The What Music Are You Listening To Thread
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tigerroast
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Best I've ever heard Soulja Boy sound. Even if he only exists in this song as a sample.
tigerroast
YOUNG VORHEES
(foreword: I held off on making this its own thread because I feel as if this is more relevant here. Plus, any responses, whether or not they help, can be aggregated as additional music into this thread.)
I'd like to see if anyone on this forum could direct me to more music with a somewhat-specific kind of atmosphere and sound. Alt hip-hop/trap/lo-fi/neo-psychedelic/drum-n-bass/metal (of the non-screaming variety) are preferred, but genre doesn't really matter.
There's a kind of music that I can't compartmentalize into a category or organize into a genre, mainly because the sound is genre-agnostic in that it can be executed many different kinds of ways. It's a very dark and very evil sound with bass-y production and many distorted elements (usually samples and/or instruments). The various songs aren't usually fast-paced/high-energy (although it can be, like in some dark metal-type music), being something you can jam/trip to. The music can almost be described as coming from hell, the artists being demons (not explicitly, but poetically if looked at with a heaven-hell spectrum in mind).
Some examples to give an idea of the music.
SGP isn't the best example; most of his music is trash (in my opinion) and he's a whiny punk, but this song (repetitive guitar-sounding sample and chorus aside) is a great example. Sinful, dark, evil, twisted.
Not as dark or sinful, but Samiyam's production ticks all other boxes.
I'll give a list of other artists as to not spam videos.
Kid Cudi (Man on the Moon 2 and Satellite Flight albums exemplify this)
Flying Lotus (pretty much everything, but the You're Dead! album is the best example imo)
MNDSGN, somewhat.
Coheed and Cambria (their darker stuff, like some songs off of the The Afterman albums and Year of the Black Rainbow)
Highly Suspect, probably?
Some of Tyler, the Creator's more violent works from Wolf
Not a long list of artists whatsoever, but I'm still looking. If I had to scrap the list, then I would say Flying Lotus, Kid Cudi, and that one SpaceGhostPurrp song all hit the nail on the head. I refrained from mentioning people like Tech N9ne, Twiztid, and Jarren Benton because, while they can tap into that "demonic" part of the spectrum in terms of how violent and sinfully entertaining they are, they kind of get away from the distorted darkness+bass I'm looking for.
There's a wide variety of tastes here (as shown in this thread alone), so I trust in the power of this forum!
I'd like to see if anyone on this forum could direct me to more music with a somewhat-specific kind of atmosphere and sound. Alt hip-hop/trap/lo-fi/neo-psychedelic/drum-n-bass/metal (of the non-screaming variety) are preferred, but genre doesn't really matter.
There's a kind of music that I can't compartmentalize into a category or organize into a genre, mainly because the sound is genre-agnostic in that it can be executed many different kinds of ways. It's a very dark and very evil sound with bass-y production and many distorted elements (usually samples and/or instruments). The various songs aren't usually fast-paced/high-energy (although it can be, like in some dark metal-type music), being something you can jam/trip to. The music can almost be described as coming from hell, the artists being demons (not explicitly, but poetically if looked at with a heaven-hell spectrum in mind).
Some examples to give an idea of the music.
SGP isn't the best example; most of his music is trash (in my opinion) and he's a whiny punk, but this song (repetitive guitar-sounding sample and chorus aside) is a great example. Sinful, dark, evil, twisted.
Not as dark or sinful, but Samiyam's production ticks all other boxes.
I'll give a list of other artists as to not spam videos.
Kid Cudi (Man on the Moon 2 and Satellite Flight albums exemplify this)
Flying Lotus (pretty much everything, but the You're Dead! album is the best example imo)
MNDSGN, somewhat.
Coheed and Cambria (their darker stuff, like some songs off of the The Afterman albums and Year of the Black Rainbow)
Highly Suspect, probably?
Some of Tyler, the Creator's more violent works from Wolf
Not a long list of artists whatsoever, but I'm still looking. If I had to scrap the list, then I would say Flying Lotus, Kid Cudi, and that one SpaceGhostPurrp song all hit the nail on the head. I refrained from mentioning people like Tech N9ne, Twiztid, and Jarren Benton because, while they can tap into that "demonic" part of the spectrum in terms of how violent and sinfully entertaining they are, they kind of get away from the distorted darkness+bass I'm looking for.
There's a wide variety of tastes here (as shown in this thread alone), so I trust in the power of this forum!
@tigerroast
I'd say, picking randomely:
It may be used in some track which describe evil but the sound itself isn't evil nor demonic nor sinful, it's your own interpretation influenced by some tracks and movie soundtracks I guess.
I'd say, picking randomely:
It may be used in some track which describe evil but the sound itself isn't evil nor demonic nor sinful, it's your own interpretation influenced by some tracks and movie soundtracks I guess.
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tigerroast
YOUNG VORHEES
@Kiga Literally all of the music you posted is dope, but unfortunately isn't exactly what I'm looking for. Closer, though.
Darker-sounding production, which all of these songs have, is one characteristic I'm looking for. I suppose the sinful/evil nature would be up to interpretation (although I would prefer such subject matter be more overt rather than being symbolic).
That Father dude sounds like Lil B meets Pyramid Vritra.
Darker-sounding production, which all of these songs have, is one characteristic I'm looking for. I suppose the sinful/evil nature would be up to interpretation (although I would prefer such subject matter be more overt rather than being symbolic).
That Father dude sounds like Lil B meets Pyramid Vritra.
