Besides Hip Hop, What Genre Do You Collect And Follow The Most?

[shocase241]

Reggae/Dancehall

[Mark_Spit]

Most forms of house; tech, electro, tribal, whatever sounds good.

[c-hawk]

Soul/Funk
Disco
Rock
Dancehall
House
Merengue
Salsa
Bachata
Metal
Jazz
Pop
New-Age
Calypso
Samba

[rchecka]

^Come on man. Read the thread. I was pretty specific asking to narrow it to one on the first post. I love all those genres too, so do a lot of other cats, so pick one that you rep the most.
Do I have to do a "Trapped on a desert island and can only bring one genre with you" scenerio to get some of you to pick just one?

Soul.

Dudes just can't resist rattling off like 6 genres huh?

Right on man, Soul for me too.

[DJ Que Yi]

^Come on man. Read the thread. I was pretty specific asking to narrow it to one on the first post. I love all those genres too, so do a lot of other cats, so pick one that you rep the most.
Do I have to do a "Trapped on a desert island and can only bring one genre with you" scenerio to get some of you to pick just one?



Right on man, Soul for me too.

I dig the original question but maybe if the question was based on what other than rap genre do you get booked for then maybe the genre list would be narrower. Hell I'm sure I'm not alone in specializing in 5 or more other genres.. I love music that damn much. But in reality I get booked more for R&B (over 40) than hip hop. So there it is! One alternate speciality genre!
Peace,
Que Yi

[rchecka]

^I agree that it's hard to narrow it down to just one. But it can be done.

Besides, If it was easy it wouldn't be worth asking or answering.

[Mahatma Coat]

Can we get some more information here though hombres?

I don't especially collect any particular genre, but I'd love to hear why people do. And it would be great to know which records they bought and why they thought they were necessary for their collection.

There must be a wealth of potential knowledge here, like which dub/hip hop/ambient early 80s German synth records are essential to have because of their influence on the scene as a whole etc

This could be a great read and a really cool resource for future collectors/musical & history knowledge generally.

[rchecka]

^I don't think a ton of people intentionally collect only one genre vs another. Maybe if they were making a funk mix they might focus on buying funk records for a period of time, but otherwise that kind of focused collecting could wear out that genre real quick. But personal taste is bound to make a DJ or collector gravitate towards one vs all other genres whether people are conscious of this or not. Everyone tries to be (or they say they are) open minded to all genres but it's only natural to collect similar sounds if you like that sound. Whether we know it or not we specialize in (know more about) one genre versus the others even if only by a lil bit. There are R&B experts, Jazz experts, and so on here so I figured it'd be valuable to identify the experts and their expertise. I might wanna ask the Soul collectors a question about a Soul release so now we'd know who should chime in on that question. No one can be an expert in all genres, you can be as open minded as you want, but it goes way too deep, so that'd be impossible.

Best way to know is to count your records, cds and tapes. (guestimate of course) Besides Hip Hop you probably have more of one genre than other genres unless, for example, by strange coincidence you have exactly the same number of blues records as you do jazz records.

[c-hawk]

^Come on man. Read the thread. I was pretty specific asking to narrow it to one on the first post. I love all those genres too, so do a lot of other cats, so pick one that you rep the most.
Do I have to do a "Trapped on a desert island and can only bring one genre with you" scenerio to get some of you to pick just one?


Right on man, Soul for me too.

Yeah, I could've narrowed it but I have collected and still do collect all genres those equally. Sorry bout bustin' the thread!

[Mr Rupee]

Was gonna say dubstep but not all that mainstream nonsense! Think a better term would be bass music