i don't agree with any of you!

techno is looped music in one form or another
and it's brilliant!
but more importantly music is only good in the hands of a musician
that musician can be a dj , or a traditional musician but a musician will be able to convey some emotion within what he / she does
which is what will always set some people aside from others.
and why a computer still can't write a song on it's own.

but
musical talent is all about hard work.
not your background ( although in my case it did help )
there are many musicians who came up against insurmountable odds to do what they do now and that story is as old as time.

so here's my point.
3/4 years ago everyone was becoming a dj and becoming opinionated on the subject of playing records.
once you start unfortunately you'll probably never hear a piece of music in the same way again...
you start to analyze it and count it and look for particular sounds or phrases
and as you become more practised at this art , you lose the ability to just kick back and listen to it.
( although with time and practice you can get it back...sort of )

now i think more recently due to the incredible amount of software that's cheaply available , the same thing is happening with production.
people are getting hold of software and programming tracks themselves and thinking " i want to get that noise like......." or " i need to learn about compression" etc etc
again they are losing their innocence in music which means
they are breaking music now into seperate instruments and sounds and structuring songs which suddenly gives them and opinion on not only their own work...but everybody elses too.
so whats happening now is that the amount of "producers" is rising
( drastically) which means that by rights the audience must be shrinking.

the ratio at a gig these days must be 1:50 people who play with music software when they have some spare time and probably more like 1:10 people in a (techno)club who do it quite seriously
that's a really high percentage of people compared to only 7/8 years ago! when virtually no one would have a clue how the music was made , and the equiptment was prohibitavely expensive

so now there's a problem:
too many cooks in the kitchen


for me music needs a certain balance of struggle and dedication to really get that hunger going and i'm convinced that it was that that got the whole electronic music scene started in the first place.

some of you guys may be too young to remember this but when i was young going to a studio really was just that....going to a studio
a purpose built room ,soundproofed with a mixing desk , effects , a room to record live instruments........ etc etc

not going round to your mates spare room.
( although it is amazing that you can do that now i agree)

i'm certainly NOT dissing any of the young producers in the world
( or on this board , many of them will blaze a trail quite brightly i think)
but we have to see that the simple availability of the tools to do the job of prodution is affecting how people actually grade and listen to music.

so if we all become musicians who do we play to?

familiarity breeds contempt

think about it