While I have many interests from computers to canoing, to philosophy and reading, one thing that I love across the board is music. I’ve been keeping track of my musical tastes for a while using Last.fm, and I’m very fascinated by how my tastes have matured and shifted, and how music I couldn’t stand before I now embrace. In high school, I was very into pretty mainstream hard rock and metal, bands like Godsmack, Killswitch Engage and Lamb of God. While I still enjoy them from time to time, I have found myself growing tired of the genre as while each song is a very multidimensional sonic journey, the variations between individual songs and albums are slight and rather lacking. I was then shown Porcupine Tree by my friend Jon Rossi. I immediately feel in love with the difference between each song, and between the different albums, I could listen to album after album without growing weary of it. Using Last.fm to branch out from Porcupine Tree, I found Blackfield, Sigur Ros, rediscovered Alan Parsons Project, Marillion and Pink Floyd. Still, I was looking for something more off the wall and varying, looking into The Prize Fighter Inferno and moving my way into electronic music. Today however, I think I have hit the nail on the head, finding a whole genre of off-beat, strange yet oddly musical delights: avant-progressive rock, with bands like Kayo Dot and The Mars Volta. From there, Max pointed me at Sound Tribe Sector 9 and I found Tstewart, an electronic post-jazz musician. So I have many new artists to listen to (thanks Amazon MP3 download) and more places to search.
It should be said that even as my tastes have evolved, I still really enjoy hardcore trance ala Clubland X-Treme and other hardcore eurotrance.
Peace and chow,
Ranok
