Thread: When do you think you will grow out of Oldskool?

It is simple IMO really. Old skool is like a fine wine - gets better with age! In all seriousness I think the music is timeless so I cannot see myself growing out of it any thime soon. It isnt only the music though I think the memories attacthed play a big part.

I thought I'd gotten bored with it around 6 years ago, back in the day before I'd discovered Vinyl Copying Software and forums like this one. I'd been a bit drum & bass collector and had a few 'bored' moments with that after the 97-98 techstep peak (I loved the original dark, techstep stuff, but it went pretty minimal and dull after that and jump-up kinda became a bit too formulaic), and again after the 2001 oldskool influence and re-emergance of the amen died down.

I had collected oldskool in between my D&B forrays, but around that time I started picking up more CD's of defferent genres (a lot of ambient/electronica/instrumental hip-hop/and a bit of indie). This meant that I lost interest in hooking up my turntable and mixer and making those 120 minute compilation tapes I used to do (!!! ). I still appreciated oldskool, but just was listening to other stuff. However afetr discovering the joys of iPod-ism and vinyl ripping, it didn't take me long to rediscover some old gems in the collection and I'm continuing to find some classic tunes I've never even heard of on the likes of here. So as long as I am still ripping and uncovering great mixes and tracks, and companies like Sublogic, 7th Story Projects, Nineteen-Ninety-Two Retro are re-releasing classic and hard to find tunes. I'll still be in love with the music I first heard over 21 years ago.

[QUOTE=Peter Thornhill;182003]It is simple IMO really. Old skool is like a fine wine - gets better with age! In all seriousness I think the music is timeless so I cannot see myself growing out of it any thime soon. It isnt only the music though I think the memories attacthed play a big part.[/QUOT


i agree 100%

Originally Posted by Curly

I don't think you can ever grow out of anything that's in your blood and you're so passionate about.

It's the music of our generation, we were involved in the biggest movement, both musically and drug experimentation since the hippie era, I'm not letting that go any time soon.

I will never tire of hearing anthems, obscure tunes, tunes I've never heard and learning everyday about tunes I never knew existed.

Oldskool 'til I die, no doubt

My sentiments exactly . Oldskool forever

Originally Posted by Ridegroover

As the title says "when do you think you will grow out of oldskool?"

can't be arsed to elaborate more than that

Never!

I still love it as much as I did back then, and now I am discovering more stuff I didn't know about back then and am more involved in the scene and the oldskool events have the best people at them. Even the new stuff I like has an oldskool twist to it lol.

I'm hoping I never grow out of it as my expanding collection doesnt show any sign of slowing down. I've deviated from it in the past then come back to it so I'm not worried I'll get bored. I've more and more to listen to all the time so new sets/tunes to keep me entertained between listening to my favourites.

As long as people are still selling flyers on ebay i'll all be alright!

1993

never get bored of it, music doesn't have a sell by date, all music is timeless

Never, even today I discover tracks of which I knever knew they existed, but are gems.

I hoNestly don't think I ever will.

I go through phases and love some new music - the 140 Future Jungle stuff can be awesome and I still love breakbeat too. Then there's progressive house, progressive breaks, straight-up house, ambient, progressive chilled dubstep, oldskool house...

So sometimes I won't listen to oldskool for a while but when I go back to it, the old rush deep deep inside comes back and my brain says, "This is THE real fuckin deal."

Always will be for me.

Been sunning in Tenerife - nothing better than oldskool in the sun with a few drinks, getting ready for a night out!

Makes me very very happy indeed! :-)

Respect all the oldskool cru!!

What's old skool? I thought this was a Dot Cotton porn site?

I will never grow out of it, i've heard alot but there is sooooo much more to be heard that hasn't been heard!

I like listening to different genres & i love them all but to date you can't beat the early to mid 90's for Oldskool/Techno/Jungle... The tunes made then are far superior in quality to the ones that are made today, they had meaning & a purpose for the people listening to them... Nowadays it's use the same formula but tweak it so it's marginally different & we can make money off it.

To be fair though every now & again (recently) someone has popped up with a beauty

But the heart & soul of the tunes has been lost.

Never!

I even got all excited the other day when a passing car was blaring out oldskool music.

I thought i did once around 1994 when it all became moody, went back into house as at the time the music seemed more grown up and far away from chipmunked vocals, horn blowing hi vis wearing vix sniffing tracks and raves. i never sold my vinyl but stored it at my mums around 3000 recs as i made room for collecting house vinyl. wasn't untill around 2000 when i found places like soulseek and got into ripping i rediscovered my oldskool desires, although a long task i finally ripped all the my os collection or sold the cheese i know i don't like. i always knew the era from 88 -94 would be special a long as i lived but not hearing the soundtracks to them memorys for so many years was almost like a second leash of oldskool life, i then found oldskool boards here and there and just recently this one

i'll always come back to oldskool where ever my musical ear takes me, think of it like this everything else now days and in the future thats considered dance type underground will have only come from what our generation grew up on or pioneered making it the holy grail of electronic dance music as we were there at the beggining . how can you grow old of that