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Originally posted by sljiva Exactly the same thing is happening to me for the last couple of months. After listening to some serious electronica (Autechre, Clark, The Flashbulb, MoM) the rest of the EDM (house, techno...) started to sound awfully formularic and sometimes even shallow to me (even the stuff people proclaim "innovative" and "original").

Pretty much.

Stuff like Autechre seems so much more "organic" to me than normal dance music. By "organic" I mean it can really play with form, dynamics, tempo, and even timbres within a single track in a way that genres like techno, trance, and house almost never do.

It's kind of like comparing a wild animal to a conveyor belt.

Sure, they both move a lot, but one is a lot less predictable and more interesting...

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Stuff like Autechre seems so much more "organic" to me than normal dance music. By "organic" I mean it can really play with form, dynamics, tempo, and even timbres within a single track in a way that genres like techno, trance, and house almost never do.

Maybe the better term would be "boundless" or "unconstrained". You basically don't think about it while you're listening to, for example, techno. You just want to hear a track that has unique atmosphere, fat bassline or some unusual fx. But once you experience (and start to get fond of) experimental electronica, you realize how limited is most of the dance music by its time signatures, tempos, rhythm patterns and especially "characteristic sounds".

i recently got a fuckton of hot nu-disco i would never have found otherwise.

good stuff.

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i really love this new category and most of the shit in there, which completely surprises me. good addition!

this should be a good addition

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most of the stuff i like in this "new" genre would have been in deep house or electronica before... just makes it harder to sift through.

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