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Electronic Musics That Aged Well & Electronic Musics That Did Not

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Redruth Grand Master

Redruth

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also you might want to post electronic musics that you predict will age well + the ones you predict will not

 

 

 

i (whomever i am) will begin by stating the obvious:

 

 

aged well:

 

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Guest couch

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I think plastikman stuff has not aged very well. Same for generic big beat electronic, did not age well at all.

 

Most ambient stuff still sounds refreshing today though.

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Aged well:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKbLI8EufNo

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azPA_gkl-98

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkVT2NwiAgY

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjetFYUOvSM

 

 

 

 

Aged badly:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_lDauql_Lk

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK2U5ziV_Z8

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7RBqzzfsqU

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZKNl3nxN9Y

 

etc.

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Chillwave that's aging alright:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DkslcOhytU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DkslcOhytU

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5SxghK5yC4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5SxghK5yC4

 

Chillwave that isn't aging well at all:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJ27Dcv4fc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJ27Dcv4fc

 

(^I fucking hate this one btw)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4J6bFDvvwY&feature=relmfu"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4J6bFDvvwY&feature=relmfu

 

(^this one's ok)

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Key Mentor

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I was gonna write a list of electronic music that hasnt/wont age[d] well but then I realised it was just a list of artists I never really liked anyway. Usually 2nd wave bandwagon jumpers that make a specific type of music that is popular for a short while then dies out. Like Plastikman's acid in the early 90s, Devine's glitch in the early 00s, a bunch of breakcore guys from the mid 00s, HudMos wonky in the late 00s. People that also make that music but got there first get a kind of free pass because their creativity allows for missteps, but when youre doing something thats already been perfected you have to up the stakes or be confined to the dustbin of history.

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joshuatxuk Grand Master

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Hasn't aged well:

More lounge-y trip-hop and downtempo: Theivery Corporation, Zero 7, Morcheeba, etc

All the Ed Banger releases and other electro-house from 5 years ago

Lady Sovereign, earlier Dizzee Rascal and Wiley

 

Won't age well:

Salem and other one-off witch house artists

Brostep

Lady Gaga

Deadmau5, Pretty Lights and other meh, gig-reliant EDM

As much as I enjoy it...Rustie and Joker

Arguably Flylo and the Brainfeeder guys...it's great stuff but much of it could very well become filed under "wonky" in some historical context for good

 

Some dubstep will (and has) aged well:

Early Skream, Benga, Mala, Coki, etc

First Mount Kimbie and Joy Orbison releases

Skull Disco

Most Hyperdub

 

Also, most of the "hauntology" artists we've discussed (Ghost Box artists, Burial, James Ferraro, Ariel Pink, James Kirby, etc) seem well set to age well because their sound and aesthetic is already so focused.

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dmx krew's street boys is clearly a pastiche of / homage to early 80s music done 15 yrs later anyway so i don't think it's really fair to say it has aged badly

Yeah I know. But it always sounds to me like a very 90s adaptation of 80s music, if that makes any sense at all. Most of his stuff holds up really well today, there's just a few like street boys that make me cringe a little bit. :shrug:

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Drukqs still sounds like the future.

 

Nine Inch Nails is a bit of both for me. 80s & early 90s beats & production values abound, but I think the weird atmospheric noises still hold up.

 

I think Pretty Hate Machine sounds really 80's, but Broken and the Downward Spiral still sound pretty fresh.

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Drukqs still sounds like the future.

 

Nine Inch Nails is a bit of both for me. 80s & early 90s beats & production values abound, but I think the weird atmospheric noises still hold up.

 

I think Pretty Hate Machine sounds really 80's, but Broken and the Downward Spiral still sound pretty fresh.

 

Yeah... although I wasn't into a lot of the post Downward releases, PHM in my opinion is their worst.

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Aged very well. Released in 1982 but sounds like more recent electro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RibL1FpcPR4

 

I Love early early Mr. Fingers, tunes like Washing Machine and Can You Feel it are unique.

but the stuff he did in the late 80's is so typical and boring in comparsion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CKenI4srLE

what is this bullshit!

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Probably committing grand sacrilege here but I've always felt that the synths on DrukQs sound a bit flat compared to most of his other stuff. Which is weird because they're performing some of my favourite Aphex melodic lines.

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it depends on what your definition of "not aging well is". for me, it's anything that sounds sorta cheesy or dated but that doesn't necessarily make it bad.

 

well:

 

did/will not age well:

 

monolake post hongkong

a lot of FSOL and the orb

early orbital

a huge chunk of acid music (seriously there's only so much more analord aping that we can take)

richard devine

 

 

 

Err what? especially the bit about analord aping. There's a huge huge chunk of acid which came around long before Analord (which isn't particularly acid-y, beyond a few tracks anyways).

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its all a matter of perspective and what the current retro styles happen to be. i guess if music doesnt "age well' than it was flavor of the moment shit to begin with..

 

its all subjective bah i denounce this thread

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