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Posted by smallSHEEP on Dec-08-2005 00:07:

quote:
Originally posted by Ishkur
quote blah


Well said I would have to agree, I find the longer you listen to music the more you appreciate the subtleties. Over time I have come to appreciate lots of different types of EDM, however it�s still fun to go and listen to a bit of cheese every now and then.


Posted by Numidia on Dec-08-2005 02:04:

quote:
Originally posted by eckmek
this has to be the worst comment i have ever heard on this subject.


You wouldn't think that if you lived on the same continent as me where unemotional hip pop is predominent. Trust me, I've seen first hand people unable to enjoy music with any emotion in it because they've only listened to rap for most of their lives.


Posted by PersianMafia on Dec-08-2005 02:16:

quote:
Originally posted by Ishkur
Cheese is defined as music that is fake, canned, and forced. It is trying to be something it's not. It is pretending it is deep and sophisticated, emotional stuff, but in truth it is just going through the motions, playing out some simple, tired cliche. In short, cheese music lies to you. It tries to appeal to your emotions, tug your heartstrings, and get you to feel a certain way toward it. But you feel nothing at all. Why?

Because your intelligence is being insulted. You hate being deceived. You hate being controlled and manipulated. You hate being compartmentalized into a little emotional sponge for this cheese music to fill you with tired formulas. It sounds way too affected to have any meaningful impact on you. Or anyone, for that matter.

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Commercial is that which attempts to appeal to the most possible number of people. Something that strives for universality.

Of course, in order to achieve this aim, the music must thus be very safe, very bland, and very inoffensive. So it's not a thing, per se. It is a process. A process of political correctness, in a way.

The process of commercialization is the process of watering down and smoothing something out for mass digestion. Any genre of music can become commercial if it�s given the shiny, plastic, polished sheen of simple tinker toys (or any mass-produced consumer good). In fact, over the past fifty years, everything, from rap, to rock, to punk, to R&B, to jazz, to techno has become commercial music at one time or another. The purpose of commercial music is not to evoke emotion or have any lasting appeal. It is to move units; sell the most music to the most possible numbers of people very quickly. It is essentially fast food; something people do not value the inherent quality of but seek instantaneous and short-term sustenance.

It is not elitist to hate this process. For those of us who enjoy care, quality, professionalism, and earnest, heartfelt passion, with genuine emotion injected into our music, commercial music is blasphemy. People don't hate it because it's bad--quite the contrary, commercial music is expertly produced. No. People hate it because it's simply boring. It has to be, in order to be likable by everyone.


Evoke emotion? Commercialism process? Cheese process? Who said ALLL commercial artists don't put "care, quality, heartfelt etc" in their music? Once again you prove to be foundation-less in your arguments, as some have mentioned before me. Are you reading what you're typing? It's the most stereotyped, ridiculous propaganda I've ever read. It's amusing and poshly written, but in the end you're arguments and posts epitomize the ignorance in many 'musically elite' people - edm or not.

Don't quit your day job, and keep the site running, I actually enjoy it. The "Ferry Corsten killed it part" cracks me up each time.


Posted by PersianMafia on Dec-08-2005 02:27:

Re: Re: 'Cheese'

quote:
Originally posted by Sand Leaper
Secondly, the music you enjoy...is...probably...hated for its elements, such as embarrassing two-finger melodies on simple, crass and in your face-synths...



And you're on traceaddict because? Let's be honest buddy, anybody, and I mean anybody, can play 99% of the 'elite' trance songs on a keyboard - with one finger. If you're looking for complex melodies trance is not the genre. Try Bach or Mosart.


Posted by halexander837 on Dec-08-2005 02:56:

Garlsburg or munster


Posted by XenatR on Dec-08-2005 04:18:

Re: Re: Re: 'Cheese'

quote:
Originally posted by PersianMafia
And you're on traceaddict because? Let's be honest buddy, anybody, and I mean anybody, can play 99% of the 'elite' trance songs on a keyboard - with one finger. If you're looking for complex melodies trance is not the genre. Try Bach or Mosart.


lol. nice post

quote:
Originally posted by paranoik0
ok stop like right there. come back in.. wait let me check when did i like that track... 4 years.


oh wow, you must be so cool. im sorry, but i havent even been into the scene longer than 6months, so please, spare me the elitism. that track is fresh to me, and it F*UCKING OWNS


Posted by TranceSpeeder on Dec-08-2005 04:21:

read my sig.


Posted by Numidia on Dec-08-2005 04:41:

Re: Re: Re: 'Cheese'

quote:
Originally posted by PersianMafia
And you're on traceaddict because? Let's be honest buddy, anybody, and I mean anybody, can play 99% of the 'elite' trance songs on a keyboard - with one finger. If you're looking for complex melodies trance is not the genre. Try Bach or Mosart.


