… and for the pedantic in the group you can take something modern with you to play the music.
I didn’t have to think much… for me it’d be Brian Eno in the Early 70’s and i’d show him breakcore.
don’t ask why, it just feels right.
jim morrison predicted that some day a single person will be able to produce a full song with machines but never lived to see it happen, so i’m not sure exactly what but i’d definitely show him something entirely arranged and rendered on a computer
Musical theory has taken quite a dive these days. I dont even think most songs have bridges or codas… i dont think id do a musician in the past dirty like that.
I would introduce With All Disrespect by Cattle Decapitation
Go back to when Aerosmith released their debut album and introduce 24 year old Steven Tyler to the music of 77 year old Steven Tyler.
I would introduce Friday by Rebecca Black to The Beatles
50 to 60 years is only going back to 1965-1975, that’s not like ancient history or anything…
Johnny Cash would probably love hearing his cover of Hurt from 2002.
yes. I specifically chose that time because it was still modern enough to “get” the music of today
I went back and forth between something I typically listen to everyday like Spiritbox, and something I love but don’t listen to all the time like Blank Banshee.
Blank Banshee won, Frozen Flame
This is maybe an odd choice, but I’d make Cher listen to it. She was the first major artist to use autotune (in my memory at least). So maybe she’d be more open to the heavily technology-dependent parts of vaportrap too
60 years takes us to 1965, hmm
Strong urge to just play “Venetian Snares - a lot of drugs” or “Aphex Twin - Ventolin” to someone and try to convince them that’s what everyone listens to in the future. But I can’t quite figure out who would give me the best reaction, maybe someone like Elvis
Playing something like “deadmau5 - Strobe” or basically anything from Chemical Brothers to people like Bob Moog or Don Buchla, would be a cool experience. Tbh they’d probably love a bit of Aphex
I was thinking show some breakbeat to some early house producers, but now I’m thinking Venetian Snare’s Cubist Reggae.
If I’m also able to relay a message as well to explain, I’d send the absolute WORST AI generated slop song that is just the absolute worst song imaginable and tell the crowd that this is from a future timeline where the music industry has replaced humans with robots that try, and fail miserably, to imitate humans. Any single artist or band of sizeable influence would work.
Otherwise, I would love to see their reaction to something like this Ryone Yami UTAU cover of nostraightanswer’s Pushing Daisies just to see how many band members of any band would think it’s a human singing the song and not just a human that decided to make a computer version of their voice that can sing for them.
I’d bring the album 10,000 gecs by 100 gecs and show it to The Beatles. In 1965, they’d have been at peak boy-band coming hot of the release of Help! and just about to drop Rubber Soul and a few months away from dropping (IMO their greatest album) Revolver.
Imagine if instead of George Harrison getting really into Indian music, he discovered hyperpop. The Beatles are such an influencal band that it would have ripples throughout the music industry. Imagine what 100 gecs would be getting up to in an alternate universe where Revolution 9 might get replaced with something like One Million Dollars?
