I’ve just had a listen to the Beatport Top 10 for House. Doesn’t EVERYTHING (with a couple of exceptions, but a lot outside of that chart as well) sound like that festering Oliver Helden track, Gecko?
If he hasn’t already collaborated on it, then the track invariably shares a very similar synth in some variation or other, or if its lacking that, the bassline sound the same, if not a little cut up?
Am i going mad? Or is this another formula that someone’s discovered and everyone else is jumping on?
I’ve never listened to a top 10 chart so I wouldn’t know directly, but that’s usually a trend. One song makes it huge, then a bunch of people make something similar until it’s played out and then it happens all over again with something else. There was that year where every mainstream track sounded like Levels… shudders
They call it future house…and once in a while they will throw the term “jackin” out there. Which really pisses me off… They dont even know what good jackin house is!
To be fair, Tchami absolutely kills that sound. But I’ve now seen DJs jump from the SHM “prog” bandwagon to the Sandro Silva Epic “EDM” bandwagon to the Julio Bashmore “deep house” bandwagon and now to the Tchami megamix “Future house” bandwagon. Listened to 6 DJ’s in one night practically play the same song for 5 hours.
well I do consider Shiba San in a special category. One of the few producers that actually puts effort in to tracks. I swear most of these guys are making these tracks in a day…and using all loopmasters stuff, and presets. So it all sounds the same.
When I saw this thread, I actually thought of how a lot of the new country sounds exactly the same. Cruise (by Florida Georgia Line) 6.0.
There is a trend in history, though, of popular music sounding “the same.” Eventually new ideas come out, and people steal ideas from other people, and then we get a new sound.
It’s great shame really that the diversity of the top 10’s of a major download site such as beatport are found quite lacking. I don’t know wether it’s the producers who make the same music, or the people who buy said tunes and catapult them into the top 10’s that makes me so frustrated. Can we take the Top 10’s as a direct reflection of how people DJ nowadays?
Obviously if you go digging around Beatport there’s some great stuff to be had and the tunes that define your style and sound aren’t just going to hit you in the face. But someone, somewhere is updating their crates on a monthly basis that contains nothing but the Top 100 and playing a load of tunes that all sound the same. I’d get bored pretty quickly to be quite honest.
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it’s called commercial/pop/radio music…i am pretty sure other countries suffer from the same thing…
[/quote]what happened to the post you quoted?
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When I saw this thread, I actually thought of how a lot of the new country sounds exactly the same. Cruise (by Florida Georgia Line) 6.0.
[/quote]a mention of florida/georgia line on djtechtools. never thought i’d see the day. never been to one of their shows but i hear the tailgate’s a lot of fun.
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It’s great shame really that the diversity of the top 10’s of a major download site such as beatport are found quite lacking. I don’t know wether it’s the producers who make the same music, or the people who buy said tunes and catapult them into the top 10’s that makes me so frustrated. Can we take the Top 10’s as a direct reflection of how people DJ nowadays?
Obviously if you go digging around Beatport there’s some great stuff to be had and the tunes that define your style and sound aren’t just going to hit you in the face. But someone, somewhere is updating their crates on a monthly basis that contains nothing but the Top 100 and playing a load of tunes that all sound the same. I’d get bored pretty quickly to be quite honest.
[/quote]the top 10 can be monotonous but it’s not always like that. ten walls, dusky, pirupa have had #1s on there. also you gotta realize people are trying to make it big (locally, regionally, nationally or internationally) with DJing and that means playing the big tracks. also the people at the top have a vested interest in their sound being popular. and they have much greater resources to make that happen. and i don’t mean buying their own tracks but they have a greater reach and a better ability to promote a certain sound.
