Electronic scene sterile in this decade

Who would say that this decade, with all software advances in music creation, an excellent start and the overall adoption of electronic music as a mean of artistic expression, would get into a slump screaming for some fresh air and chocking in convulsion.

I mean, think about it. When is the last time you heard something at least evolutionary be it techno, trance, house or any other sub-genre for that matter? You’ll have trouble remembering, I guess. My most recent memories date back to 2005 and Benassi. But he is currently in sort of hibernation, and frankly with all respect to his work, the whole feel was overdone simply by the number of tracks that sounded almost the same. It wasn’t necessarily a bad thing but it did spread out artistic value of few core tracks to many soul-less spin-offs. And there’s this audience-factor where an artist tries to mingle with all age groups and can’t get away from cheesy tracks that just ruin their reputation. And it’s not just Benassi. It’s the whole scene I am talking about. Nobody got away from being labeled only because they try so hard to please the infantile club scene. And frankly I don’t blame them. Bread is becoming a commodity lately.

And what about Kai Tracid and Barthezz? Where’s C.O.P. Project and their melodic house tone? And there’s so many more that lost the inspiration, I guess. I don’t really want them to regurgitate, but a breath of fresh air could tear apart this mist dominated by annoying rap, R&B and quasi rock/metal mental excursions. Pardon my natural disobedience to everything that has an electric guitar in it (especially with overdrive effects). My brain seems not to cope with such a patternless abuse the instrument mentioned is exposed to for decades. I guess there’s something different in my brain or genes from the average person that makes me inexplicably allergic to rock and metal. And I am not totally against it. I like Rammstein for example, but I guess only because they conceptually have nothing to do with metal, although they state they are NDH metal band.

Goa and psy-trance scenes, which are among my favorites, have also turned their talents to silence, but still when compared to everything else that is out there, they have something that can be listened to. And yeah, these two are not for everyone…

I still don’t know a lot about Japanese electro scene. What I heard so far is basically a darker and more minimalistic but still European scene.