To be honest, I'd talk about it less in terms of timeless / universal properties of the music and more about not getting overexcited about stuff because it happens to fit in with what you're currently interested in or reminds you a bit of other stuff you like - "wow it's got crusty tape echo sounds, it must be really deep, a bit like BC..."this is the very essence of this thread: timeless music sounds just right, when ever one listens to it, be it 5 years or 30 or 100 years (or i believe longer than that) from its creation. in electronic music, the nature of its process seems to put emphasis on the tools and technology, but in the end is NO DIFFERENT - good music always sounds just right.
I dunno, actually. I don't think that music is better now because we have more technological options, but there's definitely a correlation between people pushing the envelope musically and people pushing the envelope (of what's available to them) technologically. I mean, The Well Tempered Klavier is incredible and to me as musically potent as anything produced using Max/MSP or Reaktor or whatever, but at the time using an equal temperament piano pretty much was the cutting edge of technology. The actual causality of this is open to debate, though...my point was more about the miniscule or nonexistant relationship of technological advancement and the creation of good music, and less about the relative worth of copycat dubtechno by numbers...
Seeing as we've spent half a page slagging it off, can someone at least name some examples of this 'ponderous Basic Channel inspired space echo navel gazing'?
there's definitely a correlation between people pushing the envelope musically and people pushing the envelope (of what's available to them) technologically...
I dunno, actually. I don't think that music is better now because we have more technological options, but there's definitely a correlation between people pushing the envelope musically and people pushing the envelope (of what's available to them) technologically. I mean, The Well Tempered Klavier is incredible and to me as musically potent as anything produced using Max/MSP or Reaktor or whatever, but at the time using an equal temperament piano pretty much was the cutting edge of technology. The actual causality of this is open to debate, though...
I picked up a bunch of stuff by Fluxion when it came out but only liked a few tracks. Either Fluxion isn't that great or I was over that sound at the time without realising it. Either way I've seen them mentioned loads as being amazing, but I'd rather give high fives to another CR artist - Various Artists. #8 on Fatcat is synth sex.Fluxion . on par w/ R&S and BC but not mentioned nearly often enough .
really sweeping, epic, orchestral post-rock... also, shit post-rock band names.
that's my fave too. it originally came out as a white titled march down babylon, and the mix is slightly different and imo superior to the version released later and featured on the artists album.(actually my favourite is probably 'mash down babylon' but i couldn't find it on youtube)