Predictions that come true...
 

As you know, I enjoy everything 80's, the music, the synths etc etc. Back in 2000 I went out for a pint with a DJ friend and we were talking about music. He asked me what I reckon the next big thing will be in dance music over the next 5 years......as you might have guessed....i said there will be a strong 80's influence. Bear in mind, music at this time was still very late 90's in its 'sound'. I kinda feel chuffed at the fact I made quite an acurate prediction on the direction dance music might take....

Some of you will contest whether there really have been an 80's influence at all. Personally I think there has....and a big one at that. What do you guys reckon? Can you feel the 80's vibe at the moment?

DS

Re: Predictions that come true...
 

Na not really mate. Unless you count the number of 808/909 kicks you hear, or the endless TB squeels and squelches.
Pretty sure that's not what you mean though right?

Dunno about 'influence', but I am hearing a million arseholes just sampling old tracks, which IMHO is a different thing.

I mean, if you make a piece of music, and somebody says to you "that sounds really 80's", what do they mean exactly ?

Is it better or worse for sounding eighties ?

Look at Boards of Canada, they sound like the soundtrack to wildlife films made by the Canadian National Film Board in the 70's, does anybody say to them, that sounds really 70's...

Hey just reminded myself!! I heard a tainted love remix here on the radio - although it wasn't so much a remix as much as just ripping small chunks out of the track and using them - I guess similar to what you're talking about there Threlly.

Hate to say it, but maybe you're right DS! :shock:

Madonna's latest album (mostly 70's influences though), but that is it.

Just people covering 80 lyrics...But not much else,just listen to Trance these days its just gets better and better..
I've cracked nearly all modern trance basslines on one soundset :-)

Ummmmmmmm. . . . . saw waves filtered = typical trance bass :wink: :lol:

No... Took ages to figure it out..

matsa's 2004 12" single on S?hk? records "Liberation Sugar" was picked up on by the record label for its "80's feel."

Cunts! I was trying to make it as 2000-ish as possible!

So lads, if you're after an 80's feel get yerselves a Yamaha CS1x and an ISIS soundcard in a 667MHz PC and submit it to Tommy G at S?hko.

THE 80'S WERE SHITE. I WAS THERE. :roll:

i accualy prefer the early 90s wallstreet era... (with funny looking buisness men using big ass cellular phones) :roll:

"The 80's were shite...I want a refund" - Rob Gretton

Actually, there was a brief period from 1979-1982, that music really came on leaps-and-bounds.
Bands were throwing off the Punk shackle and experimenting, guitars were hitting synths, sequencers against drummers, soundscapes, some real ART.
Then the bollocks New Romantic/Nu-wave crap hit and it all went friggin shoulder-pads.
As usual, it was the London based art school gobshites that kicked it all off.
While the Northern UK was belting out Cabaret Voltaire, New Order, Section 25 etc etc, the South gave us Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones and Bleeding Visage.
There was DAF in Europe, Severed Heads in Oz, even Canada and the U.S. had some sterling electronic acts coming through.

But the whole thing was pissed on by the likes of Midge Ure and his band of fluffy shirted girly-men.

Aaah well.

Threlly...your posts are fuckin great man!!!!! I always get a laugh and chuckle out of you british boys sense of humour

:lol:

I just love the word "gobshite" I do.

I'd also like to add that New Zealand had the whole Flying Nun thing going on in the 80s with one small independent label producing some of the best music of the decade anywhere in the world.

Quite right too

Fucking Billy Currie jogging behind his keyboard....bastard.

Look at you NOW Currie, not so clever-clever now eh ?
You big crap fat man-mountain you, eh, Numan wouldn't look at you twice now.
Won't be jogging behind your CS-80 now, it'd bloody snap....