was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

[lucasvickers]

not saying its a bad thing.. but it sounds like 80s power

[bananapeel]

Re: was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

Wow, well it's been over 2 decades. Long time coming I guess!

[skahound]

Re: was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

Amy from headrushmusic posted a couple of very interesting articles in the 'How was WMC' thread. Give them a read, part of it discusses the rehashing of 80s pop songs.

[YO75]

Re: was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

pump up the jam

[Kinetic]

Re: was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

pump up the jam

I?m sorry, but I didn?t like that song back then and I even like it less now.
I agree, it?s a classic, but I think it?s a bit sad when one of the "big tunes" of WMC is a remix of a 15 year old track that wasn?t very good to start with.

And I must say the same about playing Kevin Saunderson?s "Good Life". Now, this track I loved since day 1, but once again, is house music really so stale that Deep Dish needed to play this for such a short set?

[remoh]

Re: was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

i liked both the tracks ..the good life mix is really good.. the pump up the jam mix is a feel good track IMO ... at space ali dropped a massive soft cell remix, cant recall the name of the original, but the track was pounding..

there are good and bad remixes, then there are djs that only play remixes..

the conference was dominated by acid and electro clash, some electro also .. not big into any of those genres. back in the day i used to live acid house (89-91) but it sounded a lot diferent back then (acid/hip house)

BTW in 1990 i saw technotronic in concert ...maybe thats why i like that song so much

Electroclash is a contemporary music genre that fuses new wave, punk, & electronic dance music. The movement combines this 1980s sound (using synthesizers, drum machines, etc) with visuals from the post-1970s Westwood & Warhol fashion/art scenes. It mainly developed in the mid to late 1990s in New York City and Detroit.

[remoh]

Re: was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

danny howells and lee buridge threw an 80's party

[Kinetic]

Re: was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

Yeah, people in Portugal are going pretty crazy over this "Electroclash" stuff. I?m not going to diss the whole acid/electro sound, because I do like some of it.

I mean, Zabiela?s "Robophobia" is brilliant, that?s the acid/electro stuff done right.

But when I see people saying that that?s the future of House music, I think it?s sad. I mean, like Jenks said in another topic, is the 303 the only synth accepted in Dance music?

If people lack imagination, they at least have new technology that can help them do different stuff, create new sounds, whatever...

I don?t know...feels like a cop-out to me...

And believe me, I love 80?s music...

[MJ]

Re: was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

Bring it the fuck on i say. My early years of clubbing were in the mis 80`s so these remixes that keep coming out really strike a cord with me. I saw Morillo last year at a club in Liverpool, he played HUMAN LEAGUE ? Dont You Want Me the original mix, man the place went ballistic and i shot my load.


Yeh man, bring it on.

[remoh]

Re: was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

one song that stands out out of all the 80's madness ..was a song that had the synth of that 1987-88 desiderio latino song that was later remixed by nightclub and was called french kiss..
well anyway roger sanchez played it and so did sander... i think i like the remixes best when they have little hints of the original, thats when it really brings you back because you're not expecting it

[Kinetic]

Re: was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

Bring it the fuck on i say. My early years of clubbing were in the mis 80`s so these remixes that keep coming out really strike a cord with me. I saw Morillo last year at a club in Liverpool, he played HUMAN LEAGUE ? Dont You Want Me the original mix, man the place went ballistic and i shot my load.


Yeh man, bring it on.

Look, I love Human League, I love Depeche Mode, I love Duran Duran (I?m gonna see them live in 1 month?s time), it all strikes a chord with me too, but why the fuck are all the big records this year just remixes of 80?s stuff?

10 years ago I kept listening to people my age saying "oh, those fuckin? baby boomers they keep rehashing that 60?s and 70?s crap, why do we have to put up with this?" And here we are falling in the same exact trap...

In conclusion, I?m all for 80?s stuff, but to say that the future of House is in recycling the same fuckin? sounds, synths and melodies is just sad.

I think House music needs a huge jolt of something new...I don?t know where it?s going to come from, but I sure hope it?s not the 303 again...

[remoh]

Re: was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

its just the trend for this year..next year it will be something different...

hey this could help the edm scene,it could draw "average" non edm listeners who like the 80's in ..so if it does this then good... trust me i was at wmc and this is not what i wanted to hear

at wmc 2016 the big track will be remixes of nirvana and pearl jam

[Kinetic]

Re: was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

its just the trend for this year..next year it will be something different...

hey this could help the edm scene,it could draw "average" non edm listeners who like the 80's in ..so if it does this then good... trust me i was at wmc and this is not what i wanted to hear

at wmc 2016 the big track will be remixes of nirvana and pearl jam

Yeah, I guess so.

I?ll give you this though : if I had actually gone to WMC, and was out of my skull from all the boozin?, I?d probably be pretty happy to hear those 80?s remixes. So I guess I just have to dismiss it as party music.

[Kobe]

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It's weird because I didn't like a lot of that stuff back then, but now when I hear a Morrisey/Depeche Mode type sample in a track I instantly love it.

[picklemonkey]

Re: was this years WMC a regugitation of the 80s?

It's weird because I didn't like a lot of that stuff back then, but now when I hear a Morrisey/Depeche Mode type sample in a track I instantly love it.

I'm the same way... but they weren't playing tracks like that. the ones they played were complete crap.