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Well… Guess I peaked. listenbrainz.org/user/RustyNova/stats/?range=all_…
TBF there was a switch in the dubstep sphere and a lot of brostep artist (which I love) moved to riddim (which I hate). As well as my biggest source of song (Monstercat) switching styles
It’s been a long time since I’ve actually just…listened to music, or followed anything music related, despite my love for it; and soon I will listen to the new Boards of Canada album, because it’s literally the only thing I’ve been looking forward to. Hoping I feel things again
Basically the opposite for me.
IDK abt this im constantly discovering new music that I adore. Its possible theres something thats not considered here but I think this is more of a marketing gimick chart
My favorite band’s first album released when I was 10, their genre got big about 5 years prior. So yeah, this is pretty accurate.
i can confirm that. fuck that pop music. i want early electronic back
I love songs from 2008 and I love songs from 2026, Idk where this came from
I see you. I’m so high on my own farts this doesn’t get to me.
The best of my parent’s generation cusp boomers is better than the best of my generation which is better than the best of anytime put out in the last 20 years
Mozart was actually peak piano tho
I have a question about electronic music only.
Since it really exploded in the 80’s/90’s plenty genres have evolved.
But for me I can’t think of anything after dubstep in 2003 that is worth being called ‘new’.
Recycling and sub-genres at best.
Like everything has been done before. Does anyone feel this way or am I missing something?
Dubstep is just as much a recycled genre/subgenre as anything else?
If you’re after something new to your ears it really shouldn’t fit neatly into any genre, right?
Listen to OPN’s R Plus Seven. Electronic in its production, yes. But it’s got a ton of orchestral structure/texture to it…on top of chopped vocal samples.
Or how about some Floating Points? Again, electronic for sure. But there’s definitely a fluency in the conversation between electronic dance and jazz that wasn’t there a few decades ago.
All leap from genre to genre effortlessly enough while also having a ton of electronics sensibilities. Maybe it’s recycling genres, but I think in some instances mastery in disparate areas leads to a greater sum than the parts.
Dubstep is just as much a recycled genre/subgenre as anything else?
If you’re after something new to your ears it really shouldn’t fit neatly into any genre, right?
I have to disagree.
There is obviously a use of dub basslines but how it was used and everything else about it gave me that buzz I only get from a new genre.
That moment when you’re witnessing the next step in the evolution of electronic music.
Same as I had when hearing jungle for the first time, even if that also had faster recycled loops.
It was undeniably new and a genre in itself.
TBC it’s not the being ‘new’ that is important, but the fact that I have a lot of stuff to listen to from artists exploring the new genre.
I really like floating points BTW, the rest I haven’t heard of.
who was doing lush layered multi instrument compositions like this over electronic music pre-2000 not named Bjork?
I think there’s a few.
You name some individual artists here, of course there are plenty with their own unique sound, for me Autechre is the best example.
So yes there’s plenty of stuff to listen to, old stuff, cumbia, folk or whatever, but as I said, it’s been a long time since I’ve heard anything that can be justifiably labeled as a new genre in electronic music leading to a wave of artists exploring that specific discovered road.
I read that deliberately alternating listening to one new song between two to four already known songs is supposed to be a good exercise for the brain. (Don’t remember where I read that, maybe I should exercise my brain more.)
ALL Americans are exactly this?
My guess is that the big capitalists in this domain have trained their non-ML models for what the music that makes money is. This is especially easy with radio “top charts.” By figuring out what is most popular, they figured out mediocrity and also had the power to create more and more of it, in a positive feedback loop. The AI slop factories are accelerating this.
And theres me, who prefers music from before I was born
I don’t listen to music much, but I feel like this graph would be nearly inverted for me. Didn’t care much for the music I was forced to hear on the school bus, but inherited my mom’s enjoyment of both oldies and classical, and enjoy some modern music (which is just much more diverse than when I grew up, so there’s something for everyone)
Because human brains are finally fully developed by your late 30’s.
It is just so much work to dig through all that mumble rap, melodic humming - and not even melodic mumbling without rhyme or time signature…
It is even harder if you have a professional musician as an SO.
“Where is the music theory?!?”
Tho Demonhunters slaps (Golden isn’t even the best song in the movie).
totally tracks. that would be the 80s for me and i still listen to it more than from any other decade.
Have you gotten into The Darkness?
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Nostalgia needs to go back to its old status as a form of mental illness.