https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEw2gLv3CQ

I do so love when music genres that don't seem like they belong together, end up getting mashed up. I was enamored with the Metallica S&M album where they played with the San Francisco symphony orchestra. Drum & Bass is one of my favorite genres of electronic music and this video showed up in my feed a little while ago and needless to say, I was blown away

My life changed forever in the third grade when they loaded us on a bus and took us to the symphony. To this day I remember freaking out with my jaw down to my knees. I was blown away. Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Mozart were the rockers of their time. As a drummer and sometimes bass player, I have always loved the melding of rock bottoms with classical music, especially strings and brass.

I have seen The Who 7 times in my life, the first time with my sister at 14 in 1975 at the Pontiac Silverdome. Pete Townsend is the Mozart of our time, just listen to the modern masterpiece Quadraphenia. But the band I have seen the most, and I have seen many hundreds, is the Trans Siberian Orchestra, still one of the best shows that the world has ever known.

Just for fun, here is my favorite live blend of classical and rock. RIP Terry Kath, you died at the height of your genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAUoz7jimg

Madeline

Awsome! nice to see some music post. My buddy loves drum and bass. This one thing he played let the light is was good track. I dig the psytrance more. Just came across Protonica , love it! Ooh wee, the fractal patterns of PSY get me rolloing and flowing. Like Beethoven on ACID.
Have you ever smelled the color of the taste of time while exploring NON-Local reality? Ya for real, synesthesia is real treat to experience. Holotropic breathing works too. Look it up. This moment of now that one self is perceiving is a unique frequency and harmonic.
After all time is non-liner, meaning it is circular. Everything that has happened and is ever going to happen is happened now! It is just ones perception of the self from inside to out that makes time seem linier. Well some Yogis and Chi masters explain it better. From that and the new understandings of quantum physics and probabilities, they say it is possible to change ones future and even past by resonating ones self with a different possible timeline, like two violins in tune on the same note. Super string theory. We are so much more than we know, we just forgot waking up in this dream of the experiment planet earth.

If you don't dig all that, for sure, time is circular and this is true. I have shared this with people and well, uhh. We all been led to believe by western culture , 1,2,3.. get to work pay your taxes retire and die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE7GU7SLguo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6uozGPY5Bc

Back in the early 1990s I was a full on raver, I was there somewhere in the following event, not sure where, but I was at the event??

https://youtu.be/qJ_j99W44LI

I went to raves all over the UK legal and illegal ones.

Back in those days, raves were very much frowned upon, all the drugs and illegal parties.
A lot of the music was banned on the radio.

I then had a long relationship with dance music, working in clubs all over the UK.

24 years later and with most of us 90s ravers now in middle age, it's great to see and hear classics from those days and those events, performed by an orchestra.

https://youtu.be/8B002QEipNw

I will admit, it does make me miss Ibiza and some of the UK clubs, long gone, not so much the early 90s, I can't remember much from then?

Damn.. I'm so glad I was able to experience so much of the original rave scene during it's growth. Seeing PVD, Ferry and Tiesto and others in their prime, late 90s, early 2000s ~ when a massive event cost 20-30 bucks at the most, and underground sessions required meeting people at different locations *just* to find the actual venue.

So awesome to see renditions and covers of the classics, still a great influence in my music tastes today. Solid DnB works well too.. No wubwubs though, please =p

In the 1990s I was fortunate enough to live in Berlin, so late nights in clubs like Tresor raving away to German Techno was very much my thing. I got to watch the implementation of the anti-rave Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 from afar with a bunch of Germans who I kept having to convince that this was not some sort of pythonesque comedy sketch. Watching a bunch of 60-80 year old MPs and Lords trying to come up with a legal definition of rave music was a surreal experience. If you like a good laugh, go and read the act for the result they came up with. It's an "OK grandad" moment of epic proportions.

I have always been a fan of electronic music throughout my life, from Kraftwerk through Depeche Mode, OMD etc to having my life changed in 1988 on hearing the pure trance original of "What Time is Love?" by the KLF. I actually own a copy of "The Manual" which has pride of place on my bookshelf - Doctor Whoooooooooo

The "moral panic" over acid house was totally engineered to distract from the dying days of the Thatcher government (poll tax riots and all) and continued by the Major government when that began to fall apart almost immediately after the 1992 election. (Anyone remember "Back to Basics?") The fact that they banned "We call it acieed.." but not "Ezer Goode, Ezer Goode, He's Ebenezer Goode" speaks volumes. Has anyone got any veras? Laaaaarvly!

Then again all moral outrages over youth culture are fake. I'm old enough to remember the furore over "Relax" in 1983/4, with the Sun wailing about the moral degeneracy of young people on pages 1 and 2 before inviting us to cop an eyeful of the charms of tasty Tracey ,19, from Peterborough on page 3. You stay classy, Britain.

Speaking of combining genres, there are two great albums called "Acid Brass" and "Acid Brass 2" by Williams Fairey Brass band, playing classic tracks such as "Voodoo Ray", "Strings of Life", "Theme from S-Express", "Guru Josh Infinity" and of course "What Time is Love" which I attach below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxf-8HkwAMY

Justified and ancient, but still saving up for the ice cream van.

Wamadeus

Gabriel Prokofiev and DJ Yoda's Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra is well worth a listen. It's way more than a gimmick, it's a clever combination of classical structure and what turntabling can do. For the cadenza the DJ mixes bits of the music heard so far, so every performance is different.

My dad took me to my first ravey type event in 1994 (having a dj for a dad was interesting) and I've been super connected to the dance music scene ever since. My first gig in the porn industry was as contributing photographer for http://Eroticbpm.com (formerly http://raverporn.net) and almost all of my production since has been predominantly filled with models from the US rave scene. Oddly enough, the one time I've shot with a model from England was while I was in Spain for an annual happy hardcore event called HTID in the sun. Uk Hardcore / Happy Hardcore is definitely my favorite genre and a majority of the headliners I've booked over the last decade for my events represent that love. I've even had several of them as "celebrity guest cupcake throwers" in my photo shoots.

The legendary Happy Hardcore producer Dune from Germany (hardcore vibes, I can't stop raving etc) is also a participant in the MessyHot universe!

Not forgetting the GLC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-4x3nYRqfU

You knows it.

Wamadeus

There are few good songs that couldn't be made mind-blowingly amazing with the addition of live full orchestra. Also whoever gets to do the arrangements has the funnist job in the world. Ironically my favourite band use some acoustic orchestra instruments but sadly aren't big enough to have the budget to ever do that, even though they would sound truly incredible.

I once took part in a 'hip-hop orchestra' as part of a city music event, lots of fun with some actual grime and rap artists (no really big names but still talent) and about 50 of us playing strings, horns and rhythm.