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I remember I used to be blown away all the time by really fresh sounding music. But nothing has really impressed me for ages. I mean, I still listen to electronica and buy it (probably more than ever, since I am working full time now) but nothing really excites me like it used to. Remember the first time you heard Windowlicker or roygbiv or whatever. Can you honestly say you've had that OMG feeling recently? The last album that made me think "wow" was "Down with the scene" by Kid 606. And that was about four years ago. Unless there's some awesome new artists I'm missing out on or something. |
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listen to abba or something solidly for a year or so. Should rekindle your interest for a few more years |
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"Last month the Brit Awards announced they would no longer be awarding a Best Dance Act prize, with the Brits committee announcing that "dance music is no longer where it's happening in music." These developments lead some to suggest that dance was finished as a popular music genre. " |
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your missing out Richard Devine |
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Because people just want shitty indie or pop bands handed to them on a plate. Look at the NME, hyping thoroughly medicre indie bands to sell papers and the retard readers just lap it up, thinking they're into something really subversive. |
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Why do you give a shit? |
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Because I want to feel like music is progressing rather than just running in circles. I want to bring the good times back. Smiling, dancing, etc, |
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No, about what other people want. And look around more. There's PLENTY of music out there. |
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oh great another "oh electronic music is shit bla bla bla" if you're not finding anything that doesn't blow you away you're not searching good enough. do you look past mtv? here's a list of stuff for you to check out. Amina - Animamina Greenbank - Rotating The Square EP koushik - Be With manitoba - start breaking my heart minikon - minikon minikon - super minikon takagi masakatsu - coieda Mitchell Akiyama - Small Explosions that Are Your's to Keep Mitchell Akiyama - If Night Is A Weed And Day Grows Legs o9 - church of the ghetto pc otto von schirach - Global Speaker Fisting richard devine - asect:dsect ola bergman - pseudocarp tim exile - hanzo steel cuts william basinski - disintegration loops man i can go on forever. you check these out and report back to me soldier. |
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"Terminal Red" on that o9 album is great. |
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its good if dance music isnt widely recieved, people will stop making crappy pop trance cum housey stuff. Theres allways been a pumping underground, obviously, its so blatant. hopefully itll just get more and more dirty until its resurgence, which will happen soon enough anyway. im just waiting for the hiphop/rnb fixture to fuck off. its been getting shitter recently the onslught of hip bands is the new cool in england, people arent afraid of the 80's anymore. |
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Because I want to go to clubs and feel like there's something happening, not just me sitting around listening to music on a computer. |
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Re:the onslught of hip bands is the new cool in england, people arent afraid of the 80's anymore. That's part of the problem, not the solution. I mean the whole 80's revival thing was cool a few years ago, but now it's degenerated into bands like The Killers and gay shit like that. |
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swears go to a cryogenic center and tell me to wake you when music is better for you, beacuse it appears that you're just mad with the music played/made at the present... maybe in 2099 when i'll still be playing RDJ Album, dancing at the sound of Girl/Boy Song... |
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I really like some stuff that's coming out at the moment. For instance the Jackson and Chok Rock singles on Warp, Soulwax, Team Doyobi, etc, etc, but it just doesn't thrill me as much as it did when I was about 15-16. (I'm 22 now). |
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You fucking washed up old man, go get in your cubicle and collate my dry cleaning bills. Pleasure as you knew it is OVER. |
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i know what it feels like... i felt "stuck" at some point of my life, so i switched genres... i started listening Ninja Tune's bands, indie/pop/rock/eclectic webradio, some Chevelle, a little Slipknot and came back to BoC... i'm waiting for their latest material to be released at a store near me... |
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''im just waiting for the hiphop/rnb fixture to fuck off. its been getting shitter recently'' hear! hear! too funny, but true. :D |
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I'm going to see Vitalic in a couple of weeks, so maybe that'll rekindle my love of teh beets. |
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When i dont hear what i like i simply make what i want to hear. Also when you stick yourself to one genre you limit yourself and "drain the resources" of that particluar genre. Broaden your horizons. Listen to as much varied music as possible. Listen to Triosk and Farben. Thats what i say |
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I only wanna hear crazy-ass-futuristic shit. No indie bands or pitchforkmedia gayness please. |
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i hate this way of creating controversy, youve got the problem, not the electronica, no need to do that thread title. and yeah, keep looking in all the wrong places and you'll end up listening to... what? im asking you this question, what would you listen to if it wasnt electronica? which genres of music do you think is as creative, exciting and mind stimulating as electronica? and yeah, chances are that you probably only know a small range of electronic music? you know, it isnt just skam, warp, planetmu and rephlex? |
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I'm not trying to create controversy, I just wondered if anybody felt the same way. |
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this music will never die off. it like rock music will get lame at times but as long as theres someone in the world that enjoys it they'll try to carry it on. i know i try everyday to make a track...i'm no snares aphex []pusher or fill your idmbreakcore wet dream name here but. anyway... "Last month the Brit Awards announced they would no longer be awarding a Best Dance Act prize, with the Brits committee announcing that "dance music is no longer where it's happening in music." These developments lead some to suggest that dance was finished as a popular music genre. " umm, where's it at huh? Joss Stone? yuck! i don't listen to pop radio anymore, well i can't actually, can't stand it. warp is dying off if they keep releasing shitty !!! bands, planet mu is awesome, and rephlex...is well rephlex. there are a lot of smaller labels popping up schematic, sublight, coredump tons of others i dont' even know about but they're starting up and hopefully ushering in new stuff. to me the film industry is dead...small independant movies are where its at. i have friends that work for paramount and warner brothers and they say its such a joke. how movies are made and marketed now....creativity is dead in that market which is sad. but i still have hope for films just not the big companies trying to ruin them |
