Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
Well, true techno is diverse in influence, so in terms of absorbing the sounds of new hip hop, it should already be happening.
So the only other additive to the whole scenario, is MCing over techno.
And I`ve had enough of that already.
There`s loads of techno with rapping on it and it just sounds really cliche today.
I think good and talented collaborations, and new ideas can be born in techno, without the need to plunder the current "hot music" of popular media.
Lets make our own ideas, not sidle up and leech off another.
****. Well, I missed this thread before responding in the other. Ideally, at least for what I'd like to do, I wouldn't want it to sound like a song where someone would say "this is a techno track with an MC." It's still separate at that point which goes to what I mentioned in the other thread: elements complimenting each other rather than being a whole equation. The benefit that could be achieved, if it was quality work, would be in the scenes complimenting each other, especially for the disillusioned. With the right artists who are willing to let go, it wouldn't be leeching off each other. It would be coming up with something unique. hrough personal experience, I've just found that when you work with people all into one particular style, you get a finished whole that sounds like that particular style. I'm not saying that's bad. But, when you work with people into completely different styles, so long as ego doesn't interfere with the overall whole, the finished product can be really good and very unexpected in sound simply because you have peope with different perspectives working on a whole. In my backyard, I don't think marketing is the general problem. Plenty of young and old around NYC know techno exists. I think the problem is more the perception that the music all sounds the same and is kinda flat. Same goes with mainstream hip-hop. Do something new which, no matter how much you may think it's selling out, is likely to have a bit more appeal to the masses, you open the door for more people to discover the underground sounds without it feeling forced. And if it works moderately well at all, that's where a new approach to marketting might be worth pursuing. I've never really been concerned with people who would think I'm selling out since there isn't a single track I've ever written that I didn't enjoy writing at the time and wasn't reflecting something that I was feeling. And I just see an opportunity here for a number of different artists to really break out of their shells and experiment in a way that will have an overall finished project that doesn't sound experimental.