In wake of the "rap sucks" thread, I thought it would be fun for people to share music they like, of any genre.
What's good, people?
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I'll definitely look through that. I don't listen to electronica often, and I'm not super familiar, but I've enjoyed some of it.
It is a widely varied genre, and I'm not nearly as informed or encyclopedic as I'd like to be, but if I had to listen to only one type of music for the rest of my life, it would be this one. My first time at a roller rink was a transcendental moment for me. I couldn't believe they made music that sounded like that. It was suffering knowing that none of my local radio stations played anything like it. Lots of classic rock and classical, country, some Top 40's stuff, but electronica was nowhere to be found. The internet and Kazaa/Limewire changed everything.
There is so much to explore in electronica. I really dig Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, and that kind of stuff but lately have been listening to a lot of D&B. This led me to what the youtube crowd calls breakcore which uses the amen break a lot but it's not really a hard rule. From there, I found hardtekk/frenchcore, which is not new by any means, but I never came across it before. It, kind of like hardstyle, is often written off as generic trash but there is some really great stuff there. Heavy bass aside, it can get straight up emotional
The more you dig in to it the more there is.