To listen and follow the advice of the popular producers, or not?

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Posted by Zak McKracken on Sep-10-2009 15:44:

id only listen to people i think make good music. popular or not. if i do what they say is unlikely though as i have my own my on everything.

Posted by Richard Butler on Sep-12-2009 11:36:

Re: To listen and follow the advice of the popular producers, or not?

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Originally posted by DjStephenWiley

I think we can all agree that music is beyond stagnant, and one of the reasons is because everybody wants to do what everybody is doing.

Is it stagnant or just the case that certain traites in music, appeal to a wide audience?

I have a lot of sympathy for the argument you possit, and I myself pretty much avoid listening to the billion or so remixes as they in the main don't bring enough newness and innovation - baking a cake twice just does'nt get me going now, with the odd exception here and there. Can you imagine a fashion designer every time he launched something, there was 5 rehashes by other designers?

I also think you can become mentally saturated by the wall of sound heading your way - I can't keep up with it all, so hugely narrow down what I 'listen' to.

On the other hand........ I do check out new releases by quality artists like Akesson as it's important I think not to get too much trapped in your own little world - loads of wanna be xfactor contestants think they have the xfactor, largely because they dont objectively compare thier ability.

So I'm not completely cut off, but I do limit my exposure. Howz that for fence sitting!

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