Juxtaposed tastes

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I wondered if there were any similar boat folk out there to me, since I'm yet to meet one.

I enjoy fine wine and the arts (well, a cheap bottle of Tesco value merlot, and page 3 of the Sun /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif), and my favorite piece of music ever, is Ralph Vaughn Williams', The lark ascending. My day is usually consumed with Radio 4, and I read a lot of books in between sailing around on my little boat.

However, in contrast to that, I love, and I mean LOVE, drum and bass and techno (noisia, BSE, Current Value etc). A good selection of my friends are either DJ's or producers, and I adore indulging in the odd warehouse rave now and then.

Am I a unique yachty in this sense, or are there others with a ridiculously bi-polar lifestyle?
 
"Am I a unique yachty in this sense, or are there others with a ridiculously bi-polar lifestyle?"

I believe there are quite effective treatments available for Bi-Polar Disorder these days Nathan! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
nah......

You're just odd......

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Seriously, absolutely nothing wrong with living in the current times and enjoying all its associated trappings in the form of musical tastes etc, but also appreciating fine output from earlier generations...... and as for R4... well, lets be honest, it is the only radio station out there with any kind of intellectual integrity......

While I wouldn't claim to be a secret raver, I do enjoy the odd bit of current stuff along the way, and if pushed, will let slip that I was right into early rave such as 808 state, the Scientist, and KLF a good few years back...
 
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While I wouldn't claim to be a secret raver, I do enjoy the odd bit of current stuff along the way, and if pushed, will let slip that I was right into early rave such as 808 state, the Scientist, and KLF a good few years back...

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808 state pacific state, grooverider mix. Great!
Utah saints too, gives me tingles.
Kariya - Baby let me love you for tonight. I paid a mint for that on 12" recently. Worth every penny.

Depeche mode, massive attack, Bjork(?!), then later that decade the emergence of The chemical brothers, and our french friends like Thamos Bangalter and Laurent Garnier.

Oh, how I love it all.
 
Ahem.
I slum on cheap beers, and have some astounding whislies aboard.
Reading is now limited until laser surgery, but R4 has been king since I was 21.
400w 15" sub woofer and pre amp on Full Circle. We call it the whale scarer.
Lots classical from Puccini to Pink Floyd but also Linkin Park and Greenleaf56. Aren't iPods wunnerful?
Lynn likes techno, I prefer something less boring.
 
I've always liked what I like and never fixated on any particular genre. I think they call it eclectic /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif . My Mp3 favourites list has all kinds of stuff on it.

Meditation from Thais is one of my favourites.
 
From what I have read so far, R4 is the only thing I have understood!!.......

What on earth are you lot on about???

Nanu-Nanu! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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From what I have read so far, R4 is the only thing I have understood!!.......

What on earth are you lot on about???

Nanu-Nanu! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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I'm about to go and listen to an Abba tribute band. I have been invited to the 150th RNSYC regatta dinner, and much to my delight, Abba is the entertainment. Ok, ok, sarcasm, I can't stand abba.... when I'm sober.

I'll be a dancing queen after a couple of G&T's though!
 
"I'll be a dancing queen after a couple of G&T's though! "

Photos will be appreciated! Will you be going in drag or is it formal?? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Nope, I'm very similar although I tend towards rock music rather than techno etc.

By day I am a mild mannered executive in a high-tech chip company, listening to radio 4, making all the right noises (most of the time), wrestling mighty management problems, leaping tall assumptions with a single bound etc etc

By night I play bass and write and record mostly original-ish music and have a frustrated longing to get on stage and leap about like a 20-something rock-god rather than the almost-50 grey haired git I am.

At weekends I like sailing (when it's available, which it hasn't been) and peace and quiet and getting as far away from all the noise and stupidity as possible and would dearly love to go liveaboard with my family again.

I suppose I'm tripolar, at least.

Neil
 
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...While I wouldn't claim to be a secret raver, I do enjoy the odd bit of current stuff along the way, and if pushed, will let slip that I was right into early rave such as 808 state, the Scientist, and KLF a good few years back...

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I LOVE the KLF!!! They are absolutely amazing. Such atmospheric music. My dad introduced me to them a few years ago. Same with Massive Attack.
 
I hope you lot aren't playing these new fangled beat combos in your cockpits. Can you warn us where you anchor! Unfortunately R4 isn't transmitted in the Adriatic. World service is morning and evening but since it's the Guardian on air, its' not much fun. The current elections will show I think that the people's tastes are different from their leaders!
 
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You'll do well to lay your hands on chill out as the klf deleted their entire back catalogue

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so after they went doowally and burnt all there money, and removed all there records so no one can make any money from them, would it be all right to download it from the net , cos i found it in 10 seconds, and no one would make any money from it /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Some potnetially new music for you to look up if you get bored, random list of either songs or albums, and totally varied. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Polyphonic Spree - Hanging around the day, parts 1 and 2. In fact the whole album is alright, albeit a bit wet, but those track make it.

Laurent Garnier - The cloud making machine (album, and epic!)

God speed you black emperor - raise your skinny fists like antennas to god.. bit old hat now, but still makes me float off.

Well known, but just incase, Moon Safari by Air. It is one of the best albums of the nineties.

The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughn Williams, as I have already mentioned. You absolutely have to hear this bit of music. It is nothing other than beautiful.

Drowning in a sea of love, by Nathan Fake. A classic in the making from James Holden's label, Border Community

Something Wicked this way comes by The Herbaliser.

Blue potential.. this takes some getting used to, but it works. It's Jeff Mills (the techno producer) playing live with the Montpelier Philharmonic Orchestra.

Erm.. that should keep you going for a while.

Oh, and finally, please do indulge in this underrated master piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCsfUXFmBDQ
 
We listen to almost anything that sounds good.

Music tastes are wildly varied due to the fact that my 11 year old daughter has just discovered music and thinks tat Dad'd collection of Bowie, Pink Floyd and 'New Romantic' stuff is now rubbish. There is no accounting for taste!

Mind you the music she listens to is cool, but don't tell her I approve - it would ruin the illusion of parental hatred of all things modern.
 
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W Dad'd collection of Bowie, Pink Floyd and 'New Romantic' stuff is now rubbish. There is no accounting for taste!

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I was lucky. I used to be into happy hardcore and similar crap when I was around 14.

My best mate's parents did something pretty cool. They used to buy us all the booze we could drink (us paying) as long as we drink with them in their house so they could keep an eye on us, rather then us being in a park somewhere. Some might say that letting us drink is irresponsible, but I think that was good parenting myself because we would have done it regardless.

Anyway, I digress. The problem of this scenario was that his dad used to have an "rubbish" taste in music /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif He forced us to listen to the Clash, Frank Zappa, Harry James(!), Captain Beefheart, The eels, mighty mighty bosstones, Jimi Hendrix, the who, etc etc.

Initially, I shunned it because it wasn't what my peers listened to, but after a few Saturdays, I began to pick out tracks I liked. Jimmy Jazz from the clash, the quadrophenia stuff from the who. I took an instant liking to Jimi though.

Eventually, my appreciation for music grew, and I've exited the other side of my teens rather like John Peel in terms of appreciation for all things done with passion.

And here's two classics for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHIFZ9c21QU

And I'm dying to remix this one.
Nathan Lee's three for a tenner mix /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6_TYd6nRnA
 
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