In a departure from the regular format of LWE’s Curator’s Cuts series, podcast 13 features LWE’s writing staff discussing five of electronic music’s prevailing trends in 2010. Editor-in-chief, Steve Mizek, served as the moderator of a conversation between Per Bojsen-Moller, Chris Miller, Jordan Rothlein and Andrew Ryce.
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Nice chat, and a cool idea well executed. A lot to digest for response in a comment, so I’ll leave that for another time.
Very good listen, guys. I’m interested in why Steve thinks that sampling is such a key feature of the current electronic music landscape though. It’s been a huge part of the culture since the birth of the sampler!
You’re certainly right, Richard, although it seemed much more prevalent in several facets of dance music — UK bass and house music chief among them — than in the past few years. I can’t count how many records I heard this year built on a single vocal sample, or how many UK funky/bass tracks thrived on sped up R&B vocals. So while the trend is certainly not unique to 2010, my staff and I believe it came to a head last year.
I don’t think you can say sampling is more prevailant in todays dance music culture. Maybe the way in which samples are being used is different but certainly not sampling itself. I suppose Burials sampling influence on UK dance music has finally caught up at a more mainstream level within electronic music.
really interesting stuff
So essentially, we have all this new technology and all most EDM producers want to do with it is to replicate old sounds.
just listened to this – very interesting comments
just a slight correction – the vath phrase was ‘a pill an hour keeps Sven at full power’!!!