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Originally Posted by aMindAmok
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There are many pleasant forms of electonica to be sure and I sometimes enjoy them for short periods. However, I still find early iterations such as house, acid, dnb, and techno as the forms with the greatest ingenuity and appeal. There is something special about what they produced in the 80s and 90s without all the easily accessible "instruments" and production tools.
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Hell yeah! A lot of those early tracks can still go off on a night out. I have a weekly open format residency at a bar and run a monthly electronic night at a club. I started collecting music of all kinds about 20 years ago so I can go pretty deep in many different genres if I want. As long as a song is good it will still resonate with a modern crowd. However, the expectations of the crowd makes it hard to get away with doing more than maybe 1 or 2 throwbacks in a night depending on genre. Like with Hip Hop you can burn through several 90s/2000s tracks and people will get hyped up but if you do it for too long it gets a bit boring for them. With electronic music the length of what is acceptable to a play a song for has changed over the years. A lot of electronic you are just going to be doing "build -> drop ->build" or "drop -> drop" mixes so you are playing a song for about 30 seconds to a minute and a half at most when you are at the peak of the night. Older songs were more about a 5-6+ minute play time to get everything out of them so they are more of a gamble. Like yeah you can just mix out of it whenever but it isn't what the track was really made for.
I find now the best place to introduce people to the classics is at house or after parties when everyone is just trying to get fucked up and chill and people are more open.
03-07-2018, 12:11 PM
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