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Radio Slave is as formulaic a producer as Deadmau5
Yet he seems to get far less flack for it. Why?
I should say that I play tracks by both on a regular basis, but also think that 90% of what each of them has made is so steeped in routine that it's as boring as music can get.
Deadmau5 gets shit on pretty regularly for making a bunch of tunes that sound the same, but in the end almost all of them have more going on in them than any Radio Slave tune. The classic argument in favor of RS is "Oh, they're just beat/dj tools" - well that's great and all, but apparently the bulk of DJ's the world over didn't get the memo, and we've all thus been subjected (at one point or another) to hearing way, way more of a Radio Slave tune played in a set than we ever should have.
So why is it, then, that some of you think Radio Slave has escaped the "I only make this kind of tune" stigma? Is it because of the audience he plays and makes music for? Does someone want to try and tell me that the quality of RS tunes is somehow objectively better?
I just don't understand how a producer who is quite literally only capable of making 10+ minute loops of the same samples garners as much respect as RS has, especially considering the amount of criticism other artists get for doing the exact same thing.
I have never once heard Radio Slave try anything that I would consider remotely different from his usual routine.
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