My favorite music:

they're useful to a point but they do a lot of damage too
trying to recommend a band that is a hybrid of two or more genres but every genre subcommunity plays hot potato with it "ree not pure enough why are you reccing this to me" gets real fucking tiresome and it's honestly really sad

Recommending music to people is a pain in the fucking ass in general; I think you are being a bit too harsh on genres. Shit like that sounds more like a cheap excuse to brush off your well intentioned recommendations.

i concede that it's less the genres themselves and more the way people handle them but in the end that's sort of an inconsequential difference. it gives people a way to facilitate closed-mindedness about music by giving them a bunch of neat little boxes and they can ignore anything even slightly artistically adventurous that doesn't fit inside their boxes. so yeah genres as a concept could theoretically be benign but it seemingly inevitably leads to people who believe exclusively in strict genre adherence and that is just such annoying bullshit.

At this point I'm just glad it helps bring people out of their 'handful of 5 favorite artists constant rotation worship' stage of music. So I do agree with you and think genre rigidism is shitty yet think people would have discovered and branched out to Even less music without the help of genres.

that is a fair point, and it's true that it can benefit smaller artists in that sense, it just annoys me how it only benefits smaller artists that fit very neatly into a genre, and leaves the (imo) more creative ones to flounder in purgatory

People's attitudes to music have shown me just how close minded most people really are. The creative ones would be too inaccessible for people; genres or not.
I'm curious though, show me something you consider creative and on the edge of a genre's boundaries.

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my favourite music tends to be stuff that is both strong electronically and also strong in terms of live instrumentation. one band that immediately comes to mind since i've been really into since i found them is hoopy frood, which has influences from all over the place (i like to introduce them as shpongle+pink floyd but even that is really reductive). psychedelic rock fans tell me to fuck off because it's too electronic, and psychedelic electronic fans tell me to fuck off cause they're too much of a rock band. few seem to be willing to just take it as music on its own merits. not that there aren't people who have taken them in good faith and just aren't into them, music is highly subjective of course, but it kind of blows my mind that they have

I dabble in progressive electronic and have chugged a fair share of Ozric Tentacle albums; I can totally dig this. I'm also not particularly a big fan of psychedelic music but a bit of eclecticism can always change that.

cute cade

nice, maybe progressive electronic is a better fit. i've just started getting into ozric tentacles lately actually. so far really liking technicians of the sacred and the floor's too far away

Yeah, make some bros with patrician taste in early electronic music.