The Bigger Picture

[kai_1]

I've been playing Techno and Breaks side by side for the last 4-5 years, depending on the party/club/bar etc... been getting into a slower warped minimal/electro style which has started to over take the breaks a bit as my backroom/bar style this year but I think it's definitly narrow minded to only listen to one genre of music, or only to even play one style.
If you're playing nose bleed hard sets then there really is only one small niche of clubbers who are going to be into that... I've played at squat parties out of London when the really hard loopy stuff just hasn't gone down to well at all, and its taken something much funkier to fill the floor up... I've also recently bought the Chilli Peppers and Liily allens abums which are both shit hot! :eyes:

[eyeswithoutaface]

there is that much quality music out there, in all fields, electronic, acoustic, ska, punk, rock, blues, jazz, ethnic, world music etc etc that anyone who listens to one style and one style only really is depraving themselves

[Jay Pace]

Is that why I'm feeling depraved?

Mwaaah ha ha haaaa!

(sorry, I'll get my coat)

[conflict]

i'm starting to play scouse house, i MC to my own sets aswell

[eyeswithoutaface]

jay ur depravation is something else entirely ;)

[tots]

I play old skool house and the purist of pure techno as these have been my biggest and main influences since i heard my first rave tape in the early 90's,go with whats in your heart and you wont go far wrong........

[Antinoise]

I've really been into breaks over the last year or 2. It's influencing my current production quite a bit.

[The Overfiend]

I've really had a thing for rock, metal and guitar solos lately.

[holotropik]

another thought...fwiw,

i dont dj
never have (other than drunken spins at after parties etc).

so from the point of view of just writing the music
i find that it cycles and changes enough so that as
i follow the trail of bread-crumbs the music takes me
to many different places in due course.

when i first met techno it was hard as nails
this was good as i was playin guitar and loved
hard metal sounds.

then breaks influenced me to listen to my old
hip-hop (80s) tapes and videos
which i incorporated into a jackin sorta techno.

now i am listening to old jazz (1930-40) and funk
and exploring finer technicalities of the sound
trying to experiment with mixing newer elements.

i am wading through 40 x old 4 track 7" tapes
filled with Jazz from 1930-40s. A lot of it is drummers
like Louis Bellson & Gene Krupa...
...go figure??

[dubs]

I think when some people find a new style of music they can tend to go head first and mad into it for a while. I've certainly done that a few times. I think if people are really passionate about music as opposed to an image that may be attached to that sound or scene then you'll find aspects of all music interesting and enjoyable.

Having a diverse interest in music informs your broad understanding and develops deeper understanding of it.

for the record: when i'm at a karaoke box

it's always The Clash

[iffi]

I only play at our partys-mainly Techno with a few breaks thrown in to dislodge the 4/4. And i have been known to play some ****ed up dub (when i had 2 record bags)
But away from partys i listen to most styles of music from the last 80 years or so. From Alice in Chains to Frank Zappa by way of Spike Jones n Muslimgauze. It'd be easier for me to list the stuff i don't listen to.
Listening to just one type of music would be so boring...

[dirty_bass]

I simply don`t have the time to make all the music I want to.
I`m currently working on some minimal, some rock-ish stuff, techno techno, dubstep, post industrial suicide shit, ambient, house, and some soul/jazz techno fusion things.
I listen to vast amounts of music, and my place is always littered with random CD`s of vairous albums I am listening to.

Music is my drug, and I am a too far down the line addict.

[mattboyslim]

all forms of electro, even been dabbling with that new thom yorke album and some radiohead stuff
techno, mostly detroit, minimal or jackin chicago but again i touch on most areas
tech house, electro house (occasionally), deep, chicago
the odd bit of breakbeat
some dub
i work with some grime producers, and i've been dabbling with making grime and dubstep. mixed a bit of it at a community project today, and had some kids rapping over it, doing battles and that. really got into it, so i might start buying a bit more of it
old skool electro and early hip-hop
stuff by kraftwerk, giorgio moroder, up to newer synthpop stuff, and electro trash
i love it all really