Interlude 2.3

“A Harmony that can make you cry, make you laugh, make you smile or can make you mad, hence it can’t be heard, unless you’re here. Sometimes it’s easier to find enlightment with a sound that eases away your woes to another world leaving you relaxed and free of the unstable world, but sometimes music isn’t always the solution, sometimes it can be an influence for you to try new things, putting you in a different mood to become motivated or sometimes, it can even be the one thing that inspires you to start being the very music that created your moods. Music is Sound with the elements of Dynamics, Pitch, Structue, Composition and Melody, a simple mastercrafted vibration directed to one’s ear can create a special effect towards one’s unique exprecence to gain the next level in life.”
~Interpreation of Harmonic Vibration~
Ah, Music, We all love music in our own way, it’s a past time as well as something we can create if we really plan to become committed to it, it’s the worl’d universal lanuage that can motivate us to do things we may normally not do or never tried. How did I get into the trend of listening to music? we all have our own stories of how we all started but here’s mine:
It started back in the day of what I call the Shit Era (a dreaded time where everything in the world went wrong, back in those days I didn’t know this route had been taken, but it was all too late to turn back even if I did know - An interesting story I’d like to share with you all another time) It was during a Science Class in the year 2003 (I believe) a Good friend of mine Sir Gregory Ward was listening to some music, I sighed and told him I don’t listen to music (My Real response would of been on the lines of I don’t listen to music but I had to put up with my big brothers crappy music), his response was for me to listen to Linkin Park - Reanimation album (obviously his words was along the line of I’m missing out on the trend of society), after 2 days of listening to the songs on the album and watching the special clips, I came to the conclusion that I like that kind of music and I should listen to more of it often, But alas even if I wanted it to it was rather hard for me because for starters I don’t have a wide radio station range for me to listen to music to, so during that period of time I ended up not listening to music for a week or so, but I DID however find a way to obtain music and listen to it, it was a nice thing they put on the internet called downloading, I of course started out with Linkin Park then got a variety of game music that I enjoyed listening to, people say it isn’t music but my respone to you NOW would be “It bloody fricking is, it’s orchestra type music aswell so it’s the real stuff, pure Art.” sure there ain’t no lyrics, but how do you think that a song gets so good in the first place, you cann’t just start with the lyrics, you have to work with it and add the instrumental as you go along, that’s how you create Popular music. So anyway, during that time my music taste range was extremely limited and I needed a new way to obtain good music, thus far the genres I listened to back then was Linkin Park and Game music, at that time I believe I was at Hong Kong during the summer, I came back with the entire Gundam Seed DVD series and guess what, I found the openings and closing themes rather catchy and I liked them, so there’s some more music to my collection, but alas I never really thoguht of looking for the artists back then, I only ever got what I heard, so I had the following:
Linkin Park
Game Music
T.M. Revolution (I read that on the opening and I always thought that was just a company)
Takani Nami
See-Saw
Mm-hm, yeh, so this was my young archive of music I did get Inuyasha Openings and Closings but most of them wasn’t to my taste, I am however a very good Song Finder so I found songs for people and go it them for free, but I never listened to many of them incase they weren’t my type of thing cos some songs had some obscene titles so I stay cleared from those back then, alas I never really was into music back in the day, i didnt even know what type of music I was listening to either.
One day day however, I watched some David Firth Animation and it opened my eyes to some things I didnt see before, like how strong people can portray such images and still make it entertaining, but the important bit was the music, the first time i heard Aphex Twin I developed a liking for it, the first song i liked was Boy Girl Song, it was weird because i didnt know of the genre Drum and Bass before i always thought it was a good song to listen to back in the day, then came Boards of Canada, i enjoyed the weird trippy sounds of Chromakey Dreamcoat, it made me happy in a weird way for how trippy it sounded.
But really though, what really made me listen to music?
What really started me listening to a wider range of music?
