Music Industry Discussion

(smells own opinion)


Yep, it's shitty..!!! lol

BOpinion

add that to the urban dictionary.

If I were to be the slightest bit interested in selling or promoting something, I would put it into the PROPER category in the forums. THIS belongs in the "Music Services" section, NOT "Music Industry."

If ppl look at the forums instead of blindly putting up posts, & in many many cases multiple posts, they'd see where this sort of thing belongs, & I wouldn't fault them for it, if they put them where they are supposed to go.

Same goes for the butt pluggers who try to sell phones & other crap. It doesn't belong here.

BM needs someone to guide these poor misguided souls to do the right thing & quit wasting our time & forum space.

My contribution to the contest:

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Are you Kid Caspian? This is dance groove stuff. Somehow I expected more...something melodic, perhaps?

I'm no fan of electro-dance-groove...sorry. I have heard some electro that was good, & actually went places instead of just bouncing up & down in one stagnant spot like a skipping record from the days of old.

It's all good if you ain't feeling it. The genre is called "progressive house," and is understandably repetitive and unremarkable to some, but to fans of the genre it's groove-based that makes a bit more sense in the context of a DJ set and/or live.

Well, there's a misnomer if ever I heard one, mostly cuz there's nothing at all "progressive" about it. That word brings to mind a composer actually stepping out of the box & surprizing his listener, as in "progressive rock." This has a single, repetitive groove that never alters. Where's the challenge in that?

I again apologise for my lack of understanding of this type of stuff. It just seems that anyone with a minimal understanding of cut & paste can do it, & that doesn't make it art. Rap seems like a more legitimate art form to me, because there's a challenge in fitting in words to rhythms & still have meaning & substance.

I have tried my own hand at this sort of thing (I think I actually failed at it, cuz mine kept changing), & it amazes me that there are ppl that like it. After a minute of the droning, I lose interest. Perhaps it's my ADHD.

FMF, a band I was in for a cpl yrs, did some droney stuff, live, one time. I was "zoning" in a jam & just kept the same pattern going, & we lost the audience after awhile...perhaps I didn't do it right, but I straightened up (after a yell from the drummer) & we finished with our usual aplomb. That was a lesson well learned for me, though. Our audiences expected & deserved more, & they always danced to our music.

The "live" Dj's who pop this stuff in & let ppl dance to it are not there for listeners, I guess. It's evidently there for a whole nuther reason than music appreciation or interaction with an audience.

I think it becomes a background type of thing. I think of the matrix movie club scene where the trance or whatever music that is was in the background of a conversation. In that context, it actually helps at dance clubs where people can dance, chat, drink, hit the bathroom, come back out and fall right back into the same rhythm they left off at, whether they were on the dance floor or at the bar, or wherever.

I agree the use of the term 'progressive' is a bit of a mystery, as very few forms of popular music are anywhere in the ballpark of that term.

I can appreciate trance, dance, and other forms of club music, as there are actually things that a DJ can do in a club that a band can't; but I still can't bring myself to call a DJ a 'musician'... I still look at them as "re-arrangement artists"

I thought Progressive House was like an 8 sided purple dump with shitty curtains.. lol