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The Official NeoGAF Groundbreaking Electronic Music Thread
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It's not. The approach is the same, the idea is the same, the execution is in the same style. The timing and marketing is all that's different, and labels like Kompakt, Perlon and M-nus were smart and in some ways fortunate to push it at the right time and give it renewed presence. Same deal as what happened with electroclash.
Yeah, Detroit has its own flavour, but minimal never went away and there was still plenty of good, funky minimal techno being made throughout the last two decades, regardless of fashion and trends. And it certainly didn't kill techno.
I never said it went away. Also my post history shows that i still fuck with it. Its just becoming rare. Most of the DJ's that do that sound are still spinning the classics. Its how they are retaining the sound. I'm bumping a Robert Hood set right now and more than half the tracks are old.
I do feel techno lost a lot of what made it techno after the minimal movement.
I dont know every track out there, but i can count 10-12 tracks made after 2003.
Same with Jeff Mills. All classic tracks. Ben Sims and that UK crew are really the only ones still doing that sound. Or its a old school DJ/Producer.
Marco Carola broke my heart when he jumped on that bandwagon.
Then I think you're placing too much importance on it, or were simply paying too much attention to it. My point is that since minimal techno has been around since at least '92, a short-lived mainstream fad 'revival' of a niche sub-genre did not drastically alter the larger underground techno landscape, a majority of which did not actively embrace the minimal sound.
This is so false.
This is so true.
Its all in the artist being able to shine through whatever his instruments are.
Burial works entirely in Soundforge and creates the most amazing music ever.
Thanks! Good shit, all of them, though I wouldn't really group the Soulwax remix together with the rest.
This is why I come to this thread. Truly incredible.
Disco explosion!
Discosocks - Motivation
Absolutely love it.
If you missed my earlier post, check out this label. Most of the artists you linked have released stuff on it.
http://soundcloud.com/aphasia-records
Wait, maybe it wasn't Aphasia Records.
I was probably thinking of Future City Records
http://futurecityrecords.com
Err nope. I can't recall the label
Here's another label to check out though
http://rossocorsarecords.com/
Discosocks - Motivation
Absolutely love it.
If you missed my earlier post, check out this label. Most of the artists you linked have released stuff on it.
http://soundcloud.com/aphasia-records
Wait, maybe it wasn't Aphasia Records.
I was probably thinking of Future City Records
http://futurecityrecords.com
Err nope. I can't recall the label
Here's another label to check out though
http://rossocorsarecords.com/
Get this: The first time I heard that remix was for the leaked trailer of Forza Horizon.
Soulwax are still the masters of remixing a track by tweaking it just as much as it is needed and no more. So shit tracks get overhauled, good tracks are hardly touched.
This is now a Soulwax post:
The Klaxon's - Gravity's Rainbow (Soulwax dub)
The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (Soulwax remix) (when I first heard this as a result of a friend seeing the movie "21"... hoooooly fucking fuck. Genius from top to bottom)
Justice - Phantom pt. 2 (Soulwax remix)
Gorillaz - Dare (Soulwax remix) (I always get lost in this track... goes well in a mix, too
)MGMT - Kids (Soulwax remix) (still get goosebumps hearing this, such a rapidfire, uplifting track)
And their original stuff ain't so bad, either:
Much Against Everyone's Advice
Any Minute Now
NY Excuse
E-Talking (very well done video)
About the only producer I can think of that was a deft touch with their remixes (in only the best cases) is Jacques Lu Cont.
One more thing that I just stumbled upon: Looks like Boys Noize has a new EP coming out, and the remix roster is full of names I've not seen for quite a while:
http://www.mixmag.net/words/news/jacques-lu-cont-remixes-boys-noize
DJ/performer/producer: Rhadoo, not only making awesome mixes, but great dark productions as well. Best of the Arpiar label if you ask me.
Live performance (DJ sets included): Ida Engberg @ Awakenings Festival 2012 Not been at much parties this year (getting old...), so not much choice. Ida's set was great in the sunshine.
Newly discovered act/performer/producer: Don't recall anyone new this year.
Festival: Awakenings Festival, again as I haven't been to much parties this year.
Song: Too many to choose from
Album by a single artist: -
Compilation/mix album: -
Genre: Techhouse
Live performance (DJ sets included): Ida Engberg @ Awakenings Festival 2012 Not been at much parties this year (getting old...), so not much choice. Ida's set was great in the sunshine.
Newly discovered act/performer/producer: Don't recall anyone new this year.
Festival: Awakenings Festival, again as I haven't been to much parties this year.
Song: Too many to choose from
Album by a single artist: -
Compilation/mix album: -
Genre: Techhouse
Why did no one tell me that Scuba has a 3rd alias, Spectr, that released an awesome single last year?
