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| quote: | Originally posted by Storyteller
The tracks this label puts out might not be original every time. But the particular sound of the anjunabeats/anjunadeep is highly recognisable (and copied by numerous artists due to it's success). They're one of the few that aren't selling out and starting tons of sublabels just to maintain a certain income. The production quality is usually very high. Tons of big labels are taking on more and more artists and lowering the (quality) standards they have as they want to put out as much as possible because they otherwise wouldn't earn enough anymore. What I respect about Anjunabeats/deep specifically is that they seem to the opposite of what is the trend now, they hold on to that what defined them and do it well. |
I have to agree - even though not all of their output is my favourite stuff (I do like a fair bit of it though) their sound is clearly recognisable without having gone down the path of deliberately carving a cheesey signature for the sole sake of being instantly identifiable (like so many DJ's do these days).
However there is a difference between changing styles to be cool and changing styles to pioneer something.
For example, Fergie, was at one point, the pinup boy for hardhouse (which even at that point was a a serious bastardisation to what I knew as "hard house" but that's another thread) and he switched to techno, as he says for two main reasons: he didn't like where hard house was going, and thought some of the new Techno had a place in the mainstream (and not just being this stigmatic geek or drug only EDM thing).
He had a point - Hard house died in it's then present form and at that point techno (some of the slower and funky stuff) began really evolved into something new and interesting.
All uplifting trance does sound the same in the most part, but that's becuase people aren't thinking outside the box.
It's all about perspective though - I find it funny that everyone is posting links to ferry costen tracks and doing the "if only it was still like this" - Out of the Blue is one of the tracks that I consider killed dance music as I knew it.
I'm like where the fuck is Blue Amazon, Jayne Hannah and Way Out West? They really made music that doesn't sound the same.....
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As long as it gets my heart racing, itīs all good.