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with hindsight swears realizes that it was he who changed, not the music. now he has only to find out who changed him, and why. |
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besides if they're basing a whole genre and the chemical brothers fatboy slim and daft punk they're idiots. just because their albums didn't sell doesn't mean shit. |
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Sure i do. Its out there. It depends what you are looking for. Give me examples. Do you like Glitch? How experimental? Do you listen to Ryoji Ikeda? What do you need to hear. Examples will be great. |
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I reckon you're just nostalgic when you first heard something that was more interesting than the pop rock bilge that's pushed out so hard by fat record companies. Listen to some delta blues, classical, ragtime, ambient whatever, and then come back to it. |
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Yeah by bouncing around you can really cleanse you pallet so to speak. |
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disco died |
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But it was resucitated later as is the way with musical genres. Disco's fucking great for dancing to. You've got an instant licence to act like a prannock! |
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disco only died in the us |
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thank goodness |
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listen to the samples @ boomkat. |
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check out pentaphobe - quite good. |
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well there's other music too. all music scenes are like oceans, with ebbs and tides, and it sadly looks like the scene is nearing a good ebb. why not look at some older electronic music, or better yet, fuel that anger and make good electronic music on your own? |
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'Electronica sucks now' I wouldn't entirely say that's the case. Autechre have proven this year thay they're still going strong, and Boards of Canada have an upcoming release this October. Of course, that's just on Warp. There are other less noticed artists out there as well, such as Ochre, Machine Drum, Mochipet, Brothomstates...check out the Merck label. Also, it's not necessary to confine yourself to only one genre of preference. There's an ocean of tunes out there. |
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restores my faith in music. |
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you should check out tod dockstader's 'aerial'..as fresh as electronic music gets :) |
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have you heard of analouge bubblbath 5/ or ceephax acid crew-since you seem knew |
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Re:have you heard of analouge bubblbath 5/ or ceephax acid crew-since you seem knew No, I am not "knew". Please stop trying to take me to electronica school. You patronising gits. I have been listening to electronica for about seven years and have heard/heard of/own at least three albums by most of the artists recommended by people on this thread. I have collected over 300 vinyl records and god knows how many MP3s. And yes, *sigh* I have heard of stuff on labels aside from warp, rephlex, skam and planet mu. I listen to lots of stuff on mille plateau, merck, tigerbeat6, disko B, kompakt, schematic, ipecac, etc, etc, I just don't feel the same passion for it anymore. |
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sounds like you've overdosed. Happens to the best of us at times. Easily done when you have a large record collection, disposable cash and an endless supply of MP3s. It can be tough to give the music the attention it deserves. Still it is true that at least 90-odd per cent of all musical genres' output lacks inspiration. It's that cream at the top that you're after - whatever style of music you're listening too. And it isn't always easy to come by. I really do think it's a shame if you never get that shiver of excitement from listening to something new. I don't get is as often as I used to, but then, that might just be because - when you first discover a whole new world of sound and music, you're simply a less experienced listener. The more you're exposed to anything the more it has to stand out to impress you I guess. |
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I really think it's because the musicians are running in circles now, there's less innovation. |
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it's because the gates are so widely opened. you expect too much. |
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Possibly. I can think of plenty of great albums from the last few years. But not necessarily a lot of new ground broken. Not the way it was when the technology was new and no one knew quite what it's potential was. But I would refute the idea that the music isn't advancing. I would say, however, that I think listening to nowt but 'electronica' (and everyone has their own definition of what that term includes and excludes) isn't healthy. As the old cliché says: "variety is the spice of life" |
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I do listen to some other stuff, mainly electro and more straight up dance stuff like Vitalic, Daft Punk etc, but I dunno... I just want to hear something that makes my jaw drop again. I remember buying Druqks and thinking that even though it was technically well put together, it didn't break ground in the same way the Richard D. James album did. Do you know what I mean? |
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Sort of. But going on the other stuff you said you listen to, I'd still say that your musical net isn't cast anywhere near wide enough. Electronica is probably the musical sphere I feel the greatest affinity with, it's the one that provokes the greatest physical and emotional response in me - but there are so many other styles of music I listen to. From techno to disco to dub to reggae to folk, new wave, jazz, punk and so on... Anything goes. I try to ignore genres as boundaries and just go with what affects me. That's just me though. It's all a question of personal taste. I would say, though, that if I confined my listening to one area of music I worry that I wouldn't appreciate it as much as I ought to. |
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There was hardly any "experimental" jungle stuff around like that at the time. Just think of the opportunities of that time versus now. Technology was emerging. |
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Re:There was hardly any "experimental" jungle stuff around like that at the time. In 95/96, when Aphex and Mu-ziq where first bringing out all that "drill and bass" stuff it was fucking fresh. Now it's just another cliche. I feel like people like Venetian Snares are just flogging a ten year old dead horse. |
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