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Your nostalgia (pg. 2)
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Nostalgia:
Alien Factory, Technotronic, TurnUpTheBass series (1989-), Trance Nation series (1994-), Scooter, 2Fabiola, Cappela, Yves DeRuyter, Bonzaii records, Faithless (especially the remixes not many know of), BBE, KLF, RED5, DJ Quicksilver, Osura, The Good Men..... just a few by head.
I probably was one the first in Holland to order the vinyl of Seven Days In One Week after I heard it in a Belgium club and I still have it.
Also I kept the vinyls of Nylon Moon - Sky Plus and Face The Phase - Face The Phase since they have some emotional value.
Probably I spend too much money at cd's and visited local Dutch and Belgium clubs like The Peppermill, The Dockside and The Real too often.... Nice memories.... |
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| isoterra |
i can honestly say that number 4 is the only one of those that applies to me.
1. Vinyl nostalgia: although i used vinyl for a good ~2 years when i started DJing, i don't associate a great deal of romanticism with it now. in fact the things i'm more likely to remember when looking back at those days include:-
a) spending loads more money than i do now
b) finding it harder to hold a smooth mix than on cdjs
c) only being able to play released material
d) having to wait a day or two after paying for tunes
e) putting up with shocking pressing quality on some releases
f) frequently missing mixout points due to faffing around trying to find the first beat
g) not being able to edit tracks the way i want them
..amongst others. i've found DJing altogether less stressful & frustrating since switching to CDJs, basically.
2. Unpopularity nostalgia: - this never applied with me. in fact i've been subject to the exact opposite a few times (trance was far more mainstream when i was new to it). part of me wishes it were still as big as it was back then; it'd be easier to meet people with similar tastes & there'd be more decent regular club nights to go to.. so i guess you could call that 'popularity nostalgia' instead
3. Quality nostalgia: - i don't believe this is even an issue. label bosses will still only sign tracks they like, regardless of whether they have to invest money into them. in addition, the price of hardware only implies that production back then was limited to those who had cash to spare, which has nothing whatsoever to do with musical skill or talent. with regards to overall quality, i think nik summed it up nicely in another thread:
| quote: | | There's just as much boring music now as there ever was, it's just that nowadays it's much more easy to find (or hard to avoid, whichever way you want to look at it). |
4. Party nostalgia: can't argue with this one.. i still go out clubbing but nothing can ever top the magic of the honeymoon era :D |
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| distant |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I don't really get nostalgia. I started listening to electronic music seriously around 2000 and by 2001/2002 I'd already realised that the best stuff had been released before I started listening. I do hear tracks from that era and get nostalgic memories from them, but I don't think the period I started listening in was in any way the "best" era. |
Yup. I started out listening to cheesy commercial trance, and while I still enjoy those tracks just for that nostalgic value, they're not "the best".
The best of electronic music is stuff I found out about later. Metalheadz, RAM Records, Reinforced Records, Moving Shadow, old school UK garage, first and second generation Detroit techno, and among newer musics, the less upfront side of dubstep. |
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| Jono404 |
| I'm kind of nostalgic towards an era I wasn't part of in a way. '99 era trance still makes up a big part of what I listen to, and I was born in 89 and only really started going to proper trance and hard dance nights about 3 months ago. I suppose it comes down to the rose tinted aspect, that things always look better when you look back at them, I'm sure there were tons of tracks back in trance's heyday, but yet we only remember the good ones |
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| elFreak |
| It doesn't matter when you are born good music will always be good music. Its just slightly more rare when people dig deeper and pursue things that aren't easy. I never saw Jimmy Hendrix live, and i must say he is probably my favourite artist of all time (and i don't listen to much rock!) |
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| PETRAN |
| I definitelly get "Vinyl nostalgia", when djing was about (-as you said-) a pair of techniques and producing was about a bunch of great analogue synthesizers. I thing at times that today's countless pointless releases, the digital format and beatport are the shadow of what EDM one was. One gets the imrpession that EDM's undergound attitude is lost for good. On "Quality nostalgia" i'm not sure though. Whilst it is true that genres follow a natural course in which they are born, they reach a peak and eventually decline and die, a "quality nostalgia" could just be a subjective biased illusion created by a number of factors(well, now that i thing of it, this could hold true for actually any kind of nostalgia, explaining why my "vinyl nostalgia" could hold true just for me). For example a change in taste could explain why one things that older stuff are better in comparison to newer ones, creating a "nostalgia" effect. |
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| stevieboy32808 |
Me and nostalgia have a love/hate relationship.
I say hate because often the word is used by today's artists as an excuse to make garbage tracks and when asked why they don't make music like they used to, they respond, "stop living in the past". I think it's a copout to poor producing. For example if somebody asked me who sings better, Britney Spears or Tony Bennett, hands down I will say Tony Bennett 100 times over. Is it because I like living in the past? No, it's because I recognize quality over crap and this is why I still think 1996 to the early 2000 era was the best age for EDM because the quality especially when it comes to trance music supercedes that of today's garbage. By the way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPSPQbob9lY :D
At the same time I love nostalgia because it helps keep the scene fresh. Not all music should be reproduced in that same style today. I'm all about new ideas, new sounds, and great music so when I ask that almighty question why aren't you producing stuff like you did before, I'm of course referring to the timeless tracks we never get tired of and not the music that should stay in that era. |
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| Nostalgic |
| Nostalgia is all I have left for in EDM. |
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| B_man |
The nostalgia I have is entirely digital: mp3.com. I remember spending waay too much time in its heyday exploring music that I had no friggen clue about. I was crazy about discovering video game soundtracks, and then started looking more into electronic music. Now-a-days soundclick is sort of the second choice to that nostalgia, but it is still not the same.
I discovered trance in 2001 thanks to the group 'Trance[]Control'. Then I started getting into EDM in various forms. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Someone's been lurking the Ishboard. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Someone's been lurking the Ishboard. |
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