I knew you would like it! I love that dark sound.
Damn Darktwain_ is on another level.
I mean, unless you're looking specifically for evil themed ones, in that case I didn't understand you. I get what you mean by evil etc but some music have that dark sound without being evil at all because the content of the song is for good or neutral.
I like Father's crew, Awful Record, they have some good artists. Didn't know Pyramid Vritra, good one.
Damn Darktwain_ is on another level.
Going off on a short rant:
Here in Germany, we have a state-authorized collecting company on fees to musical rights called GEMA which pretty much makes most music on YouTube impossible to watch here as they demand much higher fees than the ads even make. They've been often critisized by users, companies and even artists as they want every piece of art by a major artist to be registered and its rights managed by them. But as artists most times don't upload music to YouTube to get the ad revenue, but to promote their songs, there's a major issue with YouTube not paying the fees because they would bleed money while the artists can't just say they are okay with lower fees as their music rights are managed by GEMA and... well, most mainstream music on YouTube is just outhright blocked for everyone with a german IP. There were a few lawsuits, but none came to an agreement that YouTube and the artists are OK with, so the consumers are just screwed in that regard. Many of the YouTube links in this thread don't work for us Germans, our only way of getting around that are proxies, but that of course is far from ideal.
Long story short: Sorry, can't help you tigerroast, I can't even watch the videos you linked. And even if I could, I have no idea about rap music
So instead I'll just post some music I like, eventhough I'm quite sure most people here won't enjoy it. First off is the French musician Igorrr. I have no idea what this style of music is called and don't care, it's just amazing:
Second, Austrian Black Metal band Harakiri For The Sky. Most music I listen to on a daily basis is some variant of metal or punk, and while this band for sure isn't even close to being one of the best black metal bands (whatever you define that as), I often get back to them. Especially since Ghost Bath signed of a record deal with Nuclear Blast, those guys destroyed so many bands it hurts my soul.
Toshiaki Sakoda hasn't done anything decent in the last 20 years or so (or if he has, it's not on YouTube), but his soundtrack of the PC-Engine game Devil's Crush is just pure genious in my opinion. Especially in the CD release:
Here in Germany, we have a state-authorized collecting company on fees to musical rights called GEMA which pretty much makes most music on YouTube impossible to watch here as they demand much higher fees than the ads even make. They've been often critisized by users, companies and even artists as they want every piece of art by a major artist to be registered and its rights managed by them. But as artists most times don't upload music to YouTube to get the ad revenue, but to promote their songs, there's a major issue with YouTube not paying the fees because they would bleed money while the artists can't just say they are okay with lower fees as their music rights are managed by GEMA and... well, most mainstream music on YouTube is just outhright blocked for everyone with a german IP. There were a few lawsuits, but none came to an agreement that YouTube and the artists are OK with, so the consumers are just screwed in that regard. Many of the YouTube links in this thread don't work for us Germans, our only way of getting around that are proxies, but that of course is far from ideal.
Long story short: Sorry, can't help you tigerroast, I can't even watch the videos you linked. And even if I could, I have no idea about rap music
So instead I'll just post some music I like, eventhough I'm quite sure most people here won't enjoy it. First off is the French musician Igorrr. I have no idea what this style of music is called and don't care, it's just amazing:
Second, Austrian Black Metal band Harakiri For The Sky. Most music I listen to on a daily basis is some variant of metal or punk, and while this band for sure isn't even close to being one of the best black metal bands (whatever you define that as), I often get back to them. Especially since Ghost Bath signed of a record deal with Nuclear Blast, those guys destroyed so many bands it hurts my soul.
Toshiaki Sakoda hasn't done anything decent in the last 20 years or so (or if he has, it's not on YouTube), but his soundtrack of the PC-Engine game Devil's Crush is just pure genious in my opinion. Especially in the CD release:
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space opera dubstep?
tigerroast
YOUNG VORHEES
@Kiga I think you just put me on that DarkTwaine music. Gonna have to follow that SC page.
@Agricola GEMA is complete garbage. That would 100% not fly over here. You could probably circumvent them with a VPN or something. Maybe.
Even though I said hip-hop(/rap) is one of the genres preferred, the music doesn't have to be EXACTLY that. It doesn't have to be exactly anything. Just post whatever you want. Matter of fact, that Harakiri For the Sky song would be flames without the screaming. I suppose that's why I couldn't get into many metal subgenres/variants; I just can't stand the screaming throughout entire songs. If it's done a few times for effect, then it's okay. Over the whole song though? Nah, I can't.
Screaming aside, I ended up liking all of the music you shared.
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@Agricola GEMA is complete garbage. That would 100% not fly over here. You could probably circumvent them with a VPN or something. Maybe.
Even though I said hip-hop(/rap) is one of the genres preferred, the music doesn't have to be EXACTLY that. It doesn't have to be exactly anything. Just post whatever you want. Matter of fact, that Harakiri For the Sky song would be flames without the screaming. I suppose that's why I couldn't get into many metal subgenres/variants; I just can't stand the screaming throughout entire songs. If it's done a few times for effect, then it's okay. Over the whole song though? Nah, I can't.
Screaming aside, I ended up liking all of the music you shared.
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Garrett
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A bit of great classic (under appreciated) FUNK! for your delectation
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tigerroast
YOUNG VORHEES
Just found this. Gonna cop a bunch of tapes (should they still be available) come payday. My goodness...
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Caine
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And here is another great one:
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