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Old 12-09-2015, 13:32
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It's a great genre but bored of it now can't wait until it leaves the mainstream charts for a while! It's starting to lose it's way now imo.
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Old 12-09-2015, 13:51
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It's a great genre but bored of it now can't wait until it leaves the mainstream charts for a while! It's starting to lose it's way now imo.
I love dance music when it's done right but now it's all the same and not exciting anymore.
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Old 12-09-2015, 21:37
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It depends where you go looking for dance music. There is always some decent stuff bubbling away around Europe but by the time it becomes a hit in the UK, I've moved on to something else.

2015 hasn't been a vintage year for dance music overall. At least right now I'm enjoying Sigala, Calvin Harris & Disciples and Robin Schulz feat. Francesco Yates.

I've actually found pop music has been more interesting this year.
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Old 12-09-2015, 21:40
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I love dance music when it's done right but now it's all the same and not exciting anymore.
Yes, have to agree with this.

Are Kygo and Matoma the same producer? Well, they both hail from Norway!!!

Listen to Kygo's remix of Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye. Then listen to Jason Derulo's album track Try Me produced by Matoma and they sound almost identical. :s
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Old 13-09-2015, 08:48
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daft question... its like asking if anyones bored of rock music...

commercial dance is of course pretty crap, and id argue has been for over ten years. gone are the days from the 90's where good original dance graced our charts and tbh i doubt that itll ever return (to the charts) apart from the odd classic now and again... abit like rock music really.
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Old 13-09-2015, 09:57
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daft question... its like asking if anyones bored of rock music...

commercial dance is of course pretty crap, and id argue has been for over ten years. gone are the days from the 90's where good original dance graced our charts and tbh i doubt that itll ever return (to the charts) apart from the odd classic now and again... abit like rock music really.
As time has gone on, people have realised that a UK #1 means bugger all.

I can't stand House Every Weekend. It's one of the most basic dance songs I've ever heard featuring one of the worst vocals I've ever heard. Yet it went to #1 with piss poor sales.

Then again I hated Babycakes in 2004 and that went to #1 with equally piss poor sales at the time.

This is what taints the dance genre. You get high quality dance music that doesn't chart high whilst you get absolute crap getting to #1 and I'm just left baffled as to why it's popular, and why radio stations are so willing to play the song 24/7.

It's definitely an age thing. Back in 1995 I thought the Outhere Brothers were brilliant but I'm sure that there were people 30+ who hated them. Likewise there must be thousands of teenage boys who think David Zowie is a musical genius, but I'm now in my mid 30s and I think otherwise.

It goes full circle.
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Old 13-09-2015, 10:57
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I think modern commercial dance music is just about getting the right sample. It's a great example of the influence of technology on modern music, all you need is a laptop and a little patience. The Sigala recording being a good example, sampling The Jackson 5's 'ABC' quite well. Not a patch on Eric Prydz's sample of Stevie Winwood or Dario G's take of The Dream Factory or even LMC v U2, mind you but really anyone could create this music.
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Old 13-09-2015, 16:24
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The 90s dance revival headed by Kiesza last year was amazing. Hideaway is already a dance classic.
This year hasn't been as exciting though with no real dance anthems to speak of.
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Old 13-09-2015, 16:29
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The 90s dance revival headed by Kiesza last year was amazing. Hideaway is already a dance classic.
This year hasn't been as exciting though with no real dance anthems to speak of.
You know what....I was just about to post Kiesza. Read my mind

Ever since I heard Hideaway last year I thought it was something that could've easily come straight out of the early to mid 90s house music scene. I really love the current house revival at the moment.
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Old 13-09-2015, 19:05
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I think's the problem these days is its all made by people that are the target of this song...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

As the song says D*ckheads, accept I'm not sure they can play synthesizer. Zero musical talent, just copy and paste generic sounds on their laptop/ipad/smart phone as per what the You-Tube tutorial videos tell them to. Stick it on beat port+social media, pay a netbot to generate fake internet hits, Radio 1 come knocking on your door asking if they can play you-You're a Super Star DJ!

In the 90's the likes of Daft Punk, The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers were the ones that made all the truly cool Dance music and also managed to enjoy commercial success in doing so.

20 years later: Daft Punk, the Prodigy and Chemicals Brothers are the still the ones making most of the most memorable commercially successful electronic sounds. Which in the ageist music biz is cool IMO, but it just shows nobody has replaced them in all that time.
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Old 13-09-2015, 23:46
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No no, no-no no no...
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Old 14-09-2015, 00:29
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Americans killed dance music and made it trashy pop rap music.



They could never do a classic like this.

http://youtu.be/p5NX1FC-7-w

http://youtu.be/_mej5wS7viw
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Old 14-09-2015, 07:31
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As time has gone on, people have realised that a UK #1 means bugger all.

I can't stand House Every Weekend. It's one of the most basic dance songs I've ever heard featuring one of the worst vocals I've ever heard. Yet it went to #1 with piss poor sales.

Then again I hated Babycakes in 2004 and that went to #1 with equally piss poor sales at the time.

This is what taints the dance genre. You get high quality dance music that doesn't chart high whilst you get absolute crap getting to #1 and I'm just left baffled as to why it's popular, and why radio stations are so willing to play the song 24/7.

It's definitely an age thing. Back in 1995 I thought the Outhere Brothers were brilliant but I'm sure that there were people 30+ who hated them. Likewise there must be thousands of teenage boys who think David Zowie is a musical genius, but I'm now in my mid 30s and I think otherwise.

