Who likes Above and Beyond or trance music in general?

Dgodus

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I think that my main issue with a lot of the newer electronic music is that the modern equipment makes it so easy. When you consider the weeks that Pete Townsend spent programming the synthsizer track (not composing, just programming the machine) for one song on The Who's "Who are You" album you can appreciate that an artist chose to cause every note, tone and pause in the track. A lot of the new stuff? Not so much.
Alot of new electronic tracks are pieced together over months, some can be banged out in maybe a few days. Heard alot of interviews over the XM radio with producers/dj's. Their remixs they may do in a short amount of time, their own tracks, they labor over. Electronic equipment is no easier to use than a guitar. Nearly anyone can play a guitar, not everyone can write/create songs which have appeal. You can have all the best equipment in the world with any sample known to man, if you cant piece it together it doesn't matter.
 

blazejowski

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As much as this dates me, all that shit sounds the same to me.

Computers do not make music. People do. With instruments.
And don't get me started on that auto-tune bullshit...
 

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Actually, as a music lover of all kinds, I have heard a lot of electronic music I have at least found interesting. This is an example from David Pritchard, decades ago. He was a DJ in Toronto (the kind that played records on the radio) who made music as a hobby.

I have always loved classic Jamaican dub from the likes of Lee Perry and King Tubby, where the guy with the mixing console is the musician (but he is fucking around with real music on analog tapes, so I'm not sure it counts as "electronic").

I kind of liked some of the "ambient" music that Brian Eno once did, and could see what he was doing.

I have enjoyed tracks more recently (that is, the last couple of decades) from bands like Massive Attack, Morcheeba, Portishead and others of that ilk, but could never enjoy it in album-length doses.

There is probably an old fogey element to it for me too -- I also fail to get enthused about most "indy" bands that them young folks seem to like....it just seems like warmed-over versions of things I've heard before, only watered down. I also know that if things I have missed are any good, they will stand the test of time and still be there in a few years and will likely come to my attention eventually. I am still waiting for that to happen with rap...it's only been around for 30 some years, so maybe it will grow on me....
Lee Perry and King Tubby! Hank knows his stuff. Tubby invented the 'remix' in the early seventies. Electronic/dance/whatever would be very different today if it weren't for him. It's safe to call dub 'electronic'.

"King Tubby truly understood sound in a scientific sense. He knew how the circuits worked and what the electrons did. That's why he could do what he did".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby
 

HankQuinlan

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Lee Perry and King Tubby! Hank knows his stuff. Tubby invented the 'remix' in the early seventies. Electronic/dance/whatever would be very different today if it weren't for him. It's safe to call dub 'electronic'.

"King Tubby truly understood sound in a scientific sense. He knew how the circuits worked and what the electrons did. That's why he could do what he did".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tubby
Well then, a classic "electronic" track. Augustus Pablo recorded a bunch of sessions with a great band and different singers, including his own melodica sounds (and released a number of reggae singles from them), then gave the tapes to King Tubby to screw with. This was an international hit in 1976:

 

violetblake

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lol no worries, I take no offense whatsoever, I used to be one of the worst book snobs around lol.
Oooh perhaps we'll have to argue about books next! lol.

I prefer seeing dj's in smaller more intimate venues that don't feel like an all ages rave. ;)

If we're gonna talk dubstep, I'd take Bassnectar over Skrillex any day.....
Yeah there's nothing like 14 year olds high and waving glowsticks in your face to make you want to stay home lol.

Bassnectar's good stuff. This is gonna sound like such a hipster thing to say lol, but I liked dubstep before it was popular! Back when it was good. Then everybody and their cat started making it. You know something's dead when Justin Beiber does it lol.
 

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I've got my tickets to this show, plus saw them last year as well. Wicked show. I'm usually at most good shows, minus the all age venue shows.
Problem is evening of E & C i'm raring to go, but its 0300-0500 and most girls aren't available at that time on my way home-lol
 

chuckanut

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current fav trance jam. not new, but just heard it recently.


-chuck
**retired**
 

Trus'Me

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Victoria local Mathew Jonson produced this track in 2005 and it shot him to dizzying success on the the international rave circuit. He's been touring the world constantly since, playing live analog synths and drum machines in front of crowds that get up to the 20,000 people level. Last I heard he's getting paid 10,000 Euros a show, and sometimes doing upwards of 15 shows a month. This stuff is like the golf of the music world - theres actually money to be made. Buy your kid a drum machine and put em to work.


*No computers were used in the production here, besides the recording device. All true analog synthesizers, and as far as I know all from the early eighties. Might mean nothing to many, but it's a pretty important distinction within the culture.
 

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I've posted this one here before. Sexy live performance in Montreaux by Detroit's Moodyman. He tours with a harem of Detroit's finest, does the whole show from behind a backlit sheet, and gets busy back there for real.

 

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Back to A&B, this is my fav:
 

wilde

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Got tickets to see Avcii.


 

Pornholio

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Show in about 24 hours. Who else pumped? They are at celebs tonight, but 2 shows back to back of same guys a but much
 
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