balma wrote:
Hades, You know here in middle america, the stuff that Europe is tired to listen and dance since 3 years ago, is new stuff here. The tracks are musically good, but the do not have a modern, or dark sound. I have compiled almost 120 songs I have made on the last decade, and most of them, despite being enjoyable, also sound very
pathetic since I have been changing my style.
Most of the world is tired of Tiesto-Van Dyk and all that stuff but they come here to gig and they are very successful.
I have been dedicating a lot of energy and efforts to fix these issues. Less sounds, but better designed. More minimalistic and subtle themes, and experimenting new roads.
So keep sending those beautiful tracks to my mail, they have opened my ears.....
conga line
it's a lot more complicated than that, balma.
I just think the electronic music scene (which is a huge and
very diverse in its total) is 1000x more simplistic in middle america than over here in europe.
It's quite a bit more simplistic in the US too, for that matter,
only not as bad as where you live.
In the US, it's hard to find a lot of electronic music lovers in the smaller villages.
if you listen to the radio over there, it's 90% rock/pop/folk-oriented. (and the bling bling hip-hop of course, let's not forget that,
brotha 
)
sure, simplistically put the birth of techno and house was in the US (it's a lot more complicated than that, but let's not get into that for the cause of this argument), but if you're not in some big city in the US, there's not a lot to do for the average electronical music lover.
it's been a few years since I was last there, but that was what I saw the 5 times I was there (and the 16 states I'd seen during all the visits)
in Europe, electronical music has become massive over the years.
I remember a friend of mine, who's been DJ'ing for well over 15 years now,
saying about 5 years ago, how big the whole thing has got,
and I had trouble believing him back then.
I don't have trouble believing him nowadays. (and he was already right back then)
just a few hours of searching around on a site like beatport will show you how much electronical music is being produced nowadays,
and how many different styles there are.
electronical music has been around for well over 20 years now (at least, the general stuff, you know what I mean),
so it has quite some history now,
and as such has developed quite a back catalogue of great tracks as well.
but this also means that it's getting harder and harder to be original.
there's a lot being repeated nowadays, since a lot has been done before,
only the young kids don't know that, since they usually don't know their history enough.
(Chaplin was already laughing with plastic surgery for "pop-stars" in his 1957 film "A King In New York",
long before it actually became so obviously common, but most people simply don't know their classics)
Europe has a huge amount of electronical music producers, and a huge culture of clubbing,
so naturally, we'll be more "in fashion" when it comes to what style we like for the moment.
you simply don't have the huge availability of good electronical music that we have over here.
h**l, you hardly have a proper way to get decent synths where you live, you said so yourself.
but anyway, it's not about "being in fashion".
I don't believe in stuff like that.
and I don't believe it's as simple as you put it.
trust me : Tiësto still has a massive following over here too.
this is just
simple electronical music, music for the masses.
there will always be more people who listen to that
c**p than people who listen to say Cio D'Or, to give an example.
and the people who like Cio D'Or never liked Tiësto in the first place.
they're completely different people.
it's like people who like to watch a Hirokazu Kore-Eda film won't ever like watching Hollywood pop-corn c**p like "Pearl Harbor".
and there's a big downside to this massive electronical music culture too.
there's tons of c**p electronical music being made nowadays too.
beatport will learn you that very fast too
everybody is a DJ over here.
and more and more
everybody is becoming a "producer" too.
(that's exactly why I'd never call myself a "producer", it sounds like you're some corny p**n-movie-director, whatever happened to the honest term "musician"?)
but it's getting really ridiculous,
you talk to these people, and they have not the slightest bit of passion for what they're doing.
if you ask them
why they like track A or B,
they don't have any proper explanation.
they don't bother to learn their gear,
they don't care about sound design (so how can they even care about "sound" in general, if they're not interested in sound design ?????),
nor do they bother to properly listen to their tracks when they DJ.
I hope you like the tracks I send you.
but I should probably just send you youtube links to the tracks I bought on vinyl,
cause those are always the best ones.
and I usually don't have those in MP3.
they're always the tracks that I find that show that the artist has put his soul into his work.
I believe in deep music.
and yes, that will probably sound darker,
but that's only a result of being deep.
drama is usually deeper (and most of the times better) than comedy , no ?
not that I don't like a good comedy from time to time, but I learn a lot more from watching a great drama.
anyway, just my 2 cts.
very different from the stuff I'm doing now
