Nice dude, I love this shit now. I'll admit I hated it for a long time though. I'm a metal head, classic rock kinda guy from fuckin Nova Scotia. When I moved out west nobody listens to metal, but everyone's a fucking DJ haha. Had to listen to a lot of my buddies play with turntables. It really made me appreciate when someone is good at it hahahaha. Now it's my working music.
i discovered i_o while working. that's where i find what i consider good music. simple metric: if it makes me pull up spotify and throw it on a playlist, i take note of the name and dig deeper when i'm not in flow. this guy literally stopped me in my tracks. granted, it was a time i was dropping MDMA probably two or three times a month, so i was looking for shit that would take those feels to another level. he did that in spades.
heavy trance, deep house, early techno vibes. really considered how he mixed his sounds. drove the highs he knew his crowd was on, didn't let them ebb and flow. he was in full control of the experience.
kinda like what i've heard metallica does at their shows. they run the shit. you go for the experience. not to hear the same shit you've heard a thousand times. you're there to experience what it is.
same background. i was a goth in high school, got into post hardcore and black metal in college. then, something happened and this kinda shit started to hit differently. wasn't annoying anymore, but it had feeling if that makes sense.