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I never post on music production anymore like i used to in early '06 january. No one ever said anything on posts. And when they did they'd say something, they say they don't like your genre, don't like idm, etc etc. They just want to hear a remix of something they already love and have no open mind. you don't get feedback equal to the work you put into something. EDM is fracturing apart into many sprawling, dying subgenres. In the early 90s we called FSOL, union jack, and guy named gerald trance!! As well as the candy stuff. Anything that touched that vibe was trance. People had very open minds. No one does now. Trance fossilized into something very dull. No one ever wants to bring this up, but early trance was based on drugs: X, acid, weed and even mushrooms. Now it's not uncommon to hear a fifteen year old "trancer" say "I never drink or do drugs, and I hate weirdo hippy music." What drug influence there is are the nightmare drugs: alcohol, cocaine and amphetamines. These are shit drugs for shit-for-brains. Trance was about assisted meditation. It attracted bright, curious people with open minds. Now it's crap disco. Real trance, with repetitive, hypnotic shamanistic beats is pointless to sober children or coked-up assholes.
I have migrated to obscure experimental or IDM forums where I can get real feedback and in turn be challenged by what I hear. On other forums, we run max/msp classes every day, take david cottle's supercollider class by correspondence, have in depth discussion by pros on compression etc. This is just a depressed trance.nu now.
I loved interacting with dj kane, rich etc but the good apples are few and far between. A lot of people who were fun like kopi have vanished. Trance per se is dying/dead. EDM will survive. But the future is always unpaved and unwritten.
In this forum, you get flamed bringing up anything you think might be educational. I actually have tried to bring up max and sc, but except for pixxxan, mr jiveboj, and i interacting well on one thread on that, most people in other threads freak out and start slinging shit. Reminds me of an old southern saying, "Don't try to teach a pig to sing, doesn't work and annoys the pig."
Last edited by Majutsu on Jul-31-2006 at 23:27
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