What's you favorite era and genre in non-hiphop related music

[Chrono]

Since I have been listening to so many records lately I have found an affinity in early jazz, muted jazz, and very early 1920's -30's swing and that era's "club" tunes.

These bonds will effect my productions in the future with-out-a-doubt.

What are some of your favorite era's in music & genres. And also, from head to toe have you listened to all the records that you own? I know I have not but as I have begun spending my time with my headphones on and my turntable spinning a whole new world has been opened up to me.

--curious

 

[dj360_iNfInItE1]

70s Funk and Soul & 80s House. Heavy Metal from the 80s through the 90s was pretty cool too.

 

[slik da relic]

70s and 80s... when u sang about ANYTHING... Crocodile Rock, Lil Red Corvette, Bad Leroy Brown, Thriller... not this bs 2day... guns, money, and lust.

da relic

 

[Relic]

70s Funk and Soul & 80s House. Heavy Metal from the 80s through the 90s was pretty cool too.

Metal was the Shit during that time, it really was, lotsa underground shit too, but in general them cats were cool at one point, and right in step with the hiphop crowd eventually, those were beautiful times! All the best weed!

 

[Chrono]

from my older brother i grew up in 80's metal. that intensity is always with me.

 

[Relic]

Honestly though my earliest years were formed by the Beatles, my dad was a junkie , and had "quadrophonic" sound, he would sit me in the middle of the living room and be like "Ok Jeff, watch this, the sound is gonna go from over there(left rear) aaall the way around the room to there(right rear).
I was buggin, or throw the headphones on and the same thing, or Hendrix has a record if you play it at 72 rpm, its a space battle, he turned me on to that.
Plus he worked in radio so we had alot of cool ass 60's and 70's records in my early days.
My parents also listened to ALOT of Motown.We were from MI so that was ingrained...
Thats my first shit... Then when I was 12.....
I was twistin the dial in '83 and BAM , ran right across Egyption Lover's "Eygpt, Egypt".
Everything started right there.I had never heard anything like it, immediately I wanted to make THAT, and everything like that.
But sorry thats where the hiphop kicked in..
I have been to symphonies and jazz clubs and known all types of musicians so its been cool...

 

[djloccdown]

Soul, Funk, Jazz and foreign music.

 

[Sonorous]

i like that early to mid 70's soul like curtis mayfeild and that stadium rock from the 80's like queen, van halen and bon jovi.

 

[GRAFIK]

60's northern soul, and any old japanese records. I try to listen to all my records when I buy them but i know I have tons of records that I still havent listen to.

 

[AMG]

70-80s soul, funk, and r&b.

 

[7thangel]

rocksteady aka lovers rock - grew up hearin' and playin' pops reggae lps and 45's, rocksteady hit me the most. man like dennis brown, gregory isaacs, etc

60-70 soul i.e. the delphonics and the impressions (curtis mayfield, ya dun know)

certain non hip hop 80's music: original house and new wave.

70's funk from around the world

 

[KurtisRich]

R&B and Electro music

 

[Iron Keys]

interesting thread still. i cant really pic out any specific genres or dates, but i was listening to old school hiphop since i was old enuff to no there was such things as genre's wich was REALLY young. but i like kinda chinese/japanese stuff, i like sum of that shit ud here out of country and western films. and some odd random stuff, my mum still plays that shit on some dodgy record player. loads of random shit too many too name, i'll try figure out a key era and names then holla.. not that its of any importance tho :-/ lol.
took me back to some songs i really wanna sample actually. i generally listened to antyhing as long as i was feeling it, always has always will be that way! peace!

 

[Fury]

PSYCHEDELIC ERA will always be my favorite in music

 

[Pug]

Oh this one's easy. I love any Jamaican music from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and some of the newer stuff these days... I don't have a massive collection like some people do... but collecting old JA stuff can get expensive, even with represses and re-issues, because no matter how complete your collection you think it is, there's always more. ALWAYS! Other than that I have small but enjoyable collection of jazz records I like to listen to once in a blue moon too.

 

[dacalion]

late 70's early 80's RnB, Cameo, Parliament, Sunn, Dazz Band, EW&F, Heatwave, Commodores, Zapp ...


MOF

 

[Relic]

haha gah I Hate some of that LATE 80's R&B, it was that synth snare sound, more so in say jimmy jam and thems music realy tho, ugh. The snare on bobby browns my perogative that they used over and over on that album makes me nauseus..

 

[Ash Holmz]

PSYCHEDELIC ERA will always be my favorite in music

co-sign .. that shit is ill

 

[konceptG]

1990's Detroit Techno and early '90's House. There's a few 80's pop songs I'll listen to, and a lot of 60's and 70's jazz.

 

[Ozmosis]

Ol' school 60's motown, my pops used to get drunk in the basement listening to his old records every friday night. I learned to appriciate that music, when you really had to know how to sing to get a record deal.