Artists that break the mold

[KnightOfHearts]

It seems that music popular has hit a plateu (in truth it hit it a while ago).

Pop, rap and on occasion rock seem to rule the industry.
Which artists do you think bring something different, new and innovative to music?

Animals as leaders have definitely blown my mind, nothing I've ever heard sounds like what Tosin plays.

 

[Tanakh]

Animals as leaders have definitely blown my mind, nothing I've ever heard sounds like what Tosin plays.

Isn't that classic progressive metal? I mean, he IS amazing, but... well i wouldn't say mold breaking.

The thing is that I haven't heard anything mold breaking in my entire life, music seems to be about small constant evolution and new breeds being created of the mixture from different traditions, like:

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All of them amazingly good, but with solid roots in the past.

Well... there is Robert Johnson and Mozart i guess...

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[KnightOfHearts]

Animals as leaders have definitely blown my mind, nothing I've ever heard sounds like what Tosin plays.

Isn't that classic progressive metal? I mean, he IS amazing, but... well i wouldn't say mold breaking.

The thing is that I haven't heard anything mold breaking in my entire life, music seems to be about small constant evolution and new breeds being created of the mixture from different traditions, like:

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All of them amazingly good, but with solid roots in the past.

Well... there is Robert Johnson and Mozart i guess...

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To call animals as leaders metal is pretty limiting, there's plenty of diversity to their music.
Yes they do have a fair amount of metalic music but only in sections.
One song tends to be incredibly varied, much like dream theater but in some cases to a greater extent.

I do see your point however
But of course their a musicians that break the mold
every now and again a musician comes along that literally reinvents music, much like Frank Zappa or Michael Jackson.
Someone who says "I do things differently".

Some changes as you said can be simply an evolution of the previous, but none the less there are musicians who elaborate on the past and their are musicians that do things no one else really thought of.

Unfortunately in the age we live in there's very little we can't classify or label no matter how ridiculous it is e.g symphonic progressive jazzcore with a dash of reggae on the side.

But what about a new
Jimi Hendrix, Jaco Pastorious, Janis Joplin or even a Frank Zappa or a Michael Jackson
Plenty of people have copied and been inspired by these musicians but none of them have made such an impact the music industry truly remembers their names.

 

[Tanakh]

But what about a new
Jimi Hendrix, Jaco Pastorious, Janis Joplin or even a Frank Zappa or a Michael Jackson
Plenty of people have copied and been inspired by these musicians but none of them have made such an impact the music industry truly remembers their names.

Ohh, i see. Well, we are using two different meaning of breaking the mold, the artist you are mentioning sure are great, Hendrix was a true genius and Jackson Thriller is off the charts, not so found of Joplin TBH and Pastorious & Zappa i have heard too little to have an opinion.

I was just using breaking the mold understanding an artist that is so different to the rest that is practically a God among us. Robert Johnson is there for me because before him there was black Blues and Gospel, Irish music, German marches, English music comedy and a lot other influences in the US, but he is the one (as far as my limited info of history of music goes) that made the first tune with an American feeling, and seeing how much USA has influenced the world of music this century that is a lot to say.

Mozart... saying that he is unique would be underrating him. I simply can't understand how he was able to write his pieces, his operas, masses, symphonies... a third or so of them are amazingly well crafted masterworks, but the others i just don't know how the fuck he was able to imagine, i have been listening to the music of his contemporaries and some (very little) of the popular music of the time, and his work? Not from there, not a trace. And the variety! God, it's just dazzling how he weaves his different styles in a single work, sometimes even in a single movement. What first made me realize he was simply not like anyone else was his work with Aleatoric Music, just there he created 130000000000000000000000000000 minuets, or 1.3 * (10^29) in scientific notation, all in his mind and as a simple game. I have heard one each week for the last decade, sometimes i fail and don't listen to them one week, but so far all are finished and good works, and not even if i spend the rest of my life just listening to them i would finish -.-

 

[KnightOfHearts]

But what about a new
Jimi Hendrix, Jaco Pastorious, Janis Joplin or even a Frank Zappa or a Michael Jackson
Plenty of people have copied and been inspired by these musicians but none of them have made such an impact the music industry truly remembers their names.

Ohh, i see. Well, we are using two different meaning of breaking the mold, the artist you are mentioning sure are great, Hendrix was a true genius and Jackson Thriller is off the charts, not so found of Joplin TBH and Pastorious & Zappa i have heard too little to have an opinion.

I was just using breaking the mold understanding an artist that is so different to the rest that is practically a God among us. Robert Johnson is there for me because before him there was black Blues and Gospel, Irish music, German marches, English music comedy and a lot other influences in the US, but he is the one (as far as my limited info of history of music goes) that made the first tune with an American feeling, and seeing how much USA has influenced the world of music this century that is a lot to say.

Mozart... saying that he is unique would be underrating him. I simply can't understand how he was able to write his pieces, his operas, masses, symphonies... a third or so of them are amazingly well crafted masterworks, but the others i just don't know how the fuck he was able to imagine, i have been listening to the music of his contemporaries and some (very little) of the popular music of the time, and his work? Not from there, not a trace. And the variety! God, it's just dazzling how he weaves his different styles in a single work, sometimes even in a single movement. What first made me realize he was simply not like anyone else was his work with Aleatoric Music, just there he created 130000000000000000000000000000 minuets, or 1.3 * (10^29) in scientific notation, all in his mind and as a simple game. I have heard one each week for the last decade, sometimes i fail and don't listen to them one week, but so far all are finished and good works, and not even if i spend the rest of my life just listening to them i would finish -.-

Robert Johnson was incredible, makes you wonder if he really did sell his soul for talent huh?
So sad he died so young, wish I could get my hands on more of his recordings.

I agree with everything you've said about Mozart
and what really hurts is how young he began composing!

I've never really been able to decide between Mozart and Beethoven and then theres Bach.
Must have been an incredible time to be alive during the Romantic and Baroque periods