Quote Originally Posted by dan the acid man View Post
I was watching High Tech Soul a few weeks ago, and saw Derrick May saying how he loved techno music, as long as it’s got soul.

Now I’m sure we’ve all heard people saying ………. “Oh I don’t like that, it’s got no soul”, regarding some harder edged techno.

Well I was thinking about this, surely if the producer has been able to get some of their soul out into the music they've made, it shouldn’t matter if its hard, dark and dirty, if that’s what they were feeling at the time.

So my question is, is it easier to associate music that’s emotive and has soul to slower, funkier styles of music, than say a harder, more aggressive style, are we pre-programmed into thinking this way, maybe through soundtracks to TV and films?
I think most people relate soulful to being a lighter smoother side of things. Atleast for the quote un-quote normal people of society that is.

But for others of use, perhaps it's exactly the opposite. For example if you can listen to more of my recent works...I think they're really soulful...but I think maintaining a sense of mannik destruction and mayhem as well. ha ha