Why do people hate electronic music SO MUCH?
All I hear today is people ranting about electronic music and how it "sucks" and "takes no talent" to make. I don't like all that dubstep and brostep crap, I like glitch hop, electro house, and progressive house. 1st of all, electronic music is very hard to make, it can take months and months to make one song. I am trying to make electronic music right now and it is almost impossible to come up with something different and good sounding. 2nd of all, people think you just press random buttons on the computer, well you push keys on the piano, you pluck strings on the guitar, you hit pads and symbols on drums. Making electronic music is not using a computer, your using your mind. If you STILL don't believe me, try making some for yourself. Go out there and buy some softwares like ableton live or fl studio, a midi controller and try it. Its harder than you think, its like making any other music. So again, why do people hate electronic music so much?
Non-Dance/Complex Electronic Music?
I am a musician, and I am really into complex and progressive music. It appeals to me no matter what musical genre it comes from, because it feeds my brain info and it makes me think while I listen to it, even if it doesn't sound too "nice". The "nice" sound for me is when the composer plays around with textures and timbres and combinations of tension and release, and when I hear a musical idea and just go "wow" or I find myself playing it over and over again trying to analyze WTF just happened. I have found quite a few progressive metal bands that feed my need for complexity, such as Behold...the Arctopus, Animals as Leaders, Dillinger Escape Plan, Intronaut, The Faceless, And I am really big into some modern jazz artists like Eric Dolphy, John Scofield Because of the way they combine harmonies and rhythms, and even play with style from different eras of jazz. tl;dr (getting to the point) I met a new friend just recently which is quite the raver, and told me she listens to "complex electronic music with substance". she recommended some music called progressive house and vocal trance. I looked it up and was barely impressed. It was pretty, but still just disco in my eyes. I remember back in my junior high years when I had just discovered the wonders of hi-fi audio devices, and basically all I listened to was bass heavy drop heavy electronic music because it felt wonderful on my ears, and this even ignited a spark in me to try and learn (wait for it) Tektonik (LOL). That didn't work out for me at all, and i deviated from electronic music a lot to explore classical, jazz, metal and some rap. STILL tl;dr Now, in conclusion, what i'm looking for is electronic music that is interesting, complex, musical, avant-garde, with complex harmonies and chord progressions and irregular meters etc. This means no dance music. I'm looking for 13/16 switching to 9/8 back and forth for example, none of this basic four-to-the-floor BS. Does this exist? Please help me, people of the internet.
I want to make a career out of electronic music and DJ'ing. I am confused whether to learn DJ producer course or opt for Audio engineering?
I'll try to keep this short and crisp. Just so you know if I am an average ranter with good vocabulary, visit http://SoundCloud.com/kswindiaHate to burst the bubble, but if you want to be a really successful one, you have to take a longer route. DJing & Producing is an Art, you have to make your own mistakes and know why its a mistake in the first place. If you are told how to do it and given out ready made tips by people, you will not get to the core of it.To answer your question, you don't need a producer course and you sure as hell don't need an engineering course, believe me. Engineers are different breed. Their job is different from what you seek to accomplish. All you need is investment of time in the art itself and a decent internet plan. All you desire to learn is available on the web for free. Whatever the courses offer, I can guarantee you, is available for free on the web. Youtube is an amazing source.Also, if you're still going to go for the producer courses or any DJ academy, please, please make sure that the guy who teaches you is really known for his production and only he teaches you else you're only going to get ripped off of your hard earned money. I have been around the scene to the tell you pretty surely, most of my friends who are good producers and have an academy only give guest lectures and the rest is given by some other dude who barely knows what he is talking about. Think about it, if you were really that good of an artist, why would you be in academia and not do gigs?Oh yes , to finish up my case, one last question, who is your idol ? Has he been to any DJing school or any production school? Look up their wiki, I can bet he has not.Bottomline, open Google, type what you want to learn, start consuming.For DJing, Download Traktor and start practicing on it. If you can get your hands on console, nothing like it. Traktor will do just fine for a year or so.For production, download any DAW and start getting hands on experience.Hope this helps. Godspeed.
My mom heard me singing explicit lyrics and told me to stop listening to it. What should I do?
I listen to a wide variety of music, mainly metal, singer/songwriters, alternative and electronic. But sometimes I listen to "screamo" metal and semi-quietly scream along to myself to get aggression and rage out of my system. I actually find it quite cathartic and therapeutic. Well, I was in my room and had both my headphones in on pretty high volume. I was listening to the "Punk Goes Pop" cover of Maroon 5's "Payphone" by Crown the Empire and screaming the more aggressive parts to myself. Examples of those parts include: "All those fairy tales are full of s***, One more f****** love song and I'll be sick!" "So I can tell you what you need to f****** know! Ring ring, motherf*****!" Well it turns out my mom was standing in the door way, the whole time, watching me. After the song ended and I saw her standing there with her arms crossed, I realized the calamity of the situation. I took my headphones out she exclaimed "Excuse me!" I asked "what?" She told me to not listen to rap anymore and I said it's not rap, so she told me to not listen to "whatever that music was" anymore. Now I'll admit, in hindsight, those lyrics are pretty explicit and, frankly, meaningless. And I can see how it's frightening to see someone screaming aggressively as opposed to singing lyrics in a more "normal", clean sense. But, to me, that released a lot of aggression and tension and I felt much better after it. I just feel really awkward about the whole situation. So what should I do about it? Stop doing it, talk to her about it, ignore her, etc.? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Why do some people hate any kind of EDM music, even when it's passable?
This is a subset of a larger question. Why do people hate any type of music or art? If you can answer that you’ve got most of the answer to the question above. It’s a big question so I’ll leave that part for now.Why would people hate any kind of electronic dance music? For a lot of people the technological aspect is a focus for their dislike. They often express things such as ‘music like this has no feeling’ or ‘is not the real thing’ because of the technology used.This suspicion of technology in music has a really long history. Even the introduction of the microphone was considered to have damaged the art of singing when the new generation of crooners such as Frank Sinatra came along.If you’re at University you can read a more detailed treatment of that idea in Simon Frith’s Art versus Technology: The Strange Case of Popular Music. Unfortunately it’s not widely available outside academia but it’s an excellent article if you’re interested in this topic.