i was with you til the last sentence there. but hey what do i know about music anyways (for those of you who dont know allready, not very much). progressive to me is just as tired and generic term as trance. ive been thinking lately that electronica has been coming around full circle on itself, to me at least it seems that its all about techno and house again. not trying to start a fire or anything remember you could fit my musical knowledge into a thimble but i do remember when electronic music meant either the originator 80's electronic bands and techno, house and industrial and it seems to me me that a sluffing off of some of these spurious genres may just be in order.
oh and remeber house is the enemy;) ben --- DOUBLE-FISTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've always said that skills knew how to throw a > great party. as such, once > again, they > prove me right. great vibe, happy kids, nice hot > atmosphere (greenhouse, > anyone ?), great > decorations, plenty of drugged up kids, and best > yet, raver rain ! w00t ! > no, really, it was a > great party, and kudos to the skills crew for > throwing a good one. > > now for the disappointment. > > don't get me wrong. i love nick sentience's sound. > he produced some great > tracks. had a > very distinctive sound, very acid, very techy. you > could be able to spot > one of his tracks out > from a mile away, just by the way it chugs. > > last night was ... absolutely horrible. and part of > it is probably my > kneejerk reaction to > "hard dance." frankly, i think that it's killing the > sound of hardhouse and > nrg. or maybe i'm a > purist at heart. i grew out of hard trance a long > time ago for a reason: > the sound simply got > boring after a while. the same generic sounds, the > same kickdrum intros. it > got stale. > > it would have been nice if he had varied his set. > played some different > tracks in between, > but it was one after the other of freakin > anthem/horrid squealing > vocal/melodic breaks. i > couldn't take it anymore. someone mentioned to me > 'you know, this is like > straight trance. > just played at 160 bpm.' > > i don't know ... i felt like it was a sell-out. the > producers nowadays are > diluting their stuff for > the mainstream crowd. so what if that's what sells ? > you see great > producers like mik, > glazby, od404 still cranking out great tracks, still > going against the > grain and producing out > unique numbers. > > if this keeps up, if the producers keep selling out, > the whole sound of > hard house and nrg > will die. > > oh well, maybe it's time to start listening to > proggy only. > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > The D mailing list > http://www.djdenise.com/ > Check out the new forum! > http://www.djdenise.com/forum/ > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________ The D mailing list http://www.djdenise.com/ Check out the new forum! http://www.djdenise.com/forum/
