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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
No it isn't. That analogy is poor to the point of being false. I'm not talking about selling a hi-hat pattern just to listen to, I'm talking about selling a hi-hat to be used.
DJs are collagists anyway- they create a larger picture out of smaller musical moments. Acapellas have been used for years too. And why should we have to suffer good tracks ruined by poor elements? A track will no longer have a poor bassline if you can use a better one instead. |
I find it very unrealistic though. I doubt that anyone would pay for a hi-hat whilst he/she can make one within a matter of seconds in Ableton, and even better, create it in ways that he/she precisely wants and even within the context of a live performance. Plus, this "fragmented-loops" thing could work for very loopy music, like minimal techno or very repeatetive house or something, because i doubt how one can make and sell a melodic lead-line or a melodic progressing bassline, since these elements often go hand-in-hand with the other elements of the track. Furthermore, an increase in EDM's musical complexity (more complex tracks with complex rhythms and melodies)would be at odds with such a "single-simple-loop" tracks.
I rather see a more "interactive/live" future, in which software sequencers like Ableton will allow djs to radically change existing tracks, or literally create tracks from zero whilst performing live, adding loops and melodies in the process. Pretty much what sasha was doing.
Or the opposite could happen. Maybe people would come to hate the "digitization" of everything and go back to more traditional, analogue ways. It would be rather cool if djs are substituted by groups of electronic musicians-performers, in which a drummer would play the rhythms, a keyboard player the synths and so-on.
I guess that some loops could appear, in the same way that we have acapellas and dj-tool-loops today, but these would still be in the "dj-tools" section and would possibly not represent the norm.
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