Hm. That would be a thogh question to answer.
I certainly like jazz a lot. Anything from Ella to the Dave Brubeck Quartet—Time Out is certanly among my favourite masterpieces, and if you know musical theory, you gotta love it.
I also enjoy electronica, especially trance. I like the way the beat generation developed into a culture which tries to find the perfect silence, and builds the silence within that body–possessing mixture of beats, noises and harmonicas. The cohesion and the randomness—by the way, do notice that these two features also show in jazz. I feel like my inside is being turned into one of Pollock’s dripping paintings.
But electronica is, unfortunately, too exagerated at times. So I like it when they make a trance remix of something a little bit more structured, like classical music—another musical passion of mine. Right now, I’m listening to a piece of music called “Finished Symphony” (Hybrid @ Wide angle). Liesten to it. That’s what I’m talking about.
I also enjoy quality brit rock and brit pop, like Gorillaz, which refreshed and reinvented some features of pop music, and good old progressive rock—especially the Dark Side of the Moon, probably my favourite piece of art.
Another CD I like very much is Astronauta Olvidado, from an underground indie prog rock band from Argentina called Bauer. (Try reading that last phase out loud.)
When I’m feeling ecletic, I listen to MPB (Brazillian Pop Music) and good old rock (Rolling Stones, baby ).
And that’s basically it. I like songs rather than genres, but I think I made my point as to my musical taste: improvisation, the presence of silence as a musical element, stong beats, a coherent composition rather than a lot of dancing noises… You know, goooooood music.