overused techniques

[Evil G]

it's always fun to jump on other genres for overdoing it with certain techniques. of course there are good producers doing creative things in most genres, but there are always copy cats who ruin it a couple of years later.

for example:

hard house tends to rely too much on snare rolls and hoovers,

epic trance tends to rely too much on string pads and chord progressions,

psy trance tends to rely too much on samples of tim and terence,

acid techno tends to rely too much on the 303,

idm tends to rely too much on distortion and reversed samples,

etc.

what about techno? personally, i'm starting to get pretty tired of high pass filter sweeps.

[xfive]

The whole "let's reverse the entire last bar" thing kinda got me bored a loooong time ago...

I like this thread.. keep em comin' peeps :)

[professor]

ride cymbals, filter sweeps, not a big fan of ping-pong delay either...

[RichieV]

lol Acid techno using the 303 too much?

no way

[Evil G]

lol Acid techno using the 303 too much?

no way

way! :)

[RichieV]

dance music has too many drum sounds
Like can't they be original and make it wihouth drums

Rock has too many guitars. I think they should replace it with a clarinet

[Evil G]

they do make dance music without drums, mr smarty. ever heard of a sampler? ;)

[Jimfish]

???

mr smarty.. they are still sampling the drums though!!

[Col]

eradicate drums from techno. lets go fuc*king crazy.

[Evil G]

???

mr smarty.. they are still sampling the drums though!!

sigh. i guess my humour effect isn't coming through. :(

[RichieV]

i guess what i am trying to say is that techno needs to be more original

see right now , all i hear is bcam bcam pshhhh zip zip and it is getting so old. I remember when "pushzh tzit tzit chichi " was underground and all the best techno producers were starting to use it. NOw it is so over done. Techno producers need to start innovation. Like seriously. Right now i am experimenting with a groove that kinda soudns like " bcam bop tzi bop shtain tzi" which just rips.

got to keep innovating

[xfive]

I think I need a text-to-techno translator....
Great.. then we can just use M$ Word as our sequencer...

:lol:

[Evil G]

I think I need a text-to-techno translator....
Great.. then we can just use M$ Word as our sequencer...

:lol:

i'm imaginng the joy of the auto-complete, auto-correct function interacting with my techno, and it hurts. you are a bad bad man for thinking of such a thing.

[xfive]

:lol:

The real question is.. what happens when you run the spell/grammer checker on it?

HEH

[DJZeMig_L]

supa-fast bpm, heavy distortion & noises, percussion that sounds like a nordic cold "I wanna play funky samba" percutionist on a straight 16th .

Bring back the crazy synth sounds and the funky banging drums!

Z

[Jimfish]

???

mr smarty.. they are still sampling the drums though!!

sigh. i guess my humour effect isn't coming through. :(

haha, i did wonder..

[sash]

the word "booty".

[Komplex]

Bassdrums are way over-used.

[hiroprotagonist]

thats actually a great idea. since when did techno need a bass drum to make it sound interesting? im sure someone could put together a really good track with just a funky rhythm made of cool samples. im sure its been done before too.....

[Komplex]

Actually you're onto something Hiroprotagonist.

A track where the intencity just keeps building but the kick doesn't come in till like 3 minutes. Just teasing and building anticipation, and when it does come in, it hits hard :)

I might throw that into the next liva pa.