Drum and Bass Prequel Genre Feature

Hello Hello Hello! Drum and bass is an amazing genre that has intruded literally all of artists inspiration musically, and has gone practically famous through every Genre of music in existence. And hey. I'm gonna complain a bit about music. My actual next post will be about Drum and Bass. Trust the process. Now that I'm officially an artist with a couple of solo projects on my belt, I want to keep my own soul of intention with this blog, but also want to be fully honest about my perspective on the state of music and art as a whole. So to sum it up basically. Art is Dead. It's pretty much hopeless. Hear me out. So back in the day, when I was around 13 and had no worries in the world but whether someone had a decent taste in music or played runescape or not; It was a time where I fondly and deeply remember finding new music all of the time. And being entranced by it. I was absolutely stunned and amazed at the tens of 20s of artists I would find Through YouTube everyday aswell as Pandora. YouTubers such as Mrsuicidesheep. I found a ton of music through them. Before I get off on a tangent of my conspiracy of the replacement of MrSheepy with some soulless robot who no longer cares about the soul of music, let me get to the point. The want and need to find new music as a 13-15 year old was VERY successful with YouTube and it's algorithms. Noweadays the ONLY place to find and discover new music seems to be soundcloud, and that's only for new upcoming artists such as myself. And that's if you are desperate enough to move from the cult of music artists that spotify has created for you to worship, based on their fake content-less image they molded of you. Probably on purpose too. Most of the artist which of, are absolutely trash I'm sorry to say. I rarely ever stumble upon an artist I like on there nowadays. And yes it has been forever since I've used Pandora, but I doubt that's much different now. I'll check it out tomorrow just to confirm my own observations. The system of algorithms that spotify as well as YouTube runs on today seems to only favor showing you related artists of another artist, only if they are trending: related label wise, share each other's socials and trend in roughly the same monthly average of listeners as them. Which is another tangent, as I don't believe the monthly listener is even accurate. YouTube on the otherhand only shows what you already have listened to in the past, or what's on your Playlist. Absolutely nothing new mostly. No longer are the days (And trust me there were those days), where music artists are found and discovered through genres, based on the similarity of their sound and genre/style of music creation. Which makes it look hopeless in the eyes of the beholder, because it appears as if there is only 5-10 artists that you as a listener would ever enjoy listening to in your entire life, the rest is just rubbish. When in Reality there are (and was) many multifaceted and beautiful underground artists that you now will never find. They are burried so deep under these "trending" artists and the Chinese algorithms they are enslaved to, and how are you even supposed to discover these great unknown artists? You don't. This is an most unfortunate and dystopian dillema for music. I never thought when I was a teenager growing up with the internet: that it would have devolved from the connecting and truth soul searching platform of discovery that it was, to the plastic and systemically engineered piece of trash covered with cookies, ad revenue, and personal data farming that now exists today. We can blame it on everyone, but mostly blame it on the way they at some point hooked us and decided to change the algorithms of finding new things into a more view and hashtag based system rather than the natural yet beautifully chaotic festival of discovery the internet used to be for music as well as everything else. Back when you could search up the word "you" On youtube and get endless amounts of creators content instead of the top trending topics currently owning the word "you". If your 26 you likely remember greatly and nostalgicly what I am talking about. I guess all we can do now is wallow in the times of the old, or we can become aware and deal with our new tools as artists to get recognition that is now quite a bit more difficult to do without being a morally sad POS artist that just farms off of bots and ends up charting and then making all of us force feed eachother mediocre artists pretending that they are the best music we've ever heard. (And no I'm not talking about artists that I personally share and repost on my soundcloud, I'm talking about as the general public and mainstream). All we have now as options are; begging to be on Spotify Playlists (who the hell even searches and listens to Playlist, what is this the dark Ages?), Reposting your music with repostexchange, OR you have the other option of spamming every single person or famous artists Instagram profiles and YouTube comment sections advertising your own music. Or you can turn to the old fashion route of burning your music on a shit ton of Walmart cds and giving it to random strangers on the street. But don't bother trying to sell them as everyone noweadays for good reason will probably just assume you are some homeless beggar who doesn't want to actually get a job and work for their living. And also those same artists that we used to love, devolving into bland and uninteresting aftershadows of what they used to be. And no I'm not talking about those artists that don't become stale and actually take risks and evolve their music and talent. I'm talking about those artists that "settle" for what their signature sound was and is, and refuse to budge, thus creating a burnout within their own soul that puts out the fire that fueled their art creating oceans of disposable art. I'm not talking about artist that have created so much music that they feel that they are done, that's all personal choice. What I'm trying to say is, stop releasing your crappy/unfinished music in order to become irrelevant/or releasing devolved versions of your own music. Thus flooding us with your force fed trending trash albums that we get to then here on Kiss FM The next morning while we debate on killing ourselves at work the next morning. We all would rather you just not release music anymore if you've given up. Not only does it make us sad, but it ads to an already hopeless reality that we all get to experience day to day, which is the opposite of what music is supposed to be. Just leave us with the sacred art you created and be on with the rest of your life, and let all of us who actually still care about the art continue on the legacy. I promise we won't hate you for it, and in fact the opposite we'll even greatly respect you for how much you stuck out as an artist and impacted the culture around you in your immense time as a full on artist and dedication to the authenticity of your craft. Not gonna name names of course. And if you don't want that, what made you feel the need to share your work in the first place? You wanted to listen to it in your own room alone all by yourself and never share it with the world? I highly doubt that's the case. It's okay to admit that you want to share your hard work with the world. Are you that narcissistic that you've devolved into deeming yourself so special that anyone else listening to your music is so below you that they no longer deserve the pleasure of your blessed art. Grow up and stop dick sizing and maybe own your craft. So what that you aren't making as much money. And yeah we all are depressed with how the world has worked out. I've alone been through countless existential crises's, and I'm sure everyone here reading has at least gone through one by now. The only way anything is going to get better is by acknowledging there's a problem and using your god given voice and music to express yourself.

