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Originally posted by ~*Stereohead*~ look, there are always exceptions...i'm not saying i hate every song ever made that fits the genre in question ('despise' was a harsh word, i admit it) however, i am saying that i am fkn fed up of hearing the same formula & same components in each track that fits this hipster/ketamine house genre. everybody and their mother has jumped on this wagon, and i get why. it's popular, it's hip, it's what attracts attention from bigger artists like lazarus, art dept, jones, foss, troxler, etc...these days. i don't think it will fade away soon, but eventually, yes, it will. music is like fashion, everything repeats itself... i think some ppl may have the wrong impression, and think i like this hipster house maybe because maher plays a lottttt of it these days and i support him no matter what he makes, but it's really funny actually when i come home & he asks what i think about what he's working on and i say something like 'i fkn hate this' lolllll...i am brutally honest with him. honestly, it just hasn't grown on me...but i can still enjoy SOME of it in small doses with the right ppl and the right party. it's not all terrible, but i am sick of it. and it's interesting, like ppl said before, i too hear maceo plex absolutely everywhere, but fuck, i still don't get sick of his sound. i rly feel he's in a fkn league of his own...u want a new beatport genre? maceo plex house, there, done. i still listen to 'life index' almost every day. so it's not because a genre is everywhere that i dislike it...it comes down to taste in the end (like everything else in life i guess). ill check out the hot natured party that's happening at telus theatre, maybe they'll impress me this time

i'm with you on this. that whole sound is really overplayed at the moment. i was into it for a bit, but now i just want to get away from it because that's all you hear wherever you go.