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How can I broaden my musical tastes?

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  • July 20, 2012 at 7:37 am #1008236
    Prototype1
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    Stick to the music you love but be open to new forms of music. That is the way to improve.

    Look what Eminem has done for rap with his experimentation with new genres.

    July 20, 2012 at 4:41 pm #1008257
    Strictly T
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    My advice is listen to as much music as possible and use it to positively influence the music you are really passionate about!

    For listening to new music YouTube is your friend – I can get lost for hours clicking on the related videos 🙂

    July 20, 2012 at 5:19 pm #1008261
    Tony Youll
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    I try to find a good blend of lost of genre’s

    I’ve been really interested in finding good hybrid motown-dubstep music, or reggae-dubstep tracks. Even if you use samples of tracks over other track, it sounds amazing.

    I dropped a acapella of N*ggers in Paris on Wednesday or a Dubstep track, and it sounded amazing. Just about experimenting bro.

    July 20, 2012 at 5:35 pm #1008269
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    I broadened my horizon A LOT by:
    – Internet Radio (Tunemark Radio)
    – Spotify
    – iTunes radio stations

    July 20, 2012 at 7:41 pm #1008291
    Jahit Halil
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    Ä° ve come across this question a number of times now not only on this forum but others too, Ä° always think that you should start with the roots of the genre of music you currently listen to the most. Rap and hip hop is so heavily influenced by Funk,60,s 70,s soul, disco etc. Delve into the roots of the music you are passionate about and from there you will begin to broaden your musical tastes. Of course internet radio and all the other contemporary listening options are all well and good but where do you start. You should never change your musical taste just because some random club owner wants you to play music you know nothing about. Ä°f you love hip Hop then begin with classic funk, soul and disco and scan any notes on samples used by the artists you love. Look up the musical influences of some of the artists you listen to, you may be amazed at what you find out. And yes use all of the online listening options mentioned above such as spotify and other online stations.

    July 20, 2012 at 8:00 pm #1008292
    Hee Won Jung
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    Nick Powers, post: 24295, member: 2466 wrote: I really only listen to rap and dancish hip hop type tracks but from what I’ve read on here most clubs want DJs who play house and other edm genres. Am I wrong about this or should I change my tastes in music?

    Learn the roots of your music. Its hard to broaden what you like if you dont know where the music you like originally came from.

    Here is a great article i read a while back.

    http://www.globaldarkness.com/articles/roots_of_hiphop.htm

    I started off my musical journey playing multiple brass instruments from Trombone and Trumpet and evolved into the Guitar and Drums. I have a huge love for old blues, soul, funk, fusion, and jazz, but i rarely even at all ever listen to it now. I too still am a huge lover of REAL hip hop…Blackilicous, Jurassic 5, ATCQ, Del, the list goes on and on. And even though i am strickly a EDM DJ…the roots of what i love shine in the songs i pick for what i play.

    As a DJ I spin everything from Tech House, House, Electro/Complextro, Progressive, and even dip into the Bass Music, like Glitch, Ghetto Funk, Drumstep/Dubstep.

    Sorry i went on a bit of a tangent here. Some Genres that you may really like to mix in with your hiphop would be Ghetto Funk and Glitch…both of these genres of EDM have a heavy influence from Hip Hop and i think you would be able to do a lot with them.

    July 21, 2012 at 3:29 am #24218
    TheReturn
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    you learn about new music by exposure to it.

    I recommend doing these things

    Read Blogs/Music Websites FACT/Pictchfork/RBMA/XLR8/and build up a blog roll using an RSS feed reader so you can keep coming back to the ones you like

    Listen to Mixes – start with DJs who you know dabble across genres – for hip hop, i’d try cut chemist, DJ format, DJ Craze,
    Bobbito, Kon and Amir, Kenny Dope, DJ Spinna, Jazzy Jeff, Malib, Shadow, Z-TRIP and listen to what they listen to.

    Listen to Radio – Don’t know what radio is like in your city – but find a community radio station that plays many genres

    Visit Real Records Shops – If you record store has an instore listen station make sure you pick up a few random records and listen to them for the ‘hell of it’

    Visit and explore online stores – do the same as a above online where you buy music. DJ charts can also help.

    July 22, 2012 at 12:24 am #1008354
    D-Jam
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    Niiiiick Powers…he tha man…

    Sorry, it just rings out nicely. I agree here:

    Prototype1, post: 24296, member: 1441 wrote: Stick to the music you love but be open to new forms of music. That is the way to improve.

    Look what Eminem has done for rap with his experimentation with new genres.

    If you want to play all over and in the mainstream clubs, then you have to study pop music. Perhaps get into mashups and such to give a different slide to it all.

    If you really don’t care about the mainstream, then dive deeper into hip-hop. Go underground.

    July 30, 2012 at 6:45 pm #1008908
    Phil Morse
    Keymaster

    Hee Won Jung is right, it’s smart time spent investigating the roots of your music. Took me years of stubbornness to accept that when I was starting out.

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