Music gets smaller the bigger it gets.

It’s true, the more music you listen to, the less music you hear. Think about it, I remember when I used to have 4 bands I liked, and a new one would crop up every couple of months or so. It was lovely and relaxed and I’d listen to anything. I had no idea that I was being stereotypical and obvious, for me music was just something I listened to. And it didn’t really matter that I was listening to the ‘new’ hip hop scene or the latest britrock Band (some band called Oasis or something), I’d just put it on and do whatever else I was doing. But as I’ve grown older my music taste has change, but not just that, the way I listen to and appreciate music has changed too. There are not many twenty-somethings you listen to the same music they did when they were teenagers, sure they still have the Korn/Eminem album on their ipod (mainly cause they’ve just gone copy/paste to their whole library than any conscious reason.) but most I feel, have changed their perceptions of these bands. They listen to them because they loved them when they were a kid. If the same bands released those albums now, I’d not touch them with a barge pole.

So what do I mean by the title, well now I listen to electronic music. And I’m a big music nerd in that sense, I love reading all the music magazines and finding out about the latest genres/artists that are breaking through. But that’s just it. Despite being quite into the whole scene, I have come to realise that the whole music industry is like an iceberg, you all know the metaphor I’m looking for. You start at the top, with just a few genres and artists, say Dance, Hiphop, Pop (or whatever you’re into) then you go a little deeper. Ooh Dance is Techno, House and Trance. Okay. Then deeper. Okay Techno is minmal, hard, etc. and deeper. Oh look and offshoot. Drum & Bass. Okay. Another off-shoot, Breaks, and again! Dubstep. Before you know it you’re dividing you’re music collection along the lines of some algorithmic table. Okay that’s deep-tech-house, that’s tech-house-breaks, that’s minmal-techbreaks-house-thrashcore-opera-classical-tribal-step. The list goes on and on. And pretty soon you’re classifying yourself as A Drum & Bass fan and detesting the Trance tits and the house heads. So you don’t listen to trance, or house, or techno, or minmal-techbreaks-house-thrashcore-opera-classical-tribal-step. You see what I’m getting at? I listen to less genres of music now than I do or would have done when I was a kid. So I listen to less music, though more of it.

Maybe this all makes sense, maybe I should have stopped at the last one. I hope some of you read this go, “oh yeah, he’s kind of got a point” and do nothing about it. Cause I’m nt saying it’s a bad thing. This is just as we say in the lab, and observation based on in-the-field analysis. Or life. In-the-field analysis sounds better.