Dusty
Tone deaf
Yes, I completely agree; it's a bell curve with the internet bringing a vast wealth of medicore to the masses. Seems stupid to still talk of pre-internet now that we are living in the future where most people weren't even born then, but label curation really kept a lot of this away from public ears.
I myself am guilty of being a medicore artist. I probably should refrain from inflicting it on others.
I feel almost bad picking on someone, what if they are reading?
So... not bad, but mediocre for me would be Coppice Halifax. Like Pete Namlook, it's a quantity over quality outpouring of releases. There's probably some really good stuff in there somewhere, but after a few albums you question how much of your life can you give to one mans mediocre output. It makes you retreat to what you consider the great, and appreciate that connection you have with it.
For me, Deepchords 'Liumin' album, or 'Deluge' by Submersion.
What's the difference? Dub Techno is often accused of being paint-by-numbers. It's the formulaic sub-genre in techno, which is itself pretty standardised to begin with. Many people follow the rules to the letter but miss the spirit of the thing. Zombie, plodding, emotionally dead music for the sake of it. Hitting that intangible 'otherness' that makes an album stand apart and suck you in, it's in the spaces between the rules. If we could define and replicate it, then it wouldn't be special.
I myself am guilty of being a medicore artist. I probably should refrain from inflicting it on others.
Please post an example of bad/mediocre dub techno and perhaps explain what makes it bad/mediocre in comparison to something you consider great.
I feel almost bad picking on someone, what if they are reading?
So... not bad, but mediocre for me would be Coppice Halifax. Like Pete Namlook, it's a quantity over quality outpouring of releases. There's probably some really good stuff in there somewhere, but after a few albums you question how much of your life can you give to one mans mediocre output. It makes you retreat to what you consider the great, and appreciate that connection you have with it.
For me, Deepchords 'Liumin' album, or 'Deluge' by Submersion.
What's the difference? Dub Techno is often accused of being paint-by-numbers. It's the formulaic sub-genre in techno, which is itself pretty standardised to begin with. Many people follow the rules to the letter but miss the spirit of the thing. Zombie, plodding, emotionally dead music for the sake of it. Hitting that intangible 'otherness' that makes an album stand apart and suck you in, it's in the spaces between the rules. If we could define and replicate it, then it wouldn't be special.
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