2011: The Year Synth Broke?
Synth music has been around for quite some time but I feel like this might be the year that the listening public at large is actually taking the genre serious again as an art form and not just a vehicle for dancing. While I personally love dance music, and dancing at clubs for that matter, I have to say that the quality of modern synth music is getting a major boost. For a reference point on the quality of new synth music I would recommend listening to the new albums by Jonas Reinhardt or John Maus. It’s amazing to me how there have been pockets of the population who have written off synth music for being “too retro” and then at the same time will completely tout releases by Dirty Beaches or the Dum Dum Girls as the best thing since sliced bread. For some reason it’s totally acceptable for rock music based on stringed instruments to have a reference point but unacceptable when faced with those that use synthesizers as their main palette. I have noticed a sudden surge in interest for those artists that are exploring kosmische/minimal wave/granular synthesis et al and I certainly hope that it continues. I think a musical world that has a large terrain of synth music is a wonderful world to be in.
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rocketsandrayguns reblogged this from fuckyeasynthesizers and added:
I have ambivalent feelings on this topic. Nobody is happier than me about the resurgence of synthesizer music,
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