Well who am I to break the trend. I like the stuff you guys posted for techno, especially that Aphex Twin stuff. My experience with new music is rather limited at this point in my life. For a few years I had an XM radio and I pretty much left it on the unsigned artist or the metal channels. This was a great experience for me because it was stuff that wasn't mainstream enough to be hugely popular, but the artists and bands were talented enough to gain playtime on a satellite radio.

But that aside I am going to leave some links for new songs you may or may not know depending on what you listen to.

Five Finger Death Punch - The Bleeding

Slipknot - Psychosocial

If you can find it, check out "The sound and the fury - vanity (AKA The House of Vanity)"

Also, let's keep this going. I'm interested in exploring other's musical taste and so far you guys have posted some cool shit.

 WARNING: Most of these links are to youtube. Some to wikipedia and other places. I urge you to give everything a good listen through. Since this is techno, at least get through the first minute past the buildups to the heart of the song. 

As you are pretty well aware of, I like techno. I love it! All kinds. Techno, trance, goa (think Juno Reactor or most of the Matrix:Reloaded soundtrack such as Conga Fury), psy, ambient, and chillout. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to genres within techno/electronica. One could argue also that electronica is sometimes pop/techno/rock music. Something like Deep Dish. Some, like Orbital, I don't know where to put because each song is pretty unique. The first is more hardcore techno, the middle is a light trance, almost chill. The last one is def. chillout. Even then, it's a tough definition, for me. But, the point of all this is to introduce to chillout. (More)

It sucks that i won't be able to make the wedding anymore, I've been psyched about that for like 2 months now. But shit happens and life will go on. Mike, have a good day man i mean that sincerely. Hopefully I'll see you and James sometime soon, same goes for Riley, Nolan, and all you other guys.

I saw Pineapple Express and Step Brothers within the last week. Both are good movies, but I have to say I like Pineapple Express better. I have becomed disillusioned with Will Ferrel after the streak of making out with men, gross stuff. The closing scene of Step Brothers made me laugh so hard I pissed my damn pants. For those that haven't seen it, I won't ruin it for you, for those that have, heres a link you might like (not the actual movie version, but the original thing)

But this got me thinking, and since I'm linking already, I have some others for you guys to check out if you liked the song I linked to previously. If you do not like the type of music in the first link you will not like these I guarantee it.

Vesti La Giubba - Luciano Pavarotti

Jussi Borling

Marsha Long

Damn Nolan, talk about "I'd hate to be the next guy up". How the fuck is one little post about music going to compete with that irrationality and coolness. But the show must go on.

I am a big fan of music. I have a collection that spans all classical eras, old timey bluegrass, classic rock, oldies, big hair bands, and all modern genres, including some broadway stuff, musicals and so on. I would not describe myself as a connoisseur though because for me to like a song it has to have extreme emotional content. Thats one reason why my collection is stunted in modern rap and big hair rock.More than half of all songs fitting into those genres are about pussy, liquor, drugs, money, cars, and all that kinds of shit. While those songs are sometimes fun, they don't reflect reality so I tend to stay away from them.

There are a few exceptions to the emotional content rule of mine. While I can't think of any right now, I'm throwing that in there so I can't be called a liar.

When I think about emotional content only two genres come to mind. Country and Modern Rock.

WHOA!!!! Did I just group country and modern rock together? YOU BET YOUR ASS I DID!

When I think about country songs, I think about my childhood, i.e. "Playboys of the Southwestern World" "Red Dirt Road" "We rode in Trucks". There are many, many others, but those are my best examples. Anytime I hear those songs they bring out an emotional response, which they are designed to do, and based upon the talent of the songwriter and the musician, I therefore rate the song. Those are currently at the top.

When I think about Modern Rock, I think about the first rock song I ever heard, which was in 5th grade, and the song was "Under the Bridge" by RHCP. From there I started listenening to it more and more until I was able to form a "palate" of what I liked. Every so often in any musical genre, there comes a band, or a single guy, that completely rewrites what I thought about that genre. Linkin park did it with their first album and that freaking cool synthesized sound, but I've since grown tired of them. Trans-Siberian Orchestra shattered my world with the combination of carols and classical music with electric guitar and bass, which sounds amazing. But they just aren't modern enough for my taste.

Which leads me to the point of this post. Apocalyptica.

I just heard a song from them on the radio, and since have youtubed it 4 times. I have heard bands combine instruments not normally seen in modern rock, but none have done it so well and do it consistently. 

But this is where my review stops, I'll leave a youtube link for those interested.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu9uxGP5nL0&feature=user