certain mostly UK rock acts, like Lostprophets (unfortunately), Feeder, Muse, Editors. I don't know why but something just put me off other popular acts at the time that I can't put into words.A lot of like "Ministry of Sound" type electronic too. Faithless, Roger Sanchez, Chicane.It feels like my entire taste gets mid reviews. I don't know, maybe I like decent mixing and a catchy riff, or a feeling of tranquility, too much and "tinny" rock or uncomfortable jazz just isn't it for me.So maybe something like chill blues rock with influence from progressive rock suites might be nice to get into.
>>127850710I think another thing we all do is we are more likely to give new albums (or old albums we haven't listened to yet) by an artist we already like, more of a chance.For example Purity Ring, Shrines was a real time capsule of 2012 and sounded pretty unique. I loved it and still do.Their second album Another Eternity was a lot straighter pop. If someone else had released it, would I have let it worm its way around by brain for so long? No I wouldn't, maybe just saved a single or two from it.So that's like an extra ten songs clogging my brain that I should be giving to someone new
>>127850662At some point you have to admit you had your time in the sun and that it's over. Around 25-35, your natural curiosity just quickly wither and die. The learning period of your life, the period where your brain is a sponge that absorbs everything is over. From here on out, learning anything new will require focused discipline as dopamine reward from learning something new and exciting will be severly lacking. This is partly due to us humans havent really evolved to live much past 35 (500 000 years of every human having 6 kids before the age of 30 will do that) so human life is heavily frontloaded and very lacking in the remaining 60%.The other reason is that by 30, you're lived long enough and heard enough that you have plenty information compartmentalized and everything you experience gets compared with something else you have all ready experienced. Take Charli XCX for example, zoomers and alphas were creaming themselves in excitement over her Brat album, all I could hear was recycled Flo Rida and Kesha songs from 15 years ago when everyone jumped on the EDM bandwagon.In other words, lights out, shits gonna get really fucking boring from here on out. If you havent started, do drugs.Alternatively, embrace your inner boomer. Music was better before, everything was, even you.
>>127850662>muh algorithm loop>Jesus take the wheel!Okay my son, hear me out.Delete your Spotify account because Spotify is evil. Once you've done that, you install YTMD, you make up a quick library, then you pick a song you enjoy at the moment and click "Play Radio". Now you've solved your algorithm loop problem.That's all I can do from behind a screen, my son.
>>127850662This song rocked my world when I heard it at my gym:https://youtu.be/SylF32J2g8k
>>127850830my gym also plays shit music and i find it very useful because it gets me through my sets on sheer rage
>>127850784>Charli XCX for example, zoomers and alphas were creaming themselves in excitement over her Brat albumI've written about this before, and whilst there probably was some popularity there, I actually think the main engine for "Brat Summer" was actually millenial roastie journalists clinging onto the thinnest threads of youthful relevanceIt was popular but not actually the phenomenon these types were talking up, we're talking tens of millions of streams whilst BTS or current fad "K-pop Demon Hunters" have figures approaching a billion.
>>127850830reminds me a lot of Dominos by The Big Pink at firsthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnNlQ-KNv4It's a listenable track but it's not exactly grabbing me friend.>>127850797Thank you jesus. For some reason since my HDD crash, Youtube has been my music player for like 3 years now and I've never reassembled my own mp3 collectionAnother thing I'm guilty of, maybe less now, is listening to covers and alternative mixes. Sure a cover can be good but it's really a bit like someone taking a painting and making a copy, the actual animus for the painting is lost.
Here's some recent tracks that have entered my algorithm loopI'm starting to realise that often I don't love a whole track, I love particular moments or sounds and that makes me listen to the whole track. Kind of like an autistic person playing the same 5 seconds of Paw Patrol on max volume on their iPad in the airport.Oklou - Harvest Sky ft. underscoreshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haEH7C1lpNIJust a really solid banger with a lead riff straight out of a baroque compositionunderscores (see what I mean about giving artists you've already heard of more of a chance) - Musichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNYqwpx7Cyshyperpop meets brostep stutters and I feel like it resolves nicelyKelly Lee Owens - Dreamstatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcyrCz-n5OkEthereal vocal techno, particularly the first half feels like floating under the waterPurity Ring - Many Liveshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcVFFpaVfckI actually feel justified for liking this one, an evolution in their sound with DnB amen breaks
>>127850993Probably shouldn't have mentioned Dreamstate, it's such a Daniel Avery rehash really
