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pirana6 wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

blocked in America

censorship. lets take it to parler

I actually listened through the whole piece. I'm really trying my hardest here but I can't describe it as anything other than hot garbage. My eardrums refuse to enjoy this at all. Is every random sound effect on a synth an evocative slice of the future? This is like retro 80s ambient techno or some shit. All I can imagine is a damp basement in Berlin with people completely out of it on drugs.

hahah. it's a genre called electro. it's been around for about 40 years. i really don't know what is so challenging about a drum machine, a bassline and some synthesizers making pads or incidental FX. this technology has been around since the 1970s. 'oh my god it sounds like a bad drug trip!' are you guys all listing your favourite led zeppelin albums or something?

creating a mood and sound designing all the different parts of a sonic/tonal palette is difficult. you don't just sit down at a synthesizer and voila, there's a 7 minute song. getting all the elements to gel together, to sit right in a mix, takes a lot of nous.

yes, part of the mood of electro is a sort of retro-80s futurism. it's the same appeal that people splooge over when they talk endlessly about the Blade Runner soundtrack. you know, vangelis, stonking huge monolithic synthesizers, soaring strings and pads, a kind of baroque grandeur. people have been fetishizing that particular 'vision of the future' since forever, even if now it is paradoxically 'dated'.







again, there is nothing challenging or avant-garde about this genre at this point. people are very much perfecting a recipe from the 1980s. afrika bambaataa, etc. you sound dangerously like the 'disco is gay' or 'synthesizers are for queers' crowd.

Last edited by uziq (2020-12-04 07:50:13)

I for one love synths. I enjoy a lot of the stuff uziq posts, though I wouldn't go and search for it.

Synthwave and vaporwave and whatnot was nice driving home at 1am music, actually its about 75% of my listening.


Also

Last edited by RTHKI (2020-12-04 18:16:16)

yup
It's not the best genre but I can't stop listening to it.

Last edited by RTHKI (2020-12-04 18:44:20)

DesertFox- wrote:

I'm sure I don't get it because I've always sat through the songs posted and am somehow not in the proper mindset to listen to them. I don't doubt there's things going on I am unaware of and not appreciating, but it always seems to me I wait for it the song to "start" all the way through the end.

imagine not being familiar with an electronic track in 2020. ‘where’s the chorus? lol this isn’t a song!’

do you have a KISS tattoo or something?

music based on loops and repetition/permutation has been mainstream since the 1980s. ffs. ‘when does the song start’. 

the criticism you guys come up with is honestly just funny. you’re like kids who have to put their hands over their ears when they hear expletives on the radio because they were raised amish or something. WoAH this one is just WeIrD NoIseS!

Is uziq still plugging his obscure nerdmuzik as 'teh best thing evah' like its 2005?

DesertFox- wrote:

That's a stupidly disingenuous take. As I've said before, it seems like background music. The repetition makes it unremarkable to me.

your entire persona is unremarkable background, poindexter.

Uzique's normally quite collected, but the surest way to get him riled up is when we philistines can't appreciate the layers upon layers of artistry in the beeps he likes.

No one's saying "Oh, you call this E-lec-tron-ic mu-zik?" I can be aware of a genre and not get the appeal.

DesertFox- wrote:

Uzique's normally quite collected, but the surest way to get him riled up is when we philistines can't appreciate the layers upon layers of artistry in the beeps he likes.

No one's saying "Oh, you call this E-lec-tron-ic mu-zik?" I can be aware of a genre and not get the appeal.

do you really think i’ve been posting music in this thread for 10 years and losing my temper every time a mid-western hayseed like you queues up to say you ‘dudn’t like it’?

i mean it’s more likely that i’m trolling you, if anything. i think i can keep my composure around 3 people who don’t like the same music as me.

looks to me like you’re a deeply closeted hair metal fan.