Yes. Musically, there is nothing done that is unachievable by using samples to piece sounds together. Furthermore, I don't care about being able to watch a video. I'm a musicphile (and to a degree an audiophile), a video or a well-done live performance is nice to watch, but the lack of one isn't...

I love how much people discuss dubstep as if it's some new improvement to this trendy brostep nonsense, even though dubstep has been around and all about those deep vibes since before brostep existed yet. For the record, it was that ******* Borgore that kickstarted ruining everything with his...

Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check out all of them. I'm already a big fan of Electric Wizard and The Angelic Process, Weighing Souls With Sand is one of my all time favourite albums.   In regards to grindcore, I'm probably just getting things mixed up and missing some genre name that...

Quote: This conversation is really going off track. The original point I want to convey is that I disagree with the attitude of disliking an entire genre of music based on one's limited experience with it.   Every single criticism I have seen against hip hop has based most of its points...

Best thing in the last year? I dunno man, it sounds might similar to a lot of other **** that's been thrown out lately.   I'm not into Odd Future at all, but this guy is an exception... he's like a young MF Doom.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_loMbmKJ8    

I'm a bit of a metal noob, the bands I listen to are few but loved dearly. I'm quite a fan of the general concepts of funeral doom, 'metalgaze', grindcore and drone metal, (stuff that dabbles in the abstract but has a good bit of weight to throw around) but I haven't found a large amount of...

Most producers do clearly state who they sample. I get as disappointed as I assume you do when I hear a sample being used without having been 'flipped', as the term goes, in the slightest. That's not sampling, that is biting. This is what I was talking about earlier; people are passing opinions...

What you linked is no more dynamic than what I linked, aside from the fact that it was recorded with the instruments being played instead of sampled (not that it makes any audible difference providing the sampling has been done well).   In regards to the totally played out and eternally...

Sometimes I hear something, fall in love with it and then it turns transparent after a while and I get sick of even recalling it. Sometimes I hear something I quite like and after more listening, it grows on me more or I notice things in it that I didn't hear before. Every now and then I hear...

Quote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBnbosEgZxc   If the verse from around 1:50 isn't 'taking off', I don't know what is.

Nujabes in general. His music helped me a lot when I was going through a period of depression. Some of my favourite 'feel good' tracks by him: Luv (sic) part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XdbJsTrDvs Beat Laments The World - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuvKDNOVfJk Hikari...

To relax me into acceptance and equanimity - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy1SV2_mXOA To take me up into the skies - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HXpqYMQ5l4   I'd like to add that I would be as high as a kite throughout this 10 minutes.

Bearing in mind I'm talking purely from a 'which decade has given me the most good music' perspective as opposed to the popular dick waving of the 'which decade do I respect the innovation / influence of the most' perspective, I'd say the 90's with boundaries pushing out to the very late 80's...

Mr. Lif - Phantom - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDYBX5VLj_E The song that got me into hip hop. Destroyed every ignorant stereotype that soured my opinion of the genre before.   Edan - Beauty - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F_zJ0l9_PU Highlight track from a phenomenally well put...

I'm not generally one to place myself above others, but I can't help but look down on people with the mentality of disliking entire genre umbrellas. Things as encompassing as 'hip hop' and 'drone' are 2 things I see under fire a lot from pseudo-insightful sheeple. I refuse to believe that anyone...