Originally posted by R!CH
if that was the case i would have been over this scene a long time ago. yet i manage to hear a very diverse range of experimental sounds, effects and arrangements every time i go out. obviously with a finite number of instruments and frequencies you're going to hear the same sound more than once. that's not my criticism. i'm talking about the cookie-cutter nature of commercial music which takes a small handful of those sounds and shuffles them around into a thousand variants for years and years and years without any semblance creative interpretation save for a cheesy diva vox here and there. underground music still uses a pretty standard bag of kicks and snares, but it's the other sounds and effects and how it is arranged that is quite unique to me.
Might that have to do with the fact that you and the rest of the underground scene keep switching up artists/genres so fast? MNML was the "it" genre not too long ago and now look what's happened. It wasn't inherently more creative than trance, it was just a different take on a 4/4 beat that everyone got bored of eventually. You just can't listen to EDM as much as we do without switching things up because every style gets stale after a while. The average weekend listener doesn't have this problem.
Out of curiosity, how many producers/dj's are you still listening to that you loved 5 years ago? 3 years?
bas
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Originally posted by R!CH
also, i love you tommy. please come back.
DON'T LEEEEEEEEEAVE ME GIIIIIIIIIIIRL
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Originally posted by Sadface
Might that have to do with the fact that you and the rest of the underground scene keep switching up artists/genres so fast? MNML was the "it" genre not too long ago and now look what's happened. It wasn't inherently more creative than trance, it was just a different take on a 4/4 beat that everyone got bored of eventually. You just can't listen to EDM as much as we do without switching things up because every style gets stale after a while. The average weekend listener doesn't have this problem.
Out of curiosity, how many producers/dj's are you still listening to that you loved 5 years ago? 3 years?
Oh noez, music is progressing...I DON'T LIKE NEW THINGS :mad:
drEamer
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Originally posted by Clovis
So Beethoven is on the same level as Britney Spears? Slippery slope...
not to me, but there are certainly people in the world who think that
diskodave
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Originally posted by Clovis
So Beethoven is on the same level as Britney Spears? Slippery slope...
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Originally posted by drEamer
not to me, but there are certainly people in the world who think that
Britney Spears has 4 PLATINUM singles - So DUH she's a more successful music artist! :stongue:
xjoshx
lmao at the video!
rizo
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Originally posted by diskodave
Britney Spears has 4 PLATINUM singles - So DUH she's a more successful music artist! :stongue:
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Originally posted by xjoshx
lmao at the video!
Sadface
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Originally posted by bas
Oh noez, music is progressing...I DON'T LIKE NEW THINGS :mad:
I know man. I'm lucky MP3 files can't wear out cause I'd be on my 20'th copies of "silence" and "one more time" by now.
Clovis
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Originally posted by drEamer
not to me, but there are certainly people in the world who think that
Those people are called rednecks.
raveed
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Originally posted by Clovis
So Beethoven is on the same level as Britney Spears? Slippery slope...
Wouldn't be surprised if the folks exclusively posting in the symphony discussion section on Operaaddict.com call Beethoven a sellout given hes the most well known composer in that genre :p
raveed
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Originally posted by Sadface
Sure, except theres pretty much nothing in EDM these days thats "at the tip of the artistic sword." Most everyone is just producing songs with the same recycled themes that have been played out for years. It's just a matter of the producer choosing which audience to cater to with his sound. It's an interesting choice that everyone can obviously have varying opinions on, but its not as though theres inherently more value in making one type of recycled music over another.
Agree and disagree. There are a lot of artists currently out there in the trance genre that have their own unique sound.
Gareth Emery uses a lot of uplifting synth melodies
Andy Moor uses this haunting female voice blended in as a melody instead of as a dominating vocal
Sander van Doorn has the whole digital take on the joke 'How do you name a chinese baby' thing going
The recycled sound for me is the number of remixes of classics that were already remixed plenty of times years back that have been coming out lately.
displaced
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Originally posted by Clovis
So Beethoven is on the same level as Britney Spears? Slippery slope...
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Originally posted by drEamer
not to me, but there are certainly people in the world who think that
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Originally posted by Clovis
Those people are called rednecks.
correct me if i quote you in the wrong context, so if you replaced britney spears with kanye west, you'd call those people...
raveed
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Originally posted by displaced
correct me if i quote you in the wrong context, so if you replaced britney spears with kanye west, you'd call those people...
ima let you finish but BEYONCE HAD ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC VIDEOS OF ALL TIME
