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Old 13-06-2015, 15:44
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We are now half way through the "tennies", the second decade of the 21st century and it struck me the other day listening to Nelly Furtado's album "Loose", how actually you can begin to hear the evolution of music today compared to the noughties.

Obviously now we can make quite a significant distinction between what sounds 80s, and even 90s. The 80s in particular had a very signature sounds, where as for me it did take a few years into the 00s to really find the 90s sound.

I remember when I read one review of Fergie's 'LA Love' and it said that it sounded like it should have been released 10 years ago. It made me realise that now we are in a period of being able to understand and contemplate the 00s sound.

What do you think?
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Old 13-06-2015, 23:20
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It's the pre David Guetta/Calvin Harris R&B sound I associate with rhe noughties, associated with The Neptunes, Timbaland etc. Lasts from about 2001 to 2008, most of 2009 I'd bundle in with the 2010s.

People will definitely look back at all the dozens of urban dance-pop around in recent years as properly defining the early 2010s.
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Old 17-06-2015, 12:17
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I think the 90s sound is quite easy to define, that mix of dance and indie, even though it started in the late 80s with Happy mondays, was everywhere through the 90s until it evolved into Britpop later in the decade.
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Old 17-06-2015, 16:29
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I think that Teen pop from 1999-2003 heavily defined that period of the 00's mixed with the urban/R&B sound with that cheesey 00's dance that is so identifiable now like the Clubland sound throw in the indie movement and it's pretty much the 00's. It shifted and began to change around 06 with Loose and Futuresex ushering In that EDM crossover which was fully realised with Blackout by Britney which more or less came to define the early 10's sound.
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Old 17-06-2015, 17:00
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Im not sure there are any decade defining sounds now. They all appear to be rehashed earlier sounds, unoriginal and notdefining.

I might be wrong, but i cant see strong era defining movements now that we had from the 50's onwards to the 90's
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Old 17-06-2015, 22:50
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Im not sure there are any decade defining sounds now. They all appear to be rehashed earlier sounds, unoriginal and notdefining.

I might be wrong, but i cant see strong era defining movements now that we had from the 50's onwards to the 90's
Not even the synth heavy tinny sound of the 80's, the California sound of the 60's nor EDM trend of the 10's for me there are definitely defining characteristic.
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Old 18-06-2015, 13:23
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The 90's were magic. The golden age.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ATA_zyhsWA
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Old 18-06-2015, 14:15
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80s, 90s, 00s Sound
Loudness?
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Old 18-06-2015, 14:46
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The Japanese Metal band?
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Old 18-06-2015, 15:15
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The trend of shite mastering
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Old 19-06-2015, 00:07
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The trend of shite mastering
"Loud" and "Shite" are different things , are you confusing these terms with digital compression?
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Old 19-06-2015, 14:26
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Im not sure there are any decade defining sounds now. They all appear to be rehashed earlier sounds, unoriginal and notdefining.

I might be wrong, but i cant see strong era defining movements now that we had from the 50's onwards to the 90's
The only original sound I'd say you can identify as coming from right now would be the type of thing Noisia makes. No other decade has had that sound, even though the genres Noisa works in have been around a couple of decades. I think if anything, this decade can actually be defined by that very rehashing of old sounds and the way they've mixed them together - a bit of 90s dance music mixed with R&B/soul vocals, 80s synths, 00's beats. It's original in the influences it brings together. not that this is anything particularly new of course, the 90s sound I mentioned was a bit of a mix of the late 80s dance sound with more traditional rock dating back to the 60s. Drop the dance element from that mix and you've got Britpop.
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Old 19-06-2015, 14:28
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That is definitelty a factor of 90s rock, which started in large part with the mastering of Oasis records, that over compressed sound which briefly made their records sound louder than everyone else's at the time.
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Old 19-06-2015, 15:00
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The only original sound I'd say you can identify as coming from right now would be the type of thing Noisia makes. No other decade has had that sound, even though the genres Noisa works in have been around a couple of decades. I think if anything, this decade can actually be defined by that very rehashing of old sounds and the way they've mixed them together - a bit of 90s dance music mixed with R&B/soul vocals, 80s synths, 00's beats. It's original in the influences it brings together. not that this is anything particularly new of course, the 90s sound I mentioned was a bit of a mix of the late 80s dance sound with more traditional rock dating back to the 60s. Drop the dance element from that mix and you've got Britpop.
i have no idea what sound noisia makes, and until it becomes mainstream (assuming it isnt already) it hardly defines a generation.
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Old 19-06-2015, 20:02
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The only original sound I'd say you can identify as coming from right now would be the type of thing Noisia makes.
Listening to this lot they don't sound much different to early 90's Warp Records / Ninla Tunes/ Dj Shadow ?Aphex Twin/ Boards of Canada stuff ,etc
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Old 20-06-2015, 12:41
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I would say it’s not a case of one current music style dominating these days, but types of computerised music production.

Compared to the past so much music now sounds glitchy and twitchy because it’s easy to do tricks like this on a computer, whereas in say the 80's with old school sampling tech it was harder or very time consuming to get these effects. Sounds that would have required lots of complex wiring in a studio can be achieved in seconds at the click of a few buttons.

Outside of electronic music bands actually playing instruments seem to be a luxury only top acts can afford anymore. We live in an era where it seems increasingly less and less new bands are breaking through. The industry clearly doesn't want to pay for expensive studio recording costs when they can have cheap and cheerful bedroom DJ's that Radio can't wait to play a plenty.

To be fair I suspect part of what has forced this is since piracy and now streaming started reducing revenue there just isn't the money available any more to gamble on new bands.
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Old 21-06-2015, 14:08
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surely the sound of the last decade has been bloody autotuned vocals
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Old 22-06-2015, 16:50
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Listening to this lot they don't sound much different to early 90's Warp Records / Ninla Tunes/ Dj Shadow ?Aphex Twin/ Boards of Canada stuff ,etc
Yes, there's definitely a similarity, but the Noisia stuff has something new to it, a harder edge, even compared to some of the harder Aphex or Squarepusher tracks. The sound manipulation shows a real step forward that typifies today for me, and may well be down to the progress music software has nmade in the last few years. And I say that as a massive fan of 90s Warp artists.
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Old 22-06-2015, 16:51
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i have no idea what sound noisia makes, and until it becomes mainstream (assuming it isnt already) it hardly defines a generation.
How are you with Dubstep? Noisia fits in with some of the harder dubstep styles if that's a better reference point for you.
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Old 22-06-2015, 17:37
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Yes, there's definitely a similarity, but the Noisia stuff has something new to it, a harder edge, even compared to some of the harder Aphex or Squarepusher tracks. The sound manipulation shows a real step forward that typifies today for me, and may well be down to the progress music software has nmade in the last few years. And I say that as a massive fan of 90s Warp artists.
Maybe I've listened to the wrong tracks, could you recommend me a example or two?
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Old 22-06-2015, 18:13
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How are you with Dubstep? Noisia fits in with some of the harder dubstep styles if that's a better reference point for you.
oh right, i like some commercial dubstep, not too keen on the original sound.
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Old 23-06-2015, 09:49
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Maybe I've listened to the wrong tracks, could you recommend me a example or two?
For a good example of what he does and his particular sound, try his remix of the Prodigy's Smack My Bitch up. The difference from the original is quite stark and showcases that harder edge I was referring to. Definitely doesn't sound like the sort of remix AFX et al would do.
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