Dance Music: Where are things at?

Or back in the 90s, pop music sampled music from the 70s and 80s. They had videos then too... it's just people actually watched them. As alluded to in the article, I guess a lot of the target audience are exposed to pop music these days through watching Love Island and the like.
 
SOS Sargantana said:
'new' Beatles track using AI to isolate Lennon's vocal. This track never saw the light of day cos it wasn't er very good.. but the interesting part is the tech. I just think copyright is surely going to collapse if nobody can claim ownership on a simulated voice, and this is going to cause chaos across all of music.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1668526251030487045
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Using AI, instead of a real person, you can imitate anyone, you can 'Imagine all the people'! :lol:

(Yes, *TAXI*)
 
None of them actually slagged him off though or even named him. Can't say the same about their followers in the replies and retweets however

Raises the wider question of how much impressionable kids look up to and worship these guys, for the pretty inane career of playing other people's records. I get it. It's aspirational, but they're hardly good role models for the most part and incidents like this prove how quickly a frankly very reasonable observation turns into an online pile-on
 
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People should be free to criticise sets, so long as it doesnt get personal and nasty. If we are saying that every set must be praised then thats a bad world we are slipping into and sometimes artists need that nudge to perform better.

And im sure some will have had a good time watching that cheese...but its the kind of thing youd expect a DJ to play down your local Yates' not a 'serious' festival. Theres a time and place for it.
 
Interesting that he mentions East End Dubs, a guy who has made his career out of making edits of bait pop songs. Don't think he's much better tbh
 
W_I_C said:
Interesting that he mentions East End Dubs, a guy who has made his career out of making edits of bait pop songs. Don't think he's much better tbh
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Can't find it now put there's a video clip from Hideout of Patrick Topping playing near enough hard house.
 
Buckley said:
Can't find it now put there's a video clip from Hideout of Patrick Topping playing near enough hard house.
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Yeah, got to say I'm not feeling his direction these last few years
It's pretty ear bleed.
I do find it interesting how this new generation of DJs are distancing themselves from my era though. I find what they're playing absolutely awful. But I think that's kind of the point
 
W_I_C said:
Yeah, got to say I'm not feeling his direction these last few years
It's pretty ear bleed.
I do find it interesting how this new generation of DJs are distancing themselves from my era though. I find what they're playing absolutely awful. But I think that's kind of the point
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I don't go out out anymore, but everything new I see online seems to sound like a cross between the EDM sound focused on the 'drop' and hard house.

I do also get I'm not the target audience, and the kids would rightly not care what I think, it just seems a bit basic.
 
Buckley said:
I don't go out out anymore, but everything new I see online seems to sound like a cross between the EDM sound focused on the 'drop' and hard house.

I do also get I'm not the target audience, and the kids would rightly not care what I think, it just seems a bit basic.
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EDM is even if we dont want to admit it an effective style for big crowds, its not a surprise to see elements of it coming back in and some festival crowds have a short attention span and want that drop, drop, drop, ice cannon, drop.

Aside from the awful music choices the issue in that Shack clip is someone has spent time making a child like voiceover that just isnt funny, its like he expected the crowd to hear 'Lions dont sleep in the effing jungle' and roll around laughing and then go wild...its far too scripted.
 
Buckley said:
I don't go out out anymore, but everything new I see online seems to sound like a cross between the EDM sound focused on the 'drop' and hard house.

I do also get I'm not the target audience, and the kids would rightly not care what I think, it just seems a bit basic.
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Yeah that’s kind of Topping / Trick sound now. Ben Hemsley, Hannah Laing etc.
 
I know there are some easy targets, but equally surprised that DJ Tennis & Carlita (Astra Club) seem to get away with playing Zombie Nation, Freed from Desire & Be / Show me Luv pretty much every set
 
Springal said:
I know there are some easy targets, but equally surprised that DJ Tennis & Carlita (Astra Club) seem to get away with playing Zombie Nation, Freed from Desire & Be / Show me Luv pretty much every set
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Is that these are 'new' to the the kids? So they'll a have short shelflife for a new audience ? I'm sure someone can knock up a spreadsheet with average punter age, average earliest exposure to 'dance' music, and mine the big hits of year with an optimal date when they will be new to most punters...*

*in fact a good friend of mine of, formerly of this parish, could do it seconds and probably name all the hits of each year of the top of his head :lol:
 
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