Anybody else miss full length releases?

[beats me]

I know the major music industry still does this, or what is left of it, but when it comes to most electronica or indie they seem to mostly release an EP at best or a song or 2 every other month. So I'll go to beatport or itunes and drop $20 or so on a bunch of randomness and I'm not finding the listening experience as enjoyable as when you bought a full length release of 10+ tracks by a single artist.

So instead of having a select group of artists I have purchased over the last couple months, I now have hundreds of songs by I couldn't tell you who. It makes loyalty and showing interest in any artist very difficult. There's no time to appreciate the music because another artist of similar style and talent just released a new track 5 minutes ago. That's the hot track....until tomorrow.


What's your vote?

[senator adam]

Yeah, I love full albums. There are still quite a few artists that do it though. I think it's just the influx of people that are able to produce music and get it out to the masses nowadays with computers and internet that are causing the massive amount of singles. Producers will make a song or two and want it out right away, and can get it out right away...

However, I love albums and that's what I do. Working on my second one now. It feels good to throw an album on and hear all different aspects of what the artist was doing.

[chrysalis33rpm]

A really good electronic album, like Kruder+Dorfmeister's The K+D Sessions, happens only once every few years. The industry is geared toward producing dancefloor hits, which have an extremely rapid product cycle. Let's face it, 90% of club music is very similar within its genre- so it has to keep changing the details or people will get bored while they're grinding away.

It's rare to find electronic musicians who have what it takes (talent, time, and money) to produce an album, rather than series of songs...my 2c.

[Pepehouse]

I have to listen to 100 tracks at Beatport to find 3 or 4 good ones or even less. I don't think there's a hot track every 5 minutes and it's worse with full albums is not easy to find one with 10 good tracks, my advice is "buy less listen more"

[D K]

i miss vinyl record length albums...
20min. or so per side

[Tarekith]

I definitely miss them, one reason I havn't released anything in almost a year, working on my own

[ethios4]

In theory, a good DJ mix album would take the place of a full-length artist release, but most DJs lack the creative vision to pull off something with lots of replay value.

Most of what's on beatport is geard towards DJs, isn't it? I feel like the electronic music industry is mostly geared towards DJs. Most of what I listen to day-to-day is DJ oriented, which drives me crazy after awhile. A whole CD of DJ tracks does not compare to a home-listening album, IMO. I would love to see more home-listening, concept-based electronic music albums, but not necessarily IDM or vocal.

[Khazul]

In theory, a good DJ mix album would take the place of a full-length artist release, but most DJs lack the creative vision to pull off something with lots of replay value.

Ive found that most DJs who are good at stringing together and live mixing a good 60-120 min slot for a club dont really make good albums DJs,

Those who make good albums DJs are those who can select and mix music that kind of takes you on a journey rather than just blast you with one track after another.

I think mostly the same can be said for many electronic music albums.

I know some artists like to work with song maps on individual tracks - I wonder how many think in terms of an album map?