YES YES there's a thread for this stuff but I'd be there every day putting songs there and I'd rather not flood that place with just me posting...

I listen to a lot of music. Like, a LOT! It's gotten so bad that any algorithm trying to recommend music to me that's similar to what I listen to has no idea what to give me 

But, the more I've listened to a large variety of tunes, I've realized how silly it is to gatekeep genres. I understand having a preference- mine is anything revolving around the Breakbeat genre! Something I've learned is that every genre is derived from another. Some genres may seem wildly different from each other but, in reality, are much closer to each other than I originally thought.

For instance, who here knew that Dubstep has loose roots in Funk? Yeah, sounds wild. But considering it came about as a "darker" variant of 2-step/UK Garage, and rave music in general, well... not too crazy now is it? (Context: breakbeats in many soul and funk records were sampled to create those rave hits. Which eventually evolved into dubstep. That's a long story which can be told about elsewhere.)

So anyways, here I want to share every-so-often what I've been listening to lately. All of these will be linked to Youtube, mostly cuz of the "forgotten" vinyl rips that have never been digitized.

This first post will be dedicated exclusively to Calibre! (Pronounced like the American spelling of "caliber", it's just the UK spelling of that word.)

One of the first songs I heard from him had to have been his "Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Garden" remix. I felt like that was everywhere back then when it was released so it was inescapable. (And apparently any vinyl press of it is being scalped, sad.)

His style typically lands under liquid drum and bass, but he's been known to stray away from that and do a little dubstep, house, downtempo, ambient, and some random piano tunes even.

He's also very successful as a fairly independent music artist.

I typically don't like to "stan" people but Calibre is such an inspiration for me, a budding music producer. He's not the reason for exploring music production for me (that would have to go to the brostep crowd of the 2010s and early pony musicians) BUT.... he (and Marcus Intalex as well, RIP) is the reason why I even began listening to a lot of music beyond what I typically listened to. When he talked about listening to a variety of genres at any time is a good thing, I found that to be completely right! Especially in the digital age where I can literally find anything online from almost any time period (given that it's been recorded).

He also has done an interesting thing with his songs. Check out his "Shelflife" albums, where all of them are compilations of unreleased works from the past 20 years and into the future. There are lots of songs from him apparently where people have been dying to get their hands on a legit copy of a certain song that was maybe played a handful of times in the early 2000s and never played again after that. Or, saw any official release (digital, CD, and vinyl).

I don't know any other artist that does this. Yeah, many will compile their most popular works under re-releases, but do they ever share what was never intended for release to begin with?  No, not really. The only other producer I can think of that kinda did that is J Dilla (RIP as well).

Also, he's not really on social media much. Never has been beyond a bit of promotion before any release. It probably helps that he has a huge underground legacy.

Without further ado. A playlist full of works from and remixed by Calibre, including his other pseudonyms and group collaborations. Just over 600 releases and counting, and these are just the ones I'm aware of. There are some that are missing/incorrect on YT but it's not like digital versions can't be purchased online from official stores for, like, a dollar or so. (vinyl is a different story )

I recommend throwing it on shuffle. And yes, I do plan on keeping this playlist maintained any time I find something that isn't here or whatever else.

Next time, do expect more variety from other artists and genres too! I destroyed my sleep schedule trying to get this together! 

Thanks so much for reading!