EPTIf Day[9]'s and KawaiiRice's Music were mixed together in aqueous solution, the result would be water and a salt.
Like most media junkies and fellow computer users, my music collection has been expanding ceaselessly in wild directions. Since we live in the age of the ubiquitous mp3 player, the question "What kind of music do you listen to?" has become exceedinlgy commonplace. This question may take on a few slightly modified forms or deratives, such as "Who's your favorite artist?" etc.. But like most people with a music collection that has more than one folder, this question is as hard to answer as it is easy to ask.
Admist the variety of peoples that populate teamliquid.net, there inevitably exists an even larger variety of music tastes. I am writing to comment on my understanding of two genres that are arguably complete opposites. To clarify, these are not strictly two distinct genres--I would rather say two distinct areas of taste. To throw all political and musical correctness out the window for the moment and to put a face on these two genres, I would label these two genres as pertaining to Day[9] and KawaiiRice. First, we have the world of electronic music. I'm not talking about your club type untz untz untz untz song, but maybe some downtempo, ambient, electro, chiptunes, etc. (electronic music is ridicuously hard to classify). Then, we have the world of J-pop, which is arguably just as amporphous in its classification. I can attest that there are many distinct similarities between these two types of music--it is arguable that J-pop is heavily derivative of the synthesizer sound that originated with analog synths back in the day or that once you get to trancier remix stuff (again not untz untz untz untz) the line is blurred completely. By trying to establish these two categories of music to be as broad as possible, there is inherently going to be significant overlap despite obvious understanding that there is an extreme difference between the genres. Anyone who has watched both a Day[9] daily and KawaiiRice's stream for an instant understands the difference immediately.
It is interesting how some can like one of the two genres and detest the other completely (Who hasn't heard somone cussing out the music on Kawaii's stream), and just as many enjoy both. I would say that my own listening experiences are distinct--I don't mix these two types of music in my playlists and I certainly have times when I prefer one type to another. To be as general as possible, I would say that one of the main reasons that I enjoy electronic music is the range of sound that can put out-- from SID chiptunes to whomp whomp whomp dubstep and one of the main reasons that I enjoy J-pop is the lyrical nature of the songs.
This blog is intended to be a place to share recommendations for electronic music and j-pop (in other words a glofied plea for you to share music tastes). I enjoy discovering new genres of electronica almost daily and I'm working on a j-pop playlist that can be found here:
http://grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Kawaiirice O o/54480033
so I'd appreciate all the help that I can get.
Hopefully, I'll gain more insight by getting recommendations from people who share an interest of two or more genres of music rather than just one.
I don't have an electronic music playlist done yet, but here's one of my favorite songs:
I usually like the music that's more melodic/has a really nice tune, as opposed to hardstyle or really heavy beats (though dance I definitely like, and beats are still awesome), or just crazy pure electronic stuff... You seem to like more of the hardcore stuff, but I these aren't bad I hope!
