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Anyone here bored of EM? How did that happen?? (pg. 2)
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| DJ RANN |
In fairness you you got in to trance when it was at it's test period, and would say that tiesto at that point had completely sold out so the bar wasn't very high to start with.
I don't know how old you are but electronic music has been around since the 70's long before I was born so we all grew up with some form of electronic music in our lives. To suddenly "discover it in 2007" seems very odd to me.
Even when I got in to dance music as an early teen, it was first hardcore and Oldschool and Jungle/D&B then I realized I loved trance and house and prog,a nd now my tastes are seriously broad even though I don't have much time to hunt for it.
What you;re describing is having gotten in to trance at a particularly mediocre place in it's history, then delved in to other types purely retrospectively which simply doesn't have the same feeling or connection as experiencing in it's place & time, then wondering why it doesn't appeal to you like it used to.Dance music is partly an experiential thing and there's something to be said for music being the soundtrack of your life.
It will always be a part of me, whether it be classic or some track that just came out and I've never heard before or something I make at home.
But the bit I really don't get is that you were still using kazaa and limewire in 2007.
(It actually doesn't make any sense as Kazaa shut down in 2002). |
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| Dj Pluviose |
Well I used Kazaa during the DJ sammy days.
Also, yeah I got into it in 2007 so yes I was listening to lots of garbage around that time. I had no prior electronica experience like you guys did either, I was completely a modern starter and matter of fact 2008 was my ASOT phase. The thing that brought me to into older tracks was when I heard Tiesto play Silence ISOS Remix at his Kaleidoscope concert in SF. When I found out that track was produced in 1999 it inspired me to search for more 90s music.
In 2010 when I first registered here was when I officially stopped listening to anything ASOT, TATW, AnjunaBeats, Armada, Tiesto Club Life.
I'm a bit jealous you all enjoyed the right music when it was prominent; so I lived vicariously through you all in my own little world.
Dance music is still great, I just calmed down from all the hype that it used to have on me. I'm not trying to put any TA members down or anything or saying I'm better because I've moved on, no that's not what I'm trying to say.
I do however still have a passion for it but it would need to involve lots and lots of money. I've always had to dream of playing oldskool tracks in a crowded environment just to see how modern day listeners would react to it. |
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| DJ RANN |
In all honestly, I don't really think you've been through a full cycle yet.
By that, I mean things change, scenes change and there times when it's a peak and others when you're disillusioned. I think you're experiencing the down swing for the first time.
I loved my hardcore and oldschool but then it got really cheesey and it felt like the magic left the scene/music. I found another type of related music (jungle/dnb) that was exploding, all good fun then I realized I actually liked something else which since then has been the constant denominator.
in the early 00's trance went to and for a couple of years it was more prog and house, then moved to the states which was finally having it's dance music moment and it was like the late 90's (at least in terms of energy and enthusiam for the music) all over again. Now it's got a bit cack here in LA again and it's sold out. I'm sure it will morph again and it will pull me back.
It's fun to play some of the classics to a bunch of friends - I did that last night and playing all sorts but the most fun we had was to some mid 00's house/disco tracks. However, don't be under the illusion that you'll really ever have the chance to play a classics set to a packed club - I'd love to play an epic house or 96-99 trance set somewhere but it's not really going to happen, and actually I'm not that bothered as it was a time and a place, and that has moved on.
Go out, find music you like and hear it other than staring at your computer or phone screen. Travel if you must - Jack (sys J) goes all over the world to listen to DJ's he likes. I get a lot that come here and I try to hear something when I'm back in Europe. you can't truly appreciate dance music in a bubble, sat in your bedroom/living room. |
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| rdevito |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Pluviose
I didn't only listen to trance though. I listened to lots of house, acid house, techno, ambient, and also dabbled in drum n bass, dub step, deep house, breakbeat/jungle, gabber, electro funk, and several other ones I can't remember. |
How deep did you dig? I highly doubt that you listened to all of this genres to a point that you got bored of EVERY SINGLE ONE.
| quote: | | Originally posted by Dj Pluviose Like I said music overall is sorta phasing out of my life. |
The force is weak with this one.
| quote: | | Originally posted by Dj Pluviose So those of you who've been around for over a decade how did keep feeding that interest? |
I've been listening to Electronic Music since 2005...10 years!. However, i must say, this forum had a big influence on me. Thanks to TA, now i know how noob i was when i registered, and how much music i've been learning from the past 5 years. It's amazing how a PM can make a difference. When i got bored of Trance and Prog House, i just PM'd Woony, and since that, House and Techno have become an obsession. |
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| 2techs |
| I got bored of dance music in '08. I've gone backwards ever since. |
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| 2techs |
| I'm a different animal I guess. Magnetonium's cutoff point in dance music was 2005. |
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| OrangestO |
| quote: | Originally posted by 2techs
I'm a different animal I guess. Magnetonium's cutoff point in dance music was 2005. |
That wasn't aimed at you, if you read my post correctly, but you deserve one too. |
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| 2techs |
| lol you're so cold...you're so cold...you're so cold |
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| OrangestO |
You should never be 'bored' in life, especially when it concerns something that's supposed to be - forgive my plurness - near and dear to your heart.
Perhaps you should try rearranging your listening experience to 'spicen' things up.
As far as a DJ stating something like that.. C'mon, son. |
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| 2techs |
| the truth is, I'm an introverted bedroom dj who gets no ass and never plays out live. it is what it is. |
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| OrangestO |
| quote: | Originally posted by 2techs
the truth is, I'm an introverted bedroom dj who gets no ass and never plays out live. it is what it is. |
Again, if you read my post correctly, you'd comprehend that that wasn't aimed at you.
The 'DJ' who started this thread. |
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