- GuthiX

I'm back.... 8 years later! yup, i'm 23 now. Still kicking.

     

    So it's been forever since I have posted on this blog. I have googled it before many times because I have some goldmine of artists on the blog, however for some reason I didn't decide to start posting again until today, February 10th, 13 days from my 23rd birthday. I thought for Nostalgia's sake, I'm gonna start posting to this blog since this is where my music documenting started first. Since I'm also learning how to produce, I can also start linking my new created music, or whatever to this blog at some point as well as other artists music can be featured on this blog as you browse (If that feature still exists anymore? I guess I'll find out soon enough. Anyhow, just thought I'd start with this simple welcome back post. 

    I'm Alden Munson, and this is my Ripples of Nostalgia blog that I started at the age of 13! It's very trippy to see how much I've grown since then, and I'm so excited for the future of my producing and discovering new artist. I have massive amounts of artists to share with all you. I'm still going to try and keep the tradition of this blog to underground/underrated gold mines of artist so that people can discover and learn with me of the art that you truly have to dig for to find. Thank you so much for browsing my blog! I am so excited to get this blog kicked off again, and it will help motivate me to start documenting my music development as a future artist, and it's going to be great to see the growth over time, and this will forever be a little internet footprint of my development as a human. Also here I will give you my exclusive Spotify playlists so you all can see what I listen to nowadays. 

My "Rap/Hip-Hop/RNB" Playlist

My "Progressive House/Trance/Disco/Progressive Trance" Playlist

My "Upbeat Electronic" Playlist

My "Chillout/Indie" Playlist

CHRISTMAS ---Willow Beats, The-Drum, Extrawelt--- BEATS

Willow Beats is amazing..

So... These are some artists I find to be really fun to listen to close to christmas! Okay, So I found this song a while ago called Alchemy by willow beats, and I thought it was a really cool song. Little did I know this amazing artist has way cooler songs than that. So Yeah I'm just sitting here amazed by how good Willow Beats is... My absolute favorite songs by Willow beats right now are probably : Incantation,  Blue,  Sawtooth,  Space Oddity. All amazing songs that I could listen to all day.. Just so atmospheric, and clean sounding, and calming, and catchy, and EVERYTHING! I'm so glad I found this artist to be honest, amazing, Just brings back memories. Willow beats is like my favorite artist right now, although they have only released 2 albums (And 10 Songs, Pretty new band). I'm so excited to hear any new songs they release. I bet they will be amazing! So anyways.... Next artist : The-Drum, I have been listening to two songs of there's on repeat : Night Driving,  Sim Stem B. I like Sim Stem B better though, just such great songs. very chill-out songs to listen to! Just have been really into this type of music lately! I have been loving chill-out Electronic music, So great! Next Is Extrawelt. I have been listening a lot to Extrawelt's album : In Aufruhr. This album is really unique, It's kind of techno/Chill-out beats/Electronica. Amazing album! great build-ups in the songs! Favorite songs from the album : Blendwerk,  Phoebe,  Swallow the Leader,  808 slate,  Dumb Age. Yeah I love most songs from the album, but those are like only 5 out of 15 songs from the album. Like I said, The build of of his songs are extremely amazing, he must have really awesome concerts, from what i've heard, he has really awesome concerts! But yeah just wanted to share some tunes with you people :P That about wraps it up! Have an AMAZING CHRISTMAS everyone!

