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the problem with electronic music
 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2006-01-02 14:22 [#01810561]
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it's not the [electronic] music, it's you.

I preferred it when they included
melodies and structure.


they still do, you just don't hear them/it's not your thing.



 

offline swears from junk sleep on 2006-01-02 14:31 [#01810565]
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Melodies and structure are acceptable within the overall
structure of a fucking wicked dancefloor party jam.


 

offline aphextriplet from your mothers bedroom (United Kingdom) on 2006-01-02 16:26 [#01810605]
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i guess its just not conventional enough for me (now i feel
old). I like melodies to have a half decent rhythm and
aesthetically pleasing note progressions. I also like *some*
repetition in some form so that there's something to latch
onto in a track. Or at worst, a natural progression between
movements. Most of the stuff i've heard recently has none of
those 'qualities'. I accept that its just an opinion and i'm
not saying no-one should be pushing electronic music further
and further. I just think there's a place for more
conventional styles of songwriting within this genre, and it
seems to have taken second place to pieces that now lack any
of the common features of what we have come to know as
'music'. Maybe i'm reading too much into it and the new
stuff is just random cockshit.


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2006-01-02 16:36 [#01810613]
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some people still create amber-like tracks, some experiment
to the extent that e.g. autechre does. that's just
electronic music.

anyway, it's great that you can choose. you have choice -
what to listen to.


 

offline pigster from melbs on 2006-01-02 17:18 [#01810627]
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all you have to do freeze is yourself until 2012 and when
you come out music will sound new and fresh again (cos
apperantly.. 2012 IS THE YEAR).
also, if it doesnt you've still albums released previously
and xlt discography to find out if its any good or not


 

offline swears from junk sleep on 2006-01-02 17:25 [#01810632]
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Mainstream music is going through a very retro, conservative
phase, even the retro stuff revives really obvious things.
This year, or maybe the year after, I've got a feeling it's
gonna kick off super-wicked-futuristic. I hope.

Pigster: That would be class, I've always wanted to hear
music from the future!


 

offline S M Pennyworth from East Timor on 2006-01-02 17:29 [#01810637]
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i feel pretty confident there WILL be good music even in the
future.
theres always been a lot of noisy racket as well but i
suppose its just a matter of looking in the right or wrong
places. it's a part of the game i suppose.


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2006-01-02 17:30 [#01810638]
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WOW


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offline S M Pennyworth from East Timor on 2006-01-02 17:38 [#01810642]
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interesting or not, i'm been around since the very first
version of this messageboard and theres always been the
occasional "problem with electronic music" threads, so its a
really hard subject to discuss cause its a matter of very
personal opinion. and with the internet, giving more and
more music makers a chance of getting their music out,
theres always good music around.


 

offline swears from junk sleep on 2006-01-02 17:38 [#01810643]
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A magazine from the future.


 

offline pigster from melbs on 2006-01-02 17:46 [#01810647]
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haha, swears was right all along!
for me, finding new music is pretty much just finding early
stuff first cos im still new to electronic music and since
its been around for awhile people already have good opinions
of what its like.
so really, im not TOO bothered about the future


 

offline swears from junk sleep on 2006-01-02 17:49 [#01810649]
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I'm living for the future, 'cause the present simply bores
me to death, daaaarling...


 

offline staz on 2006-01-02 17:51 [#01810652]
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Okay, I will give up my current projects and start making
hardtrance-remixes of Vivaldi works.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2006-01-02 17:53 [#01810653]
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the prroblem with everrything is that it's shit. everrything
is shit. all of you students and new motherrs and new
fatherrs and those worrking at a carreerr, those of you who
arre good looking, young and having lots of fun and sex at
the moment, herre, everrything is shit. get with it, stop
posting on the interrnet, just stop everrything. it's a
waste of time.


 

offline swears from junk sleep on 2006-01-02 17:56 [#01810655]
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2006 is shit.


 

offline weatheredstoner from same shit babes. (United States) on 2006-01-02 18:14 [#01810659]
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LAZY_MELODIES


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2006-01-02 20:02 [#01810679]
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judging only by that website, I tend to agree.


 

offline geraldine on 2006-01-02 20:33 [#01810693]
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fag


 

offline S M Pennyworth from East Timor on 2006-01-02 20:36 [#01810695]
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hahahaha


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2006-01-03 02:14 [#01810755]
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It's not so much a case of "you could", more "the DJ at your
wedding will play it". I must have been at 50+
wedding receptions when I was a waiter/socially and it's
played soooooo often. Great track though.

Anyway, there's no problem with electronic music. BIYC
Records is putting the Dance back (in for the first time)in
"Intelligent Dance Music". 2006 will be a great year for
electronica.


 


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