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Current mood:  relieved Category: Music
At last, I have a new track "Yesterday's Heroes" on my player.
It's a break from the electronic norm for me, as I set myself the task of making a "virtual" indie pop track mainly using Steinberg's Virtual Guitarist, Dimension for the bass guitar and the layered accoustic drum kit from Velocity (Cakewalk's Project 5).
Most of the actual song was written around 1996 when Oasis were being praised as the best rock band ever, even though they openly flaunted the fact that they just picked Beatles and Burt Bacharach chord progressions and played them in reverse order.
Meanwhile Fat Boy Slim was being critised for making hit records by taking samples from obscure records and (expertly) manipulating them into something better than the original.
Both examples of the inescapeable influence of music from days gone by from two different scenes.
10 years on from writing the lyrics, and dance music has stopped in it's tracks, rave is now "nu-rave," 80's electro-pop is back and the number of standard guitar bands seems to have quadrupled ( ironically this is the choice of style for my new track)!
Is music destined to recycle the past for ever? Will pop eat itself? Has it always been like that anyway? Who know's, anyway I'm looking forward to making some cliched 90's electronic beats on my next "co-ordination" project - just as soon as my ears stop ringing from last night's 80's flashback "The Smiths Indeed" tribute band gig!
Here endeth today's sermon.
Stuart.
1:05 PM
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