Has anyone else noticed how many tracks from the early 90s (or even late 80s) have been showing up in tracklists lately? I find it fascinating to hear sounds seemlessly blended across 15 or 20 years. I'm used to thinking of dance music as this hyper-trendy family of genres, where only the newest material is legit to play.
Are we seeing a sort of coming of age in dance music?
Jul-20-2007 05:08
nefardec
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maybe just a coming of age of the deejays
Jul-20-2007 05:27
shaw
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I'd say that at least part of it is due to the sudden & rapid growth, particularly with digital downloads & bedroom DJing becoming easier & more common. It's a way for seasoned or well-versed DJs to separate themselves from the chart-trolling new guys, and to appeal to the more knowledgeable listeners with something unexpected & with nostalgic appeal.
Jul-20-2007 05:28
Cobalt
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Originally posted by inconspicuous
I'd say that at least part of it is due to the sudden & rapid growth, particularly with digital downloads & bedroom DJing becoming easier & more common. It's a way for seasoned or well-versed DJs to separate themselves from the chart-trolling new guys, and to appeal to the more knowledgeable listeners with something unexpected & with nostalgic appeal.
That definitely seems possible. But I wonder if recent musical trends have also made the blending less obvious. A track from the early 90s would have stuck out in a set five years ago, but now it seems many tracks from that era mix in quite smoothly.
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Originally posted by nefardec
maybe just a coming of age of the deejays
Heh. Perhaps so!
Jul-20-2007 05:39
Domesticated
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quote:
Originally posted by inconspicuous
I'd say that at least part of it is due to the sudden & rapid growth, particularly with digital downloads & bedroom DJing becoming easier & more common. It's a way for seasoned or well-versed DJs to separate themselves from the chart-trolling new guys, and to appeal to the more knowledgeable listeners with something unexpected & with nostalgic appeal.
Can confirm.
I try to do this myself sometimes.
How can they play the same tracks as you if they don't know what they are called and have no way of getting copies anyway?
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Yes! I like this trend a lot.
Recently, I picked up the original mix of 'Hale Bopp', slowed it down quite a lot and spinned it in the middle of a tech-house set. It so naturally blended with the rest of mainly current music I played and it was wonderful to see how can almost a decade old song be put into a completely different context.
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Jul-20-2007 07:02
shaw
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I'll admit to having done it a good deal lately, as well.
Jul-20-2007 07:03
basd
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Well, as a result of being stuck in the past music-wise, I tend to play a lot of older (5-7 years old) tracks.
Yeah, I've noticed that trend too. For example, I was listening to one of the Booka Shade promo mixes the other day where they played Marmion - Schöneberg and Choice - Acid Eiffel among all that new mnml/tech house stuff and it sounded great. That two tracks didn't excel at all, nor they ruined the flow of the set. They just made it much more interesting
Jul-20-2007 09:03
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