Skrillex Quest

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Re: Skrillex Quest

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Post by deveac » Tue, Dec 04, 2012, 5:06 PM UTC

sdoowpilihp wrote: post #183

deveac wrote: post #135

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>Link electronic music that wasn't repetitive and wasn't released on Warp Records. I personally don't believe that repetition in electronic music even implies a sub-par track, but that's highly subjective of course, and we know where you stand. Some of the most groundbreaking and beautiful music to me is found on the Basic Channel and Chain Reaction labels, with tracks that are extremely minimal and would probably so…

I agree that there is no correlation between the quality of music and repetition. There are even a number of "high brow" musicians and composers, such as Philip Glass or Terry Reily, that have had repetition as a common motif in their work, and for which they have been heralded by many.

>I was only pointing out that there's a massively wide variety of electronic music these days...

On that note, if you have not seen this site yet, be prepared to have the rest of your afternoon's productivity destroyed:

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

I posted to first version of the site to Hubski a while ago but I can't find it. I think the author has updated it since then, but the general look and flow is the same. Incredible wealth of historical knowledge, complete with audio examples.

Re: Skrillex Quest

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Post by leoedin » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 4:50 PM UTC

ontheotherhand wrote: post #143

leoedin wrote: post #104

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For those of us who aren't raging anti capitalists, it's fairly obvious that something can have artistic merit and be designed to promote something. If you have an actual argument to the contrary that extends beyond "The fuck?", it'd be great to hear it. Quoting a comedian is not really an argument.

"it's fairly obvious that something can have artistic merit and be designed to promote something" doesn't constitute an argument either, does it. So there's not really anything there to argue against; just an assertion. Meanwhile, to me it's "fairly obvious" that this ain't art, and therefore "the fuck" is perfectly sufficient. "Quoting a comedian is not really an argument." Oh yeah, because a comedian is by definiti…

If your definition of art is only that made with no profit of the artist in mind then your definition excludes a vast amount of what most of the world considers art.

Commercial music? Artists who make a living selling their work? Commissioned pieces? Art doesn't have to be produced by the idle rich and the impoverished and starving. It's hard to define art precisely, but your definition seems to be at odds with the generally accepted one.

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