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Track Of The Week | 3x Thursday More More Modern (Patreon)

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Track Of The Week | 3x Thursday More More Modern by Joel Steudler

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pingudroid

Great tracks! :) I like Stranger Dreams in particular. By the way, I'm using your recent track "Warm Memories" in my current game project - for the main character's home. It was exactly what I needed, so thank you! Regarding your post, I used to think the same about contemporary music, but in the end I realized that it's probably just because I'm not keeping up with the times. Even though things now are more fragmented, new musical trends and genres still exist and each decade has its own sound, at least in the commercial music sphere. The proof is that my sister, who is a few years younger than me, can easily tell if a commercial track is new, from the 2010s or the 2000s, so I think I'm just mentally stuck in the nineties haha. Personally my favorite "new" genre is digital fusion, which mixes classical music, jazz and videogame music/chiptunes and is often used for soundtracks. But that's pretty niche.

Matthew Ashworth

I quite like those synthwave tracks. You're great at this genre. You know, I've also not watched 'Stranger Things' yet, but intend to at some point as I only hear praise about it. I heard that it uses a fair bit of synthwave music, which is a bonus as I love that music genre. I think there are just so many subgenres now, and many of them borrow from older genres and styles. For example we can say a lot of the orchestral and trailer music (stuff like 'Two Steps from Hell') borrows a lot from the classical music. Then there's Electro Swing, which is a more modern take on the swing music from middle of last century, this time with more electronic instruments. Also I noticed a trend in the metal music in the past 20 years which combines the usual guitar riffs and the like with more cinematic sounds and orchestral bits. Regarding the 90s, isn't that the time when rap and hip hop became very popular? I could be wrong though.

joelsteudler
>>88098292

I recently watched an interview with Anthony Fantano ('the internet's busiest music nerd') and he commented on how it requires an active commitment to keep up with contemporary music and not just stay put in that zone where your musical tastes developed. So I agree with that point. But I do also think that without the centralized influence of record labels and radio, music has shot off in so many directions that there isn't a predominant musical aesthetic. The concept of a lost 'monoculture' in TV is something that was discussed a lot over the past few years. In past eras where there was drastically less access to a diversity of entertainment, everyone talked about the same thing (within probably some geographic limit) and singular ideas and aesthetics dominated for a long stretch of time. I think the same can be applied to music, movies, games in a lot of ways. Overall, I prefer the way things are now. But there is appeal in the iconic universally understood aesthetics of a few decades in culture (my view is mostly limited to American culture). I think niche is normal now.

joelsteudler
>>88101972

You're right that the '90s and beyond saw a cultural ascendance of hip hop and its derivations and offshoots. I can't say for sure if there is a dominant enough aesthetic that unites the sound of the era within that genre. Even within genres, like metal, there are trends and scenes that arise and fall. But none of that, imo, matches the universality and iconic nature of particularly '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s American music. And I admit my view is very myopic towards the US. I am sure that, for example, India has a whole different set of iconic eras. I think that now, it's so much easier for people to publish and promote niche genres that the taste of the public is less unified. An odd consequence of this is that people have fewer common points of reference in entertainment unless they happen to like the same narrow band of content to begin with. Someone ought to do a comprehensive study. It probably requires the perspective of time to draw any good conclusions, though.