Electronic Music Thread - "Why yes, I listened to Skrillex in high school!"

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Positron said:
Beautiful Japanese space-music.

Hiroshi Yoshimura tends to be more conventionally new-agey than this, with melodies and pianos. But this piece reminds me of Mychael Danna and Tim Clement.
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Quality stuff, love me some ambient. Makes me think of this old number
 
I’ve been listening to this mix tons this past week. There’s not even a single boring filler track in two hours IMO and so many of them give me goosebumps all over lol. The one at 1 hour exactly especially even though that annoying cunt Pete Tong talks over the beginning of it.

Stingray’s definitely in my top 3 DJs of all time and he plays a lot of Drexciya/James Stinson/Gerald Donald which is right up my street (I’m a massive fan girl hence the username)

 
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SpotOnTheWall said:
The last few weeks have been pretty great with all the new albums dropping.
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Honestly the past few years have been so insane for music. Most everything else is going to shit but it feels like a golden era for music. I'll still listen to some older tracks every once in a while and enjoy them, but it is super obvious how far its come from even five years ago much less a decade or more. Of course you have to be the kind of autist with a good enough sound setup to appreciate it who is also actively searching for underground electronic music so it won't be many people. I do appreciate you other dudes who are also in that camp, though.
 
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The Blue Morpho said:
The extended mix is even better (because it's longer)
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Extended mixes are underrated. I get the "point" is for mixing DJ sets, but a lot of times the extended mix just makes the track better, even if it's just because you can enjoy it for longer. I think especially for melodic/deep house, where the point of the track is to be relaxing and evolving.

It's my biggest gripe with my favorite label, Silk, after they merged with Monstercat. There seemed to be an increasing emphasis on keeping tracks ~3 minutes in length and the extended mixes are either hidden away on Beatport or gone entirely. Just scrolling through their videos tab on YouTube you can see the average length of a track drop from 6-8 minutes to 3-4 when the Monstercat branding starts appearing on the thumbnail. I still love the label, I don't think they've ever put out a track that I didn't like, but the direction they seem to be pushing annoys me.
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From before the extended mixes started disappearing entirely
 
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Jewthulhu said:
Extended mixes are underrated. I get the "point" is for mixing DJ sets, but a lot of times the extended mix just makes the track better, even if it's just because you can enjoy it for longer. I think especially for melodic/deep house, where the point of the track is to be relaxing and evolving.

It's my biggest gripe with my favorite label, Silk, after they merged with Monstercat. There seemed to be an increasing emphasis on keeping tracks ~3 minutes in length and the extended mixes are either hidden away on Beatport or gone entirely. Just scrolling through their videos tab on YouTube you can see the average length of a track drop from 6-8 minutes to 3-4 when the Monstercat branding starts appearing on the thumbnail. I still love the label, I don't think they've ever put out a track that I didn't like, but the direction they seem to be pushing annoys me.
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From before the extended mixes started disappearing entirely
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I don't even agree that shorter tracks are better for DJ sets. DJ equipment/software is at a point now where a track of 8, 9 or 10+ minutes is trivial to quickly search through and good DJ's will sequence their sets ahead of time or at least set useful cue points in the tracks they intend to play. Indeed its often good practice to skip the first drop entirely in popular songs because everyone already knows it.
 
The Blue Morpho said:
I don't even agree that shorter tracks are better for DJ sets. DJ equipment/software is at a point now where a track of 8, 9 or 10+ minutes is trivial to quickly search through and good DJ's will sequence their sets ahead of time or at least set useful cue points in the tracks they intend to play. Indeed its often good practice to skip the first drop entirely in popular songs because everyone already knows it.
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I guess I phrased it wrong. The point of extended mixes are for DJ sets while "radio" mixes are supposed to be for general listening (from what I can tell). I personally think that a track should be as it is and artists shouldn't have to worry about making it fit a specific length. An artist shouldn't have to butcher the progression of the track because the label demands it be under 4 minutes.
 
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Anyone excited?

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