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In Reply to: The Problem Isn't Not Expanding Horizons..... posted by Todd Krieger on May 9, 2007 at 14:28:55:
>The problem is not being aware of the existence of potential horizons..... For every one I am aware of, there may be hundreds that I'm not.<I understand your point completely. For me, subscriptions to The Wire and Signal To Noise magazines are essentials... of biblical proportions. I like "weird" music, no denying. The interesting thing is that while some of it should certainly be feared as "noise", a lot of it is mild and calm, sometimes chillingly so. Quite by accident, I found a disc by Dead Voices On Air called "How Hollow Heart". They have a piece of there that scares the sh@t out of me. Spooky. Anytime music makes one react emotionally like that, It Is Good.
>By the way, the state of the music industry is based on what most people are aware of. There are too many walls out there.<
Yes, isn't it sad? It's almost like Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage" and good music is illegal. :). I have a suggestion that's free. Go to Amazon.com and find your 5 favorite discs, preferably ones that aren't too mainstream (no using the first Boston or Lynyrd Skynyrd). Open up the album description. Usually to the right and/or left are lists created by listeners. In some manner, each of those lists equates to your album. The trick is finding the lists that take the music you love and steer you in another direction. As an example, a list under a Sonic Youth disc (which I mentioned in a post just above) might be about Thurston Moore's musical influences. It would then list several discs by those influences. Check 'em out and give one or two of them a try. Usually that sends you in a whole 'nuther direction.
Sampling music is hit or miss as well as time consuming. But I'll never forget when, being a HUGE John Zorn fan, that I bought a CD by a Japanese rock band named Melt Banana. I bought it because it was on Zorn's label. Shortly after hearing it, I bought a few more of theirs on a different label. Not long after that I discovered more Japanese bands such as The Boredoms, Assfort, Friction (KILLER) and Boris.
By the way, if one likes modern classical, thrash, noise, jazz, lounge, improv, string quartets, surf music, punk, or film music, there is a John Zorn disc waiting for them. He's gotta be the most eclectic composer ever. He has an apartment on The Bowery in NYC and he took all the kitchen appliances out so he could store more CD's and books. My kinda guy! :)
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