Lol. I though of you Craig when he said that, dont let your girlfriend read this. I bet that hurt 
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To be honest, I almost spat out my coffee laughing at it. Fun anecdote, on the very first track we ever did a few years ago, I thought this isnāt working so added a lil autotune. She went absolutely ballistic and told me to never do that again. She was right. We redid the take and it sounded much better. She doesnāt sound American or polished like everyone else - why do people do that fake accent thing??? Anyway, some of my favourite bits of hers are when you can clearly hear the Irish pronunciation 
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Im thinking asking her to use autotune probably is worse tbh 
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Almost insta-dumped I was 
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One of my favourite techno tracks, with a vocal.
Itās probably easier to go withoutā¦
ā¦also, Iāve noticed that if a track is comletely sequenced āon gridā it becomes quite a job to make a ānaturally timedā part fit in nicely, be it a singer or a guitarā¦
I do however enjoy the occasional visit from a singer to my studio:
I think the obvious answer is that they do. Pop music is electronic music, on the whole.
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Yeah, modern pop and hip-hop are mostly electronic music with vocals. EDM and trap are modern pop production.
(Because we live in Hell.)
Maybe many producers are so sick of commercial pop with indistinguishable singers that they purposely avoid using vocals? After all, you donāt hear many tracks without vocals on the radio. So itās more āundergroundā to avoid them entirely (generally speaking ofc!)
Thatās simply a no. You donāt sing to techno.
Same
arguably most pop music is electronic music. thereās also genres like āhyperpopā that are full of uhā¦ vocalsā¦ not sure iād call it singing.
i think singing in electronic music was always in the minority. probably happens at the same amount these days itās just that we donāt hear all those songs in our lives.
thereās also still plenty of divas doing house music. lotās of indie artists doing vocals in electronic music too. perhaps it just doesnāt get played in the clubs as much?
thereās jams like this (song starts about 45 seconds in) which is dope. we just donāt hear them everywhere. itās not like everyone is at the club every week saturday night to hear the new cuts the DJ tracked down.
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Singing is far too emotional and āsoul connectedā for many electronic producers who participate in the genre primarily to escape acknowledging human interaction and messy feelings. Itās about detachment, order, quantisization and format-fitting. Plus, they canāt sing.
(this is a personal opinion, from experience - though trying to break out of it)
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new Grischa Lichtenberger has tons of amazingly processed vocals.
a must buy imo.
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Bodyrox ft. Luciana - Yeah Yeah (Adult-Version)
Bodyrox - Yeah Yeah (Instrumental Version)
Octave-One - Blackwater (feat. Ann Saunderson)
Octave-One - Blackwater (Instrumental)
The thing with vocals it is so subjective to taste, it is risky thatās why itās very rare to not have an instrumental version when the original is with vocalsā¦ sometimes when itās not it can or fall in the āguilty pleasureā or totally a no go/play if you canāt feel the thing.
On the bodyrox and blackwater i prefered when itās released playing instrumental
the first because it was easy for the dancefloor people instantly like itā¦ (so good tool but no vocal to me i canāt) and the octave one is a beauty of a track but i not super found of the vocals version (but itās not as wrong to my ears to the bodyrox with vocals)
in the meantime i like old classic stuff like Good Life/Big fun, Ultra natĆ©, India, Rex the Dog " I Can See You, Can You See Me?", Mc Sar itās on youā¦
Few things in that list totally falls in my guilty pleasure, i would not play, but listening it remembering me great moments or i feel guilty to like it in some way.
Tastes can be strange from time to time
For instance i like the intro of Etienne de CrƩcy with Madeline Follin - You
Because it remembering me Paula Abdul - āStraight Upā (or Indra, Ace of Base) in a way but i not found of the track. (but i really love her voice very Paula Abdul style to me)
Hahaha and i am a deep, house and techno guy.
But iām listening so much in reality so i donāt care anyway 
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Since it is the reign of everybody-is-an-artist thanks to the gear we have access to, vocals are the last thing you can easily fake.
You donāt have sense of rythm? Quantization, grid, auto warp.
You donāt know theory? Throw some arp with the tonality set on.
You don?tāknow how to play an instrument? Pack of samples.
You donāt know how to sing? Auto-tuneā¦ but that one is obviously shiteā¦ 
It is also much more exposing to sing than to turn some knobs or even play an instrument.
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Money could one of the issue too, just thinking to that but in 80/90 possible to deal a featuring and get back on your foots with copyrights for the singer. Nowadays itās already difficult for the producer and label records to get back on their foots. Unless to make a hit, no chance the singer get money or she/he directly take a fee to make the thing possible.
So singers could be possibly LESS interested except if you can promise ātouring and Liveā
Also for more sampling borrow i guess itās not anymore the ERA for that with algorithm, we all know we take risk to be legally pursued
I primarily listen to instrumental music but donāt have anything inherently against vocals but youāve hit upon one of my particular bugbears. So many vocalists seem to default to some random generic american or english (ameriglish? englican??) accent when they sing - I presume itās due to the years of that being the default on the radio. So if I hear an accent that is something other than itās great. Even better when Iām listening to people singing in their own language rather than defaulting to englishā¦ the extra bonus there is that i donāt need to worry that the lyrics might be a big pile of clichĆ© because I donāt understand it.
Really enjoyed his first few EPs/albums but had stopped paying attention. Will take that recommendation on board!
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