Spectr - Dance 4 me
y so many aliasi
Spectr - Dance 4 me
y so many aliasi
Dance Inferno
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I think the minimal boom had some pretty big influence (at least for a few years) on non-techno genres though - progressive and house especially, some dubstep, hell even trance
I had to look up what spoonerised is (a UK thing?) but yeah seems like there are a lot of dance artists who do that:
Jichael Mackson
Com Truise
and my favorite, Mord Fustang
And right after my neighbor decides to password protect their Wi-Fi that I was leaching off of
I used to know that feel bro...long ago.
He has his own label!
And that sound really isn't that different from current Scuba/SCB.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
I remember reading an Eric Prydz interview where he said that he still has aliases that no one has connected back to him.
Well Eric shouldn't get so cocky
If you are not proud of every song or track you make, why use a different name? Reeks of insecurity personally, or someone else pulling the strings.
I still don't get really get it. Its the same dude, who cares if its a different sound. Other musicians can put out albums or songs that sound different from the norm.
Well Eric shouldn't get so cocky
If you are not proud of every song or track you make, why use a different name? Reeks of insecurity personally, or someone else pulling the strings.
Take the Advent for example. "The Advent" is punishing techno. "G Flame" is house/tech house. Now if im pulling vinyl during a set, i know that its the same guy, but more importantly i know what the sound will be. If he just released everything under The Advent, then DJ's wouldnt be very happy.
I get it from that point of view..I guess.
But I don't really care what DJs wants, tbh.
How am I just hearing this for the first time?
Jan Turkenburg- In My Spaceship (Pilooski Remix)
That's a shitty way to look at it. These guys make music for DJs. If Matthew Dear were to have released his (fucking amazing) album 2007 under his own name and not under FALSE it would have been shit canned by all of his fans. By distancing certain genres to certain names, you are allowed a freedom to do very specific things in very specific places. That way, even Paul Rose can release shit on other labels beyond his own.
Jan Turkenburg- In My Spaceship (Pilooski Remix)
gdt said:
That's a shitty way to look at it. These guys make music for DJs. If Matthew Dear were to have released his (fucking amazing) album 2007 under his own name and not under FALSE it would have been shit canned by all of his fans. By distancing certain genres to certain names, you are allowed a freedom to do very specific things in very specific places. That way, even Paul Rose can release shit on other labels beyond his own.
Its part of the DJ culture. Now obliviously, its different now with MP3's and laptops. Where you can sort everything. When you have a crate of hundreds of records, the style and groove is more important than who is producing it. Labels first, names second.
When i pull a Advent record i know what the sound will be. If i pulled it and its house instead of techno, well there goes my set.
Good look on that Maya Jane Coles EP, really solid across the board. Plus she's qt.
JETS Boiler Room
JETS Boiler Room
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
I can't believe I just discovered this song. It's a Justice remix of LoveStoned (anyone still remember that song?). That was my favorite song for a long time after it dropped, and Justice just takes it to another level. It starts off innocently enough then at 3:30 it turns into a completely different track. Amazing.
Justin Timberlake - LoveStoned (Justice Remix)
Justin Timberlake - LoveStoned (Justice Remix)
Labels is one thing, that's like the name of the house you are invited to where the party is happening.
Artists going under different names though? That's either insecurity, being forced to by record companies, or because it's trying something very different that doesn't want to be associated or judged by the past. Gorillaz is an example of the latter, most though are one of the first two. There's a few people behind the scenes with their fingers in many pies, but they also eat them.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
A lot of Cross was outright stolen as well.
Phantom especially. As an album it was too mismatched to be anything other than multiple producers trying to create an alternative Daft Punk, there was no consistency. It was fake.
As alternative Daft Punk's go, Machines Don't Care were a lot better. And they never hid who they were. The kick-started Fidget along with Fake Blood and Hervé.
Phantom especially. As an album it was too mismatched to be anything other than multiple producers trying to create an alternative Daft Punk, there was no consistency. It was fake.
As alternative Daft Punk's go, Machines Don't Care were a lot better. And they never hid who they were. The kick-started Fidget along with Fake Blood and Hervé.
Le Knight Club was the best shit they ever did. Daft Punk i mean.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
Eric Prydz - Epic Radio 006
Now that Prydz has officially moved to LA I expect to see him at a lot more festivals around the country. I am excite.
Now that Prydz has officially moved to LA I expect to see him at a lot more festivals around the country. I am excite.
Oh I'd forgotten about that, that's VERY obscure.
It's on my computer somewhere, but got to finally transfer everything over from the G4 Cube. It's finally had its day haha