So what's with all the <insert concept i can't understand here>?

[SickBoy]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

here is a link i posted on the 2nd page of this thread. it has some of my mates mixes and a mix by 214.. http://www.musicv2.com/artist/androidequation
thats electro

i agree with u unome

[J-Shock]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

I dont want to keep repeating the obvious, but i am fed up of people putting down everything that isnt prog just because it isnt prog and then calling all of it electro. if you dont like it or not used to it, so be it, dont need to make meetings about it.

I for one dont listen to prog. The old stuff used to be good and i would love listening to it. All the new stuff is so bland it is annoying. I would take techno, electro, tech-house, acid over prog any day of the week. Bring me a set by Nic Fanciulli or some King Unique, or some Richie Hawtin or even some Slam, M.A.N.D.Y., DJ T, Booka Shade, Adam Beyer, Ivan Smagghe, Damian Lazarus and Craig Richards and Lee Burridge and the likes and i will be eternally greatful.

I love that type of music. I also like hip-hop and breaks. But i also respect all the other types of music and the people that listen to them. Anyways i am finished rambling on. Sundays are real hard for me

[bart_smastard]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

If you love music you should be able to enjoy the cream of any music genre , though you tend to like even the mediecore of your favourite styles . I do find electro minimal and the other genres sound great at home but i couldn't ever imagine "getting into" them in a club . Just because something dosn't float my boat it dosn't make it bad music . Different strokes for different folks a different beat for different feet

[ZendoBro]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

It almost seems that this thread has turned into a "Prog" is evil thread. I don't understand why it's so taboo to like "Progressive" music. Why is it once something becomes popular that people have to find something else because they want to "reinvent" themselves, so they're "undergound." Stop trying to impress your elitist peers! Just listen to what you like. Who gives a shit what other people think about the music you listen to. I like Progressive. I like Electro. I like other genres as well and I'm always working on expanding my horizons. My fallback though is Progressive. It's what keeps me interested the most. I like what Dave Seaman has to say about Progressive music in a Higher Frequency interview:

HRFQ : We heard that there were some more eclectic influences, especially on your CD, some funk and rock, what can we expect?
Dave : well it's all progressive house to me really, I find it more and more difficult to explain genres these days, all the lines have become so blurred I think. I mean yeah, my CD starts off a bit housy, it's got some sort of TwentyTwenty Vision stuff on it, some more, Silicon Soul is on it, then it goes into slightly more electro-y tinge things, a FC Kahuna mix on there and then some James Holden, and then it gets more into where Killer Huertz was, sort of rocky progressive sound into full on progressive stuff in the end. But it is all progressive house to me, I mean I've got records in my box from DJ Gregory and records in my box from Funk Da Void, which is sort of funky French house into Techno, but it's all progressive to me.

You can find the interview here:

http://www.higher-frequency.com/e_interview/dave_seaman_02/index.htm

The bottom line... Listen to what you like. Don't be an elitist!

[superdave]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

I like the electro sound that DJs are spinning. I'm a big fan too of 80s music and new wave. I don't think the electro now is exactly like the 80s sounds, but I do hear similarities.

The older prog house sound was getting stale and a change was needed. We'll have some new genre to bitch about in a couple of years from now.

[skahound]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

It almost seems that this thread has turned into a "Prog" is evil thread. I don't understand why it's so taboo to like "Progressive" music. Why is it once something becomes popular that people have to find something else because they want to "reinvent" themselves, so they're "undergound." Stop trying to impress your elitist peers!

No one has said that "prog is evil". All we're saying (I'll take the liberty of speaking for those that think like me) is that prog is dead. By 'dead' we mean that it still might be out there, but it's exactly the same sound as we heard 10 years ago. There are VERY few original thinkers when it comes to progressive as we all know it.

And, it has NOTHING to do with something becoming popular and then we found something else. Our tastes have progressed. I resent the remark about being an elitist; give me good progressive and I'll listen. But please, dear god, make it different than the stuff that's out right now. Personally I think all of the options have been exhausted as far as progressive goes and that's the reason that the acid sound and glitchy sound has been introduced thereby pissing off the purists.

[3d_1200]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

trance has a very strong influence in the prog scene right now. most trance djs for some reason now call themselves prog djs. people like armin van burren have in fact added numerous prog records to there boxes. there was a time were there was a definitive distinction between prog and trance....

[picklemonkey]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

Dear Lord,

Please let mommy and daddy quit talking about the good days before electro ruined progressive. I want them to start paying attention to me again. I miss my parents.

Amen.

My Lord and Savior,

I have led a full life of faithful servitude for 73 years, always accepting every challenge you have put forth for me... but please my messiah, PLEASE God, PLEASE Lord, PLEASE Mr El Nino (if that rocks your boat), PLEASE grant this tortued child her wish.

Please don't make me lose faith in you.

Akmahd

[palmer]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

trance has a very strong influence in the prog scene right now. most trance djs for some reason now call themselves prog djs. people like armin van burren have in fact added numerous prog records to there boxes. there was a time were there was a definitive distinction between prog and trance....

seriously.

if you guys are bitching about people changing styles up. you should check out a new avb or tiesto set. they are pretty much what you're looking for....


how come everything else has a subgenre name but this electro influenced business?.

[3d_1200]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

how come everything else has a subgenre name but this electro influenced business?.

the name i've thought to be the most fitting is 'telectro'. tech-house with an eletro-ey vibe. Mazi has a couple remixes he self proclaims as telectro. but other then that i still dont think theres is an official genre name.

[useyurbrain]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

i think its only a trend that wont last for too long.. i have welcomed it..

as long as its not tribal

[peloquin]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

amen to that.

[skahound]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

i think its only a trend

Not to get too philosophical, but isn't everything really a trend? The term 'trend' is purely subjective to the reference of time one uses to associate with it. Relatively speaking, even the broadest of concepts are trends.

[asdf_admin]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

Michael Jordan was not a trend.

[peloquin]

Re: So what's with all the electro?

DJ Tiesto is not a trend. he is a god.