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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles It really does seem like the proportion of talentless hacks within dance music has been increasing over the past ten years or so.

Much like the upswing in weird and despicable news reports, it has a lot more to do with the communication medium and increased media penetration. But there is another side to this: we view the past through a filtered lens. The artists we remember are almost always the good ones; those who made music to last. All the copycats and hacks from back in the day are overlooked... so it just seems like the average quality of a release was better back then. I don't really think that is necessarily the case.

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Originally posted by basilisk Much like the upswing in weird and despicable news reports, it has a lot more to do with the communication medium and increased media penetration. But there is another side to this: we view the past through a filtered lens. The artists we remember are almost always the good ones; those who made music to last. All the copycats and hacks from back in the day are overlooked... so it just seems like the average quality of a release was better back then. I don't really think that is necessarily the case.

Well, there is some of that "nostalgia" effect, but I don't think that's the whole story.

The truth is that when it was a lot more difficult and expensive to make electronic music and get it pressed, only people who were either very dedicated or rich could do it.

Don't get me wrong, there's still lots of good music to be found today. It's just that there are also piles of mediocre shit that either simply wouldn't have been released pre-2000s or wouldn't even have been made at all because the crappy and undedicated producers who gave birth to it would have been too discouraged by the difficulty and time investment required to make signable music.

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Originally posted by jupiterone waiting for some 8 note frank sinatra remixes

I'll be working on a Coffee Song remix the rest of the Summer.

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I've heard a fart bass remix of Born Slpipy for almost a year now too. Not sure what remix it was, but it was one of those track that had a trance-like build up, and then bam, nasty fart bass. Just like that terrible Jump Around remix.
I heard Tall Paul play this fart bass remix of Born Slippy in February, and during the break down 2 dudes at the front were so stoked that they gave each other high fives and then pulled in for a hug... twice.

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Originally posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs The thing that bothers me the most is these twats not giving any credit to the original artists.

have you guys heard the new Deadmaus5 remix of Sandstorm?

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Originally posted by Aquadyne have you guys heard the new Deadmaus5 remix of Sandstorm?

You're joking, right?

I do see that the mau5 recently shit on Blendbrank's "Synthetic Symphony" with an "electro house" remix, though.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles You're joking, right?

It's got an electro feel to it.

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Originally posted by Aquadyne It's got an electro feel to it.

Oh good lord.

I hope you're not being serious.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles The truth is that when it was a lot more difficult and expensive to make electronic music and get it pressed, only people who were either very dedicated or rich could do it.

While that's true, look at the rich labels and artists pumping out tripe today. Ultra records, etc

Back in 1983 it was kids like derrick may with their friend's drum machine and uncle's keyboard, you know?

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Originally posted by nefardec While that's true, look at the rich labels and artists pumping out tripe today. Ultra records, etc

Yep. There are lots of people riding on their own past successes, or riding on other people's success, and putting out crap left and right.