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| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
These things have been said so many times on so many threads about the old prog and epic house...
Today I listened to sets of the stuff for hours: SYSTEM-J's epic house mixes and Progressive '93, the Digweed mix from this thread, a couple of old Sasha mixes, and the Courtyard mixes recently posted by samuellamont in DJ Promotion -- and of course it gave me the same exhilarating feelings that it always does. When I stopped listening, though, I felt kind of sad that most of the people here who really love this music also seem to think that it's gone for good, or at least extremely unlikely to return anytime soon.
The first time I ever wanted to make electronic music is when I heard the synths in Bedrock's "For What You Dream Of." This stuff is what inspired me to get into production in the first place. I've wandered through a lot of different territory since then, but now I'm feeling very much drawn back to my original inspiration. So I've made a resolution: from now until the end of 2009 I'm going to devote most of my production time and resources to making the kind of lush, synth-rich, melodic dance music that we prog and epic house lovers enjoy. Stuff in the spirit of '90s Bedrock and Quivver and Humate and Spooky and the other artists featured in the mixes I talked about above.
I don't have enormous musical talent, but I think I do have some and I certainly have the passion that will drive me to put in lots of hard work. I hope that by the end of next year I'll have produced at least a track or two that can inspire the same kind of feelings as those old tracks we always talk about. Right now I can think of no kind of music that would give me more pleasure to create.
Stay tuned I suppose.  |
Things like that have been said and hopefully will be said again, because by the look of things today it's all we can do - pray that some of these good genrés will regain the integrity they once had, even if deep inside our hearts we know that those sounds, those feelings are now recorded either on a '12 or bad rate mp3 file and all one can do is to spend your nights under the dim light of a candle and remember those times (if you had to advantage of being a part of the whole scene those days).
Won't pull the "omg house & trance r dead" card which has been said so many times that it's totaly obsolete. The problem is that there are so many producers and DJs out there now-a-days that everyone must come up with something special to manage to stay on top. Just look at mr Tijs & Armin which are now remixing/producing pop songs.
Digweed and Sasha still have those "old days" in their hearts, however are truly aware that they won't manage to change much.
I also admire that you're passionate about the music you're producing, but be aware that only passion and amazing production skills are not close to enough to boost you to where you can make a difference.
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