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I think there's quite a difference between people who
a) only listen to the music they grew up on with a minimal interst in hearing music that's new to *them*
b) people who are still actively checking for music they haven't heard before.
Whether that music is contemporary or old is IMO less important than a lot of people claim; myanmar folk-music is just as "new" to me as dubstep, regardless of how old it is simply because I haven't really listened to it...
If you are talking specifically about contemporary music, I think it's only natural that it's more difficult to find stuff that blows you away with age. After all, much of the appeal of contemporary music is that it sounds fresh and the older and more jaded you get and the more music you hear, it becomes increasingly difficult to experience music as "fresh". The differences between the old and new (and they always exist; even the most derivative and retro-stuff generally contain at least some elements that dates it to ''now'') becomes more irrelevant and insignificant.
For example, I remember that you (or4 howisya. Or both) felt that Flying Lotus and those guys reminded you of 90's Trip-Hop and IDM, only slightly more Hip-Hop and post-Dilla. However, for someone younger, that very detail may actually be highly significant and if you were younger and less jaded, it might have been significant for you as well...
Basically, a lot of people have a tendency to use the music that blew them away when they were less experienced and knowledgeable as some sort of golden standard, conveniently ignoring that people then were saying the same stuff about that music: "It's just X but a little mixed with Y, nothing new really".
Shit, I remember an old interview with Keith Richards when he was asked about his feelings about Hip-Hop and he said that he heard Last Poets do that stuff 20 years ago and that it wasn't original in the slightest. It's easy to say that he was wrong but if you think about it, he probably just heard some guy talking rhytmically to "beat-based" music and the differences in production-style and flow were probably irrelevant to him; it's very much in the eye of the behearer and the older you get and the more music you hear, old *and* new, the more difficult it will be to assign too much significance to subtle or even unsubtle changes in sound.
However, I DO wish that some new music would alienate me on some grandpa shit like "this isn't even music, it's just noise" the same way people were alienated by rock'n'roll or Hip-Hop or even jazz. However, that never happens, if anything, popular music just seems to get blander and more "MOR".
Actually, maybe that is the new grandpa-attitude; instead of complaining about how abrasive and "unmusical" it sounds, you complain about how watered-down and bland it is, LOL!
EDIT:Of course, there's also the type of music-fan that with age assign *too* much significance to subtle things on some "No, the hi-hat is too loud in the mix, that's not how it should sound..."-shit. However, that's more the purist, I'm referring more to the "open-minded" eclectic who's constantly searching for new shit...
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