My music discovery

Rough timeline of my music discovery, mostly only including my initial dive into genres with then-favorite artists.

2000s

• Nirvana becomes my favorite band. I branch off to their influences and contemporaries.
• Alternative rock (Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails), noise rock (Butthole Surfers, Jesus Lizard), post-punk (Flipper, Gang of Four)

2010s

• Electronic gateways for rock enjoyers (Kraftwerk, The Prodigy)
• Prog rock (Pink Floyd), psychedelic rock (Jimi Hendrix)
• Flirt with classic rock, rap, hardcore punk, metal, house, DnB, chiptune, classical
• Play guitar and sing. Later switch to drums/percussion which leads to obsession with playing quads in drumline.

2015

• Prog metal (Animals as Leaders, who headline my first concert)

2017

• Shpongle/Tipper convert me into an electronic music fanatic.
• Psychill (Bluetech, Ott), glitch hop (Jade Cicada, DRRTYWULVZ), space bass (Yheti, Sixis), wonky dubstep
• Goa trance (Filteria, Hallucinogen)

2018

• Retire from drumline, mostly lose interest in drum set.
• First electronic event (Ott in Philly) which is life-changing as I let loose on the dance floor and love the music/vibe.
• First festival (Camp Bisco). Discover that jam bands and flow artists are cool.
• Math rock/post-rock (toe, 65daysofstatic), jam (Ozric Tentacles, Phish)
• IDM (Aphex Twin, Kodomo, Boards of Canada), trip hop (Little People), ambient
• Liquid drum & bass (Etherwood), neurofunk (Noisia)
• Rap (Eminem, Aesop Rock, Nas)

2019

• First psytrance, techno, and DnB raves in the Netherlands

2020

• Rhythm games get me into fast EDM (hi-tech psytrance, J-core, speedcore, terrorcore, breakcore)
• Deconstructed club (Objekt), Atmospheric drum & bass, brostep

2021

• Anime music, pop, acid trance

2022

• Boss Wave Massive, discover riddim can be fun though it gets old fast

2023

• Go to goreshit in NYC which gets me into the underground hard dance scene. Start going to raves every weekend from NJ (previously only came every once in a while for a bass event) then move to Queens.
• Get obsessed with dancing/flow after I discover liquid dancing. I gradually stop listening to music that isn’t conducive to this.
• Freetekno @ Helltekk
• Deep dubstep (Kercha, q100)
• Dark psytrance (Antonymous, Babagoon)

2024

• Get into techno after Rrose @ Nowadays, especially hypnotic (DJs: Oscar Mulero, Wata Igarashi, Danny Wabbit)
• Discover dancing to house can be fun, especially tech/deep/bass/progressive house
• Breaks (Kahter)

2025

• More trap, rap, and pop