ZiM’s musical journey and genres\u2028The first music I ever owned was Jean-Michel Jarre’s double album of concerts in China (audio cassette). This first encounter with electronic music was quickly supplanted by the screaming guitars and fast rhythms of hard rock and heavy metal. These genres and their corollaries remained my exclusive taste for quite a few years, then I opened up to rock through Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Supertramp, etc.
Around 1995, I became interested in techno and trance, which was a return to electronic music. This helped open me up to other dance music such as house, then funk, disco and more recently soul. I forgot to mention reggae, which also occupies a significant place in my music library. And also world music\u2026 I was particularly interested in Indian music in the 90s, but also Brazilian, African and flamenco music.
So, we’ve had a quick look at my original music library, which I add to sparingly as I have a collection of over 10,000 tracks. When I add tracks, I obviously have to like them, but they also have to bring something new. If I have something that’s just as powerful and similar, I leave it out because I’m not a compulsive collector. I just want to remain open to new things, while being aware that music is an endless ocean.
If you calculate how long it would take you to listen to the 100 million songs available on the largest music platforms, you will find that you would need about ten long lifetimes listening to music 24 hours a day, which is impossible, so more like twenty lifetimes, and since we cannot spend our whole lives listening to music because we go to school, work, etc., So by devoting your life to music in an intense way, you will at best listen to 2% of what exists, in which case you won’t be able to listen to the tracks you particularly like again, since you have to go through the entire catalogue!
This profusion may be problematic, but in reality, it is also an opportunity, if this abundance is well managed. There are styles such as RnB and modern rap that I am less comfortable with. At most, I might listen to a few good old-school rap tracks, but I wouldn’t spend an entire evening listening to rap. What strikes me about many current productions is the uniformity within the infinite diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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