Interesting perspective and one that seems to be a theme I've seen hinted at in other reviews - this album is a reprieve in the current state dance music is in. I suppose time will tell if this album helps reinvent the wheel as EDM (am I the only one that feels weird saying 'EDM'?) evolves.
Bonus points for calling out the Aioki 'Tomorrowland' train wreck as the nail in the coffin. If you feel like throwing up in your mouth a little, just google it.
Or should that be a Titanic disaster? Yikes! Celine Dion is not/was not/never will be a reason to see any 'dance' music DJ play. And Guetta doing "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands" is even worse. How are sketch comedians even meant to take the piss out of this? You can't get any dumber. I think it may be wishful thinking on behalf of the writer that the Chems will bring the wheel around to a good place again for the scene in general, but we can hope. In the mean time you just have to know where to go. Last months Field Day festival had the likes of Weatherall, Avery, Robertson and Floating Points on the DJ roster (as well as lots of live bands). I'm just glad it was a hell of a lot nearer to me than Tomorrowland.
Ooooh, ouch, that hurts in every way possible. Thanks Whirls for the warning... I was about to let my lunch make its way up... This is exactly what I hate about most of those "artists" and why I despise the word EDM or that genre which it kind of has become to represent. The music of the mentioned DJs lacks almost everything what makes electronic music so engaging for me. One-dimensional, pretending, stageing, devoid of creativity, effect-laden and DJs who merely long for the limelight, it's disugsting.
I made myself watch a couple of Anoki sets, or rather skipped through them, and I was just stunned and/ or nauseated by what I witnessed. The pinnacle of that all was when I found out that this guy's "trademark" is cake throwing which he deems a type of performance art.
But perhaps this EDM movement is for them today what Euro Dance was for us back in the nineties - with the exception that Euro Dance did have some sort raw creativity considering its limited technology. But today it's more like effect over substance... And I feel that lots of young teens seem to embrace this kind of lightweighted, simple minded musical approach more and more. There's a YT comment I read under a chems set the other day in which a guy stated he had never felt so depressed coming from a gig and that only Tiësto saved the night...
But let's see if the Chems can bring back some sanity into the game
Pie-chart music. That's what I have for dessert.
