Sure Rob, no one's going to make you listen to things you don't like. I don't either. Was just trying to make the point of them being highly capable people, that get there on their own, not like some girl who gets there for her looks and Auto Tune kind of thing. And it's in our best interest, after all, that EDM is actually praised rather then the opposite.
But yeah, this guys know their shit. I mean, I've been making mostly Electronic Music for some years now, most of it I highly doubt anyone here would enjoy, and to me it's quite obvious that this guys have made their own way into success, it's the product of their own qualities and know how, not based on how they look or who they know, and it takes an awful amount of work to get there in the first place.
I mean, even if you don't enjoy the serious banging stuff (lol) from Skrillex, take a look at how he processes his own voice in the quiet parts. Production wise, that's some serious work. And the energy, dynamics, the arrangement of parts, and frequency placement and everything you can think of, is done to perfection - even though it doesn't appeal to me, because we all have our own taste (thank god) and we're not bound to like stuff just because it's well done.
But that's one thing, saying it's bad is quite another. It's not bad. He's done a massive job for Native Instruments, I mean, they are as surprised with their own products as Roland was seeing how some folks grabbed their toy gadgets like TB 303 and made it into a classic sound that carries the soul of so many genres, when it was seen as a major flop and bad commercial move by its own makers. Not such a drastic thing, with Massive and FM8, but this things have helped shape some new genres and they owe it to the creative usage of folks like Skrillex - no matter how much we like them or not.
besides, they've proven that inside-the-box music production has it's place in the world and can compete hand-in-hand with milion dolar studio productions with pop singers and all of that in the charts, and that's good! it's actually an ongoing revolution and it opens the door for everyone else to...
myself, I do listen to a lot of stuff I don't even like. mainly because of what I do, I sometimes put my own taste on hault and just listen. there's some super talented producers out there these days, even young people, and there's really nothing wrong with bedroom music, super micro editings of audio clips, automation, using the entire daw as an instrument or whatever... it's all part of the game and we all should be happy there's people pushing things to the extremes, 'cause that ultimately means better products, more suitable to musicians and their demands, rather then engineers deciding things and being surprised what usage people gave them (XD), and all of that.
I like hip hop, not all of it, but some guys really know their stuff. like Dj premier never fails to impress me. and I'm not the kind of person you'd expect to be listening to that, by a long run eheh... but he's to good for me to dismiss his work regardless of that. I think it's good that we can see past our own taste sometimes, that's basicly what I mean. most specially when we're interested in music production and synthesis.
every single time people talk about drums I say: just surf some drum n'bass foruns or even dub step, those guys are the best in business when it comes to that. they trully are. no question about it. I mean, just dare to go there and read some tips - lucky you don't have to put up with the sound on foruns XD, right? - and make some sound design experiments with samples based on what you read there and tell me about it.
to a certain extent, being able to make it on EDM world actually requires you get a good grasp on audio theory, being proficient with your daw and controlling everything regarding your own mixes, much of it depends on that. you need to be sure you get there to these couple of thousand watts system, and it sounds good in all the right places and you drive the crowds mad, that's what it's about.
if you think straight about it, some young kids are threatning the kingdom of folks like Tony Maseratti without all the fancy equipment like teletronix C-2A compressors and Pultec EQ and stuff like that. I think that's a good revolution of this market and this young folks agitating crowds all over the place, yeah, just like Doors did back in their day, they're actually pissing off a lot of bigger names and I surely apreciate that and so should all of us. Music technology is also developing fast because of all of this, good times we're living, it's all good.
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