Hmmm…I’m not very much into the ‘every song is boom-tsh-boom-tsh-boom-tsh’ thing. Didn’t grate me or anything, but it’s not my kind of style. Still, to each his own.
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Heard a couple of sets of her. But could not hear any techno, just EDM.
Or do they call EDM Techno these days?
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Off topic political/music stuff
I used to think that anyone who was into whatever underground niche music I’m into must be cool aka ideologically and politically aligned in other ways, not just aesthetically aligned. But now I realize that was hugely naive. There have been some big rifts in my friend group over people being emboldened by recent political events to come out of the closet as racist, transphobic, or viciously anti-immmigrant. Makes it hard to trust anyone really.
I saw a video a while back of a guy getting kicked out of a punk festival in Las Vegas I think for wearing a nazi shirt, and all of the comments were like “punk has always been anti-fascist” and things like that but then I rewatched Decline of Western Civilization and people are casually throwing around racial slurs, so yeah lots of rose tinted glasses going on there.
Dance music is always going to attract some people just in it for the girls and drugs.
Eh, I went to underground warehouse raves in San Francisco as a teenager in the early 90s and I didn’t do drugs at first. I don’t think that’s so weird, your perspective probably just shifted as you got older.
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I think this all boils down to one thing- money. Big corporations have hijacked the word techno to make money, putting out product that clearly isn’t techno but calling it so, dj’s playing so called techno when it’s actually just more EDM, Charlotte de witte is a product of this, her music isn’t techno as I see it, and judging by the video below I don’t think she produces her own music either.
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I guess everybody who’s really into underground techno or electronic music in general gives a shit about what RA writes. They’re part of the problem. And probably a negative review will just bring them more attention.
Anyway everybody has to judge by himself what music he likes and what not. Most likely you will not tave the same feeling when listening to an album as somebody else
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Great song, Schadenfreude by Baxter Dury.
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Haha, you got me there. 
It was about the review of the review for me though. I’m not judgemental (a boomer here, using modern language , whoah!) about her album, as I did not hear it. Don’t want to either.
This thread must have the highest number of deleted posts ever.
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I think almost all the deleted posts are from the guy who went on a tear against the wokey woke wokesters
Watched the video.
It’s a shit show, but I think it has much more to do with her lack of youtue presentation skills than her production skills.
If you sent a couple of guys round my yard or put a camera in my face and asked me to show them one of my Ableton projects i’d probably be similarly enlightening about it all. The fucking bar is so high now you all expect everyone to be a fucking expert YouTube creator as well as a DJ and producer.
My first though after watching that is that she isn’t very comfortable being on camera and isn’t much of a teacher, not that she doesn’t know how to produce a track. If she couldn’t produce a track, why the fuck would she agree to do a video about how to produce a track?
If this is the evidence for you lot saying she definitely isn’t making her own tracks it’s a bit of a reach. Like I ain’t saying you’re wrong, I just can’t say that this video is proof of anything other than the collective failure of everyone involved to make something interesting.
But given how often this trope of women not being able to make their own tracks or having a man do it all for them comes up, I’d want to be fucking sure before I went publishing shit online saying she ain’t legit.
But that’s just me…
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Not only is everything Popular now it’s also marketed to death! Zero Mystery anymore that was another side of it that made it fun…
Just being able to sneak into the DJ Booth and get a peak behind the decks of a DJ you liked was kind of special now they literally surround the DJ with Plebs that stuff there phones in the face of this weeks superstar DJ whilst awkwardly bumping into them with shitty dance moves…
Boy am I happy I experienced the birth of it all it was special!
Still at least the kids have TIK TOK Now 
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There’s at least one such kind of track walkthrough with a known artist (a man, not that it matters) who did not have a clue what was going on in the project he had supposedly produced. So we do know it can happen that someone agreed to be in camera despite not knowing what they’re talking about. Not saying she is guilty of the same (haven’t watched the video, won’t, don’t care about anything related to her music or career, have no opinion on anything related to her specifically)
Thought I would add. Fair and balanced.
As somebody else who’s not really interested in this I’m also going to make the mistake of giving my opinion.
I’ll probably regret this as I’m not remotely knowledgeable on the subject, and as I’d never heard of the subject of this thread before I don’t won’t to offer opinion on her directly.
But for that, the fact she was described above as the number 1 dj in the world upthread this started a thought train with me: going back 20 plus years and into the times of the superstar dj there were 2 major barriers to entry into that world.
One you need to have some basic skills.
Now the technical difficulty of beat matching records was always massively overstated, but it did have a learning curve that required access to record decks and some time to practice.
Secondly, as most pertinently, it required a big record collection - most often collated with huge quantities of time and money spent on it.
With the move to digital, those barriers went.
You could now seamlessly ‘mix’ records after about 20 minutes practice, and anybody with a long weekend and credit card could have the exact same record collection as anybody else in the world.
Under this new paradigm it made perfect sense for promoters and institutions at the unabashedly commercial end of the market to engender the rise of the dj/model.
If things are basically going to sound the same then why not have a quote/unquote ‘fit young bird’ rather than traditional middle aged nerdy bloke.
It made perfect sense commercially speaking.
It’s a far easier sell.
So is this good or bad?
In truth good or bad probably doesn’t come into it. It’s just shit the way shit goes. It’s a gain for some and a loss for others, and as a straight middle-aged white bloke I’m pretty reluctant to rail against the world not being solely designed for my benefit, because we’ve kind of had that for at least the last 800 years.
If there is an opinion to be heard on this (flush mine down the toilet by all means) it might best be from female producers and/or djs who are no more interested in instagram followers than ugly bastards like me.
Has the rise in prominence of the star female dj persona been a net gain or detriment to their efforts?
Has it opened doors, or just created stereotypes?
Or is it basically just as fucking irrelevant as it is to me?
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That was not easy music to Macarena to. But my dog and I did it.
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I haven’t said anything regarding male or female but if you’re doing a video about how you produce and you don’t actually say anything about how you produce apart from these hi hats give it punch then it’s not convincing me, and there are plenty of female producers I like such as dasha rush, her videos show knowledge that she knows what she’s talking about
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I always liked her sets when she was coming up, regardless of what she played was ‘techno’ or not.
This new album reminds me of music that would play in the ‘club level’ of a video game. So I guess that would be mainstream but also fairly bland and unintrusive.
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Is there a difference between having a ghostwriter and having a loopmasters account 
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Well, I don’t have a loopmasters account but my ghostwriter does, so I’m in the clear.
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Ghostloops ™
Patent pending.
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Are you my client?
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I get my ghost notes to write all my tracks.
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