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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2022 9:53:21 GMT 10
I still keep up with electronic music (won't call it EDM since some people get pissy when somebody uses EDM to refer to the entire genre), and I think the current sound of the genre is very long in the tooth. The Chainsmokers, drop-centered and heavy reverb formula associated with 2016 is still dominant. Even artists who were interesting a couple of years ago like Alan Walker and Illenium have succumbed to that formula. It all sounds so generic right now.
I know this isn't electronic music's most shining moment, but the 2000s weren't either yet a lot of great artists and songs came out of that decade. In other threads I've compared electronic music in the '10s to jazz in the 1920s, and keeping with that comparison, electronic music needs it's bebop revolution.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2022 9:57:39 GMT 10
Something futuristic, Timbaland, Neptunes, J Dilla inspired mixed with pop punk or rock, swing or jazz would be nice with a unique 2020s twist
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2022 10:42:51 GMT 10
Something futuristic, Timbaland, Neptunes, J Dilla inspired mixed with pop punk or rock, swing or jazz would be nice with a unique 2020s twist Anything as long as it's new and not something intended to invoke nostalgia like almost everything in music these days. I was always surprised electro swing never caught on other than with hipsters.
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Post by 10slover on Jan 20, 2022 12:27:43 GMT 10
I still keep up with electronic music (won't call it EDM since some people get pissy when somebody uses EDM to refer to the entire genre), and I think the current sound of the genre is very long in the tooth. The Chainsmokers, drop-centered and heavy reverb formula associated with 2016 is still dominant. Even artists who were interesting a couple of years ago like Alan Walker and Illenium have succumbed to that formula. It all sounds so generic right now. I know this isn't electronic music's most shining moment, but the 2000s weren't either yet a lot of great artists and songs came out of that decade. In other threads I've compared electronic music in the '10s to jazz in the 1920s, and keeping with that comparison, electronic music needs it's bebop revolution. It's hyperpop. Hyperpop is the answer.
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Post by 10slover on Jan 20, 2022 12:28:35 GMT 10
Btw, imo the 2010s were the golden years of EDM
All the EDM trends that have been buildings up since the late 70s peaked in the 10s
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Post by nightmarefarm on Jan 20, 2022 17:12:53 GMT 10
The sound should go back to how it was in the early 2000s and before. Something about 2010s EDM feels so trashy, like the audial equivalent of eating junk food.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 0:17:51 GMT 10
The sound should go back to how it was in the early 2000s and before. Something about 2010s EDM feels so trashy, like the audial equivalent of eating junk food. To see a perfect example of where the 2010s took EDM, DJ Tiesto went from this. To this.
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Post by nightmarefarm on Jan 21, 2022 3:20:11 GMT 10
The sound should go back to how it was in the early 2000s and before. Something about 2010s EDM feels so trashy, like the audial equivalent of eating junk food. To see a perfect example of where the 2010s took EDM, DJ Tiesto went from this. To this. Much prefer the above
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Post by slashpop on Jan 21, 2022 3:24:29 GMT 10
I want to hear mainstream electronic music with craftiness, passion and tunefulness from something released in 1993 or 1994. It doesn't have be 90s, or nostalgic but have the same depth and catchiness, not shallow, quick to get old and super repetitive and like background music, like an overwhelming amount of electronic music has been sounding like since 1998 or so.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 3:37:29 GMT 10
I want to hear mainstream electronic music with craftiness, passion and tunefulness from something released in 1993 or 1994. It doesn't have be 90s, or nostalgic but have the same depth and catchiness, not shallow, quick to get old and super repetitive and like background music, like an overwhelming amount of electronic music has been sounding like since 1998 or so. I like how you used the term "background music." A lot of current electronic music sounds like bad background music in a low-budget movie.
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Post by slashpop on Jan 21, 2022 4:11:04 GMT 10
I want to hear mainstream electronic music with craftiness, passion and tunefulness from something released in 1993 or 1994. It doesn't have be 90s, or nostalgic but have the same depth and catchiness, not shallow, quick to get old and super repetitive and like background music, like an overwhelming amount of electronic music has been sounding like since 1998 or so. I like how you used the term "background music." A lot of current electronic music sounds like bad background music in a low-budget movie. Unfortunately its been like that since the end of the late 90s into the Y2K era, it started with groups like moby, fatboy slim, modjo, basement jaxx, daft punk getting overplayed on radios at the time, and used a filler music almost everywhere, probably due to lack of quality electronic hits, which kicked off normalization 3rd rate dance music made in like a few hours on computer which spread like wildfire for a really long ass time. There's always been good stuff now and then, probably more quality electronica, counterbalancing it from earlier in the late 90s, but this kind of music has been like a cancer this since like 1998 : A few samples, borderline unlistenable imo. from 1998-2000 setting the standard for decades to follow the mediocrity:
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Post by 10slover on Jan 21, 2022 6:01:11 GMT 10
The sound should go back to how it was in the early 2000s and before. Something about 2010s EDM feels so trashy, like the audial equivalent of eating junk food. These songs sound trashy to you? If anything, 10s EDM was wayy more sophisticated than 00s and 90s EDM 90s EDM, in particular, was fucking corny
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 6:06:33 GMT 10
The sound should go back to how it was in the early 2000s and before. Something about 2010s EDM feels so trashy, like the audial equivalent of eating junk food. These songs sound trashy to you? If anything, 10s EDM was wayy more sophisticated than 00s and 90s EDM 90s EDM, in particular, was fucking corny Avicii wasn't trashy. In fact, I'd argue that he set the standard for 2010s EDM. However, many of the artists who tried to imitate him after his death didn't do a very good job of it. Alan Walker sold out IMO. I really liked his early stuff and it had a unique vibe to it, but his latest stuff sounds very Chainsmokers-ish and a lot more "made for radio."
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Post by nightmarefarm on Jan 21, 2022 6:12:41 GMT 10
The sound should go back to how it was in the early 2000s and before. Something about 2010s EDM feels so trashy, like the audial equivalent of eating junk food. These songs sound trashy to you? If anything, 10s EDM was wayy more sophisticated than 00s and 90s EDM 90s EDM, in particular, was fucking corny Very trashy. It feels like earrape with the sharp and loud synths. Especially the cringe beat drops that happen in pretty much every 2010s EDM hit.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 6:31:54 GMT 10
^^^
The beat drops were fine in 2016 when the Chainsmokers popularized them, but at this point, saying they have jumped the shark is an understatement. They quickly became a crutch for lazy musicians and DJs.
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