-What different genres of music make me feel like- Part 4 Dubstep

^^^ Cool Drawings ^^^

Okay to start off, Dubstep is probably one of the most interesting genre I have come a crossed. What got me into dubstep was Borgore. Yes I know this artist has some really inappropriate songs, but I was like 9-10(literally like no one knew about dubstep then) so that didn't really matter to me honestly. I remember listening to his songs, Guided Relaxation Dub, Passion Pit-Sleepyhead (Borgore Remix). Those were like my favorite songs ever. When I was that age (9-10 I don't remember), They were really intense songs that I put on replay over and over and.. yeah you get the point. Well they were like my favorite songs ever just because of how impressive/Brilliant I thought they were. of course when I was younger and heard that type of music, I typed in Dubstep on youtube because I had no Idea what it was, I thought it was a music artist. (I had no idea it was a genre), but as I looked up some songs I figured out it was a genre. So I played my first pandora station Dubstep. Now the first songs I really heard on it were Skrillex- Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, and bunch of others songs like, Flux Pavillion-I can't stop, freestylers-Cracks (Flux Pavillion Remix). Now keep in mind all those songs don't hold true to the actual Dubstep sound. Those are mostly just electronic, but I knew less when I was 10 haha. They were still good songs though. But as I grew older, I was desperate to find songs like Borgore-Guided Relaxation Dub, Because that song just sounded much more unique, and had a different feel to it. So as I did some research I found artist like Widdler (One of fav. Dubstep artist), Skream (My Fav.), Biome.. etc, keep in mind though, that some of these artist also have songs from the genre of -Bass-, so they aren't fully Dubstep artist. And same with Skream, He just started making Disco/Club House music (And he is actually really professional at it, I recommend you listen to some new tunes). But those were very awesome Dubstep/Bass Artist. they really have a creepy/mystical songs, Like some make you feel like they were made by people under the earth. They are just really unique/Awesome songs. I have always loved Dubstep because it is such a unique and different genre. Dubstep has such an interesting thought process to it. I used to feel like I was listening to really bad music when I was listening to Dubstep when I was younger (Even though it had no words), Or I felt really cool listening to it, Or I felt very unique and different from others. Dubstep is a really cool genre! Some cool tunes you would really like (I think) - Truth - Gaza, Skream - Vacillate(btw the name of that song really matches the tune), Seven Lions - Below Us, Kutz - The Volt(Pure Dubstep), Kryptic Minds - Six Degrees, Killawat and Ipman - Dark Place (JKenzo remix), Icicle - Caffeine, Skeptical - Something In The Sound, Enigma Dubz -Aphotic, Enigma Dubz - Against Us, Biome - Space, Bassnectar - Ugly (feat. Amp live), 50 Carrot - 3rd Bass (Wheelton Remix), The Widdler - Lost in space pt.2 (Unreleased yet but on youtube), SP:MC & LX One - Hunted,
50 Carrot - Dark Side <----Really Genius. And I have many more where that came from, but yeah there are some really good Dubstep songs (If you want to know what real Dubstep sounds like xD). Dubstep creates an unknown Aura, and a quality of mystery in the genre of music. That's my review on Dubstep!

-Nostalgic Songs-

Lamb - Between Darkness and Wonder (2003 Album)

