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Kiddzz, a new school year is in front of us let’s make it fast and pounding. I'm a bit late but, weren't we all late for classes?
Let's discuss what is new on the scene or what is still the same 😪 after the summer season.
1. Aftermath of the Pandemic, Inflation, Increasing Fees
In recent times, it has been more and more discussed about how money, internet popularity and extension affect the scene. Unfortunately, I see more and more news reports about how inflation negatively affects the nightlife (here in Berlin, but I'm sure "Techno Capital" is not alone in this). The internet boom of "techno" music and huge interest in the scene from the new generations of youth set the scale of pricing higher than it ever was before. Logically, when there is a huge demand for something, that something takes on its most high value like in this case DJ position.
Simple formula 🔣
➛ internet platforms give opportunities (like no other form of media before) to everyone to promote themselves on a global level and to reach a wide audience
➛ which then gives the possibility for highly-followed profiles to double up on their fees.
➛ That then influences the whole scene.
➛ The local artists or the newly ones also demand higher fees, which ultimately gives clubs no choice but to higher their prices as well.
Parallel to that, what is happening on the scene, the world economy fucks the small guy. So, even if the scene is now at its most widespread phase ever, a lot of its participants can’t afford to regularly attend, now pricier events. Sadly, it has become financially insupportable for some underground clubs who were always true to the scene and still want to stay so, not to play the role in a mainstream theatre.
2. Faster, Poppier and with the most repeated Breaks & Drops ever
Harsh's previous posts regarding the new trends ➛ 22. BREAK 23.POP ERA 21.HARD
Just like at the beginning of every new school year, we are gonna repeat what we learned and spice it up a bit. 😅
The urge to race for higher BPMs hasn't faded away, as well as the urge to make short videos of how wild a time you and your mates have at the party. Yet the "wildest part" lasted exactly that long as the video.
It's crazy when you think about how the tracks are also being created to fit into that "short video" pattern. Also, how a lot of POP Singers' "hits" remixed "techno" versions pop up. I mean you can hear a lot that these remixed versions are mostly remixed with some classical hits from the 90s or early 2000s pop culture.
It makes you wonder, is it because the young adults (now living through their twenties) were so influenced by American culture as kids ?
You know when you are a kid and you fantasize about the adult world, you see some of these celebrities and you think how cool they are. "I will definitely be so cool when I'm in my twenties".
In a way, those kids from back then are now living their fantasized cool adult life.
Which leads me to one interesting thing that I want to comment on. The new thing that's going on at the parties (parties from new generation, let's call it that way, to make it clear) - The crowd seems so hyped when the DJs play these types of remixes that I mentioned above.
How I hear it 📽 📽 📽 ➛ one longer break with the refrain used from some of the many pop hit songs ➛ maybe to build up the atmosphere before the big drop? I don't know, but I know one thing for sure! ➛ the crowd loves it and they love to sing along with the lyrics ➛ lyrics are then followed by a big drop ➛ drop is blended with electronic sounds, fast pounding, but also a sound that sounds like an EDM Festival's unpopular brother
We all have different tastes and likings and that's definitely how it's supposed to be, if you ask me.
Though, I find it interesting how now something like that is called techno, underground music, subculture celebration, subterranean dance ...
As my view on the techno genre is different and my personal understanding of it is shaped after some old school "norms", I find it a bit disappointing - in which way the whole culture went in comparison to how it started. It seems to me that it turned around for 360°.
And to be brutally honest, I can't understand how that happened.
How it came to that point where a lot of people who walk the scene / culture don't even understand or are not even bothered to inform themselves about the morals and statements from the very beginnings ?
Harsh recommends [Amazon] ear plugs - protect yourself from unpleasant sounds