the inexhaustible genre

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Which leads me to a final question: where does this genre's wealth of goodness end???

tim f on microhouse/kompakt et al.

my first thought was that sadly, for as much as i love this stuff, it will eventually burn itself by dilution of concept/focus, too many mediocre producers...something. but why is this necessarily so? do genres have a built in half-life, an expiration date whereby they exhaust their worth in a cloud of boringness? has any genre maintained itself for more than few years?

― jess, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

first thoughts: saying "rock" or "pop" here are empty truisms, and therefor stricken from the record already.

― jess, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

also, saying "disco has survived through its mutation into house, garage etc." may be false, but it may also be the only real answer!: i.e. genres survive the cold, harsh world like animals, mutating and adapting to new environments.

― jess, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if more people like the music and want to do it than there is an inevitability that you will get mediocre stuff. I'm not saying it's a bad thing that more people want to get into it, it's just that it is an inevitable consequence.

But i think improv has mantained itself pretty well a so- called 'genre' since the sixties because it isn't (to me, anyway) a genre: it's a completely different way of making music, so there's a lot of scope for experimentation and development.

― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Country ,

― anthony, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

zzzzz... oh.. wha? huh? zzz

― chaki, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

falling asleep during 9-hours of prince onanism doesn't count as a genre, sorry.

― jess, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

answer = dad

― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ooh look jess made a prince joke! hilarious!

― chaki, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Its diffusion is already wreaking awful effects. The new Pan American album is infused with the standard microhouse 4/4 pulse, and it's really unnecessary. not entirely that genre's fault, though, the album's boring in general.

― Dare, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not every genre seems to require innovation. Folk and Country are very backward looking. Rock is treading water. To make a sweeping generalization, it seems to me those genres where the music is focused on more then the personality/lyrics are the ones which look or something new. Hip hop ruins this theory, but there the beats and production seem at least of equal importance to the audience. Which is what I guess it comes down to: what does the audience demand?

― bnw, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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