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I think in general, people are tired of artsy fartsiness in dance music. people just want to go back to the good ole days when it was raunchy and fun. many dj's focus too much on "building a set" and "taking you on a journey" or expressing themselves artistically through a sequence of tracks, that they forget the number 1 priority is have a dancefloor moving.
The reason why people are tired of it is because minimal/tech became popular to the point that's all you'd hear all night long in the club, from beginning to end. Just like a track has a time and place, so do genres. Doesn't make sense to play one flavor all night long. It's "boring europe's dancefloors to death" right now:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/mus...al.techno.house
Another reason is because this music is hard to work with. Think about it: you could play some popular mainstream dance classics that all you have to do is hit play on the cd player and even your grandma will get up and dance, like "baby got back" or "groove is in the heart" etc. On the opposite end of the spectrum, very long repetitive trancey tracks ... do not work on their own, at 0+ pitch. The artsier and trancier, the more talented the DJ needs to be to make it work. That's exactly the problem, you have a million djs that are not talented enough to play the music they are playing.
Another reason is trendiness. Its remarkable really, how ricardo willalobo starts to play tracks with accordians, trumpets, clarinets, and within weeks you see the minimal charts filled with tracks with this formula. Its amazing how powerful this one man's opinion is, that suddenly its not the glitchy sound that's hip, it's the organic minimal sound like the ones Clovis listed that all the "underground" djs play now. At this point a lot of artistic credibility is lost, it becomes more of a synthetic mind trickery thing, wrapped in an organic instrumentation ladened blanket. To be artistic is to express yourself. Ricardo, Luciano, they played tracks with that sound to express their cultural roots, so when i hear white suburban dorks playing it i can't help but roll my eyes. If you want to be artistic, do something really crazy and different from everyone else. Go home right now and do a minimal tech track mashup with an 80's metal hair band song. Anything! Just something for the love of god that no one else is doing. Please! Be unique! Don't worry if no one else likes it or you get kicked off the booth, take a chance for once.
Another reason is it lacks sex appeal. Its mental hypnotic music, with ryhthms that are hard to get on a girl's booty with.
Combine all of this and its only a matter of time when an aspiring producer on the dancefloor goes home frustrated and says "fuck it" and does a reactionary thing like make music on the opposite end of the spectrum of artsy fartsy music, such as justice, boyz noize, indie rock etc. This is why, in my opinion, there is a big divide, a split, in dance music today.
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