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Half the reason I’ve picked up music as a hobby

Deftones. Been my favorite band when I first discovered them and that hasn’t changed the past decade or so

I wasn’t really in to music until a friend introduced me to Dragonforce. Little did I know that would be my gateway band to all sorts of metal genres. Depending on the mood I now mostly listen to atmo black, folk, prog, melo death, and of course power still holds a special place.

Arcade Fire saved me from religion and now speaks to me on a religious level. M83 speaks to me on a celestial level. Both have deepened my love for music.

MOD/S3M and demoscene tunes from the early 90s. Moved to electronic music as the genre matured. Never looked back for over 30 years. Still have an archive of all of the tracker tunes from back then.

I was listening to Jonathan Coulton on the drive to an unfulfilling job that I probably would have just kept doing forever because change is hard and scary. I was sitting there that day with “A Talk with George” stuck in my head on a loop.

Don’t live another day unless you make it count
There’s someone else that you’re supposed to be
'Cause something deep inside of you that still wants out
And shame on you if you don’t set it free

That was the day I walked out the door, sent in my resignation, and started a career that made a lot better use of my skills.

Punk.

I’d been pondering a change in career anyway, but I was at work one hot summer’s day, sweating my arse off, listening to my tunes on the stereo in the workshop. Pennywise - Same Old Story came on and something clicked in me. Cycled past a tiny local radio station on the way home, went in to ask how to volunteer my help, and a couple of months later I was starting on a radio production degree.

That track still fires me up to this day.

Shaka Ponk The fact that’s it’s been 12 years where and I have 1200 hours of listening them in those years, they are my taste

But they have also accelerated the importance of ecology and taking care of our planet on their social medias back when I was on Instagram l

Hearing ambient for the first time (specifically Eno’s Music for Airports) was an epiphany. It fits the inside of my head.

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Aphex Twin

This might sound stupid as hell, but vaporwave music. It captures the essence of a feeling I’ve had since the mid 2000’s, but could never articulate in words. Then I read this thing about its anticapitalist roots, and I felt even more seen.

Rare Americans. Baggage and moving on are the two songs that had a large influence when going through a divorce.

Terrorvision were the first rock band I heard and was like, ‘this is it’. In was sat on the floor in the living room listening to the radio on big ass 80’s headphones and Alice What’s the Matter came on. I was hooked and from then on I’ve been a rock and guitar fan. You just can’t beat a good overdriven rock guitar sound it’s magical.

Punk > indie > hip hop > jazz, roots, Americana, > all

I play music and I love almost all music styles as long as there is a weighty performance and evokes the human spirit.

There is just something about creation itself that I find beautiful, and there is no one genre or artist that changed my perspective.

If there was it’d be this band Subtle. That informed a lot of my ideas on what good art even means.

My favorite guitar player is Richard Thompson.

I have a bunch of fav drummers, buy anyone who’s got soul is worth a listen.

I think that’s the point. There is no best, there is only you.

I think poetry changed my musical identity more than music itself.