The task of explaining ones musical taste usually leads to pretty underwhelming results.
When people don’t agree but feel strongly about their opinions, the debate tends to spiral into technicalities and arbitrary statements ultimately leading to a diverging set of references or composition being turned into a primarily academic endeavour. Groups of people agree only because their brain have been somehow shaped to have similar neural paths crossing their subconscious. I am convinced that music is an emotional thing. Our brain picks up different things to be the star of a track, leaving the rest to be flavour enhancers. We never know, maybe, dear Reader, you will hear what I hear and enjoy it.ĭespite the basic mechanisms driving attraction to music being the same, we don’t listen to the same stuff, we don’t like the same stuff. I have a few personal favorites drawn from many genres, which I put together in a playlist. Un exemple vaut mieux qu’un long discours. Joja, 28th of October 2018, I have no fucking idea where Cue the saxophone – “Oohhh fuck yes” – and I’m getting this warm feeling of joy rising in my stomach as I sense the funk spirit possessing me, lifting me up to dance in my room with dangerously intense head bobbing. Less than 10 seconds into the song after those crispy drums set in I’m thinking “ Daaamn this is good” and immediately start rocking in my chair. I initially wanted to talk about how good is unexpected harmony after reading Joja’s comment on Outro by Vulfpeck in his introductory post and finding that I felt exactly the same: It’s more like “wow, that was good” after the fact, happy that the band didn’t fuck up somehow. But crescendo tracks often build up in a pretty predictive way and despite the clear satisfaction of having the craziness unleash gradually and according to plan, you don’t often have this feeling of “hey, that’s awesome!”. I like some good crescendo – I have a weak spot for it even. Some solos elevate a recording to the pantheon of releases, but it’s not it. It’s not really about having a radical change of rhythm or chords, you have plenty of this and while it’s not as simple as playing two tracks without pause, it’s still a cheaper way to create surprise.
#Cant hear songs in jqbx full#
They are not clamouring the full program from the start. There are a few rare tracks which I really love because of how they take me by surprise. But when you listen to a new piece and the due drop comes, or this unexpected but natural chord is struck, what a kick! As you get used to some musical patterns, the element of surprise goes away and you have to hunt down for new neighbouring highs. It requires to balance expectations and surprise, but what you get in return is dopamine and stimuli going straight to your pleasure center (the nucleus accumbens). It’s a well established scientific fact that music (discovery) acts similarly to drugs or sex. Perhaps surprisingly, the brain of other people which initially don’t know a flying fertiliser about my tastes in music tend to do better than algorithms which have years of listening habits to learn from. The human brain is actually a pretty powerful sound wave analyser. In my experience, the most efficient way to discover music which I end up loving, is through a chosen few’s preferences. I still visit genre rooms, but not nearly as much as before.īut why being hooked to JQBX in the first place? Well, Spotify recommendations often end up going in circles and researching stuff takes a lot of time which I don’t have readily available. Turns out this guys was our own Shroom, and that this initial epic jam that got me hooked to JQBX in the first place was most probably constituted of this excellent crowd, the Lanky Bastards. I was listening to an excellent minimalistic piece by James Holden and Camilo Tirado (which creation process is interesting on its own too ) when this guy arrives in the room and, surprisingly, stick around for the whole piece. So I created this room, Interesting Sounds Assembled By Humans (isabh), to listen to my stuff and maybe catch some roamer in my nets. I was sharing my time between electro and indie rooms but I still missed a large spectrum of genres I like: the weird and outlandish. From then on I was hooked, but I didn’t encounter them again and I made other friends, and developed some habits as I started to map the community. When I first tried it, my mind was blown as I spent one evening discovering so many excellent tracks with a bunch of crazies. The originīut first a small word on how I got here. For my first post, I thought of presenting myself by talking about my approach to music discovery and the underlying sensitivity which characterise my tastes – it means I will probably digress into formulating half-assed theories about listening to music.
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