Quote Originally Posted by Antinoise
Techno needs to be more 'musical'.. I mean, there is some crap out there that you can hardly even call music.. No evolving emotion. no rhythm. Its just over distorted noise.
I agree whole heartedly with this... and I think it ties in with the other threads about techno in 1994-98 and the live instrumentation thing. Things back in that era sounded far more musical and 'organic' because producers were concentrating on making music, not on making a 'sound'.

All the delays/echos/effects etc that used to be dialled up by ear until it sounded good is now all just midi-synced to precise intervals without any thought - it's sounds robotic and predictable... the natural feeling is gone.

The technical emphasis these days is IMO misguided and stupid, everyone concentrates on precision, compression, production values. Nobody seems to care about the important bits - feeling, structure, personality.


I don't know about you guys but i prefer music which is honest and lacking in production to something which is produced perfectly but is just pointless. That is, i can still get something out of a brilliant piece of music which is produced badly... i get nothing out of perfectly produced crap.

machina