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Is it just me or is "electro" tech house slowly dying?

I'm hearing less and less fart-synthed tracks being played out. I'm also hearing less and less prominence from "The Swedish House Mafia" and overly stagnant sets that go nowhere with each track sounding like one long battle with the small intestine.

Could the tech "electro" clash house fad be fading out?

Say it's so, please say it's so.

I can tell I'll probably get flamed a bit as well, but maybe I haven't gotten my hopes up for naught.

not a moment too soon!

if theres a god.

I don't know why anybody would have a good reason to flame you to be honest. Even if you were a fan of the tech-house rise, as I was, you have to admit that the music needs to keep evolving and when the leechers of a certain trend cover the body of what once was something exciting, then I would have to say its time to dispose of the body and bring along the next one. Ha really liking that metaphor.

I hope so

It should've died a long time ago.

It's slowly melding into the minimal-tech camps, methinks.

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Originally posted by Sykonee It's slowly melding into the minimal-tech camps, methinks.

And doing a rather shit job at that, the proof being Angello & Ingrosso's Click.

I doubt highly whether it will ever truly die out entirely, and I don't mind hearing the occasional farty track at peaktime. But with any luck the entire sets made out of them have lost all novelty they once had.

Now if only epic trance could get its head out of its ass.

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Originally posted by idoru It should've died a long time ago.

Agreed. It was starting to become the new progressive house -a house I am not in to. Luckily it wasn't meant to be. I hope the days of John Creamer & Stephane K, Lemon8, and Subsky type of prog. house return!

if you're not seeing the electro it's either because you've got your eyes closed, or your looking on places like this, which last time I checked was TRANCEaddict.. not houseaddict

keep in mind though, that electro doesn't begin and end with the farting bassline sound and that sound has a certain shelf life. I've heard some of the best electro tracks ever during the last couple months.. a lot of it blurs the lines between tech/electro/progressive. And yes it has taken a good foothold as "the new progressive" for many. due to how much progressive element is in a lot of it. Guys like Dave Seaman playing it goes to show that.

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Originally posted by DJ NEMESIS keep in mind though, that electro doesn't begin and end with the farting bassline sound and that sound has a certain shelf life. I've heard some of the best electro tracks ever during the last couple months.. a lot of it blurs the lines between tech/electro/progressive.

Lol, the farting bassline is more tech-house than electro. True electro sounds more like this: link

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Originally posted by DJ NEMESIS if you're not seeing the electro it's either because you've got your eyes closed, or your looking on places like this, which last time I checked was TRANCEaddict.. not houseaddict

Why is it so many old members are saying "this is TRANCEaddict not houseaddict"? I mean can you not tell how variant the tastes are on this board? Honestly, having been here since 2001 you'd think it'd be almost palpable and fairly easy to spot. House, minimal, techno, and all other sorts of genres in electronic music are continually discussed in MD on an exceedingly consistent basis. It just baffles me.

Anyways, yes, I think the music I personally typify as "electro" clash tech house is starting to fade onto the backburner. I know there are a multitude of opinions from various people who define the genre I so duly portrayed as something entirely different, or at least slightly different. But I think most people are getting the general gist of what I'm saying.

Basically, the shit in A&I's 2005 Essential Mix. I find that people are growing ever more disinterested in it. As they should have done after about six months of its popularized inception.

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Originally posted by Sykonee It's slowly melding into the minimal-tech camps, methinks.

I'd rather hear more electro house than minimal... ugh

It is good for it to die though. (Yes I've noticed it too Demoted.) Bring on the new / bad / awesome music!

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Originally posted by iammesol I'd rather hear more electro house than minimal... ugh It is good for it to die though. (Yes I've noticed it too Demoted.) Bring on the new / bad / awesome music!

Whoa, I thought you were going to get defensive

Ah, it's so refreshing to know I'm not the only one who thinks it's slowly receding back into the background, to be played only at proper moments, and not as overbearing and cookie cutter productions to become parts to sets of the same likeness.

Heh, I hate to say it, but Marco V seems to be the last major dj/producer to still be making these types of tracks and having sets comprised almost entirely of them.

Defensive? lol... dude I want the good stuff back. Haven't you seen my reactions in the Steve Angello threads? I'm sick of it. I want new shizz!

Marco V's father died recently, so he's definately not feeling well enough to innovate... hope he overcomes that too

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Originally posted by Demoted Heh, I hate to say it, but Marco V seems to be the last major dj/producer to still be making these types of tracks and having sets comprised almost entirely of them.

marco v plays the good shit though.

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Originally posted by stevieboy32808 Agreed. It was starting to become the new progressive house -a house I am not in to. Luckily it wasn't meant to be. I hope the days of John Creamer & Stephane K, Lemon8, and Subsky type of prog. house return!

I don't like when I browse the "Progressive House" section of Beatport and 9 out of 10 tracks have the fart synth sound.

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Originally posted by iammesol Bring on the new / bad / awesome music!

http://www.discogs.com/release/587650??
http://www.discogs.com/release/483575???

Edit: Not the newest but still funky fresh!!

It won't die, it will always be around.... To me electro is or has been the music fashion, that meaning if you were out at an electro dance party it was seen as fashionable or cool. But as with all fashion it eventualy gets dumped when there's a change of season.

To the people who really enjoy the music they should be happy, all the gits going with it because its the in thing will fuck off.

One reason I say all this is because I've been to lots of electro dance parties and I meet people and try talk about the music or the dj's and they have no idea who the dj's are, or whose or what music is being played. They didn't really give a fuck! Completely different story to the trance parties i've been to recently. The people knew the tracks, I could sit down with them and have an intelligent convo about the music.

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Originally posted by Demoted Why is it so many old members are saying "this is TRANCEaddict not houseaddict"? I mean can you not tell how variant the tastes are on this board? Heh, I hate to say it, but Marco V seems to be the last major dj/producer to still be making these types of tracks and having sets comprised almost entirely of them.

Lol



I have no idea where you're looking, but it's sure not where the electro is! Nearly every big progressive dj I've seen recently has played it and there are certainly big electro tracks coming out.
Fuck, Luke Chable & Phil K came here recently and just hammered out an entire set of it! Paolo Mojo & Desyn Masiello were here recently and also played some of it. Progressive DJs are playing it, new nights are starting catering to it.. this saturday ironically I've been invited out on guest list for the grand opening of a big new electro night here on saturdays!

And as for TRANCEaddict... of course we all know there are lots of people on here that enjoy other styles as well. BUT it's the wrong place to look for a clear idea of house or electro because it is still a place where the majority prefers trance and the discussion is far more centered around trance than house or electro. You can only base so much off of what you see here and your perception of a hand full of names. There is a lot more to it than just a few swedes (Eric Prydz is fucking slaying at his all time best right now) and Marco V!

And yes, the point being argued about what's technically electro.. well there seems to be a difference between modern day electro and what used to be called electro. The new stuff certainly doesn't sound much like kraftwerk! However, look how many diff sounds (old/new) that trance has had as well. Trust me.. we are going to be seeing electro for a while. Maybe not farting basslines for a long time, but this modern electro & electroprog stuff for sure.

Who cares. People who abuse only one sound should not be DJ's anyway...if you know how to weave an electro bomb into your set at the right time, props.

I'm not against or for it, I think theres a time and place for everything...

my electro collection is limited purely to the themes from citroen adverts. and it's about enough for me

Just another fad dieing away.. Nothing to be too worried about.

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Originally posted by Clovis86 I think theres a time and place for everything...

Too true! One of my life philosophies

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