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Direction of EDM around the world (pg. 2)
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| stevö |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
Right, but my point is with the state of how the genre is right now, it's the smaller venues that tend to get the better crowds at least, even if it's just the huge venues that get the biggest names. I guess when you get the biggest names, you attract the biggest d-bags. :conf:
I think more and more it's just people wanting to say "yeah, I saw ______ at ______!!!" as opposed to people actually going for the music. |
im not sure which scene's crowd is better, they each have an almost equal amount of bad qualities to them. im leaning towards disco house artsy scene to be my favorite, but they are missing a lot of qualities you get with commercial house or other bigger audience edm scenes. i honestly believe each type of club music could learn something from the other if they would just stop being so stubborn with horse blinders on. most clubbers (and thus, djs, producers) make up their minds for thier preferred type of club music and completely shut out others and dont consider what's quality regardless of genre. even hip hop, non mainstream club music could learn a thing or two from current hip hop, like the attention span factor - there seems to be a trend that the more artistic/hypnotic the club music, the more tendency for needing a longer attention span for it to build and elements introduced over a longer period of time. and it also tends to be introspective. i dont think it needs to be that way, especially after seeing a good dj in a less popular genre make it more accessible and appeal to a wider audience. you wonder why your scene is struggling why not learn from what works popularity wise? you dont have to completely sell out, just incorporate things here and there. probably most edm producers set out to make music with a bit of anti-pop mentality, even if just subconciously doing it. |
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| nefardec |
who cares?
stop worrying about this nonsense and buy/play/listen to the music you love. |
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| srussell0018 |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
who cares?
stop worrying about this nonsense and buy/play/listen to the music you love. |
Because it's not about what you listen to at home or whatever, it's about "the scene" being ruined for seeing it live. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
Because it's not about what you listen to at home or whatever, it's about "the scene" being ruined for seeing it live. |
Seeing what live? Deadmau5 and David Guetta? These mainstream-friendly artists are only going to attract crowds to mainstream parties. |
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| srussell0018 |
| Yeah but at least where I live, the only opportunities to see the artists I want to see are huge shows that feature 20-30 DJ's. One or two of them may be Guetta/Deadmau5-esque, and so they bring out all the people who just go because they recognize a name. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| That would suggest that artists you want to see are pretty mainstream themselves. But the real problems seems like the area you live in. My advice is to move to a big city. That's what I did. |
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| Specialkprods |
| Here in idaho.... some mad clubbing goes in on my barn. |
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| Trig Palin |
| quote: | Originally posted by Specialkprods
Here in idaho.... some mad clubbing goes in on my barn. |
...she was only seventeen... |
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| Teezdalien |
| I think when the gates for something new, innovating and exciting are opened, a flood of imitation comes through with it. Always has and probably always will. |
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| corjay9 |
| I can't complain about the music scene in Montreal, I like to think of it as a music city. You live in Rochester, what do you expect? A super club with Ricardo Villalobos and John Digweed every weekend? |
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| Schadenfreude |
| quote: | Originally posted by corjay9
I can't complain about the music scene in Montreal, I like to think of it as a music city. You live in Rochester, what do you expect? A super club with Ricardo Villalobos and John Digweed every weekend? |
i don't know if you are an old like me, but it used to be so much better.
it is still better than 99% of north america:p |
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| ChemEnhanced |
Technology is ruining the music. Almost anyone can produce a track and throw it on the internet for people to download and listen to. Producers are creating so many new tracks every month that any good tracks get lost in all the crap.
As for the "scene"...in North America you can't even compare the scene now to the scene 20 years ago. Its like comparing apples and oranges....they are just too different.
Electronic music is more popular now but it will fade away....its happened before and it will happen again. |
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