Well, in the year 2006, I met a Friend called Jonathon Nisbet, alas yes of course first impressions was, “Whoa, I wonder why I haven’t seen him around” but of course my eyes also drifted to his tech folder which had a pen drawing of the Prince off Prince of Persia which actually first i thoguht “Now that’s something i’d like to learn to achieve” then came to the first impressions, but alas i muat of thought that cos i admired his art work. Carrying on with the music origins (i’ll tell you more about friendship stories another time), it was about the time when Jonn and i had a conversation over Virtual Workspace (yes, we was not cool enough to use MSN, although i had it before hand i never used it in fear of it crashing my pc again) it was then where Jonn told me of the song Redemption by Gackt, i pondered and decided to check it out, after such immense listening session i blew me away, of course i didn’t understand a word but it was purely amazing, it was also about that time i got into Janne Da Arc. During those fateful days i had a decent sized music archive (in the real world, decent is about a good 100mb or less), but as i noticed i had a large ratio of Japanese music opposed to English music, so i went on a search for music that i can understand the lyrics to, then came to the time i listened to Utada Hikaru on Kingdom Hearts, the enjoyed those lyrics of which i can understand although the artist is Japanese there wasn’t any problems with it. After that, i suppose it came to the days where i took in the interest of Techno music, so searching for a good band that does techno was mu next mission, but i couldn’t find a singlegood artist, it was all the same to me, so i gave up for about 3 weeks, during those 3 weeks i had a odd fond of My Chemical Romance for some oddish reason, i however was influenced by Nobuo Uemetsu during those days which i suppose lead me to take Music for my GCSEs, but moving on, i was struck to end up not finding a decent Techno band/artist until one day, i searched on youtube, i saw a person playing a immensely good techno tune, it amazed me, but he never recorded it towards his music archive which was a shame, but then i came across a song, 2 songs even, both in the techno genre and i was stunned and amazed, i had to know what the songs were, so spending around 2 months trying to find the band/artist, it ended up being the 2 artists called, Dune and DJ Energy, having to finally know the artists i was at a relief (during those 2 months i also added to my archive, Uverworld, Kitade Nana, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Akeboshi, HIGH and MIGHTY Color and Orange Range).
Quite a big music Archive i’ve built up so far i think, but i did infact drop some due to the fact that i came to the decision that i dont like them too much, carrying on, one question still remains, how did i got about listening to more english music? well first it was thanks to the help of Jonn, for he started my long loving affair with Enter Shikari, ah such a great band, I plan to continue to enjoy their work as long as they don’t go stale, so yes there’s enter shikari to the archive, hat else did i listen to? hmm, i suppose it was that time in my life where i went clubbing.
Mm, those days i havent re-visited in a long time, it’s almost a relief that i stopped going aswell, but even though i went countless amount of times i still have a small archive of English music but they are notable, i got into; Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, Lost Prophets (actually i got into Lost Prophets before I went clubbing but nevermind), Trivium, Rammstein (yes, i know they aren’t english but they’re pretty damn good), Stone Sour, Bowling For Soup, Drowning Pool, Metallica and Soil. But some of these aren’t very major band/artists that i had a big interest in, I foolishly got into Hellogoodbye and Madina Lake, if i recall now, i dont know why the frick i listened to them in the first place. But Jonn introduced me to some of the more major bands/artists i still listen to today, they consist of; Bloc Party, HORSE The Band, Maxiimo Park, Abingdon Boys School, Bit Shifter, Maximum The Hormone, Dong and Hitoshi Sakimoto.
Mmm yeh, i have a pretty mixed genre based liking of music, rather recently i’ve been getting myself into bands/artists like; Nullsleep, Random, Dir en Grey, L’arc-en-ciel, Access, Daisuke Asakura, Red Balloon, Nightmare, Hearts Grow, Captain Straydum, YO-KING, Tommy Heavenly6, Amplified, Takahashi Hitomi, Snowkel, DOES, NIRGILIS, JUNE, Surface, Rie Fu, The Brilliant Green, Stephanie, LM.C, Splay and BOWL.
Ah the beauty of music, shame i cant do well on it, oh well i’ll always have my interpretations, of course since my music tastes grows with time, this blog will be corrected of 9th of March, 2008.
I’ll see you all the next time, Ciaossu.