>Comparing today's music to techno from 10 or 15 years ago is like
comparing
>the original Star Wars Trilogy to the newer movies like Episode 1.
>Is newer better? well no because in this case newer technology was not
utilized correctly to
>improve on an old concept which had room for some improvement.
sorry but that's a bad analogy -
the new Star Wars suck, not because the technology wasn't used properly (it
was), but because the director though he could write the story (and
dialogue) as good as the professionals he hired for the first films (he
can't). Visually it was cool - substance wise it sucked because the content
was baaaad.
So, how does that connect to music?
it doesn't
If you're saying that LFO should keep working with sub-basses because you
think the sound hasn't been fully explored then do it yourself. You seem to
know quite a bit about their music so then go there yourself - take the old
LFO blueprint and push it further. Maybe you'll write the tune that saves
techno.
maybe LFO is tired of the sound because everyone at one point in time
started doing "bleep and bass" stuff and it sort of ran its course and then
MORPHED into other forms of music - THINGS CHANGE STEVE - GET USED TO IT.
If you want to hear sub-basses in new music then check out "Nu-School"
Breaks, drum & bass, electronic dub music, stuff like
Monolake/Toytronic/Neil Landstrumm/Si Begg/Polmo Polpo/etc. There is plenty
of music in a similar vein (albeit updated) to LFO's original sound.
>Techno is basically a late 80's early 90's music genre, it's like
"electro".
>Based in drum machine and synthesizer music
so did like an alien from outerspace give you some kind of new technology
that allows you to make music from your ass or something?
yeah - techno and electro are retro and soooo, like, 1992 - now we're all
into that new ass music - it's really cool because just like the TB303, our
asses weren't designed for making those types of noises. Some sub-basses
there, wot?
MEK
spw
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--- Matthew MacQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To you. So that is an excuse for LFO to keep making the same tracks over
> and over? I don't buy it. While diehard fans might want an artist to
> stay in their personal favorite period (to your ears 'the best' period)
> forever, the vanguard artists will always want (for better or worse) to
> push a sound forward, especially in a genre like techno that rewards
> innovation. You can't freeze a musical time period and put it in a
> bottle and expect to keep progress at the same time. Get over it.
Well not so much making the same tracks just using some of the ideas
in LFO's first album such as the sub basslines.
What artist like Dave Clarke and Neil Landstrum were doing in the mid 90's
are good examples of people using concepts of the older techno
sound.
> Who said his new material is trying to be something else? If it doesn't
> sound like old LFO and you're going to be unhappy, well start get
> disappointed now because it probably doesn't. You could take it up with
> the artist, see how far you get. Ha ha
>
> The "stupid" labels you mention are just words that became labels for
> artists pushing things in different directions, thus they got named to
> separate or highlight them. If they didn't move in different
> directions, we'd all be stuck in a rut and all electronic dance music
> (or whatever) would sound much more similar even than it does today.
> Things change, morph, take in old and new influences and move where the
> artist wants to take things next, get over it. Techno will never go
> back to the way it was 10-15 years ago, nor does it need to.
Techno is basically a late 80's early 90's music genre, it's like
"electro".
Based in drum machine and synthesizer music.
Comparing today's music to techno from 10 or 15 years ago is like comparing
the original Star Wars Trilogy to the newer movies like Episode 1.
Is newer better? well no because in this case newer technology was not
utilized correctly to
improve on an old concept which had room for some improvement.
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