Re: [idm] Re: A boost to our so called 'Dying Genre'
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From: "David Sim" <pmxds@nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:43:40 +0000
quoted 5 lines half the problem with electronic these days, are all the post rave genres.>> half the problem with electronic these days, are all the post rave genres.
>> Why not just play some music, and ignore the limitations of branding yourself
>> to one 'style'. enjoy.
>
>Well, 'style' is what makes it possible for a DJ to play your music in a mix and people to
dance to it, so it is kind of important in the dance world.
i suppose, if you want to cater to a certain "sound". not all DJs work this way, and some like
shifting styles within a set, keeping only the tempo pretty much constant. there are a myriad
of possibilities.
quoted 1 line Someone on Dogs On Acid (of all places) made the interesting suggestion that the point>Someone on Dogs On Acid (of all places) made the interesting suggestion that the point
when drum and bass got less interesting was when producers started coming up who'd been
raised on dnb and dnb only, and as a result brought no external influences and variety to the
table and just refined what was there already, whereas the early sound was a motley
assortment of ravers, b-boys, dancehall types, indie-converts and so on, and they all pulled
the sound in different directions, resulting in a far less predictable scene.
quoted 2 lines A similar thing might well be suggested about IDM...>
>A similar thing might well be suggested about IDM...
true of every scene/genre. once it's been defined and documented, a lot of new artists come
up creating only out of that one, now-homogenized influence. they may come up with some
good music, distilling the best of the genre into a cohesive effort, but if they don't look
outside their original inspiration, they may not develop a unique vision. instead they retread
a xopy of a copy ad nauseam.
d.
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