Predominant music genre nowadays?

ElvisFan said:
To the OP: This mass-market autotuned r'n'b has killed of the pleasure of going into town for me. I absolutely love dance music and up to a couple of years ago pubs and clubs in towns were buzzing with decent dance music. Even chart stuff used to be good.
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Never a truer word said.
Up to a couple of years ago I was going into town with workmates and even me at 51 and a baptized metalhead could enjoy some of the dance tunes but two weeks ago I went up town with workmates and we had to walk out of every bar we went into because of the crap coming out and the competition in which bar can destroy your ears (I'm deaf but I still thought it was excessively loud).
We ended up finding a quieter pub and feeding the jukebox.
Where the hell did music go so wrong?

Anyway, predominant music genre -
There is only one that has always been there and won't go away - ROCK in all it's forms from Elvis to Slayer.
 
visibleman said:
Being a tad pedantic; Auto Tune is an actual product (Melodyne is another) used for pitch correction and is pretty much essential to most genres of music for vocal correction. Used properly it'll be barely noticeable to the listener unless the vocalist is completely of key/pitch.
'AutoTune', the mislabelled Cher-esque/robotic vocal effect, is 95 percent (crank up the settings on Auto Tune and you will get something similar) of the time a vocoder eg: 'Believe' used a digitech talker vocoder rather than Auto Tune.

I completely agree with everyone in saying that this effect is used far too much in recent music and usually results in the track sounding tacky.

Going back to the OP, I’m with shaffaaf27 in saying that Dubstep is playing a huge part in music at the moment.
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Actually they lied about the digitech talker vocoder to throw people off the trail. It was autotune, or at least an early carnation of it.
Melodyne is meant to be way beter than autotune. With Melodyne DNA you can seperate out the individual notes of a chord, amazing huh?
 
To be honest I think we can probably pin point the blame squarely on the crazy frog for utterly ruining everything as far as annoying auto-tune crap is concerned. I'd even blame it for Kaiser Chief choruses come to think of it. You know that scene in Demolition Man, in the car, when stuff is playing on the radio but it's a jingle at best? That's how I feel right ****ing now.

And as for Flat Eric, he was clearly ahead of his time. Flat Beat is what they were aiming for with that 2-step crap all along. All hail Flat Eric, the precursor to dubstep and all round saviour of modern music.
 
Robosapien said:
Actually they lied about the digitech talker vocoder to throw people off the trail. It was autotune, or at least an early carnation of it.
Melodyne is meant to be way beter than autotune. With Melodyne DNA you can seperate out the individual notes of a chord, amazing huh?
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Personally i found autotune to be a bit of an arse to use for vocal correction, especially to get a correction that sounded natural. Melodyne is a little tricker to use but gives a lot more control and with enough flaffing around you can get some solid results. Saying that, i haven't Autotune in 4 years or more.....

Back on topic though.....
 
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I did suspect I had made a **** of myself there - I haven't used either of them, Melodyne DNA does fascinate me though. There was some video on youtube where they changed the key of a Beatles song from major to minor. Pretty incredible. Yeah, back on topic though.

(I'm actually beginning to annoy myself with the number of posts I've made in Music section today).
 
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ElvisFan said:
To the OP: This mass-market autotuned r'n'b has killed of the pleasure of going into town for me. I absolutely love dance music and up to a couple of years ago pubs and clubs in towns were buzzing with decent dance music. Even chart stuff used to be good. Go further back to 1995 and 1996 and they were epic years for mainstream dance. Now I can't bear to be in town watching white boys and girls trying to groove to this undanceable black rubbish
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Thanks! For me, it was dance music from 1994 to late 1996, so looks like we're from the same era. I quite liked the indie back then too, but I found the Blur vs Oasis hype annoying.
 
In Brighton it must be hardcore. Jesus Christ that stuff is so jarring and discordant, it really is terrible. And the worst thing is sometimes you get tricked into listening to it! You'll be listening to what you think is a decent band and then one of them will start screaming something and the whole flood of angst comes pouring out. I think the problem is I can't identify with it, I'm happy with pretty much everything in my life so I can't understand the noise-rage that is hardcore.
 
The black influence on UK dance music in the early 90's was huge. Loads of young black kids had been buying samplers and workstations to try and get into HipHop but the UK scene just never took off. Once Rave started the main people pushing the breakbeat hardcore sound were these same black guys who already had the equipment in their bedroom. It was only when Rave split into happy hardcore and Jungle around 93-94 that the black white sound divided and became noticeable.

Early to mid 90's dance music was utterly fantastic....such an exciting time. I'll never forget the first time I listened to Goldie's "Timeless" and The Prodigy's "Music for the Jilted Generation" just utterly mind blowing. It wont be long before those albums are 20 years old and it makes me sad because I listen to Dubstep and stuff from the last few years and really don't hear any real innovation.
 
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Brian8bit said:
Then there was Goldie. Fabio & Grooverider. Dillinja. LTJ Bukem. Roni Size. All there, making music BEFORE your "golden era" of dance music and attending proper raves like Fantazia (instead of corporate club events like Gatecrasher) and pioneering the jungle and drum and bass sound as well as producing other forms of dance music.
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Ah fantazia and dreamscape, some good nights them!
 
Robosapien said:
I bought both Morning Glory and Great Escape at the same time and didn't take long to side with Oasis. I wasn't even particuarly aware of any class divide and only vaguely paid attention to the rivalry. It was simply better music!
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Oasis.... better music.... Sorry, I can't get my head around that :p ;)
 
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