Check out the nuEnergy record label if you like freeform. Some really good dark tunes on there.

hahahahah yeah i know what it is, but i just scatted out big time. didnt see it was a music thread

I thought the only difference was freeform has elements of drum and bass in it…

I think its to hide the fact that innovation and energy is stagnating, as a lot of ideas have been tried, the money is fast leaking out of the music industry due to downloading etc and music is becoming a lesser part of peoples lives as things become more uncertain.

Although I do of course still go out occasionally I’ve stopped caring about genres/DJ’s etc and even listening to music as I don’t have decks or the ambition to be a DJ / producer any more my mind is thinking more about all the other shit what is going on in the world and how to deal with it as I get older..

TBH I think new genres are invented so people can try and sell a few more tunes and scrape up whatever living they can get before the tunes are rinsed by the free sharers etc..

yep, just another part of the marketing process – perhaps sort of a way of “justifying” a remix, also the equipment manufacturers can seize on it to try and associated a piece of kit with a genre…

to be fair its been going on since the days I first got into electronic dance music (about 1987!) but there wasn’t quite as much definition of sub genres until the 1990s.

it does seem that today rather than just do a remix of a tune people increasingly invent a sub genre to go with it…

PLus i hate happy hardcore, but love freeform. It is most definitely a genre in its own right!

I downloaded the mix Cliffy posted a link to. I liked the mix, and would agree its a “sort of” new genre but it did sound a bit like happy hardcore minus the vocal samples with touches of hardstyle / hard trance – I don’t even know what half of the genres are anyway these days or where they cross over:laugh_at:

what I am getting though is when it all started if people wanted to do a remix with a different style they would just do it and didn’t invent that many new genres. Otherwise it ends up like the sample in “one night in hackney” where the dude goes to the “scenester” club :laugh_at:

the reason I feel strongly about this is though is because in SE England it actually balkanised crews during the “good days”. At least in EA people what like different genres still seem to party together..