[Dynagroove] the over-rated truth

[Paris Minzer]

>From a music production standpoint, House certainly presents its 
challenges...

To make a groovin house track, you need some live elements...whether it be a 
catchy vocal hook or some horns/keyboard solos or whatnot, it's got to have 
that authentic musical feel...also producing a solid low end bass line isn't 
that easy (unless you're stealing it which admittedly some people do)

I find when I'm making other types of music like breakbeat or more 
progressive house I can get away with a lot more stuff...it's easier to use 
more stock "synthy" sounds...you also can use arpeggiators and crap like 
that to fill out your track...basically it's easier to finish a track 
yourself without any assistance from others

House is a much more collaborative effort...unless you're supersuper 
talented and can sing/play saxophone/etc all by yourself...you're going to 
need guest musicians and vocalists to make something that's really 
special...

I don't think it's a question of whether House is overrated...I think it's 
more of an issue of producer's becoming complacent and not making the extra 
effort to make their tracks hot...Producer's have gotten used to having a 
certain formula that helps them sell records...furthermore they would rather 
not hire guest vocalists/musicians because they'd rather keep all the money 
to themselves b/c of slumping record sales...lastly the people who are 
selling records are trying to release as much stuff as possible, which 
obviously leads to a more mediocre product

Records just seemed more original and "bangin" 5 years ago...the producers 
in the scene have all bitten each other to the point where no one's really 
doing their own thing...it's going to take another group of 
younger/hungrier/more risk-taking individuals to take the genre back to a 
higher level

It's not about the DJ's....DJ's only play what they are given...

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