Your Verdict on Electronic Music Today
^^^^ The Monkey doeth speaketh the thrutheth.NorthernMonkey wrote:Sure, there's plenty of decent stuff around now, but because the genre is so completely saturated it's getting harder to find it.Fernando Carvalho wrote:Better than ever, really.
There are so many people making music these days, so many netlabels....
Not everything is good, of course, but you can find gold with a little searching work. Just you will not find it in a record store anymore
Early electronic music is amazing, it was new and sounded really fresh. But today is the day!It´s good to know your past, but always looking at the future
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I think it's the best it's ever been. You have all of the old stuff, the back catalogues, accessible to anyone online, as well as a shitload of great new stuff always coming out. The technology is so advanced, allowing so many people the creative power, precision, tools they never had before, beginners and advanced masters alike. Many more people are able to make electronic music because of the advances in software and the availablity of good hardware, you can get synths at music stores anywhere in the world or order them online.
It's never been better....
now the club scene....that's a different story, it blows. At least from where I am coming from, comparing it to the old days.
It's never been better....
now the club scene....that's a different story, it blows. At least from where I am coming from, comparing it to the old days.
Being as honest as possible, I have been playing music for a long time, but purely electronic for nowhere near as long, I would say these things are as true as I can say them:
1) It has never been easier to make quality new, original music with the new technology. (this was probably said after the piano was invented, and the electric guitar, but, you get the idea).
2) There have never been more 'subtypes' of a type of music that people can make elitist assertions about. I mean, if there was music hooliganism, Dutch Style Trance would have it's hooligans, DubStep it's hooligans, etc....
3) However, despite increased "marketability" and decreased "time to market" brought about by the new technology, it still takes significant money to "move the needle" to the point that the reviewers and marketplace aren't "talking about you in quote marks" AND...
4) it is more than ever less about "art" and less about "freedom of expression" in terms of the most popular stuff... BUT...
5) it is possible to find an attentive and interested audience who will listen intently to stuff that is anything from clubby-beats to to pure unadulterated noise and see it as valid.
1) It has never been easier to make quality new, original music with the new technology. (this was probably said after the piano was invented, and the electric guitar, but, you get the idea).
2) There have never been more 'subtypes' of a type of music that people can make elitist assertions about. I mean, if there was music hooliganism, Dutch Style Trance would have it's hooligans, DubStep it's hooligans, etc....
3) However, despite increased "marketability" and decreased "time to market" brought about by the new technology, it still takes significant money to "move the needle" to the point that the reviewers and marketplace aren't "talking about you in quote marks" AND...
4) it is more than ever less about "art" and less about "freedom of expression" in terms of the most popular stuff... BUT...
5) it is possible to find an attentive and interested audience who will listen intently to stuff that is anything from clubby-beats to to pure unadulterated noise and see it as valid.
UTENZIL a tool... of the muse.
i Love the old techno - detroit style, minimal and hard. I like all of the british artists like Surgeon, Regis, Female, james Ruskin and Sims, but also still like Mark EG.
I like the turn techo has taken with the not so dark Electro style techno - the NON Techno people prefer it so its a good thing to play to people who are not into techno that will get into it. Then as DJ's mix they can take the mix into any direction because of the diversity of styles available - old and new.
When i mix, i have tunes spanning 20 years in my mixes. Loads of new ones and loads of old.
I like the turn techo has taken with the not so dark Electro style techno - the NON Techno people prefer it so its a good thing to play to people who are not into techno that will get into it. Then as DJ's mix they can take the mix into any direction because of the diversity of styles available - old and new.
When i mix, i have tunes spanning 20 years in my mixes. Loads of new ones and loads of old.
