"David Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/09/2007 09:18:50 AM:
> Guess what - in my opinion minimal came up better, compared to some of
> the god awful stuff in the other genres. There were without a doubt
> plenty of similar sounding clickity clackity throw away tracks, but
> certainly no worse than the other genres. But at least there wasn't
> too much that was just straight up horrid.
For me, those are two sides of the same coin. It's the "bad music coin".
One side there's similar sounding cookie-cutter tracks that try to be
clever.
The other side is straight up horrible.
overwhelming sameness is straight up horrid.
> But really, this looks more and more like the old curmudgeon argument
> about hating that damn racket the kids listen too...
No, not at all. I like minimal tracks that don't sound the same as the
last minimal track.
There's just fewer and fewer of those around. The only way I can describe
it is the genre and djs are locked.
There will always be those that can and do colour outside the lines.
They're the same people who have always done it with whatever music has
come their way.
> I agree that many
> DJ's have a boring approach, but wasn't that always true about
> "average" DJ's? Would you care for 8 hours of 2 beat loopy hard techno
> again, remember that???
If it was just the djs that had a boring approach then fine - but the
tracks are following suit, or is it the other way around (or is it
hand-in-hand)?
I'm just asking questions to figure out why I can't find any decent sh*t to
buy in the techno section of Juno's new releases.
MEK