It goes full circle.
i hated the outhere brothers, as i dont dance its irrelevant whether its good or not from that pov..... but as the father of a 10 year old girl back then its not the sort of lyric i wanted her to hear!
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Old 14-09-2015, 20:01
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daft question... its like asking if anyones bored of rock music...

commercial dance is of course pretty crap, and id argue has been for over ten years. gone are the days from the 90's where good original dance graced our charts and tbh i doubt that itll ever return (to the charts) apart from the odd classic now and again... abit like rock music really.
Yep. I'm more of a house girl but there is some absolutely top quality dance and house out there by brilliant artists, DJs and producers but none of it will ever trouble the top 40.

Kids are happy to listen to shite like House Every Weekend because it's cheap, easy and disposable. They don't need to seek out the quality artists out there as music has become so disposable, they're bored after 10 minutes and moved on to the next crap song.

Meanwhile, those of us who are genuine fans of the genre will seek out decent tunes and we often find that word of mouth acts recommended to us by those in the know really are still producing dance tunes of real class
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Old 14-09-2015, 20:20
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I'm a dance music fan, but have to agree his year has been very poor and the trend has probably outstayed its welcome now, it's 6 years since Guetta broke America with 'When love takes over' and his production on the Black Eyed Peas 'I gotta feeling' and Dance has dominated the charts ever since. Surely it's now time for Rock to be a commercial force again?
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Old 14-09-2015, 20:25
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For the first time in quite a while, I watched the music channels. I found that there is a lot of music that sounds repetitive. One example being that song with Disclosure.
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Old 15-09-2015, 09:39
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I'm a dance music fan, but have to agree his year has been very poor and the trend has probably outstayed its welcome now, it's 6 years since Guetta broke America with 'When love takes over' and his production on the Black Eyed Peas 'I gotta feeling' and Dance has dominated the charts ever since. Surely it's now time for Rock to be a commercial force again?
Guetta and Harris would go into my musical room 101. I can't stand that sort of music.
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Old 15-09-2015, 10:21
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I'm more sick of dance producers nicking old songs and basically earning money by getting some random person to cover it.
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Old 15-09-2015, 18:56
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I'm more sick of dance producers nicking old songs and basically earning money by getting some random person to cover it.
That's getting tedious I agree, the singer on 'ain't nobody' sounds like she's half asleep. Not a patch on the Chaka Khan original version or even LibertyX's effort!
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Old 15-09-2015, 19:08
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That's getting tedious I agree, the singer on 'ain't nobody' sounds like she's half asleep. Not a patch on the Chaka Khan original version or even LibertyX's effort!
That's because Felix Jaehn took her original ballad version, increased the tempo and added a dance beat, bass, synths and xylophone. Tbh, any bedroom DJ could've done that.

Personally, I think Jasmin Thompson sounds a bit like Sophie Ellis Bextor, and look how popular Groovejet was in 2000 (granted it was an original song but still).
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Old 16-09-2015, 07:55
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That's because Felix Jaehn took her original ballad version, increased the tempo and added a dance beat, bass, synths and xylophone. Tbh, any bedroom DJ could've done that.

Personally, I think Jasmin Thompson sounds a bit like Sophie Ellis Bextorj, and look how popular Groovejet was in 2000 (granted it was an original song but still).
But the original point is why is such a lame production so successful? And it isn't the only example. Is it because the audience is a younger generation who have never heard (or appreciated) the original version? Also slowing down up tempo numbers doesn't in itself create poignancy, sometimes it just makes the song sound tedious as suggested by the other poster.

I actually agree that modern music creation is too dominated by technology and a fashion of appropriating the geninuinely great musicianship of the past. It will be no time before dance music isn't just created with the aid of computers but will be created by computers!
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Old 16-09-2015, 12:38
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.... some danced up versions of older tracks can be good though, imho not all sampled/copied/based on dance tracks are bad.

yolanda b cool - we no speak americano

or

lightforce - join me (a reworking of HIM's 'join me in death')
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Old 16-09-2015, 13:05
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We No Speak Americano was actually quite a unique sounding dance track at the time. Then again, in 2010 dance music was enjoying a resurgence.

It's in the last 12 months it's started to become stale. Listen to Wake Me Up by Avicii, then listen to Waiting For Love straight after. The latter sounds incredibly tinny and dated to say it's the most recent of the two songs. It's as if acts like Avicii just think they can release any crap and it will sell on name alone. Avicii showed so much potential in 2013 but his last few singles, imo, have been garbage in comparison.
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Old 16-09-2015, 13:24
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with all genres of music you get good and bad, and usually it's the shite that's in the standard top 40 singles charts, and the good stuff keeps out of it

with certain genres such as dance music, serious dj's would never play anything that was in the charts as serious clubbers aren't interested in shite like that. if you think of dance music as what you hear in the charts, you are miles away from real dance music
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Old 16-09-2015, 16:42
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with all genres of music you get good and bad, and usually it's the shite that's in the standard top 40 singles charts, and the good stuff keeps out of it

with certain genres such as dance music, serious dj's would never play anything that was in the charts as serious clubbers aren't interested in shite like that. if you think of dance music as what you hear in the charts, you are miles away from real dance music
bib... exactly, and my lad in ibiza keeps getting requests to play guetta and alike, he refuses and tells them they are in the wrong place.!
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