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Originally Posted by louder
this.
i also think that the old me would be ashamed of the poppy, sell out music which i listen to nowadays, haha.
back in the day i've listened to some insane, really underground stuff that i could never imagine myself getting into anymore. my joy from music is still the same, it's just that i came to appreciate more soulful, smooth stuff instead of crazy, weird noises..
and no i can't seem to go back and forth about this.
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I think there's a point where you realise that 'crazy' and 'insane' music is pretty much building on steady traditions, and 'underground' means pretty much nothing in 2011. The music I make could be considered 'underground' but that's less to do with the aesthetic and more to do with the fact it's very difficult to find a decent paying audience. I could go on about this quite a lot, but just as a for instance - in the narrow field SY operate in, there aren't that many 'alt tuners', but plenty of people who use similar/ same chordal/ formal structures as them; outside of that tradition, there's thousands of traditions with various, non-standardised ideas of tuning. Within quite easy reach of SY there's guitar tuning systems from, say, Zydeco, Appalachian, Blues and... yeah.
Well, I won't bore people. But the point is is that I think with age it becomes harder to say 'this is ground-breaking' because it gets easier to join the dots between various traditions.