As for the ranting, who cares? It's entertainment. There are enough ppl on TA who tell me to off and I'm usually like "lol, ok? whatever" - until it gets personal and then I pull out my Diginut dictionary/thesaurus and go all ape.
bcope
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Originally posted by GGM
Just trying to say 2 things.
-mau5 has changed his music in favour of what the mainstream folks want to hear just as much as the people he's calling out.
-End of the day who cares about him or any of the others? Nobody is forcing anyone to listen to their music, go to their shows, or listen to their rants. So if any of it bugs you, then don't.
Sorry if either of those came off as trolling...
to your first point above, the reason i asked is because the two tracks you referenced are, to me anyway, basically the same. if you stripped the vocal off the 2nd one its not really any cheesier than the first. similar patches, similar sound, similar drums...no? to me its like referencing "someday" vs "this is how you remind me" as an example that nickel back has "gone commercial" over time. sure they're two albums apart but the songs are more or less identical. just because the band/artist is more commercially successful when the 2nd one comes out it doesn't inherently make their music "more commercial".
as to the 2nd part of your post i think you might have me confused with someone else. nothing about deadmau5 or his tunes "bugs" me. i couldn't give two poops, personally. i am just simply having a civilized discussion (you know...points, counterpoints) with some (presumably) like-minded people about his music and how its perceived.
GGM
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Originally posted by bcope
to your first point above, the reason i asked is because the two tracks you referenced are, to me anyway, basically the same. if you stripped the vocal off the 2nd one its not really any cheesier than the first. similar patches, similar sound, similar drums...no? to me its like referencing "someday" vs "this is how you remind me" as an example that nickel back has "gone commercial" over time. sure they're two albums apart but the songs are more or less identical. just because the band/artist is more commercially successful when the 2nd one comes out it doesn't inherently make their music "more commercial".
as to the 2nd part of your post i think you might have me confused with someone else. nothing about deadmau5 or his tunes "bugs" me. i couldn't give two poops, personally. i am just simply having a civilized discussion (you know...points, counterpoints) with some (presumably) like-minded people about his music and how its perceived.
That's why I was kind of starting off with agree to disagree, cause just saying imo I think he has changed his sound. Ultimately it's all opinion I just thought I'd toss mine out too. :)
Second part wasn't directed to you at all sorry about that. It was more so in regards to the people that get all bothered by the mainstream DJ's music and rants going around, including deadmau5 himself in calling out his peers on doing more or less the same as he does. Until someone is being forced to do something they don't want or it's becoming detrimental to their quality of life through no choice of their own then I really don't see a point in making a fuss about it.
bcope
this is what it sounds like when doves cry ;)
geroin
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Originally posted by bcope
actually joey youngman is a better example, cause kaskade was fairly successful commercially even before he started making the absolute e that he makes now. now, none of us here can begin to know joey youngman's motive for making the move from the stuff he used to make to the wolfgang gartner alias, but like...something caused that. the question exists and can be asked, right? was he wanting to "spread his musical wings" or was he maybe seeing disco/deep house as a dead end, with a diminishing DJ schedule and maybe a new mortgage etc to worry about...looking at the "electro" house wave that was rising and the fat paycheques that were going along with it and saying to himself "id like some of that"
i spoke to someone that knows him and was told that he really hates the music he does now as wolfgang gartner, he just does it because he can and it makes him enough money after years of hustling making underground music as joey youngman..
geroin
if you make music like this, no way in hell you can like you make as wolfgang gartner lol
bcope
i don't know...there are lots of people out there with some really varied taste making some *really* varied stuff.
you know peter horrevorts? go listen to the oliver shine stuff on beatport. same dude.
happens all the time'
edit" not saying what you're saying isn't true (because it totally could be) just saying that its not always that cut and dried. there are just some people who like lots of different stuff all at the same time.
MSZ
lol
bcope
the guy that did the rex the dog stuff used to do stuff as JX on hooj choons way back in the day. doesn't get much different than that.
he went the other way, too. from giant arena anthems (top 20 hit in the UK) to weird, quirky slow italo disco type stuff
MSZ
my dog rex just died, thats not cool :(
geroin
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Originally posted by bcope
the guy that did the rex the dog stuff used to do stuff as JX on hooj choons way back in the day. doesn't get much different than that.
he went the other way, too. from giant arena anthems (top 20 hit in the UK) to weird, quirky slow italo disco type stuff
Look at the new ep from groove armada, nothing like the they used to put out, proper house tunage
bcope
hehe go back and look up some of the old Qattara, beat foundation and Big C stuff on youtube. super flaming hands in the air piano stuff and tall bro that is 1/2 of groove armada was involved in all of those
even when he was making radio pop with GA he was always djing pretty good tunes. i saw him at space one night a few years ago and he melted my face off.
