Beatport category: "Indie Dance / Nu Disco"

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Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-11-2008 22:31:

Beatport category: "Indie Dance / Nu Disco"

Is this a new addition, or did I just not see this before?

Posted by cmay119 on Aug-11-2008 22:34:

New addition, been there for atleast 1-2 weeks.

Posted by bas on Aug-11-2008 22:45:

It's new. It's their way of breaking up the "Electronica" genre.

Posted by distant on Aug-11-2008 23:20:

what the hell do those genres have to do with eachother though?

maybe they have a similar audience, but assuming "indie dance" means nu-rave, they're really quite far apart.

Posted by Elec on Aug-12-2008 00:27:

I fuckin hate the word "indie"

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-12-2008 00:42:

quote:
Originally posted by distant
what the hell do those genres have to do with eachother though?

Beats me.

Judging by the samples I listened to on Beatport, I'm not much of a fan of either.

Posted by bas on Aug-12-2008 00:55:

You have to find the good stuff. I can recommend some labels if you care enough

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-12-2008 01:05:

What's the good stuff?

Posted by bas on Aug-12-2008 01:22:

Labels:
Permanent Vacation
Eskimo
DFA Records
Kompakt's upcoming releases
Wall of Sound (actually kind of hit or miss)
Solar Disco
Full Pupp

Artists:
Toby Tobias
Aeroplane
Holy Ghost!
Prins Thomas
Lindstrom
Todd Terje
Low Motion Disco
Simian Mobile Disco
Metro Area
Tensnake

Posted by wotyzoid on Aug-12-2008 01:42:

quote:
Originally posted by bas
Lindstrom

Win.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-12-2008 02:02:

Listened to a bunch of samples and couldn't really get into them.

I think I'm just bored of dance music in general.

Actually, I think it's all "linear" music that I'm getting tired of. Stuff that seems predictable. Including a lot of rock and pop music as well as most dance music...

Maybe that's why I've started to listening to noise and stuff like Autechre more often.

Posted by LoveHate on Aug-12-2008 05:08:

liking that dj koze stuff

Posted by sljiva on Aug-12-2008 09:10:

quote:
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Maybe that's why I've started to listening to noise and stuff like Autechre more often.

Exactly the same thing is happening to me for the last couple of months. After listening to some serious electronica (Autechre, Clark, The Flashbulb, MoM) the rest of the EDM (house, techno...) started to sound awfully formularic and sometimes even shallow to me (even the stuff people proclaim "innovative" and "original").

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-12-2008 11:53:

quote:
Originally posted by sljiva
Exactly the same thing is happening to me for the last couple of months. After listening to some serious electronica (Autechre, Clark, The Flashbulb, MoM) the rest of the EDM (house, techno...) started to sound awfully formularic and sometimes even shallow to me (even the stuff people proclaim "innovative" and "original").

Pretty much.

Stuff like Autechre seems so much more "organic" to me than normal dance music. By "organic" I mean it can really play with form, dynamics, tempo, and even timbres within a single track in a way that genres like techno, trance, and house almost never do.

It's kind of like comparing a wild animal to a conveyor belt.

Sure, they both move a lot, but one is a lot less predictable and more interesting...

Posted by sljiva on Aug-12-2008 12:22:

quote:
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Stuff like Autechre seems so much more "organic" to me than normal dance music. By "organic" I mean it can really play with form, dynamics, tempo, and even timbres within a single track in a way that genres like techno, trance, and house almost never do.

Maybe the better term would be "boundless" or "unconstrained". You basically don't think about it while you're listening to, for example, techno. You just want to hear a track that has unique atmosphere, fat bassline or some unusual fx. But once you experience (and start to get fond of) experimental electronica, you realize how limited is most of the dance music by its time signatures, tempos, rhythm patterns and especially "characteristic sounds".

Posted by kadomony on Aug-12-2008 12:33:

i recently got a fuckton of hot nu-disco i would never have found otherwise.

good stuff.

Posted by josh rising on Aug-12-2008 18:40:

i really love this new category and most of the shit in there, which completely surprises me. good addition!

Posted by TranceArmstrong on Aug-12-2008 19:43:

this should be a good addition

Posted by l�cid on Aug-12-2008 19:56:

most of the stuff i like in this "new" genre would have been in deep house or electronica before... just makes it harder to sift through.