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Industry Beat
Jan. 29th, 2004 03:47 pmThe best house music these days seems to be played on guitars. Deconstruction is definitely the next logical progression as far as house music is concerned. I mean I love Groove Armada, Daft Punk et al along the same lines of seemless space pod styled music coming from the future to rock your local dancefloor. But everyone and their Mom has quantized† audio these days. So you can take the spastic beats and melodic slathers of Joe Rockband's Dance Song and align them to a tempo with quartz crystal accuracy. You don't have to be a crazed perfectionist obsessing over every single note inflection at the studio unless you want to.
Maybe my explaination is too far reaching. But I really like to co-relate popular stylistic trends with the underlying technology all the time. I mean look at the vocoder craze of the late 90s. After Cher had "Believe" produced things just exploded and Steinberg produced Orange Vocoder so that anybody with a PC could emulate hardware that at one time only rich and eccentric German techno artists could care to afford.
So bring on the snotty dance punks. They're gonna sound great... at least on recordings.
† It's a poor use of the term because it really doesn't use any quantum mechanics at all. But the musical instrument industry is really big on hyperbole. A marriage between it and the computer industry was destined to happen.
Maybe my explaination is too far reaching. But I really like to co-relate popular stylistic trends with the underlying technology all the time. I mean look at the vocoder craze of the late 90s. After Cher had "Believe" produced things just exploded and Steinberg produced Orange Vocoder so that anybody with a PC could emulate hardware that at one time only rich and eccentric German techno artists could care to afford.
So bring on the snotty dance punks. They're gonna sound great... at least on recordings.
† It's a poor use of the term because it really doesn't use any quantum mechanics at all. But the musical instrument industry is really big on hyperbole. A marriage between it and the computer industry was destined to happen.
