music trends

[Bevvy Swift]

what do you see in store for the next year in electronic music?

i think more and more musical styles will start adopting dark and dirty dnb sounds, as dark and dirty dnb has already reached its pinnacle (the way i see it, anyways). we can see this already in the surge in popularity of artists like lorin bassnectar, and in the grimey sound of of lots of new electro house/breaks.

[Bobby_T]

It is exactly that trend (adopting dirtier, darker more agressive sounds) that has returned my interest in house (especially Electro).

[cubed]

you're going to start seeing a minimal overload.

electro has hit it's peak and is on the down swing.

minimal is the next wave.

[Séguin]

You wanna know what I think?

*burps*

[Bobby_T]

Originally Posted by cubed

you're going to start seeing a minimal overload.

electro has hit it's peak and is on the down swing.

minimal is the next wave.

I think you are right.

[cubed]

Originally Posted by Cheez

what do you see in store for the next year in electronic music?

i think more and more musical styles will start adopting dark and dirty dnb sounds, as dark and dirty dnb has already reached its pinnacle (the way i see it, anyways). we can see this already in the surge in popularity of artists like lorin bassnectar, and in the grimey sound of of lots of new electro house/breaks.

from what you wrote it's like you've been in a coma for the past year.

all these things have come and hit.

they're certainly not what's in store for 2007.

[Bevvy Swift]

Originally Posted by cubed

from what you wrote it's like you've been in a coma for the past year.

all these things have come and hit.

they're certainly not what's in store for 2007.

yea i guess i wasnt so much predicting the future as analyzing the present

[nabs]

Minimal Tech, UK Tech, UK Garage. is what i think is gonna be on the rise around here.

[cubed]

Originally Posted by nabs

Minimal Tech, UK Tech, UK Garage. is what i think is gonna be on the rise around here.

minimal techno: yes

uk tech: is that even a fucking genre?

uk garage: maybe if you had a delorean and a truckload of plutonium.

[nabs]

Originally Posted by cubed

minimal techno: yes

uk tech: is that even a fucking genre?

uk garage: maybe if you had a delorean and a truckload of plutonium.

its just stuff ive been listning to and getting into. by uk tech i meant UK Electro Tech,

i just like UK Garage, had it already had its time?

[decypher]

I've been feelin minimal lately too. Don't know much about it though.

For DNB. The pendulum sound has long hit it big and got lame like year+ ago even before there first appearance here. The new Ed rush & optical LP is a joke. The cutting edge future stuff seems as if it has died down lately.

The sounds in Gridlok ft. el hornet - hollywood and SKC - offguard VIP are the only thing keeping me interested these days. Stuff that Break put on Quarantine Records, Dominion Pt.1
SKC's LP, Phace, Psidream, N:Phect & Dizplay, state of mind are all going to pump out some new sickness.

Neurofunk has become more and more organic and is sounding better production wise but needs an injection of more ideas to keep it going. The soundscapes are definately better then when i was picking up neuro 4 years ago though.

Violence records has sort of fallen off the map besides 'standing room only' i'd like to see them to start pumping out tunes again. I think their massive LP they put out shows they can put out diverse sounds that aren't necessarily for the dancefloor. Unfortunately i'm not versed in all the new dubs to really comment on how things are going in the coming months.

[nabs]

oh and i would like to add. dark sub-genre's of DNB seem to be getting popular.

[Bevvy Swift]

Originally Posted by decypher

I've been feelin minimal lately too. Don't know much about it though.

For DNB. The pendulum sound has long hit it big and got lame like year+ ago even before there first appearance here. The new Ed rush & optical LP is a joke. The cutting edge future stuff seems as if it has died down lately.

The sounds in Gridlok ft. el hornet - hollywood and SKC - offguard VIP are the only thing keeping me interested these days. Stuff that Break put on Quarantine Records, Dominion Pt.1
SKC's LP, Phace, Psidream, N:Phect & Dizplay, state of mind are all going to pump out some new sickness.

Neurofunk has become more and more organic and is sounding better production wise but needs an injection of more ideas to keep it going. The soundscapes are definately better then when i was picking up neuro 4 years ago though.

agreed though, neurofunk is the only drumnbass really getting any better..

besides robot death squad that is.

[cubed]

If anything you're going to start seeing a musical "regression". Techno is slipping back to it's minimal roots. House which has always had popular music ties is drifting away from the electroey sound of the 80's and is slowly regressing to a punkier sound. This is similar to the sound of early punk pioneers such as the talking heads and such. It's like electronic music is slowly working it's way backwards through time.

[Leviathan]

Ok what the hell is UK electro tech, and what makes it different than just regular electro tech. The majority of electro tech I hear comes out of Germany and places like that. Hell Vath was spinning that stuff 3 years ago when I saw him in Ibiza.

Personally I think we're definately going to see alot more minimal, the rest of the world already is. I expect to see a bit more harder techno as well. I'm hoping to see people like Mat Jonson, Mat Dear , Villalobos get some / more play time and if we're really lucky maybe some Adam Beyer type stuff.

Originally Posted by nabs

its just stuff ive been listning to and getting into. by uk tech i meant UK Electro Tech,

i just like UK Garage, had it already had its time?

[Jonny Dubbs]

Minimal is a bit too pretentous for my tastes, trends aside I'd personally like to hear more dance music that is made for dancing.

[Sykonee]

Jim-ison's pretty accurate there. Hell, I've even noticed trance calming down a bit. The epic stuff is getting simpler with less emphasis on effects, while the underground stuff is beginning to sound like trance from the early 90s.


Most of the DJs still suck though. ;)

[dj_soo]

baltimore club/crunk/hyphy/ghettotech influenced stuff.

Actually, it's already big - vancouver's just generally a couple years behind most places.

Still pushing the midtempo funk myself - think it has potential but hasn't really caught on hardcore yet...

[dj_soo]

btw, i thought neurofunk was 10 times better 5 years ago than it is now... better production now but weaker songwriting imo...

[-evil-duerr-]

Originally Posted by decypher

The new Ed rush & optical LP is a joke

qft... i cant believe it. not a single track on there i liked. wtf happened!?!?!

[decypher]

Originally Posted by dj_soo

btw, i thought neurofunk was 10 times better 5 years ago than it is now... better production now but weaker songwriting imo...

I agree to a certain point. Tracks like phace-oceans of emptiness still give me hope. But like i said neuro is going to need an injection of creativity to keep it afloat.

[Bevvy Swift]

Originally Posted by dj_soo

btw, i thought neurofunk was 10 times better 5 years ago than it is now... better production now but weaker songwriting imo...

i disagree.

shoguns been putting out some wacky shit which im loving, when i wasnt really much into neuro before (cept edrush&optical, of course)