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I just discovered a term to describe my taste in music that is at once both terrifically accurate and hopelessly vacuous, and so simple I'm an idiot for not thinking of it:
"Alternative electronic"
Hell yeah! I feel like that describes my favorite (I enjoy many types of music. Not all, but pretty eclectic). Probably because my parents were eclectic. But my personal choices, not including my teenage angst music (which I still love)... mostly frenetic electronica and chiptunes.
Not my dad's trance techno, or my mom's bluegrass or world music. Though I do still listen to them. I post a lot of folk and filk here, heh.
If I had to pick one favorite band that was wholly mine, it'd be
Ratatat (Loud Pipes is good, but overplayed compared to this).
They're one of the bands I heard on college radio while driving, and remembered enough to look them up 1-2 hours later when I got to a computer. I cared enough.
Bands my dad lost interest in, but I consider favorites:
Atom and his Package, and Apoptygma Berzerk.
Apoptygma Berzerk is an amazing case of being dark, yet often Christian themed, and with an unbreakable
hope faith.
And yet with transhuman/artificial life themes throughout.
What is life? Why is sin? What is forgiveness?
If we hold on, there are answers, is the message. Or is that Message?
It still appeals to me as pagan scum, even more than
Gregorian chanting (;
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