Given the chance that you may still be social these days and/or meeting new people day to day in some circumstance, if the topic of music sharing comes up, what have your experiences been? 
Generation gaps can be only a few years apart. Generation gaps are determined via which personal streaming device or app you chose at any given time. dj -ing doesn't mean anything these days. Anybody can stream an mp3. Yet people are hearing new and/or old musics all the time. I'm meeting new people as of the past month and a bit via work, and YES, a large amount of music discussion has happened. I show up to work this morning and a coworker is listening to The Cure - A Forest @ 9AM, which I thought was quite slick and tasteful.
I work with a UK expat, grime & hiphop mc whom I can talk about Killa P and carry on a grime convo - he invited me to a Napalm Death show later this year yet he didn't know Napalm Death were British. Crazy right? These have been my music related convos and experiences meeting new people over the past few weeks.
Assumptions:
Don't assume that since somebody that might have a more experimental electronic music taste & just so happen to be from southern Ontario will know who Richie Hawtin is. They don't. Don't assume that the same person would know what jungle is just because they grew up in the greater Toronto area & were a Prodigy fan - they don't. lol. Torontojungle.com what?? That is from decades ago now. Generations ago. Techno is a very specific thing, and it doesn't often resonate with people outside of a generation with shared experience imo. People hear dance music anywhere now, nothing is really about genre. Its more about drinks and whatever edm pop music a dj is triggering on the gear for free drinks themselves, that's as far as it goes I think. I asked the same Uk expat mc if he used to hang on dubstepforum back in the day. He didn't know what that was. He knows who Pinch is, watches all the Fire in the Booth segments, and I've talked to him about Mumdance and such, he seems to readily post his own clips about on the internet in grime circles apparently, but has never heard of dubstepforum as a launching pad of much of the music he champions. Wtf. Common knowledge isn't that. Generation gaps for you.
People have different needs. Discovering and searching for new musics is a differing need for sure. Not everybody searches for the same reason. It is really interesting. Vinyl don't mean shit. I'm trying to introduce new early morning music to my new boss - he likes metal, mathrock, hardcore, industrial, very much similar tastes in tunes to myself, given a few years difference in obtaining such sounds, etc. We started this morning @ 6AM with the Thou, Nirvana covers release which went down a treat. It's early in the morning, we often need energetic sounds. I'm considering gabber next week lol. Dj Producer, Drumcorps.. and such. It is interesting to introduce harder electronic musics to a metal fan who grew up with NIN, but never got into the techno side of things out of circumstance. Not everybody has attended a rave. lol. There are disconnects to subculture and experience, yet shared experiences on interests and what music you might stream at any given time. All it takes is a swipe on spotify.
At least people are still searching for new musics, perhaps generations old. And don't assume that somebody with full sleeve tattoos and ear gages are on the same shit as you either. Not everybody is going to know who Nails is.
They might just be into really janky r&b and old skool Usher.
Seen?
Generation gaps can be only a few years apart. Generation gaps are determined via which personal streaming device or app you chose at any given time. dj -ing doesn't mean anything these days. Anybody can stream an mp3. Yet people are hearing new and/or old musics all the time. I'm meeting new people as of the past month and a bit via work, and YES, a large amount of music discussion has happened. I show up to work this morning and a coworker is listening to The Cure - A Forest @ 9AM, which I thought was quite slick and tasteful.
I work with a UK expat, grime & hiphop mc whom I can talk about Killa P and carry on a grime convo - he invited me to a Napalm Death show later this year yet he didn't know Napalm Death were British. Crazy right? These have been my music related convos and experiences meeting new people over the past few weeks. Assumptions:
Don't assume that since somebody that might have a more experimental electronic music taste & just so happen to be from southern Ontario will know who Richie Hawtin is. They don't. Don't assume that the same person would know what jungle is just because they grew up in the greater Toronto area & were a Prodigy fan - they don't. lol. Torontojungle.com what?? That is from decades ago now. Generations ago. Techno is a very specific thing, and it doesn't often resonate with people outside of a generation with shared experience imo. People hear dance music anywhere now, nothing is really about genre. Its more about drinks and whatever edm pop music a dj is triggering on the gear for free drinks themselves, that's as far as it goes I think. I asked the same Uk expat mc if he used to hang on dubstepforum back in the day. He didn't know what that was. He knows who Pinch is, watches all the Fire in the Booth segments, and I've talked to him about Mumdance and such, he seems to readily post his own clips about on the internet in grime circles apparently, but has never heard of dubstepforum as a launching pad of much of the music he champions. Wtf. Common knowledge isn't that. Generation gaps for you.
People have different needs. Discovering and searching for new musics is a differing need for sure. Not everybody searches for the same reason. It is really interesting. Vinyl don't mean shit. I'm trying to introduce new early morning music to my new boss - he likes metal, mathrock, hardcore, industrial, very much similar tastes in tunes to myself, given a few years difference in obtaining such sounds, etc. We started this morning @ 6AM with the Thou, Nirvana covers release which went down a treat. It's early in the morning, we often need energetic sounds. I'm considering gabber next week lol. Dj Producer, Drumcorps.. and such. It is interesting to introduce harder electronic musics to a metal fan who grew up with NIN, but never got into the techno side of things out of circumstance. Not everybody has attended a rave. lol. There are disconnects to subculture and experience, yet shared experiences on interests and what music you might stream at any given time. All it takes is a swipe on spotify.
At least people are still searching for new musics, perhaps generations old. And don't assume that somebody with full sleeve tattoos and ear gages are on the same shit as you either. Not everybody is going to know who Nails is.
They might just be into really janky r&b and old skool Usher. Seen?
