The Music Thread (Page 6 of 22)

I like music that is intense, passionate, and/or has a good beat.  For that reason I find music that is appealing to me in all genres.  I especially cannot resist the blues; that music touches me on a primal level.  High notes whether they come from a voice or an instrument gives me chills.

Genesis!! I love them. And that song Tonight, tonight, tonight (off of . .  what, Invisible Touch?). I REALLY want to remake that song in the style of Exegesis. Same song structure and lyrics with a metal/heavy feel to it. I think it would come off pretty well. Anyone familiar with that song?

" . . . comin' down comin' down like a monkey . . . "  XD

Well, that's a good question - with me, I am very picky with music but the reason I like the breakcore that I DO like I think would have something to do with it's nature of unpredictability of the beat structure. And melody. Or the combination of the two. I really like music that allows me to imagine or invokes a sense of innocence or bewilderment.

The best way I can describe my enjoyment of good breakcore is that it is like listening to an impossible dancer. It's psychedelic and synesthetic--the drum programming evokes the raw concept of dancing. The varied drum patterns are like different moves, motions, and positions. I say "impossible" because the beats are so fast and frenzied it would be impossible to actually dance to them in such a way as to match every element of their expressiveness. Venetian Snares is the main guy who produces music like this. Enduser is getting really good at it.  µ-Ziq (who actually calls his stuff "braindance") is one of its progenitors, although most of what he does it typically called IDM.

The noisier breakcore is great for pushing all the thoughts right out of your brain and just spazzing out. I like the crunchy distortion, abrasiveness, and loudness of it. It's also good for passive listening while doing other stuff, like researching on the internet. It speeds you up and puts you in the zone. This is the less intelligent breakcore, like the DJ Scud and DJ 6666.

The more intricate melodic breakcore is meant to be listened to with a producer's ear, paying attention to the patterns or lack thereof. One of the features of the electronic music out of which breakcore arose is a repetitive beat. That beat can cause a kind of "listener's fatigue". It can also pull you out of the music when you know exactly what the beat is going to do. With good breakcore, unpredictability of the beat is important. Beats are chopped up, reversed, stuttered, pitched up and down, etc., so that there is a constant element of creativity and expression in this historically overlooked area of electronic music production.

Thanks for all the elaboration, I now better understand what it is about some of these genres that people find appealing. Anyone else, feel free to contribute your reasons.

Hehe, yeah when I listened to the breakcore samples you linked to my first impression was "technical death electronica" because it had similar intricacy and intensity as some of the technical death metal bands I know minus the guitars. It came off as abrasive, chaotic, and hard to follow...but these are the very things that some can appreciate as distortion, variety, and unpredictability. Alright, it's clearer now.

Google, interesting feedback on why you like jazz. I browsed through a book on jazz listening today at the store. I know intellectually why people like it, but jazz to me remains like metal to you. Live performance and improvisation doesn't appeal to me, but it's clear that it takes impressive amounts of talent to create jazz.

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someone i know from another forum put this up in a thread entitled 'Livin on the Mic' - an old joint:

http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3USF … 3H57OPT4D8

so the song is called 'Livin on the Mic' - by Randall Stevens and Civil-I-Son ... here's what RS - the guy who made the post said about the song,

"well actually its only like half a year old. one of my first recordings. I found this on my pc after trying to make some space on my hard disk emptying out old files.

this is me and my man Civil-I-Son, he laid down the beat and then we laced our vocals, I go under the alias Randall Stevens on this. I put a lot of thought and energy into this verse. notice my delivery and flow migh not be too smooth cause of my lack of experience in breathe control. feel free to give thoughts, suggestions, advice and critisizum! peace"

i actually listened to this song a few times to get the full meaning of the words that were being said - i like both of their raps - they touched a chord with me ...

Thanks for the recommendation, Czyx, I'll check out VAST