So I thought it would be a good idea to talk about songs that I find to be nostalgic, or have a emotional feel to them. What I have noticed about songs that I find nostalgic is that they usually have piano in them, or guitar. So the picture is the album cover to a really good album by lamb that I find to be very nostalgic. My favorite song on the album in Angelica, because it absolutely fits the name of the song perfectly, and has a very dreamy piano tune to it. Right now that song is on one of my top favorite nostalgic songs. It's just so perfect in every way, the beat, the piano, the atmosphere, EVERYTHING. Another song I think has a very nostalgic feel to it is - Kodomo - Concept 16. although it is a 10 minute song, I listen to it the whole way through just because of the amazing atmosphere the song gives. Absolutely beautiful song. Honestly the next person on my list is obviously going to be Josh Turner. He has a lot of songs that I find to be nostalgic/Inspiring. Cold Shoulder, Soulmate, In my dreams, Angels fall sometimes, Pallbearer. LOTS of covers he has done are really good too, He stopped loving her by George Jones is my favorite cover done by Josh Turner. Absolutely perfect music Artist in my opinion. The next artist on my list with nostalgic songs would be Mitis. Mitis is an electronica/Chillstep artist that I find to have really atmospheric/nostalgic songs. All the songs I really like by Mitis would be : In My Eyes (-Born- Album), Influential, Please go, Parting, Written Emotions (All four are from         -Influential Past- Album). Written Emotions and Parting are my favorite songs by Mitis ever. They are the definition of Nostalgic. Absolute Sentimental songs. The next Artist on the list has to be Trifonic. Trifonic makes Electronic music. My favorite songs by him would be Transgenic, Life in here (feat. BRML), Calling, Forget (feat. BRML). I really like Transgenic because the fading voice in it is very emotional sounding in my opinion, and gives you a lot of thought. And I really love Calling because it has beautiful piano that plays a melody that reminds me of a forest in the middle of nowhere. The next artist definitely is one of my favorites on my list. Washed Out. Absolutely perfect songs, I haven't heard any song by them that does not just have an absolutely perfect atmosphere to them. They are all amazing songs. I absolutely love Washed out. But my favorite songs by them would be : New Theory, Feel it all around, Eyes be closed, Amor Fati, Before (Definitely one of best), And last but not least -A Dedication-... So yeah now you know how much I love Washed Out, I really like New Theory because it is such a perfect song, Reminds me of a relationship the didn't last, (Kind of a sad song). But It's very nostalgic. I also like Eyes be closed, because It is very calming and nostalgic. reminds me of rain, and I love rain! The next artist I want to cover is Yppah. I definitely love all of Yppahs' songs. But the ones I find to be nostalgic would be : D. song, M. Mullen, Never Mess with Sunday, Phoenix By Midnight (-Eighty One- Album), The Moon Scene 7, City Glow (-They Know What Ghost Know- Album). The next song I like is -Working on a Nuclear Free City-Je suis le Vent. I absolutely love that song because it is just so full of emotions and awesomeness! The next Artist I like is -Mt. Eden-. My favorite songs by them is : Oh that I had (I love singing this song), Sierra Leone. Those are my two favorites because they are just very amazing and Creative and definitely have a Nostalgic feel to them! One of my favorite Nostalgic songs every would be -Moby- Porcelain. Everything about this song is just amazing. I expecially love the Panio. It reminds me of playing in the rain, or driving on a rainy day. My absolute most nostalgic/Favorite song right now would be -Emperor- Dust and Echoes. The most nostalgic song I've ever heard. absolutely amazing. What I really love about Music is that ; There are so many songs that are full of emotion, and bring out the creative side of you. I absolutely love music, and I don't know what I would do without it in my life. What I've been listening to the most lately is Cold Shoulder by Josh Turner, and Lambs' Songs. Absolutely amazing artist you guys should Check them out! Definately have been listenint to Country the most lately though. haha xD Bye!

-What different genres of music make me feel like- Part 3 - Country

Josh turner, (Favorite Country artist)

First of all, sorry I guess I will schedule dubstep for another time, because I decided to do this genre instead at the moment. So... I have been feeling low lately (I don't really know why). But I thought that it would be a good time to cover country. So what i've noticed about country is that I usually listen to it whenever I'm going through emotional pain. The thing about country is that I am very picky in what I like (there is a lot of country songs that I absolutely hate). Honestly, I will not listen to a country singer if 1.) there voice isn't good 2.) there guitar chords annoy me 3.) they talk about beer, rednecks, or anything like that 4.) If they have any upbeat/story like mood (As in like talking, that annoys me a lot), So yeah I'm really picky. What I like about what I listen to is usually the mood. Either makes me feel good about myself, or makes me want sing them and be a country singer :3. Probably my favorite country artist ever would be Josh Turner, Because He is really awesome sounding first of all, and second of all you can really tell that what he is singing is usually towards that person he loves, and you can tell that he feels deeply for them. And I respect that. I don't really know a lot of country artist yet, but who I personally think is good right now is Lee Bryce, Josh Turner, or Zac Brown Band. My favorite song right now would probably be Another Try by Josh Turner (Obv.) mostly because it's a sad song (I like sad songs xD). And I think he did really good at singing that song. Just thinking about that song makes me want to cry haha, just an awesome song. I don't really know what else I want to say about country right now, because I'm feeling pretty different today and can hardly think, but there was my perspective on Country.

-What different genres of Music make me feel like- Part 2 - Bass

The next genre that I want to cover is Bass. This genre generally makes me feel really cool when listening to it. The reason it does is because it has usually very catchy, or cool beats to it. Bass is very underground mostly, but still gets recognized. The person in the picture is Skream - Skream my favorite bass artist at the moment (He does mostly Dubstep though). I think that he really brings out the creative side of Bass (I will cover Dubstep in my next post). His songs in my opinion really have emotion to them, and they are extremely nostalgic to me. Some bass artist that I are - 50 carrot (Extremely Intense Bass Songs xD), Biome, Truth, Kryptic Minds, Kaiju, JKenzo, Icicle, Enigma Dubz (really awesome). The thing about bass is that it is generally very underground/classic sounding. It is sometimes called dubstep by people who don't know alot about it. But it is not even close to dubstep, Trust me. Bass is literally just Beats, Bass, and sometimes Panio. Bass is a really interesting genre to me, so I tend to know a lot about that genre, so I listen to it a lot. I will Relate Skream to Dubstep, Bass, And Drum & Bass, So expect to hear more about him. That was my overview of Bass :)