Originally posted by nefardec
I think 'the industry' has little to do with anything forward thinking. The establishment is conservative. The industry makes money off of this.
Moving forward IMO is outside of the industry. It is kids in their basement programming synths in max/msp and writing programs that let you adjust chords in recorded music. it's people that don't give a fuck about the industry because they are having fun doing something no one has ever heard before.
Agreed (and well put). This is why I listed "music" and "the industry" separately when asking my question.
Aug-18-2008 19:27
david.michael
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quote:
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I think one area that has largely stayed unexplored in dance music is musical form
Well, dance music needs to remain "danceable" by definition. Perhaps its just the nature of the beats [sic].
Aug-18-2008 19:28
MrJiveBoJingles
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Originally posted by nefardec
when was the last time you heard something that was so original you couldn't remember anything that sounded like it - it reminded you of nothing?
Some sounds I have made playing around in my sequencers.
Nothing recently in a finished composition, though.
Aug-18-2008 19:29
david.michael
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Some sounds I have made playing around in my sequencers.
Nothing recently in a finished composition, though.
But you're making noise as of late, not dance music, right?
Aug-18-2008 19:32
MrJiveBoJingles
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Originally posted by david.michael
But you're making noise as of late, not dance music, right?
Right.
Nefardec just said "something" without specifying dance music, which is why I said that.
Aug-18-2008 19:34
david.michael
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Ah, indeed he did.
Aug-18-2008 19:35
SMC
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Originally posted by david.michael
I'm hoping that this will be a discussion about what moves dance music forward though, and not another "what does the term 'progressive' mean to you?" thread. Only because that one's been done here a million times before.
Not nitpicking at you, I was just kinda expecting that to happen.
Are you sure you replied to the right person?
Aug-18-2008 19:35
david.michael
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Originally posted by SMC
Are you sure you replied to the right person?
Er, I did, but I think I read this the wrong way and I went down the wrong path:
quote:
continued calling it progressive
I'm just gonna stop talking.
Aug-18-2008 19:39
MrJiveBoJingles
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Maybe "progressive" is just a bad label for genres in general, since musical movements always tend to ossify and fall into repeating themselves, as far as I can tell.
Aug-18-2008 19:43
nefardec
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i meant dance music with my question
Aug-18-2008 19:55
MrJiveBoJingles
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Originally posted by nefardec
i meant dance music with my question
Hmm, then my answer would be "not in years."
Aug-18-2008 19:58
nefardec
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and so my point is,
progress in music is very very slow, and constantly referring back to itself. we're always moving somewhere though, even if we're looking back.
i don't think it's possible anymore to hear something completely different that is still stomachable and dance music. but there are still trends and sonic movements, slow as they may be