One finger? Nah... at least 2 . But seriously playing a melody is different than composing one... and putting the melody into a complete package of a tune is another thing altogether...


Posted by Cosmic on Dec-08-2005 14:30:

Re: 'Cheese'

quote:
Originally posted by XenatR
I've discovered from reading these forums for a little while, that the music I enjoy is known as 'cheese', which is disliked by probably everyone I've seen on these forums.

Why do people hate it so much?

I've made some threads here, and all I get are insults against the type of music I like. Just wondering if this is only evident on the TA forums, or in the electro scene as a whole.


Dumonde, Scot Project, Cosmic Gate, Rank1, Kai Tracid cheese

I also like some good cheese.
Some artist you have 'forgotten':

Groove Coverage
Neo Cortex
Voodoo & Serano
DJ's @ Work
Starsplash


Posted by Sand Leaper on Dec-08-2005 14:50:

Re: Re: Re: 'Cheese'

quote:
Originally posted by PersianMafia
And you're on traceaddict because? Let's be honest buddy, anybody, and I mean anybody, can play 99% of the 'elite' trance songs on a keyboard - with one finger. If you're looking for complex melodies trance is not the genre. Try Bach or Mosart.


And your point is? I was merely listing some reasons as to why some would hate the kind of music that guy has in his sig. The way the melodies in that type of music are constructed, executed and implemented fall under that category.

Oh yeah, and Talla is still making and playing trance.


Posted by Rockabye on Dec-08-2005 16:48:

this topic goes nowhere cuz the eurodance-lover never attended any club, festival or rave so has no idea what GOOD and QUALITY music can do with him...


Posted by XenatR on Dec-08-2005 16:55:

Re: Re: 'Cheese'

quote:
Originally posted by Cosmic

I also like some good cheese.
Some artist you have 'forgotten':

Groove Coverage
Neo Cortex
Voodoo & Serano
DJ's @ Work
Starsplash


hmm, ive heard all those artists apart from starsplash

yea, theyre good

i love

Groove Coverage - Holy Virgin (Rob Mayth Rmx)
Groove Coverage - On The Radio (Extended Version)
Groove Coverage - Runaway
Groove Coverage - The End (Axel Konrad Mix)
Neo Cortex - Elements (Vocal club mix)

havent heard too much of voodoo & serano, but Blood Is Pumping is a good song :P


Posted by Rockabye on Dec-08-2005 16:57:

how can you like groove coverage?

every track sounds like the other and the lyrics are pathetic...


Posted by XenatR on Dec-08-2005 17:07:

quote:
Originally posted by Rockabye
how can you like groove coverage?

every track sounds like the other and the lyrics are pathetic...


"every track sounds like the other" i hope so too

"the lyrics are pathetic" i like the lyrics

just listening to them now. they rock ;D


Posted by MKII on Dec-08-2005 17:17:

the best thing in eurodance music is when it stop


Posted by Phortastic on Dec-08-2005 17:19:

lol


Posted by XenatR on Dec-08-2005 17:25:

quote:
Originally posted by MK2
the best thing in eurodance music is when it stop


unluckily for you i dont see that happening


Posted by HardTranceProd on Dec-08-2005 17:47:

XenatR, there are many Euro and HandsUp fans, but you won't find them on this board.

PM me and I'll send you some links to huge forums like this one but for Euro fans


Posted by Rockabye on Dec-08-2005 17:49:

quote:
Originally posted by XenatR
unluckily for you i dont see that happening



well over here in germany eurodance/hands-up music first destroyed the trance-scene and now it goes on to destroy any other edm scene including themselves.

there are only few clubs left that play this music and it's not covered on music televion anymore.


so hopefully someday it will disappear and all the cheap producers and djs go to hell...


Posted by Rockabye on Dec-08-2005 17:51:

quote:
Originally posted by HardTranceProd
XenatR, there are many Euro and HandsUp fans, but you won't find them on this board.

PM me and I'll send you some links to huge forums like this one but for Euro fans



yeah maybe it's better you look for another forum if you wanna discuss about eurodance music.

we need to put all of our energy into the tiesto sucks discussions...


Posted by Zombie0915 on Dec-08-2005 18:22:

yikes, I didn't think kai tracid was cheese, I really liked the song "express your hidden passion", it didn't really seem to be made just to move product, at least to me.


Posted by noikeee on Dec-08-2005 20:29:

Re: Re: Re: Re: 'Cheese'

quote:
Originally posted by XenatR
oh wow, you must be so cool. im sorry, but i havent even been into the scene longer than 6months, so please, spare me the elitism. that track is fresh to me, and it F*UCKING OWNS


sorry, i'll admit that was very far from being an useful remark, had quite a bad day yesterday. anyway, you wouldn't believe the amount of people that likes that sort of music and that 2, 3 years later hate it. also, threads about "cheese" have been made 500 times in the past and are all pointless wastes of time and effort.


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