Electronic Dance Music: Killers in the Jungle

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kloa: Feb 14, 2007

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

Infected Mushroom was traditional psytrance and then they became...uhh, less psytrance? Or poppy psytrance? I don't even know what you'd call what they became. I also don't know what their newer stuff sounds like, because I haven't listened to them since Legend of the Black Shawarma and that was apparently a few albums ago. I'd assume it sounds like the poppier psytrance stuff they made on that album because that seemed to be the direction they were heading in. Their evolution seemed to be similar to Pendulum's, who started out as just a drum n bass act but then evolved into kind of an electro rock act. (Then Pendulum turned into Knife Party )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4YvkZeLrjs

I haven't listened to this song in like 10 years :corsair:

but man it brings back memories of days when I was heavy into psytrance/trance/10 minutes songs.

Also I'm glad this thread exists. I like ODESZA's older stuff much more than their latest albums unfortunately - I really want to like it. I still enjoy one of their older remixes to this day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaRsJvZgg2s

I'm not sure what I began to type below, but I'm going to ramble on beyond this point, so feel free to ignore me from here on out.

I tend to listen to music in cycles. I'll listen to nothing but a single genre for a while, then I'll hear a good "other genre" song, such as dubstep/trap/grunge/rock/x-synth/x-wave ("witch" is actually a p cool genre I recently discovered), and switch to that for some time, before eventually sliding back into whatever I was enjoying previously. Sometimes I switch for a couple days, othertimes I'll stick to listening to a different genre for months, and sometimes I never slide back into a genre. Case in point: I remember listening to trance music stations on https://www.di.fm for the longest time in high school. Funnily enough, one day they were playing some really weird-sounding music on the radio, but I ended up enjoying it for whatever reason. I wasn't sure what it was, so I checked their streaming schedule and it was grunge/grime/dubstep, which got me into those genres really hard - I haven't gone back to any type of trance since, including Infected Mushroom. I really enjoyed the immediate hard-hitting notes, random drops, and varying transitions. These genres ruined trance for me at that point. I no longer could stand waiting 3-4 minutes for a buildup, comedown, then another buildup over the course of 6-10 minute songs.

I've also always enjoyed heavy bass in any genre (rock, r&b, rap, metal, grunge, dubstep, etc.), so when Trap started to get huge a while back (like 2011/2012?) I dove into that for a solid year or two, before I moved on to something else. I can always dip my toes back in for a good dubstep/grime/trap song, but for the past couple years I've somehow ended up in alt/garage rock/punk/lo-fi stuff and not really enjoying trap/dubstep as much. Maybe it's just changing times since trap and dubstep seems to be mainstream everywhere now. Movie trailers? Sick wubz. TV Commercials? Nasty drops.

Anyways, that's my condensed story of why I like this thread :cool:

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