Ok so basically what is electronic music?? I don’t want to go into the technicalities of it but rather want to write about the emotions I feel when we listen to good music. May it be any form of music ….. I don’t hate any music!! Someone has actually put in the effort, time, sweat and tears into producing/creating something and even if it might not be good it deserves a listen. When I am listening to anything I give it the time it deserves. May it be Hip Hop, Rock, Bollywood or even something unknown to me.
Music is a universal language and everyone speaks it. Grooves with it and if two agreeable people love a certain new sound then a new genre is born. Give it a chance and don’t write something or someone off for something they have worked hard on. But don’t get me wrong …. Promote GOOD music, and never put down someone who doesn’t. Rather help them out!! Don’t criticize a listener for his lack of knowledge cos you just lost a future listener to your music.
Ok getting back what I feel when I listen to electronic music. Well I my mind shut’s off and my heart takes over. A smile spread across my face. My head nods in tempo with the music in the beginning. Every beat send ripples of energy through my body!! The smile grows by the second and slowly my hands and feet joins in sync with the nodding of my head!! I feel euphoria and happiness!! Sadness disappears with the second and for those fleeting moments I feel life is good and I fall into the hand of the person playing the music (Sometimes that being myself). I reach a stage where if I am allowed I could anything at that point of time. Work and worries take a back seat and that general feel of my heart beat increasing and getting in sync with the beats keeps me going. For those moments I leave the world behind and want to feel the passion what the artist must have felt while making the track. Music is just not music as my HOD (Head of Department) said. It’s Samsara or at least that’s what I feel.
When I first started listening to music … It was not the greatest music but I love it to date!! ABBA, The Beegees, The Beatles and few others who laid the foundation though I was a big follower of the Hindi music scene as well. But over the years I have become very picky about music I listen to. On entering my teens I started listening to Fat Boy Slim and other House and electronic/experimental music. I was into rock for some time and still am into rock main thanks to Bhaiya and the Krystal Krods. Their band room was an amazing escape and Ton was the best friend who made me addicted to Scorpions and Niravana.
But I guess my musical journey never stopped and it continued when I met the hippies in Goa who introduced me to a different experience!! I went crazy and was hooked the same instant!! Electronic music was an instant aphrodisiac and I fell in love. But somehow the confines of the club didn’t really let me enjoy and let loose!! I had spent 10 years in an educational institute. After my 10th grade I took the time off to travel and what an experience it was. Meeting people and good music with a healthy dose of love and hugs shaped me as I am today. There is bad and good so don’t always expect the good. But through that journey I felt that there were always more good and good people who were always ready to help. I don’t know but somehow feel that it was an enlightening experience. That and living in Keonjahr!! SORRY OFF TOPIC.
Coming back so when I started listening to electronic music I discovered that it’s not music it’s a language which spoke to me and its time I shared it with everyone. And not in a bloody club!! To experience it completely you need the space the sunshine the fog or even the cold weather to kiss on your cheeks and let your emotions run with you… When the winds plays with your hair and you feel that there are no worries holding your inner kid releasing itself you have truly started understanding and enjoying the music… Don’t hold back, don’t feel shy …. Just be yourself or rather be a happier version of you.
I have experienced it and this is a just what I want to share with everyone when you arrive at Mandala. Artists and good ones at that will take on a journey and keep you begging for more. Hope I haven’t ranted too long but just getting the message out Brother and Sisters cos its time we are in it for the music and only the music.
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