Dance Music: Where are things at?

I think Garnier is absolutely correct. The art of DJing as a suspense-filled experience is dying, when people don't take risks. Too many kids just want to bang the hits and too many veterans lean on classics. I've also noticed that more and more tracks are mixed out after barely 2 or 3 minutes. Almost as though neither the DJ nor crowd have the patience. A major reason why I've lost interest in it all.
 
There's a comment near the beginning of this where the narrator says Garnier isn't relevant to the video, which I found really strange when you consider labels like his F Communications and also guys like Emmanuel Top were huge pioneers in French techno? Or maybe he's referring to a different, younger underground scene? Either way, this is focused on a warmer kind of techno you very rarely hear out now

 
The Sun God said:
There's a comment near the beginning of this where the narrator says Garnier isn't relevant to the video, which I found really strange when you consider labels like his F Communications and also guys like Emmanuel Top were huge pioneers in French techno? Or maybe he's referring to a different, younger underground scene? Either way, this is focused on a warmer kind of techno you very rarely hear out now

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Thanks for sharing this, interesting. I can only imagine the reference to Garnier is trying to distance a particular sound from someone who has dominated their scene. Fully earned of course but others must want some recognition for themselves without him being name checked.

This was the kind of sound I listened to a lot of around that time via Inigo Kennedy, a very underrated DJ and producer some mates from London know well. Always kept just under the radar despite having a track on Jeff Mills well know mix Live at the Liquid Room BITD and being very prolific since. As you note, not a sound you hear supported much these days, as far as I know anyway as my trips out are much more limited these days 🤣
 
The Sun God said:
I think Garnier is absolutely correct. The art of DJing as a suspense-filled experience is dying, when people don't take risks. Too many kids just want to bang the hits and too many veterans lean on classics. I've also noticed that more and more tracks are mixed out after barely 2 or 3 minutes. Almost as though neither the DJ nor crowd have the patience. A major reason why I've lost interest in it all.
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The patience thing is a very prevalent one everywhere, isn't it?
Not trying to bang the "social media/cell phones are evil"-drum to death, but it is noticeable that patience and attention span have decreased in the younger generation especially. Not a new revelation, I know, but I think this of course has to do with the phenomenon that you see
a) shorter tracks being played to "keep the crowd interested"
b) more cell phones on the dancefloor and not only filming but scrolling social media and messaging (I mean - come on!!)

I fully and sadly admit that my attention span has suffered dramatically in the past few years and catch myself repeatedly wanting to check my phone while for example watching a football match on TV. Fortunately, I can still lose myself in the moment on the dancefloor, so no issues with attention span there. But I had the luxury of growing up without smart phones, so my brain isn't as affected as the younger ones who have had to deal with that from the beginning (and was able to screw my brain up only through other "means"... 🤣 ).
 
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