Hello
 

Hi, there.

I haven't got much to say about myself except that I've been looking for a cool forum for a while, now, and that this might just be it.

If I had to describe my taste in one word, I'd call it experimental -- my preferences are generally pretty niche, and even then, limited within that field. I'm heavily inclined toward what I'd describe as textured bleak music.

Favorite genres include classical, with the occasional baroque piece thrown in (always Bach); industrial, along with its post-industrial offshoots like harsh noise, japanoise, power electronics, neofolk (hard to navigate with all the repulsive, fascist rot), and dark ambient; black metal, especially stuff of the ambient variety; and drone/drone doom. I'm also fond of some dreampop and synthpop material.

I look forward to meeting y'all and discovering lots of new music.

Cheers.

Welcome. Your taste in music fits in well here because we're all miserable. Hope you have fun.

welcome to the b̶e̶s̶t̶ worst forum on the internet

Every time I feel embarrassed to be here I remember the various other forums I've visited.

Basically, every other forum I've been to was either cancer or boring.

Thanks. So, what's your favorite subforum, 'round here?

Only helps it feel more like home.

What other forums have you frequented, if you don't mind my asking?

I've had mostly decent experiences, though most forums I've frequented got boring after a bit. Posted on reddit for a while, but I found out quickly that reddit-type discussion ain't really my thing.

I've read tonnes of forums. Had a Reddit account 3-4 times.
Also been posting a little bit on Angry Metal Guy, but that site is so lame. Unicorn memes are so funny!
Especially if it's the only joke every dork on the site is posting for 5 years straight. Barf. And the combo of plebbiness (is that a word?) and snobbishness makes me angry.

Basically, most forums don't really have a culture that I wanna take part in.
Reddit always manages to make me run away screaming after 2 days for whatever reasons, no matter the sub-forum I'm posting in.

I think MusicBanter is just the right mix of relaxed & nerdy without more drama b.s. than you can move around it if you wish to. Most of the time :laughing:

I usually stick around Name That Tune.

I love the threads that are like "what's the song around 45:23 in this PGA livestream where Tiger Woods pulls out a nine iron? It sounds like a remix???" Either that or some dude asking about a folk song that he doesn't even know exists himself.

Basically if there's one thing you can take away from MB it's that we only name that tune about 25% of the time or less.

It's the only important sub forum.

I named one tune in a noob thread like that ever. 25% is way too high an estimate! By far most of them never get an answer. I just ignore them most of the time.

I think that a constant of forum culture is that forums seem to always eventually devolve into becoming clique dominated. I'd say that the more specific effects that usually has change depending on what those cliques revolve around and who they're made up of. And because many aspects of forum culture are usually ****ty, cliquiness ends up becoming conducive to the plebitude (pun intended) of spaces where crap can fester.

25%? That's way higher than what I would've guessed.

The "or less" is definitely emphasized.

Fair enough. I mean, I wouldn't think it'd ever make it to 25%. Still sounds like fun, though -- I'll check it out.

Stick around tho. You'll go from noobie to slightly tolerable in no time.

Welcome to MB! The best threads are usually in The Lounge, which holds such gems as "How do you wipe your ass?"

Any favorite bands?

Every time a newbie makes his first thread with some really in depth music theory question, formulated in English worthy of a king, I nearly choke on my coffee laughing.

Wrong forum.

Yeah. If you came here wanting stimulating music discussion, you came to the wrong place. Though tbf, at least all our tastes suck collectively.

What some new posters expect

https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/cont...0/serkin21.jpg

what they get

https://assets.horseheadhuffer.com/h...3895-29101.jpg

Speak for yourself. I have a godly taste.

I don't have bad taste. I have no taste at all.

What they expect when they mention what music they like:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20151206070121

What they get:
http://images2.memedroid.com/images/...8991534d3.jpeg

I strive for abrasiveness, both in music and social interaction.

Thanks. Did the responses to the ass wiping question end up divided between "standing up" and "sitting down", by any chance?

Also, to answer your question: I can't immediately compile a list of absolute favorites, but I've been enjoying Black Boned Angel a lot, recently. Specifically the first track in their "The Witch Must Be Killed" album. Would try to link, but apparently I have to get to 15 posts, firsts.

Yeah, I don't know jack **** about music theory or whatever else. Are there many musicians, here?

Many musicians here

Good musicians? No, seriously.

At least one of who actually knows how to play an instrument (Plankton).

Nah, more between bidets and scooping it out with Oriphel's feet.

A few. Our friendly neighborhood Mondo Bungle just released a fantastic album on his Bandcamp that you can check out here: https://troublesalad.bandcamp.com/al...-candle-fiasco

That piece of **** Kiiii that you were talking too also makes music, and he released an album recently as well: https://catswithhats.bandcamp.com/album/twins

My best friend and closest companion Frownland makes a ton of different stuff, found here: https://deafbox.bandcamp.com/

Most of us are just layabouts though.

Look for yourself, it goes deeper into the as*hole than that: How do you wipe your ass?

I'm a musician, but not to the point of having any actual songs that you could listen to. Just an assortment of riffs with varying degrees of quality. Usually poor.

Oh nice genre smorgasbord, welcome. Do you like the dancier side of post-industrial that's been going on recently?

2nd kinda looks like Chula tbh.

Thanks. No examples of recent, dancy post-industrial immediately come to mind -- could you link me something, please?

Damn right, bitch.

Not a huge fan. There are some tidbits I enjoyed, but the whole of it sounds too :dj: for me.

What sort of stuff do you like, though?

Right on. Kinda figured that you were talking more along the lines of more "traditional" (that word doesn't feel right but you get what I mean) post-industrial than the stuff that's closer aligned to UK bass. You May still enjoy the ambient end of it a la Chino Amobe.

I really try to get something out of all forms of music but I bend towards experimental music. Big fan of modern classical, hip-hop (mostly abstract stuff but trap bangers rule too), free improvisation, death/black/avant-garde metal, drone, avant-pop, experimental rock, post punk, American Primitivism, indigenous folk music, deconstructed club, flamenco nuevo, drone, and more. Mount Rushmore for me would probably be Captain Beefheart, Coltrane, John Cage, and This Heat (band= 1 face btw). These are all the records that I liked from 2018.

Really cool. I'll check some of this out, thank you.

You mentioning flamenco reminded me of Paco de Lucía, which in turn reminded me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9RS4biqyAc

What do you think of this sort of thing?

What's your opinion on trip-hop?

I've liked everything I've come across thusfar. Mostly Portishead -- my exposure's been limited.

Any recommendations?

Trip hop specifically? I'd say Massive Attack, Red Snapper, Ulver (specifically Perdition City), UNKLE, Lovage and Halou all come to mind. Also DJ Shadow if you want to learn about the genre's origins.

I'm definitely more of a nu jazz guy overall, a lot of which is jazzy downtempo so I'd also recommend checking out Troublemakers, Skalpel and Xploding Plastix (prob one of my favorite groups ever) if you're interested in something like that.

Thanks, I'll check these out. I've heard of Massive Attack -- have them in my Spotify queue.

Also a fan of Ulver's older black metal stuff.

Mezzanine's the tits. It's right under Portishead's self titled album when it comes to the objectively best trip-hop releases imo. If we're talking strictly favorites, Red Snapper's We Aim to Satisfy is a real piece of work.

As for early Ulver, I'm not really a black metal dude but I definitely appreciate that stage of their career. They're really talented and have proven to pull of a gamut of different genres well.