Those Who Can’t Dance Blame It On the Music…
My taste in music is quiet queer. I have to admit I hate love songs and I always let people know that. It’s kind of silly to be listening to this type of music when it plays with your emotion, I basically stuff this song down the drain. The last song I heard that did play with my emotions was Lea Salonga, one of my wife’s favorite artist. I mean it’s not that I’m dissin’ them or something but it I just hate it when the heart gets dictated.
Apparently my other tastes range from pop music to the best of OPM bands. Alternative rock was always a choice, referring to my previous entries, Oasis always captured my heart but I did always find myself going back to E-Head, Parokya, True Faith and Rivermaya (of old). I just can’t seem to find the soul of the new OPM artists these days. Of course, I did make a jump to house and dance music. Bonnie Bailey screwed me bad, that’s for sure, she was like a hypnotic love song on 75BPMs. Loved the song, hated the emotion. Then came Benny Benassi and the thing is that I’ve found my home in this music genre. If you check my Friendster.com account - House, Hardstyle and Dance is my music preference. It contains no emotions just an infectious beat. - and by gosh, the rush it gives me.
On the next evolutionary chain, I moved forward and now I am hooked into Hardstyle. I am basically back in my comfort zone since I have been a lover of Techno and Trance music. Although one of my artists that have influenced my music was 2 Unlimited, the genre they were in was not Techno, I would refer to it as Pseudo-techno since it never was techno, it was dance music pretending to be techno, regardless, they have been a major contributor to my taste. Hardstyle music is quite weird for the majority, it actually is a form of club music with an underground roots, you wouldn’t like it unless you really are into sounds with high beat rates, so hip hoppers, casual dancers, beware.
Wikipedia defines it as - Hardstyle, sometimes referred to as hard bass, is a sub-genre of trance music that is closely related to nu style gabber and hard trance - In plain English, it’s type of music with hard bass beats and repeats itself over and over again. Lol! It’s pure high speed hard bass with electronic/synthetically manufactured music. It’s pretty difficult to explain but you can check out the samples from Youtube.com
Hardstyle Disco - Yoji Biomehanika
Scantraxx Rootz - Headhunterz
The Darkside - Alpha Twins
I am not a really good dancer but this style of music actually defines the type of movements I make. It’s doesn’t soothe or heal but big bass that passes through my body, it’s as if extra adrenaline is being injected up my spine. I just love it and as I embrace the Melbourne Shuffle one of my two left feet has become a right… unfortunately, it’s a right arm! Hahaha!