What the hell is wrong with modern dance music

[Juho L]

Originally Posted by jasedee

And at the same time there has also been shit music (see 'apache' video), as there still is in all of todays genres....be it Dance, Pop, Rock, and *shock horror* ProgRock!

What?! You question coolness of The Apache?!

Can it be that standards have slipped? Can it be that the human race is perhaps not as creative as it once was? Can it be that the technology for music making, especially in the dance/electronica genre, is now so accessible, to all walks of life, and regardless of talent and knowledge any fool can release a CD, vinyl, and call it 'dance'..........

"Recording equipement is too cheap nowadays" - Lennu from muusikoiden.net when commenting a demo that was utter crap.

Indeed professional equipement is way too cheap nowadays. Even with 1000 euros you can get a good start. This leads to a situation in which some people get producing equipement even they don't have faintest clue about anything releated to that. Of course people learn that way but it's a rough fact of life that most people just don't have talent. We all are medicore at best in everything execpt some people who are above average in one or two things. If you don't have talent, you just can't learn. Sometimes I've thought that one should need a licence to get a synth from a store. To get a licence you should study basics of music and the concept of MIDI and basics audio (connecting cables, etc). Also when you buy a synth before you get it home you'll have to perform a trial in the store. In that trial you're only equipped with a manual and the synth. In that trial you'll have to perform basic functions on the synth, like basic sound editing, sequencing, patch control, etc. In the end you'll have to perform a musical piece (the more professional synth, the more demanding piece).

This way we would get a situation in which the untalented people would only get Casio home keyboards. Of course this owuld lead to a point in which all trance is made with Casio keyboards, but that's not a problem. Buahahaha!

But think what kind of relief it would be! No-one would never ever again answer questions like "I boutght 2000 euro synth. I've connected the MIDI cables but I can't hear anything. What's wrong?" or "What the hell is this modmatrix?" or maybe even "How do I use the filters?". It's just annoying that people are so lazy that they don't bother to learn the basics by themselves even they have a comprehensive manual and a world's largest information database at their fingertips, but instead they bother other people with stupid questions (Yes, they are stupid questions... Actually incredibly stupid questions - an another rough fact of life. Your questions are authorized to be called stupid if you'd get the answers easier by yourself).

We really should get this licence & trial system. Who's with me? I am! I am!