Wow, finally a thread which put me into a "thinking mode"!!!
my first reaction is to put My list of My favorites, but since most of the tunes already mentioned do not "ring" with me no more (and my extended list of My favs is already at the Desert Island thread), how/what do I know?... Jazz is safe, its a new "classical", but what else? I think its the music which wont be translated into those upcoming new formats of "total immersion" or the music w/o follow-up developments. What I mean is that nobody (except me) listens to Stockhausen, Zenakis, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze nowadays: it was absorbed by trance/house/club/new age(oh, my!) and sounds already dated to my kids.
Who reads Philip K Dick or Asimov, you go and watch a movie but, say, Bradbury or Harlan Ellison will be printed because you cannot make a movie out of them. The same with music, if you cannot "improve" it by sticking plasma TV between the speakers, it will be preserved as-is.
my bad, I tend to overthink everything but its such a juicy question that I could not help myself... ;-)
my first reaction is to put My list of My favorites, but since most of the tunes already mentioned do not "ring" with me no more (and my extended list of My favs is already at the Desert Island thread), how/what do I know?... Jazz is safe, its a new "classical", but what else? I think its the music which wont be translated into those upcoming new formats of "total immersion" or the music w/o follow-up developments. What I mean is that nobody (except me) listens to Stockhausen, Zenakis, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze nowadays: it was absorbed by trance/house/club/new age(oh, my!) and sounds already dated to my kids.
Who reads Philip K Dick or Asimov, you go and watch a movie but, say, Bradbury or Harlan Ellison will be printed because you cannot make a movie out of them. The same with music, if you cannot "improve" it by sticking plasma TV between the speakers, it will be preserved as-is.
my bad, I tend to overthink everything but its such a juicy question that I could not help myself... ;-)
