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grindy · 10-16-2014, 04:17 PM

All right....

Born 1987.
First influences were my father's tastes. Grew up with lots of russian music, mostly so called russian rock. Also The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple Rainbow. Some classical music, like Vivaldi.
Listened to all that throughout my childhood.
When I was thirteen I got my first stereo and started buying music. At the same time I started to watch music television. I got into Limp Bizkit, Bloodhound Gang...
I also got into Hip-Hop. Before I thought it's just some stupid talking. And one day I was listening to "The Real Slim Shady" and it got to me. Yep. Eminem.
I like hip-hop ever since, but it was seldom the focus of my attention, reappearing from time to time, and then being buried under other tastes.
Gradually I moved from rock to metal, with Marilyn Manson as my link between the two. I was a huge fan of him. When I was about sixteen I was into the whole extreme metal thing, black metal, death metal, grindcore.
I was also really into punk, mostly german punk. All those rebellion really appealed to me. My friends were mostly punks and metalers.
Then it got interesting. Through grindcore I found Naked City and was immediately mesmerized by all this screechy sax thing. At the same time, through progressive death metal i got into progressive rock and then pretty fast into avantprog and zeuhl. Also krautrock, since many progressive sites also discussed it. Can, whom I disliked at first listen, became my favourite band and still have a special place in my heart. When I was eighteen I got into electronic music. We were always at drum'n'bass and goa parties and that's what I liked. But I quickly moved on to Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Venetian Snares...
But back to the non-electronic music: From avantprog it was an easy step to free improvisation, because people like Fred Frith were doing both. And of course Naked City brought me to the world of John Zorn, and from there to all the free jazz stuff. Then it gets confusing. I was mostly listening to free improvisation, but also got into classical music and found my love for tuvan and mongolian throat-singing. During the last 2-3 years I've still been a fan of all the "weird stuff", but gradually came back to listening more conventionally melodic music as well. For the last year I've been mostly emerged in progressive rock, mostly King Crimson and Van der Graaf Generator.

Well, that was a lot. And a lot of mistakes as I see, but I'm to lazy to be my usual grammar nazi self now.

10-16-2014, 04:17 PM	#13 (permalink)
grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	All right.... Born 1987. First influences were my father's tastes. Grew up with lots of russian music, mostly so called russian rock. Also The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple Rainbow. Some classical music, like Vivaldi. Listened to all that throughout my childhood. When I was thirteen I got my first stereo and started buying music. At the same time I started to watch music television. I got into Limp Bizkit, Bloodhound Gang... I also got into Hip-Hop. Before I thought it's just some stupid talking. And one day I was listening to "The Real Slim Shady" and it got to me. Yep. Eminem. I like hip-hop ever since, but it was seldom the focus of my attention, reappearing from time to time, and then being buried under other tastes. Gradually I moved from rock to metal, with Marilyn Manson as my link between the two. I was a huge fan of him. When I was about sixteen I was into the whole extreme metal thing, black metal, death metal, grindcore. I was also really into punk, mostly german punk. All those rebellion really appealed to me. My friends were mostly punks and metalers. Then it got interesting. Through grindcore I found Naked City and was immediately mesmerized by all this screechy sax thing. At the same time, through progressive death metal i got into progressive rock and then pretty fast into avantprog and zeuhl. Also krautrock, since many progressive sites also discussed it. Can, whom I disliked at first listen, became my favourite band and still have a special place in my heart. When I was eighteen I got into electronic music. We were always at drum'n'bass and goa parties and that's what I liked. But I quickly moved on to Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Venetian Snares... But back to the non-electronic music: From avantprog it was an easy step to free improvisation, because people like Fred Frith were doing both. And of course Naked City brought me to the world of John Zorn, and from there to all the free jazz stuff. Then it gets confusing. I was mostly listening to free improvisation, but also got into classical music and found my love for tuvan and mongolian throat-singing. During the last 2-3 years I've still been a fan of all the "weird stuff", but gradually came back to listening more conventionally melodic music as well. For the last year I've been mostly emerged in progressive rock, mostly King Crimson and Van der Graaf Generator. Well, that was a lot. And a lot of mistakes as I see, but I'm to lazy to be my usual grammar nazi self now.