|
What current genre is kicking it off PRESENTLY? (pg. 2)
|
View this Thread in Original format
| Clovis |
| quote: | | my arse, you have to search a little deeper only to find the obscure bleepy tune with the obscure sounds and the extra-noisy low-end which every pseudo-underground scenekid things that is so dark and coool so,you gonna buy it as a digital download, only to end with a million digital downloads of useless and musicless 4/4 obscure tunes with obscure sounds and extra-noisy low-ends, realizing after a few years that you were such an idiot to spend so much money on countless, musicless tunes whereas you could spend and buy something of substance which someone in the future will take a listen and say "hell, what great retro-music is THIS that my uncle/father has!" Thanks but i already have the original "Secondtoughestintheinfants", "In Sides" and "Hypermetrical" by ing Cygnus-X for that! What (new stuff) do you have? |
Thats really just your opinion, and imo an unfortunate one. |
|
|
| SteelWolf |
| I say tech house and electro house are big right now... just my opinion tho |
|
|
| Stasis |
On the big, "popular" front of dance music...I think the whole indie influence is still a driving scene that's bringing in the most new faces to clubland. Kitsune, Ed Banger...um, Daft Punk, etc. etc. is the new gateway that trance might have been as recently as only a year or two ago.
On the more underground, er "traditional" dance front, I'm going with Clovis. There's a new sense of warmth, of the hint of melodies, of some old-school arpeggiators, seeping into the minimal and tech-house that really was the backbone of most club sounds. I think the DJ's who are looking the best coming out of the last year or two are the ones who had the sense not to completely follow the trends of minimal (like, say, Danny Howells), and who always maintained that housy/melodic thing while lots of other big DJ's totally dove into the ping-pong delay deal. |
|
|
| miamitranceman |
| Bring on the melody! Enough of this farty bass already. :whip: |
|
|
| ohbeone |
I was not following EDM very closely the last few years. I was really in it from about '96 - '02. I've been getting back into it now and have only done a little searching of tracks but it's the same as it's always been. There may be a couple new styles and blending of styles, but no matter what style, there's a lot of crap but you can always find soul in just about every style. You just gotta look and be patient to find what you're looking for. For me, there's more of a mood I'm looking for than a style. You can mix genre's together as long as the moods match and the mixes flow.
My 2 - cents. I have no idea what the up and coming 'genre' is but to me it doesn't matter. I go for what moves me. |
|
|
| Cobalt |
| quote: | Originally posted by PETRAN
In all seriousness, EDM is like....dead right now. There is nothing new creative or innovative going on, its like it came to a dead-end. You've got the samey-same house, techno, trance stuff and some weird bleepy minimal and farty electroy stuff as the "new thing". This period is a far cry from the 90s indeed and i don't thing that anyone will remember anything at all from this period, except for the odd cool Joris Voorn or The Field albums which will be "out of print" in like 5 years from now. Nothing like Orbital, Underworld or anything like that... |
I'm tempted to agree.
Electro house has already become one of those short-lived, regrettable bandwagons, like speed garage. I feel I can speak for some of us who thought it was all along, and saw this coming.
Minimal won't be embarrassing in the same way, but I'd bet money that people five years from now will have trouble remembering a single track without "Dubfire".
Deep House is putting out a steady stream of good material, but little that I'm inclined to listen to six months after hearing it. Contrast with the 90s, when there were buckets of productions that I'm happy to play again today.
EDM has been stuck in this ponderous rut for a few years now; I expect the next major movement to be something fun and gimmicky. An Italo revival, perhaps? |
|
|
| kadomony |
since october of last year i've been pushing melodic progressive house and 80's vibe prog house.
tons of great artists releasing amazing tracks atm. mark my words its gonna be huge this year. |
|
|
| ohbeone |
| quote: | Originally posted by PETRAN
In all seriousness, EDM is like....dead right now. |
I think what we might be no the verge of is a metamorphosis of DJ culture. Since I last bought records (probably about 2003) It seems most things have shifted to CD or other means of spinning digital content. I was pretty stoked when I first read about Sasha's custom controller and how he stopped mixing records and started basically making a live performance out of every set. He had said how now with so much music available on the internet it makes most of the big music available to everyone. So he adapted and moved forward. Forgive me if I'm totally ignorant of capabilities of current mixers or CD players/tables etc but I saw something coming out in May from Stanton that looks like the next step. Basically like what Sasha is doing available to everyone. Ability to queue up samples, make samples, cut, edit tweak on the fly, load up any track, play multiple tracks etc all much easier than has been before. If people begin to utilize this sort of gear well in the ways I'm thinking, DJ performances can start to get a lot crazier, more creative and alive than ever before.
Here's what I'm talking about. I guess it's called the system?:
http://www.stantondj.com/v2/index.asp# |
|
|
| Clovis |
| Sasha is doing nothing of interest on Ableton anymore. |
|
|
| Nrg2Nfinit |
ITALO DISCO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im telling you.. you see it in the influence in all these "electro house" tracks
when they have nothing to do with electro in reality |
|
|
| ohbeone |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis
Sasha is doing nothing of interest on Ableton anymore. |
That may be...I don't know what he's doing now but at the least when he first started doing that it was pretty tight. I'd ask what he's doing now if not ableton sets and stuff anymore but I think it's hijacking the thread a bit.
More on topic, I think tools offering more creativity allows for more change in the scene. New talent may arise that will do things no one's ever heard. I hope so at least. |
|
|
| Gauss |
Even if all music production of this world stopped right now, all of you could listen to music that's new to you for the rest of your life.
If EDM production starts to stagnate, you know what to do. Discogs is your friend. |
|
|
|
|
