EDM clichés - c'mon ppl, start being original!
thought I'd start a rant about cliché in EDM music. feel free to add yours if I missed anything:
1. 303 assseeeeed line - ok, this has got to be the most overused crap like EVAR!
2. Farty bass - SvD got away with it. Prydz turned it into an art form. The rest of the herd followed, trotted by the likes of Alex Morph and AvB himself. Stop. please. all this farty eeelektro shit is funky but quite trite and quite overused.
3. Stutter effect. Wow, BT really left his inprint for like the last 8 - 9 years on the scene since he injected it into EDM mainstream. You know who else used stutter effect (with BT's help)? that's right - N'sync. faaaaagz!!! 
4. Matrix Phone Bit Crusher. Ok, it was really cool in Matrix - very digital, dopler-like effect that crunched bits into sub 8-bit territory. Wicked. Not anymore dawg, everyone and their grandmother used it in the track.
5. F*cking nylon guitar samples in trance tracks. It does not sound like a guitar, OK? Play the real thing well, record it or DON'T USE THIS SH!TE! Annoying to f*cking hell! Nothing ruins the track for me faster than a cheesy nylon guitar or any f*cking guitar for that matter in it. Very few tracks done it well because they used REAL guitar. The rest failed miserably.
6. Same friggin chord progression with a different beat and slightly modded arps. Yeah, I know you can play "that choon" 10 different ways - that doesn't mean you should make a track that sounds JUST LIKE IT! Aren't you a cheeky monkey - let's take same chords, create a slightly different arp pattern and voila! Who needs originality anyway.
7. Minimal beeps/bleeps/swooshes farts. Look mate, either finish the goddamn track or don't release this 1/10 finished piece of garbage. Zabiella, Villalobos, oi mates, are you f*cking listening????
(yeah I know they don't care... but minimal sux big time)
8. If you decide to do vocals, at least come up with something more clever than "your eyes/I realize", "your heart/apart", "feel sorrow/tomorrow", etc. cheeze. this one is especially precious: "Time goes by From the point of no return You've gotta be strong enough to learn". well, thank you for such a deep meaningful advice, oh trance yoda! 
9. Sad slow strings. Look, this is club music - not a fucking funeral wake. Take this shit to chaimber, it's trite and it's a major downer. Very few can execute it well - Corsten (with Orbit's help). chances are you most certainly can't. so, stop.
10. 16 to 32 to 64 step quantized drum roll for a build up. Stagnant pattern, plaguing trance since 99 (the last time it was fashionable).
Ok kids, class dismissed. Now go and create an original music this cranky tallentless hack who hasn't produced anything worthwhile can enjoy (or bash). Now, get off my lawn! 
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