Ayub,
That's a really good question, and something I've thought about in the past. I think it's as much to do with the music of my formative years as much as anything else. My father is a half decent saxophonost, my older brother always had various guitars lying around. I grew up listening to all sorts of music, and I think I've always had a very hands-on, but informal, relationship, with music and musicianship.
I taught myself how to play the guitar, long before you could get free lessons on youtube. And the physical feel of a musical instrument and getting it to express a combination of you and it can simply raise the hairs on the back of your neck like nothing else. (perhaps, a bit of a strange thing to say from a cynical old atheist like me)
I love Jazz, Raggae, Classical, Callipso, Spanish..... But hip-hop. Hmm that's a different story. Take a close listen to most of the hip-hop tunes you hear - a good listen underneath the vocal. What do you find? A back track generated by a cute bit of software and a musical "technician"; and it is this that leaves me cold. As a lover of the physicality of playing music - pressing a few buttons just doesn't do it for me.
Like I said to Astro, it may equally be me decsending into middle age. Oh well.
Regards,
urbt
