I hate missing threads like this! We forget sometimes amongst all the psychocerebralneuropharmacological breakthroughs and transhumanist chin-stroking, that music is evolving just as fast as the singularity is gettin' all stirred up... so, prepare for a musical paradigm shift, ppl. The true science of the soul is bumpin' and getting waaaay closer to your head and heart than ever before. I'm still waiting for there to be a MIDI port in the back of my cranium, so the beats can be downloaded out of my head, and not my fingers.
My music, as listed in some detail on my user profile thingy, is greatly electronic. I won't get into individual artists besides some seminal greats - Richie Hawtin, Juan Atkins, Kool Herc, Larry Levan, Mark Farina, Robert Hood, Derrick May, Roger Sanchez, Frankie Knuckles...the list of important DJs/producers goes on and on.
Back in high school, I was really big into funky breakbeats and drum n' bass. I was getting in the headspace of
breakbeat science. Then when I discovered post-punk - man, it all something else. While I was learning about chemistry in teh lab (and was bad at it), I was listening to funk, dub, electronics, all being pieced together by some now less angry punk rockers - wow. The entire Manchester scene just blew up in my face. It poked holes in what I considered art, and let me see in the tiny peep hole....oh...there is it! From then on it meant branching out into everything I could, trying to absorb and understand as much music as possible, most of it being electronic. House, Straight up jungle, breaks, goa, the list literally goes on and on. Still, techno - and I mean good techno (not some terrible song some shirtless guy is dancing to somewhere on some bad drugs) is a powerful sound that to me has been transhumanism since the first beat dropped. It's a digital pulse. It's man and machine, making beautiful music together. The technology draws on the creativity in your supercharged grey matter and quantizes it. It evolves. It improves. It makes it perfect! [thumb] "This French fried funk can show you more autumn than a fall
Chrysanthemum can", I said to myself today. That song is "If I ever feel better" by Phoenix, btw. And I didn't actually say it, though.
I have over 20 days worth of music on my itunes list, I officially have a downloading problem
If anyone wants to have or share, let me know.
