koltregaskes

About Me

I absolutely love music and always got something playing at home or on the move. I'm always searching for new music too, via Zane Lowe and the other Radio 1 specialist DJs, iTunes alerts, MySpace, movie soundtracks, xfm, Last.fm, iLike and thesixtyone. My main genres are indie, trance, dance, rock, alternative dance or indie, trip-hop/downtempo and breakbeat. But anything goes except probably jazz, blues and opera (though don't mind a bit of classical).

My top artists are (in order roughly) Radiohead, Hybrid, Prodigy, Union of Knives, Lamb, Unkle, Oasis, Nirvana, Placebo, Portishead, The Killers, Sneaker Pimps, Freelance Hellraiser, Whip, Snow Patrol, Chemical Brothers, Hooverphonic, DJ Shadow, Coldplay, Frou Frou, VAST, Ils, Splitloop, 8mm, Maps, Bat for Lashes, Damien Rice, Mint Royale, Filter, Paul Van Dyk, Linkin Park, Cardigans, Keane, Foo Fighters, Orbital, Sugababes and Avril Lavigne.

With the expectation of the artists above and a few others I find that I rarely like a whole album completely and so my music collection consists more of singles than albums. I generally listen to newfound music over my older stuff. I don't really watch music videos and read about music, so don't see the bands or know much about them except what they sound like but do watch any festivals, like Glastonbury and live shows like Later... with Jools Holland when it's on TV.

Perhaps strangely I dream about being a DJ but I've never touched a set of decks ever and also to play the violin. When I was young I watched MTV all day long but now I don't have the channel and most music shows have gone from TV, like ToTP.

Other than music I like: photography, music, movies, sport, rugby, football, tennis, motorsport, computing, computer games, web development, Internet, art, sci-fi, reading, sci-tech, dogs, space, walking and cycling.

I long for Pandora to be available outside the US one day. I'm interesting in recommendations and chatting to people with similar tastes. :-)

Recent Activity

• amysansom and koltregaskes are now friends. Saturday evening
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• koltregaskes added Dimbleby & Capper – Slick Maturity to his Loved Tracks. last month
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