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In the last 5 or so years I've been becoming increasingly obsessed with various 80s post punk, coldwave, new wave, and general synth music. I've also been a huge fan of a fairly insane group Dvar!

I know I'm not the only one with weird and somewhat obscure tastes in music, and was wondering if anyone else got some strange and eclectic love for various genres? Feel free to share it through links, and comment why it makes you enjoy it so much!

IDM, future funk all that vaporwave shit. Best if it's completely original music.
And then there's, uhh, this.

The only collection of songs that I can't put a genre to. Simply labeled as "alternative"

That is one hell of a cool track.

I'll Share DVAR because I like sharing this insanity.

I love myself some Synthwave, with Lazerhawk being my preferred artist.

Aside from that, classic and prog rock are some of my favorites.

But when it comes to really eclectic tastes in music, I think my dad has most people beat. He listens to anything from J-pop to Funk, Hip-hop to TV commercial tunes, Ladybaby to Barbarellatones.

Noise/industrial music, its been around for over a hundred years and its still underground.

Hoo, boy! this'll be a good one!

• Video Game Soundtracks
– Major Examples: Ridge Racer Type 4, SFIII: Third Strike, Jet Set Radio: Future

• Anime Soundtracks
– Major Examples: Samurai Champloo, Air Gear, Durarara!!!

• Dreampop / Chillwave / Shoegaze
– Major Examples: Washed Out, DIIV, Toro Y Moi, Dream Cop, Gauntlet Hair

• Experimental Hip-Hop
– Major Examples: FlyLo, Hudson Mohawke, Sweatson Klank, Nosaj Thing

• Drum N' Bass
– Major Examples: Netsky, Hugh Hardie, Calyx, Seba

• Noise Rock / Alternative
– Major Examples: METZ, Perfect Pussy, Boris, Bass Drum of Death

• J-Pop
– Major Examples: capsule, Iwasaki Taku, kalafina

Guys i think I've found the most anti mainstream/left field genre ever.
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I'm a pianist and composer and I love experimental classical music.

Here is an example of an experimental piece I learned.

I also know:

Henry Cowell – The 3 Irish Legends
John Cage – And the Earth Shall Bear Again
György Ligeti – Musica Ricercata #9 (planning on learning the other 10)
Steve Reich – Piano Phase
Terry Riley – In C

I'm also currently working on the intro to Kaikhosru Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum. I'm not planning on learning the whole thing, though.

I thought this said Eclectic genes at first.

I'd say IDM and what ever Dälek is supposed to be. Noise Rap? Industrial Rap?

I've got 3 terabytes of 60's pre-ambient

800 gigs of live recordings of this local band called the fuckerfucks. They played only 2 shows before breaking up but I had 11 redundant recording rigs all recording flac which I then layered over one another for 25,000 kbps bitrate.

8 terabytes of the beatles. No not THOSE beatles, the new beatles. They haven't recorded an album yet and technically they're not really a band yet but they're indie-gospel-post-funk-punk style is going to be huge when you guys hear their stuff in about 5 years.

4 petabytes of the Ethiopian Free Jazz wave that occurred in 1973 in a town called Wenji Gefersi.

18 terabytes of sound check recordings from the mid 90's band LFO. They only scored a hit with "I like girls (who wear abercrombie and fitch)" but they were way ahead of their time.

That's just my C: drive. I have 41 drives.

I really like mathcore at the moment

Any of yous guys into the old Martin Dupont::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxhkQbfA0fI