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August 28, 2008 | By Sotek | 4 Comments
The change in dance music is that now everyone has a laptop and everyone can get a cracked copy of Ableton, so suddenly everyone is making what I call 'Ableton techno', and you get all these pedestrian records that just use the default sounds. When something is so common and easy to make, it has no value any more. I have to be careful as I always end up pissing people off who like that kind of thing, but I could be grumpy about it for hours!
Border Community head honcho James Holden discusses the current state of dance music in a recent interview with EndClub.com.
James Holden Interview [EndClub.com]
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conceptx said: haven't been on here in a while but I'd rather put this that the US read more
kelvin said: please please please reopen MOS in singapore! read more
nochange said: No no change at all will follow. USA is doomed! http://www.infowars.com Go and get the read more
Rod said: For me it's the best album of the year. it's pure dub. I already fall read more
Foxache said: what a tune.. been after this bad boy for ages.. cheers. read more
Sotek said: @John: Don't forget that those are the results from last year. And why the hell read more
John said: how do good djs lyk boys noize not make da top 100 and shitty tiestto read more
Sotek said: There's plenty of other affiliate options for such sites: Juno, Dancetracks, etc. Btw.. here's the read more
musique concrete said: Thats too bad about the affiliate program at beatport. I wonder what all portals they read more
toño said: I've listened that, it's great read more
Well it's not so easy as James mentioned it above. Surely, there are a lot of dumbasses who let their laptop do all the work normally a dj has to do. But a computer can NEVER replace ears, eq work, music knowledge, live performance, etc... Due to "digital revolution" everything seems!!! to be easier as in the past. But if you would make it your way, your style, there are "much" more skills needed than just feeding stolen dj software with illegal downloaded "electronic music" tracks. Let me call it soft skills (sorry for that): I´ve already mentioned some of them before... nevertheless AGAIN: ears, eq work, knowledge, live performance, passion, etc..
kind of an elitist statement...go back a few years, the music was no better or no worse
everyone had a synthesizer and access to default sounds - no different with the laptop
whine whine whine, maybe he should say something constructive? makes me not want to listen to his music - like it's so great?
Every day more DJs and producers blame Ableton, laptops and all new technology...
Maybe be a producer of dance music, 10 years ago, It was reserved only for someone who could buy a Virus C, a Roland, a Korg, or some sampler of thousands of dollars...
today we are living the democratization of the dance music... no more lies and fake producers...
today, they will be to make a best work... maybe this is the worst for they...? work for real...
ahahhaha...
I totally understand where James is coming from on this. With that said, you can choose to look at any subject from any context. I think it's great that there are so many young producers doing what they love and that we have the technology to make that possible. After all I am another one of those laptop owning Ableton using producers that he describes. But the fact that I don't like what some producers do is insignificant to me. People are going to do what they want regardless of how much I approve of it.