Don't argue with easty, just nod and everythings all ok
J/k
seandelier, I know where you are coming from with the amount of music being produced today, it's much easier for people to make music with just a PC than years ago when they had to have a few bits of kit, drum machine, couple of synths, a sequencer (or a computer with one) and a mixing desk at least, plus effects, so there weren't as many people making music as they all couldn't afford the kit they needed. Nowadays its all software based, so if you have a fairly decent spec'd PC it doesn't cost you anything else as most will d/l the software for nothing.
There is less quality control, the amount of shite out there is shocking and you do have to sift through it.
Here's the tester though...
We remember thousands of great tunes made in our 'best era' (whatever you want to class it as, usually 88-92 - although I'd go back as far as 83..) How many great tunes will todays teens remember in 20 years time from their 'best era' ? Compared to our thousands of great tunes, I bet theres are only less than a hundred, if that.
There might be more tunes being made now, but 80% of them are shit, whereas back in our golden era with less producers it was a reversal, only 20% of stuff that came out was shit, 80% was amazing.
The problem that I have with new music is producers being too lazy to change the presets of the programs they use, so you are just hearing the same beats and the same sounds churned out so much all the time.
As for this minimal bollocks, well that's another thread but 99% of that is boring and lacks everything a track should have.
Tell you what though, when you do find good new music, you grab hold of it with both hands, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, Booka Shade and the likes are right up there imo, also at more realistic tempo's instead of all the faster rubbish that was around in the mid 90's, they have taken it back to slower bpm's which works so much better, the sounds have more of a groove and sit and work nicer together.
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